Target or Walmart in an urban area

[Pryderi]

If you were to choose 1 to put into a downtown area, which one would you choose and why?

I prefer Target, but I know there's been a boycott of them lately. Which company treats their employees better and is a better community partner?

Portland is considering allowing one of the 2 to move in downtown.

http://steve-olson.com/10-reasons-target-is-better-than-wal-mart/

[glinda]

1. Target

[kestrel91316]

2. I prefer Target. It's not primarily owned by a single filthy rich family, AFAIK.

[Sherman A1]

3. Neither

I would suspect the area can do just fine with an assortment of smaller merchants and without either of the big box stores.

[tammywammy]

4. I prefer Target. n/t

[moparlunatic]

5. Walmart

Has better prices.

[tammywammy]

7. I still prefer Target

I find the employee helpful and the store clean at Target and the opposite at Walmart. Plus there are a host of other reasons I don't shop at Walmart. I'd rather spend the extra couple of dollars at Target.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Both are evil, but Target is slightly less so.

So if the choice were limited to one or the other, I'd go with Target. Also, their merchandise isn't as shoddy, in general, as Walmart's, and the ambience isn't quite as depressing.

[happyslug]

8. Both Depend on people getting to them and from them by Automobile

And Auto traffic in an Urban Area is the kiss of death for that area. A Target or Walmart moving into an Urban areas means one of two things, either the price of land is so cheap that it would be cheap to build one (and with the related fact that the reason the land is cheap is that no one with any income wants to live in that area, a factor that would prevent Target or Walmart from moving in) OR the area is open to all type of traffic from every direction so that it is a prime location (And for that reason high value, generally to high in an urban area for something like Target or Walmart).

Thus, this is a stupid question, the only way one would get one, would also mean neither will want to build one in that urban area. Both are depended on high draw via Auto Traffic, people drive to them, stock up and go home. You do NOT go to each more the once a week at best, and often less then once a month. That is their idea customer, one who visits them right after payday and stock up till the next pay day. Their idea customer owns a car, if you do NOT own a car, you have no way to carry everything on your one trip per month. Thus even urban residents that go to either, drive to either and at that point suburbia is a better area then any inner city urban area as far as either is concerned.

Urban draws tend to want both people who use Automobiles AND Mass Transit, such urban retailers accept the fact many of their customers will NOT buy all that they need for the month in just one trip. Walmart and Target are NOT set up for such customers and do not want them, they want the once a month trippers not people who shop and buy as needed.

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I won't set foot in a Wal-Mart.

Target maybe once a year. I would say it's the lesser of two weevils.