Super S wrote: ↑February 10th, 2020, 9:57 am
The Kelso store may have benefited from the closures of Sears and Macy's as well as many of the other stores in the mall, and has been a bit of a draw for those along the Oregon/Washington coasts where Target does not operate. But it was starting to look a bit dated as this location tends to go longer between remodels than some of the stores around Vancouver/Portland and other larger towns. The Kelso store never even received a Pfresh remodel, and I am curious if this location is going to ramp up their grocery offerings.
The Carson City location that they remodeled last year did not get a P Fresh. I think this is an indication of where Target is with its P Fresh offering and food program in general. This particular location is a 10 minute drive from any real grocery store and with the amount of housing around, adding in more food and pharmacy would really help its business. It is a 3 minute drive from Wal Mart and Trader Joe's but that can be long if you don't hit the lights right. It never had one as it hadn't been remodeled ever since opening in 1995. What it did get was a Starbucks in-store, self checkouts, new carpets in clothing, new lighting above an expanded cosmetics department, and renovated restrooms with no paper towels (only air dryers). It kept all old shelving, most old tile flooring,
On Sunday I went into the Carson City Target location in the afternoon. When I walked in, they had one lane open with about 5 people in line and the self checkouts were all in use. In walking through the store I saw maybe 5 employees total on the sales floor. The store is very neat, very clean, and very lightly stocked with only 2-3 of most items on the shelves throughout kitchen/bath and hardlines. Grocery/pet/cleaning (all 3 of which are scattered in different places in the store) has noticeably more full shelves. About 10 minutes later I was ready to pay and the front was a lot more quiet. One checkout open plus the 4 self checkouts. At that point, there was one customer using the regular checkout and then 2 of the self checkouts were in use. Target used to have the biggest, thickest plastic bags of any grocer or mass retailer. I noticed on this visit Target has new smaller thinner plastic bags, now made in Cambodia. I did notice at least six used Starbucks cups in the parking lot, a few of which wedged under cart returns, so maybe they are generating more sales with the new Starbucks there in the store.
Immediately before I was at the Wal Mart 3 minutes away and it was very very busy. They have something in the neighborhood of +/- 25 self checkouts most of which were working (6 are strange little walk up kiosk type units that do not accept cash or produce) and at least 7 or 8 regular lanes open with moderate lines. The store was very busy throughout and had dozens of employees. Plastic bags being used there, equally thin and flimsy to the new imported Target ones, said Made in USA.