Why is it so easy to spend money at Target? It seems that whenever I go in there for one thing, I wind up coming out with several. This week alone, I have found myself visiting Target three times!
I am getting way too comfortable in that store. I’m branching out to the point where I make a stop first at the Starbucks in the store for a small coffee. Yesterday, I ordered a medium one and actually contemplated feeding the kids at the in-store Pizza Hut Express. What is happening to me?
I think I miss malls. I was a child of the ‘80s and spent many of my teenage years twirling my rubber bracelets and sucking down Orange Juliuses with my friends, while we browsed the United Colors of Benetton store or hit the arcade. No matter what the weather, you could go, hang out and shop to your heart’s content. In one location, you could buy books, clothes, electronics or eat lunch.
Today there are very few indoor malls. The high cost of heating and cooling a massive building has made the rents out of reach for most stores these days. The more open strip mall is now taking over, and it is the era of the big box store, which is sort of like a mall, now that these “mini food courts” are appearing in most of them.
It makes stores like Target very attractive to me. They sell bread and milk, plus they have all sorts of other interesting things that I seem to remember needing as I browse the aisles. Go into Target for a pair of sneakers for my son and emerge with the sneakers plus a laundry basket, some stickers to keep the kids occupied during a meeting, and a bottle of that new juice we had been meaning to try. You see what I mean?
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