[quote name='CocheseUGA']Electronics - Target >>Wal-mart
Food - Wal-mart > Target
Clothes - Target>>>>>>>Wal-mart
Starbucks>>>Wal-mart McDonalds
Anime? Is that worth a response?
If you're shopping for your computer parts at Wal-mart, then I think I see where the problem lies.[/QUOTE]
Umm, I got a retail boxed firewire card with full drivers for $10. A USB 2.0 expansion for $10. Hard drives [western digital, seagate, maxtor] are pretty cheap without rebates. The only thing they don't have is CPU's and RAM but if you're in a rush for a part, it's perfect. I'm not saying they're an end all store but so far all I've seen at Target is expensive outdated optical drives and portable hard drives, while every Wal-Mart I've been to has 5 or so different video cards, a few hard drives, intenral and external optical drives, and a nice selection of accesories, etc
Electronics? How is Target superior to Wal-Mart? Target only sells GE and Monster branded cables, which are horribly expensive. My Wal-Mart sells Philips, RCA, Sony, Monster, and some off brands, all at varying prices. I know monoprice is cheaper, but if I can drive 5 minutes and get some component cables for $7 and a coax digital cable for $5, whenever wherever, that's convenient. As for everything else, it's the same issue. Look at Target's MP3 section, mostly iPod's and lots of cheap [useless] mp3 players. While Walmart has iPod's, but stocks a healthy selection of creative, panasonic, toshiba, as well as their own brands. Same thing for TV's, Target only has expensive Panasonics, overpriced RCA's, and junk Trutechs. God, you can't even buy cheap batteries at Target, the cheapest is Rayovac Maximum...what if I just need two junk AA's for a remotr control?
How the hell are Target's clothes any better than Wal-Marts? Neither is good, I haven't bought a piece of clothing at Wal-Mart in about three years and I've only ever bought one at Target, but if you break it down, how is it better? The women's section is filled with overpriced, cheaply made Luella products and plain looking Mossimo items, the men's section is much the same, just replace Luella with "trendy" graphic tees. At least the clothes at Wal-Mart are priced more closely to their actual value. Target prices their clothes as if they were Dillard's or an actual boutique.
Food? I agree with you there, the super Wal-Mart's usually have an equal selection compared to a Kroger's or a Safeway/Randall's. And since most of the times the seafood, butcher's, and bakery are run by the store and not the district, sometimes you can have really good bread and really good cuts of meat and fish. I think some products are priced higher than at other stores, but most of the time the prices are equal or a little lower.
Now as for Starbucks and McDonald's? How the hell is a satanic cult where a cup of coffee costs 50x as much as it costs to make, that only the purest entities of mass market consumerism prefer, better than a worldwide, internationally recognized fast food outlet, which has prices and products that are accesible to ALL consumers. We could say that McDonald's makes American unhealthy, but then again, SO DOES THE COFFEE HABIT! For $3 I can get a burger, some fries, and a drink [which can be soda, juice, and even COFFEE] What does that get me at Starbucks? A styrofoam cup and some hot water?
As for anime? What? You have a problem with it? Target had a whole SECTION dedicated to it as well as manga, when Target considered it to be "trendy" enough, when Target thought it was "cool" As soon as the doughy frat boys and pretentious "Oooh look at me I'm smart and liberated" bitches complained about it, the section was replaced with an aisle of "chick lit" and even more copies of "Friends". Yet at Wal-Mart, I can get the new Miyazaki's, new Fullmetals, and most of the big titles from ADV and Funimation, for MSRP, but usually for a nice $15. That's the nice thing about Wal-Mart, it's open, there's as many copies of the biggest blockbuster and the same variety of TV seasons and movies the mainstream likes, but yet you can still buy foreign films, anime, old cartoons, and old movies when they come out. Target excludes several people and caters strictly to its demographic core.
And I do live in the south, and while my Wal-Mart's sell beer and some drinks, every Target I've been to has a whole aisle dedicated to wine, half an aisle dedicated to mixed drinks, and entire aisle of tea and coffee. Once again, excluding everyone but its "demographic" I like that at Wal-Mart there's an entire aisle of juices and milks, an entire aisle of water and sports drinks, plus an entire aisle of soda and beverages, there's no "OH HEY, OUR STORE IS FOR TRENDY 20 SOMETHINGS" feel, there's "HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED, BUY IT AS YOU LIKE"
That's what Wal-Mart is, a corporation that's out to make money, and gets it by presenting the general public with what it could want or need, not just what it deems profitable.
See? It's in my user title so you can feel good about outsmarting me.[/QUOTE]
do you think they are? In crafts? 
