Anyway, I like to park my cart at the end of an aisle and walk down the aisle and check things out. I don’t like to have to try and navigate and shop at the same time. I can usually multi-task, but not when shopping for toys and driving the cart. Too many people, too many kids, too narrow a space. It’s just a hassle. So, yesterday I parked my cart, got my purse, and up and down the aisles I went, making mental notes of what there was, checking my list etc. After carefully assessing my options, I’m ready to stock up. I picked a couple things off the shelves, turned to put them in my cart and gone. Nowhere to be found. Vanished. At first, I thought I had just left it somewhere else so I looked up and down various aisles, panic. All that good dollar bin stuff gone. My shirts, gone. My paper plates, napkins, and cat treats, gone. FUCK. Gone. I almost cried.
So, I headed back to the front and started again, ever looking for my cart. I was so frustrated, I only got some of the same stuff and finished off from where I left off. I then headed to the checkout stand and there it was, the cart… my stuff from the first round mixed in with other merchandise ready to be restocked. I must have looked pathetic as I went through it pulling out the things that I really wanted but forgot to get the second time around. But, oh the joy.
So along with my advice of don’t ever wear a red shirt while shopping at Target, because you will be stopped a gazillion times and asked where something is, here’s my other piece of advice. Never, ever leave your cart at the end of the aisle while you shop.
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Awww! Lesson duly noted.
I do that too, and it drives my family crazy. They always say, "What if someone takes our stuff." Now I know they are right - someone may take it away!!
Glad there was a happy ending. :)
I also notice that whenever I am looking for something in the labyrinth that is Target, it takes me forever to find it. About two seconds after I find it, I have assistants coming up to me to ask whether I need help finding anything.
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Oh, what a sucky experience - but thank goodness you found it!!
LOL! That was my 1st job- and I will never wear the RED top-Khaki pants combo again EVER! lol
So sorry that happened to you! You know, one time when I was shopping at Target, I wasn't paying attention and I took someone else's shopping cart by mistake. I walked around for quite a while with it before I realized that it wasn't my cart. I finally had to go back & retrace my steps to find my cart & return theirs. I don't know if they ever found their cart. I certainly hope so! Ooops! I know I'm not the only flake who does this because I've caught a couple of people trying to walk away with my cart, too. :)
I'm a cart parker, too! I had to chase down a worker not long ago, because she was restocking my items.
But I still adore Target!
that was my first job too :) I am a target whore though..if there was one close enough to me now I would be working there this minute! I LOVED working there... but than again I was 17 and didn't have a CARE in the world LOL :) I love me some TARGET!
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