Target Store in Wasilla (Palmer: rent, travel, jobs)

[SarahB82]

Hey there,

I'll be moving up to the Wasilla area relatively soon to help with opening the new Target store coming into the area in October. Does anyone know what the site looks like so far? Pictures of the area around it or of it? Just curious. It's off of E. Parks Highway, but that's all I got!

Thanks!

~Sarah

[travelmate38]

Looks like any other Target. And also will from the inside too. Cramed pack full of cheaply made Chinese goods. Oh, but let us not forget the 300 part time $7 an hour jobs it will provide.

[Barkingowl]

Target should be a nice addition to the shopping available.

[Marty Van Diest]

I drive by it every day...But it just looks like a Target store. It's on the busiest corner in the Mat-Su Valley. The corner of the Parks Highway and the Palmer-Wasilla Highway.

It has Cottonwood Creek behind it with an eagle nest above Cottonwood Creek. Salmon run in the creek so I'm sure people looked into runoff from the parking lot. Not that iit is much different from the parking lot that was there before. They tore down Cottonwood Creek Mall, the only real Mall in the area to build the Target store.

I guess the owners of Target are counting on us growing in the area. Walmart and Fred Meyer are doing well. But I don't know how Sears stays in business.

[SarahB82]

Can't help but agree with the fact that another "Tar-mart" going into an area probably once inhabited by lovely mom and pop stores isn't the stuff dreams are made of, Travelmate. Target does usually pick areas that have already been previously built on though to put stores up. I actually have a Wildlands Ecology Degree, which is why I accepted the position up there(adding to the supercenter pollution) hoping that once I'm settled with a higher-than-$7 an hour manager position under my belt, I can look into finding something more worth while, and help my new local community.

Thanks for the description though Marty, I was just curious. There are different size stores for different volume areas so I was trying to determine what size this one would be.

And I sometimes wonder how any Sears can stay in business...

[Barkingowl]

Sears must have a core customer base that is fiercely loyal.

[SarahB82]

200 extremely rich people who like washers and dryers.... a lot...

[Barkingowl]

Originally Posted by SarahB82

200 extremely rich people who like washers and dryers.... a lot...

My eldest son & his wife work at the Sears processing center in Columbus, OH. They tell me all kinds of stories about how crappy the retail stores are. I find it really hard to believe that store is making any money.

[SarahB82]

I agree with that, especially since where I grew up, I believed that Sears only sold lawn mowers and dryers. But I guess K-Mart must have seen some potential since they bought them out a few years ago. Maybe a mix of industrial type appliances mixed with the "Cheaply made Chinese goods" will help them pick up business.

[Barkingowl]

I think the K-Mart merger is destroying them.