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Showing posts with label Target. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Target. Show all posts
Monday, May 21, 2012
Hidden: white glass light fixture hanging from a black chain, from Lowe's.
Flowers from bodega on Broadway & 93rd St.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Target® Announces Missoni® Fashion and Home Collection
Yes, it's straight from a press relase. So sue me for lack of creativity:
Target® is partnering with Italian luxury brand Missoni to introduce an affordable, limited-edition collection for fashion and home. Missoni for Target features apparel and accessories for women, men, girls and baby, as well as home goods including bedding, dinnerware, stationery and décor items. Ranging in price from $2.99 to $599.99, with most items less than $40, Missoni for Target will be available Sept. 13 through Oct. 22, 2011 at all Target stores and Target.com.
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Target - Mulberrys Gone - Customer Service Useless
Uh oh, Target, you messed with the wrong online shopper:
"Even though I had a highly coveted Mulberry Satchel, not the patent or leopard, but velvet, a good choice in this season's highly touted fabric, in my Target shopping cart, Target unceremoniously dumped it out as I was trying to check out. Waste of time for this heavily promoted alleged bonanza from the luxe English line. I called Target to complain. How many bags were available from the get-go? The call center girl Terry told me she had no idea why, but it was now sold out. I wanted to know why they heavily promoted an item and how many pieces did they originally have to offer and why my merch was dumped - this had never happened before at another retailer. I asked for a manager, but there was none available - turns out that it was too early for the call center on the Caribbean. The Gilt promotion of the Mulberry sold out within a minute or two. If it sounds too good to be true.... Companies should come clean - stop hyping these promotions if they have limited stock or be candid about how much they do have - like holiday door busters "limited stock" and each store may only have 50 items. Make nice to customers if you desire their patronage."
~Nancy Brenner
"Even though I had a highly coveted Mulberry Satchel, not the patent or leopard, but velvet, a good choice in this season's highly touted fabric, in my Target shopping cart, Target unceremoniously dumped it out as I was trying to check out. Waste of time for this heavily promoted alleged bonanza from the luxe English line. I called Target to complain. How many bags were available from the get-go? The call center girl Terry told me she had no idea why, but it was now sold out. I wanted to know why they heavily promoted an item and how many pieces did they originally have to offer and why my merch was dumped - this had never happened before at another retailer. I asked for a manager, but there was none available - turns out that it was too early for the call center on the Caribbean. The Gilt promotion of the Mulberry sold out within a minute or two. If it sounds too good to be true.... Companies should come clean - stop hyping these promotions if they have limited stock or be candid about how much they do have - like holiday door busters "limited stock" and each store may only have 50 items. Make nice to customers if you desire their patronage."
~Nancy Brenner
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Target Bullseye Bodegas: 4 Days Only, Sept. 12-15
Since Target proper refuses to open a store in Manhattan (although a store in the Bronx is in the works), they threw us citypeople a bone for the next four days with four limited-time Bullseye Bodegas staged throughout Manhattan where you can shop for chic deals in home, fashion, accessories and beauty from their roster of design partners.My escort for the night and I frolicked about the bodega, oooing and ahhing at the affordable "wears" from Converse, Sigerson Morrison, Thomas O'Brien, and THE GNOMES!!! BEHOLD THE MIGHTY MIGHTY GNOMES. For just $19.99 you too can live among the gnomes.
Locations:
Midtown: 101 W. 57th Street at 6th Ave.
Union Square: 813 Broadway between 11th and 12th Sts.
SoHo: 489 Broome Street between Wooster and West Broadway
West Broadway East Village: 325 Bowery at 2nd St.
Union Square: 813 Broadway between 11th and 12th Sts.
SoHo: 489 Broome Street between Wooster and West Broadway
West Broadway East Village: 325 Bowery at 2nd St.
Tuesday, March 04, 2008
Spring Sales on the Horizon
Check out the upcoming sales from Shelly and Renee, and on the other side of the tracks, Housing Works:Also, I have ordered three mirrors (see pic.) for my hallway/entrance on clearance at Target.com - Cross your fingers for me that they aren't broken or hideous. I couldn't help myself - they were $40 each!
Monday, November 26, 2007
My Mundane Xmas List
The Guerilla Mama asked me for my Christmas list, so I gave her the same list I sent to my insurance company after the fire. Basically all of the things that are "no more" and must be replaced in order for me to begin living a normal life again, once I move back home:
- Two welcome mats
- Hallway rug
- Kitchen rug
- Bathroom Shelving Unit
- Hand mirror
- Shower curtain/liner
- Salt & Pepper shakers
- Microwave
- Queen sized mattress and box spring (Simmons?)
- Bottom sheet
- Recliner chair
- Two window blinds for bedroom (Wood slats?)
- Kitchen wall clock
- Make-up organizers
- Kitchen garbage can
- Kitchen recycling bin
- Bathroom garbage can
I think much of this can be gotten from Target, which is what I shall suggest. But if anyone has any other notions of where I can get the fabulous version of any of these items, don't be shy.
I also want a flat-screen LCD TV, a new computer (also flat screen), and a new stereo receiver - so if anyone wants to donate any of these electronic products to my cause, I will be more than willing to blog about them afterwards :)
Thursday, October 04, 2007
Target Commercial Interiors
Thought this was an interesting tidbit - Target doing corporate interior design and overhauling:
Designs on a New Market Niche --- Target's Little-Known Unit For Commercial Interiors Aims to Expand Its Business
By Ann Zimmerman
4 October 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Phoenix -- When the Arizona Diamondbacks decided to overhaul the interior of their 10-year-old baseball stadium last winter, the team's executives went to Target. Not one of the 1,500 retail stores around the country, but the retailer's less well-known commercial-interiors division.
Designers from Target Corp. spruced up the stadium's clubhouse, made the suite-level dining areas more inviting and hunted down a massive conference table for the team's boardroom.
While Target has built its brand as a purveyor of stylish-but-affordable apparel and mass-market merchandise, it has quietly carved out a profitable niche applying a similar philosophy to designing interiors for companies. Perhaps surprising for a company that caters to midmarket shoppers at its stores, much of its interiors work is at image-conscious businesses including some of America's largest companies and white-shoe law firms.
Now the unit, Target Commercial Interiors, is trying to broaden its reach to medium-size and small companies as well. And it's nudging its way into the spotlight with more jobs at sports venues, hotels and other sites in the public eye.
TCI, as it's known inside Target headquarters, is a relatively small part of the retailer, which had nearly $60 billion in sales last year. But the interiors business is growing in scope. The unit's more than 100 employees, many of them certified interior designers, don't shop at Target stores for their decorating supplies. But they do leverage the company's scale and sourcing ability to get good prices and find cutting-edge products -- an advantage in an industry dominated by regional and local design and architecture firms.
TCI, with offices across the street from Target's headquarters in Minneapolis, was previously Dayton Commercial Interiors, a 50-year-old unit of Target's original parent company, Dayton Hudson Corp. Since adopting the Target name in 2004, TCI's projects have included designing many areas in the Minneapolis headquarters of General Mills Inc.
TCI designers have been seeking out furniture and fixtures for a Minneapolis W hotel -- one of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s boutique hotels -- set to open next summer. Target's team tracked down sleek gray bureaus and round, hot-pink lacquered minibars for the rooms.
"With the Target name, the world is your oyster. The name is everywhere," says TCI President Joe Perdew. He says high-end clients haven't had any qualms about an association with a discount-store brand. "Many of our clients buy very nice, expensive wood furniture. You would think that they would balk at buying it from Target, but the problem never came up," he says.
TCI offers a full slate of design and decorating services, but frequently works with outside architects and designers.
The unit sees an opportunity in work for smaller companies because their options have been generally limited to office-supply stores or local office-furniture dealers, which tend to have a relatively narrow product range, says Ashok Dhariwal, TCI's vice president of operations.
As part of its effort to reach new customers, TCI opened its first office-furniture store in Bloomington, Minn., two years ago. The store -- branded Target Commercial Interiors -- carries professional-grade furnishings from about 20 manufacturers and a broad selection of merchandise, from wall art to 50 different models of office chairs. Some of the manufacturers' smaller, less-expensive items, such as $20 Adesso desk lamps, are also sold in Target's discount-chain stores.
Target says sales at the furniture store are running above expectations for the year, though it won't disclose numbers. And Target officials say they see great potential in the concept. However, there are obstacles to expansion. One key issue: Several furniture lines the store carries, such as Steelcase Inc., have exclusive agreements with furniture dealers in other cities.
Carl Bergauer, outgoing chairman of the Office Product Dealers Association, says TCI's approach is unique in the industry. "If it catches on, you'll see other dealers try to emulate it," he says.
But Mr. Bergauer, who is also president of Dallas-based Facility Logistix, an office-furniture company that supplies large and midsize companies, says Target faces challenges if it plans to expand its office-store concept outside its home market. "It's difficult to hire strong enough people in a retail environment, earning retail wages that also have the experience that's needed," he says. He adds that it's equally challenging to find installation and delivery services in different markets.
For some, the Target name is a leap when it comes to large-scale design and decorating projects. Jeffrey Moorad, the Diamondbacks' general partner and chief executive officer, admits he was taken aback when the team's chief operating officer Tom Garfinkel told him he was hiring Target to spruce up the stadium, bypassing companies that specialize in athletic facilities. "Now, I don't know what I like better, the job they did or what they charged us," says Mr. Moorad. He declined to reveal the price, and TCI says its rates are proprietary information.
Mr. Garfinkel learned about TCI in 2003 when he was working for Chip Ganassi Racing, an owner of car-racing teams in North Carolina, and TCI designed the interior of a new facility.
The Chase Field revamp came after a rebranding of the team that included changing its color to red from teal and purple. To emphasize the romance of the game, TCI designer Lynn Munyon replaced commercial-sponsor signs next to concession stands with big black-and-white photos of fans, in frames that can be updated with new images. Noise-inducing ceramic tiles were replaced with industrial-grade carpet tiles that can be changed as they get dirty.
The designers also found a way to avoid the expense of replacing the portable concession stands -- instead, they simply covered them with industrial adhesive paper in the new team color.
The challenge at Winthrop & Weinstine, a general practice and litigation law firm in Minneapolis, was to find furniture to suit the rich African cherry wood architects had used in the offices. Ms. Munyon found modular wood furniture that looked custom-made but cost less.
"Although Target is a discount store, this division is pretty high-end, yet affordable," says Becky Jenness, the law firm's executive director. The furniture for a partner's office, for example, cost about $15,000. "Architects are not always practical and functional," she says. "Target was both, and helped us come in under budget."
Designs on a New Market Niche --- Target's Little-Known Unit For Commercial Interiors Aims to Expand Its Business
By Ann Zimmerman
4 October 2007
The Wall Street Journal
Phoenix -- When the Arizona Diamondbacks decided to overhaul the interior of their 10-year-old baseball stadium last winter, the team's executives went to Target. Not one of the 1,500 retail stores around the country, but the retailer's less well-known commercial-interiors division.
Designers from Target Corp. spruced up the stadium's clubhouse, made the suite-level dining areas more inviting and hunted down a massive conference table for the team's boardroom.
While Target has built its brand as a purveyor of stylish-but-affordable apparel and mass-market merchandise, it has quietly carved out a profitable niche applying a similar philosophy to designing interiors for companies. Perhaps surprising for a company that caters to midmarket shoppers at its stores, much of its interiors work is at image-conscious businesses including some of America's largest companies and white-shoe law firms.
Now the unit, Target Commercial Interiors, is trying to broaden its reach to medium-size and small companies as well. And it's nudging its way into the spotlight with more jobs at sports venues, hotels and other sites in the public eye.
TCI, as it's known inside Target headquarters, is a relatively small part of the retailer, which had nearly $60 billion in sales last year. But the interiors business is growing in scope. The unit's more than 100 employees, many of them certified interior designers, don't shop at Target stores for their decorating supplies. But they do leverage the company's scale and sourcing ability to get good prices and find cutting-edge products -- an advantage in an industry dominated by regional and local design and architecture firms.
TCI, with offices across the street from Target's headquarters in Minneapolis, was previously Dayton Commercial Interiors, a 50-year-old unit of Target's original parent company, Dayton Hudson Corp. Since adopting the Target name in 2004, TCI's projects have included designing many areas in the Minneapolis headquarters of General Mills Inc.
TCI designers have been seeking out furniture and fixtures for a Minneapolis W hotel -- one of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s boutique hotels -- set to open next summer. Target's team tracked down sleek gray bureaus and round, hot-pink lacquered minibars for the rooms.
"With the Target name, the world is your oyster. The name is everywhere," says TCI President Joe Perdew. He says high-end clients haven't had any qualms about an association with a discount-store brand. "Many of our clients buy very nice, expensive wood furniture. You would think that they would balk at buying it from Target, but the problem never came up," he says.
TCI offers a full slate of design and decorating services, but frequently works with outside architects and designers.
The unit sees an opportunity in work for smaller companies because their options have been generally limited to office-supply stores or local office-furniture dealers, which tend to have a relatively narrow product range, says Ashok Dhariwal, TCI's vice president of operations.
As part of its effort to reach new customers, TCI opened its first office-furniture store in Bloomington, Minn., two years ago. The store -- branded Target Commercial Interiors -- carries professional-grade furnishings from about 20 manufacturers and a broad selection of merchandise, from wall art to 50 different models of office chairs. Some of the manufacturers' smaller, less-expensive items, such as $20 Adesso desk lamps, are also sold in Target's discount-chain stores.
Target says sales at the furniture store are running above expectations for the year, though it won't disclose numbers. And Target officials say they see great potential in the concept. However, there are obstacles to expansion. One key issue: Several furniture lines the store carries, such as Steelcase Inc., have exclusive agreements with furniture dealers in other cities.
Carl Bergauer, outgoing chairman of the Office Product Dealers Association, says TCI's approach is unique in the industry. "If it catches on, you'll see other dealers try to emulate it," he says.
But Mr. Bergauer, who is also president of Dallas-based Facility Logistix, an office-furniture company that supplies large and midsize companies, says Target faces challenges if it plans to expand its office-store concept outside its home market. "It's difficult to hire strong enough people in a retail environment, earning retail wages that also have the experience that's needed," he says. He adds that it's equally challenging to find installation and delivery services in different markets.
For some, the Target name is a leap when it comes to large-scale design and decorating projects. Jeffrey Moorad, the Diamondbacks' general partner and chief executive officer, admits he was taken aback when the team's chief operating officer Tom Garfinkel told him he was hiring Target to spruce up the stadium, bypassing companies that specialize in athletic facilities. "Now, I don't know what I like better, the job they did or what they charged us," says Mr. Moorad. He declined to reveal the price, and TCI says its rates are proprietary information.
Mr. Garfinkel learned about TCI in 2003 when he was working for Chip Ganassi Racing, an owner of car-racing teams in North Carolina, and TCI designed the interior of a new facility.
The Chase Field revamp came after a rebranding of the team that included changing its color to red from teal and purple. To emphasize the romance of the game, TCI designer Lynn Munyon replaced commercial-sponsor signs next to concession stands with big black-and-white photos of fans, in frames that can be updated with new images. Noise-inducing ceramic tiles were replaced with industrial-grade carpet tiles that can be changed as they get dirty.
The designers also found a way to avoid the expense of replacing the portable concession stands -- instead, they simply covered them with industrial adhesive paper in the new team color.
The challenge at Winthrop & Weinstine, a general practice and litigation law firm in Minneapolis, was to find furniture to suit the rich African cherry wood architects had used in the offices. Ms. Munyon found modular wood furniture that looked custom-made but cost less.
"Although Target is a discount store, this division is pretty high-end, yet affordable," says Becky Jenness, the law firm's executive director. The furniture for a partner's office, for example, cost about $15,000. "Architects are not always practical and functional," she says. "Target was both, and helped us come in under budget."
Monday, July 16, 2007
Libertine at Target
OK, so now the New York Times Urban Eye isn't only reading my blog for ideas, they are reading my mind because I swear I was going to write about this new collection (Libertine) after spotting it this weekend. If I were younger or still in denial about my age I might have even bought some of it:SHOPPING
Punky but Chic
Get your masstige on: the Libertine collection arrived in Target stores yesterday. The punk-prep clothing, priced from $12.99 to $39.99, includes a lot of of-the-moment stitchery (knits, embroidery) on shorts, skirts, dresses, striped trousers and printed tops. Get it before the cheap-fashion fan Heidi Klum does.
Target, Atlantic and Flatbush Avenues, Brooklyn; (718) 290-1109.
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
Target: This Bag Looks Cool
From my favorite source to "borrow" from: New York magazine's Best Bets DailyBY FARAN ALEXIS KRENTCIL
Strong graphic prints stormed Italian runways, but if you can't afford a Marni bag, try a tote from Target. This cotton carryall makes a bold statement with your wardrobe, but not on your credit-card bill. And for those mornings when you have nothing to wear, pairing it with a plain black dress or jeans will instantly give you a look—many looks, in fact, as you strut past the guys on your street.
$16.99 at Target, 139 Flatbush Ave., at Atlantic Ave., Fort Greene, Brooklyn; 718-290-1109.
Friday, May 04, 2007
Dynamints & Bottle Caps
I love candy from the 80s. Not chocolate, but the sugary, bright, sweet stuff including Volcano Rocks, Spree, Tart'n'Tinys, Pez, Bottle Caps and Dynamints (pictured here)!Most of these fantastic candies are discontinued or don't exist in their original configuration any more...except you can still get a big ol' box of Bottle Caps at the Target on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. Yes, I make up other excuses to go there, but what I'm really after are my Bottle Caps. You can take the subway and everything.
However, seeing how I was chauferred in a Benz to work this morning from my current temporary home, perhaps I can get them to motor me on over there this weekend. Why not? I'm living up the absurd anyway...
Friday, December 08, 2006
Target: Coming to Manhattan
OK, so a little bunny (see pic.) has informed me that Target is in fact slated to grace us islanders with its presence as soon as 2008, which could mean in 13 months. So says the New York Post (so I guess this isn't a secret, and I should have known!):Best Buy is coming to East River Plaza.
The electronics retailer took 45,000 square feet in the East Harlem shopping center that is now under construction. While they will be located on half the third floor, Home Depot is already signed up for the entire first floor while Target has the second.
So don't skip town just yet, it might be worth your $4,000-a-month rent to stick around after all!
In other fun news (from New York magazine's "Fashion Alert" daily email, which you should probably just read instead of my blog anyway):
H&M continues its domination of Manhattan with the opening of its seventh store. The latest location throws its doors open with free T-shirts and 20 percent off all merchandise. When: Noon-8; Where: 111 Fifth Ave., at 18th St. (212-539-1741). [G.S. Note: This is the spot where the sucky Daffy's used to be.]
Thursday, December 07, 2006
Furniture/Housewares: Target
Word on the street is that the Jersey City Target is the best one in the NY Metro area. I've been to it, as well as the one and Brooklyn and the one way out in Queens (or is that still Brooklyn?) Anyway, this word is from a friend who does the PR for Target.com - so she knows! I believe she told me that "Chill Town" is the best because it's the biggest and has the most variety of merchandise.Anyway, I found myself at Target during one of my many efforts to find seemingly interesting and quality furniture at a reasonable price and found this pictured piece. In fact, I found two of them (I think they were around $70 each) and another smaller one and bought all three. Target's "World Bazaar" is all the rage - check it out and turn your mundane American home into an Opium Den or some such exotic setting.
Also, after many trials and tribulations (Target.com really has to work on their packing skills) I got a full set of new dishes - turquoise! In fact, I now have almost 2 sets of new dishes because each box would arrive with one or two plates or bowls broken in a box of four. So we'd call to complain and they'd send another whole box of four, and one or two of those would be broken. And so on and so on... Finally I received everything and now have about 14 dinner plates, 11 bowls, 12 salad plates and 5 mugs (instead of 8 of each). I love the dishes...and the price...but not the experience so much!
Alas, when are the good people of Target going to find a suitable Manhattan location? Just don't boot Lord & Taylor out (uh-oh...I may have just started something here...).
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