Rant Time in Texas – College Station Target

I am somewhat ashamed, as a blogger, to admit that I did my Valentine’s Day shopping at Target, but I did.  Today.  Yes, we all know that Target has the grooviest cheap merchandise around – sad, but true – the classy (wo)man’s WalMart.  I wish it weren’t so.  But what Target also has, that perhaps they shouldn’t, is an account with Boots, a fabulous line of cosmetics, skin and body care which has fairly recently made their way to the United States.  I have used many products from Boots in the past (their Mediterranean Wonderbalm is my wintertime savior!) , and I am sure I’ll buy many more, but I sure won’t be buying them from Target.  They seem to not care anything about aesthetics or hygiene, as the whole Boots wall in the College Station Target is disgusting.   Really, disgusting.  Products are all switched around, not in their proper spots, packaging is smooshed, things are spilled on the floor making it slippery.  And the testers, OMG.  Product is smeared all over them like a pack of 2 year olds were unleashed for a day.  Most of them are mostly empty, foundation is running down the sides of all of the bottles.  A bacterial nightmare, I’m sure.  There is no way that the mess that is the Boots wall was made in one morning.  No way.  I hope people from Boots are watching them – or more correctly I hope they are not, because I hope they wouldn’t approve of the way their counters are being tended.  I would have thought, and did think, that Target was a wonderful place for Boots to set up shop in the US, but it sure doesn’t seem to be.  Target’s lack of caring about their community and their shoppers is becoming more blatant every day. 

I pledge to find another place with cute inexpensive goodies for holiday gift giving, even in my small town, there are plenty of other options.  And btw, Boots is also available at CVS.  Might I suggest you give them a try.