Target

Not much notable to say. It is a pretty typical Target. I definitely prefer it to Walmart.

It’s a Target. Have you ever been to a Target before? It’s like that.
Why are you reading this review? You could be at Target by now.

Went to target to get a few groceries, and was shocked at the prices and rudeness of the people. What is up with these yippes (yuppie/​hippie) ?
Went to get milk, eggs and bananas. Simple right ?
First line I get in is moving so slow it takes 15 minutes to get 1 foot. I see a self checkout, and decide how hard could it be? The machine totally freezes up, and then refuses payment. I get frustrated and them find out they want to charge me per banana. WTH? Why not by the pound? answer — we don’t do that any more. Since when? no response. I had to have someone help me with the stupid self checkout 3 times, and then the clerk starts some stupid argument with me over the bananas.
Frustrated as hell, I gave them back the items in question (most of the bananas) paid for my order in cash and left. You have lost another customer !

Target store — 2300 W Ben White Blvd, Austin, TX 78 704
I purchased a toy for my daughter’s birthday yesterday. A simple act of love turned to be my nightmare in Target.
I took my toy (one item) to self checkout. The payment machine got frozen while printing receipt and i waited 10 minutes for assistance. Target employee asked me go to counter and pay again for it.
I repeatedly told the employee, i am charged and i see the transaction in my bank, But he insisted to got to counter and pay again. I payed with his promise that i won’t be charged twice. He reminded me again and gain no receipt means no charge. But end of day my bank charged me twice for $ 16.23 twice.
I came back to store today and showed to returns (customer service) the bank statement of charged twice. She told me again no receipt no charge. So i should call bank and dispute with the bank not with target. So i called the bank and they said i should resolve with the customer service.
Finally Manager showed up and went thru the scenario again. He said I can refund the amount and he left. Customer service tried to refund and said it not possible because the receipt not allowing to refund.
End of story, after 1 hour 15 minutes, I left the store with charged twice for a simple gift of $ 16.23. She reminded me we cannot give this free and its my fault, the machine got frozen.
Target …shame on you, you just lost a trusted customer…
Shijo

A lot of people are giving this Target a bad review because of the people that shop here. How is that constructive at all?! You’re supposed to be reviewing the actual establishment — they can’t help who shops there! And what does it matter anyway?! Sure, people of different races or a lower class shop here, THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT A «TARGHETTO». To say so just makes you sound like a snob (and hey maybe even racist).
The fact is that this Target is perfectly fine, just your average store. It’s clean, easy to navigate, always stocked, and the people who work here have always been helpful if I needed assistance finding something. I come here a lot and have never had a bad experience. The only criticism I can think of is that the women’s shoe section is usually disheveled and unorganized unless I go there super early in the morning. That’s it.
Keep doing you, Target.

Great store. Their really trying to update it and it’s looking great. Really only thing they could work on is having more people at guest service.

If I could give their online ordering 0 stars I would.
3 weeks ago I was excited to order 3 different bar stools for my new home to see which would be the best fit for our bar counter! Now 3 weeks later I have spent over 2 hours on the phone with
and an additional 1 hour on the phone with FedEx because between the two of them it seems very hard for them to get anything right.
My 1^st order placed on
never showed up, I didn’t receive a confirmation email and it didn’t seem to go through… except the charge certainly went through and was pending on my Amex. When I called
they spent nearly an hour trying to find out if my order did in fact exist only to be chalked up as an ‘error’ they were experiencing at the moment online. They said that if I didn’t receive a confirmation email from them within 48 hours it was safe to say my order didn’t exist. So I did just that and waited 48 hours. 48 hours and no email, so I called
just to ensure that in fact my order still did not exist due to the online ‘error’ they were experiencing. I was again assured that there was no such order and my money would be un-​pended by my credit card company soon & to replace my order.
Well I again listed and did just that… so confident in
! I placed my order again. 2 days following I get a ton of emails stating that things were being shipped out to me. I was excited! Until I looked closer and saw that they were shipping things x2 and all 1 at a time. Come to find out my order that didn’t exist, existed. After another long phone call having to speak to many different people I was told that they couldn’t refund this order that now existed and didn’t before b/​c it had already shipped! Instead the money would stay pending until they could physically get the merchandise back. You’re kidding me right?!
Long story short, we’re now 3 weeks later and I have 1 lone bar stool. The other 2 will never come. Why you might ask?! Oh, FedEx tells me that is b/​c they wanted to deliver them but Target asked for them back. Target tells me that FedEx failed to deliver them after ‘multiple’ attempts (ahem, I live in an UN-​gated community that is FULLY accessible and a large doorstep for all the packages imaginable to be left!!!).
Morale of the story, I’ll not ever be shopping at
and quite honestly I could care less to step into a Target store period. Too large of a company to just care too little about their customers. Never one did anyone offer up a solution for any of my problems.
Thanks, Target!

I love my neighborhood Target. Always easy to get in and out and plenty of check out lanes always open. They remodeled a while back and added groceries as well.

This particular Target was very clean and orderly. Much better than the one I usually go to. Lots of operating check out counters, so no long wait to pay.

I love shopping at Target. It’s a store I can buy a variety of things (electronics, toys, clothes, etc.) with one stop. The Ben White store is not the newest store, but it has been updated and remodeled with a grocery section. I like this location, because I can get in and out of there quickly. They always have enough check out lines open and moving fast. Even during the Christmas season, I found it easy to get in and out with what I came to buy. The staff are friendly & helpful, too.

I feel like I am always here, probably because I am. I basically live at this Target and the HEB on Congress and Oltorf.
With that being said, everyone else in South Austin lives here, too. If you go here at odd hours, it’s almost like a regular Target. If you go here on weekends or around holidays, it is a total clusterfuck. People driving the wrong way down the lanes in the parking lot, people who have no clue how to form a line to get out of the parking lot, people taking their sweet ass time to walk out of the way of your car as you slowly meander up or down the lanes, trying to find a spot — and we haven’t even entered the store yet.
You thought it was bad outside? You’re in for a treat once you enter the store. Total chaos. I don’t even know how the workers do it. The amount of patience it must take to not scream at asshole customers who destroy this place must be astronomical.
The rating is for the other people who shop here, not exactly the store itself. A Target is a Target and you basically know what you are going to get, but the customer base can totally change that all the way around. The Target itself is fine — it’s on the smaller side and their selection is not as large, but that’s okay. If I wanted the Super Target selection, I would have driven to one.
As it is, I’ll still sometimes drive out of my way to go to a different Target just so I can avoid the zoo that is this Target’s prime customer base. That and the fact that the checkout lines here are pretty much always awful. Hardly anybody in the store? Only have three items? Still have to wait 15 minutes to check out.
Welcome to the jungle, indeed.

Once again, I have been reminded why I don’t shop at Target. Stupid store polices, like carding a 60 year old for ‘canned air’ or having to walk up my purchase of a game system controller. Less hassle buying online and I don’t have to get pissed off. Oh well… Buy local is only as good as the merchant.

Who doesn’t love shopping at Target they’re clean well organized. Aisles are very nice and spread apart.
They have adorable clothes and great weekly ads.
Let’s not forget the delicious popcorn! have a great customer service counter.

Target always had what I need at a fair price. Love using my Redcard and saving 5%on everything

Nice to have local retail store with a snack bar, always have to get a pretzel. Plus the store brand is is just as good as big name products.

So how do you truly rate a Target location? I have shopped a many Target stores in my lifetime and always thought of them as the middle class Wal-​Mart. Granted I never feel dirty when I leave a Target or that I am giving my money to people that don’t even get paid enough to get company insurance.
So Anywho this location is small, and a no frills location. I ran in tonight to get me some school supplies and it was a quick experience. The cashier was nice and generally when I go to this location I can eventually find someone to help me.
the store clean, has a small food section to buy popcorn or «food». But no Starbucks (if your into that)… And you can do a gift registery.
If your nearby then use this location.

It’s your basic Target store with all the everyday necessities that you need. It was a little out of the way and a little bit of an older store. However, it was still clean and well organized.

Dang! Everybody’s bagging on this Target.
I love the catty reviews and I agree: it’s not the biggest, newest, or nicest, the staff is pretty meh, the checkout lines are horrendous, they don’t have the best selection and it’s the Target I’m most likely to run into that certain someone I cannot stand. Hell, I even used to work here…
Maybe it’s mostly habit, as Wes says, it’s one of the oldest Targets in Austin and it’s near my Pilates studio, Tomlinson’s, Central Market, Dan’s, etc. As someone else mentioned, you can get to this location from anywhere in South Austin in less than 15 minutes, so that is why everyone in the world is always here. The Target in Southpark Meadows has to be closer and as I continue to get over my angst that SPM is no longer a music venue, I will undoubtedly visit this little Target less and less. But it’s as good or bad as any Target. Three stars.

I rented a bicycle yesterday to run some errands around town and see some sights. Since it was sweltering, I decided it was a fantastic day to go to Barton Springs – but I’d forgotten my swimsuit, so enter Target. ‘Tis the season for bathing suits, and they had a lot of them. I found what I was looking for, tried it on, and was out the door in half an hour. The real standout of this visit were the two staffers I encountered, Chris B. the cashier (who was jolly and kind) and the snack bar cashier (whose name I didn’t catch), who didn’t even balk when I accidentally dumped half my popcorn into the fruit basket next to the register.
Standard Target, great staff.

Target is my answer to the evil empire. I refuse to go to Wal-​Mart, I have only been there once in the last 7 years. Target on the other hand is pretty good.
This particular Target is pretty standard. I do like the $ 1.00 bin right by the door. I have not purchased grocery items here since they did the expansion but the selection looks decent. Good amount of options for household items and knick knacks. Video Game section is surprisingly decent.
All in all you know what you are going to get from Target, you don’t need a Unilocal review to help you. Go get what you need and get out. Easy Peezy.