What's the difference between Target USA and Target Australia? (closing, shoppers)

[jm31828]

To answer a question asked earlier, the Target stores here in the US are not open 24 hours. Generally they close at 9PM or 10PM each night.

[wanneroo]

Originally Posted by minibrings

my right wing nut job friends also pan Walmart when they'r enot wearing their tin foil hats. And last I checked US Air and Qantas don't have a partnershp so they really weren't lazy re your luggage. Airlines aren't obligated to take your luggage to a connecting lflight, unless they're code sharing. Qantas did not take my luggage to Jetblue for my domestic leg from JFK.. I didn't expect them to as they're not travel partners.

My bag was checked all the way through to Auckland. Just because the airlines are not code share partners doesn't mean anything if your bag is checked all the way through.

[minibrings]

Originally Posted by wanneroo

My bag was checked all the way through to Auckland. Just because the airlines are not code share partners doesn't mean anything if your bag is checked all the way through.

well you must be special. qantas sent my luggage to Jfk and would not check it in with jetblue for my domestic flight. their reason was jetblue was not a codeshare. also for security purposes thye could not check me into my final destination and one has to check in with luggage in person to final destination.

[Westerner92]

Originally Posted by manygeese

Does it. (look similar.) A visitor from Wyoming once said around here (the Wimmera of Victoria) reminded her of Texas. So there you go.

Very curious as to what street you would find at Riachella, though. It's just a locality. Few farms and a disused tennis court.

(I was going to try to use google street view but the kids have used up this month broadband and we are now shaped. To hard to download graphics.)

Texas looks pretty spick and span. Ah, the dream of travel.

Once I saw how small the town was, I just hopped around the countryside seeing what it looked like. It reminded me of the landscape around where I live: very flat farmland and few trees. However, trees aren't even native here on the High Plains, and it looks like most of the land in that part of Victoria is cleared, so the area around Dallas is probably a better comparison. I've run into a couple of Aussies here (either going to college or working in the cotton industry), and they have said that it looks similar to many parts of the Murray-Darling Basin. Look at the resemblance:

This is about 30 minutes outside of my city (in the winter):
Google Maps

This is a place I found in NSW:
Google Maps

[Vichel]

American shopping centre parking lots are also designed better. Bigger with more room down the lanes. Here, they cram cars into narrow spots and the lanes between rows are also too narrow, making it awkward to get in and out of spots. Lots of inconvenient curbing as well - probably to try to restrict cretins from hooning around - but it makes it a pain for shoppers.

I can't believe all the scratches & dents on our car from parking lots! I try to park in end spots so I only expose one side, even if it means a long walk, but my car is still a mess.

[Trimac20]

Originally Posted by Vichel

American shopping centre parking lots are also designed better. Bigger with more room down the lanes. Here, they cram cars into narrow spots and the lanes between rows are also too narrow, making it awkward to get in and out of spots. Lots of inconvenient curbing as well - probably to try to restrict cretins from hooning around - but it makes it a pain for shoppers.

I can't believe all the scratches & dents on our car from parking lots! I try to park in end spots so I only expose one side, even if it means a long walk, but my car is still a mess.

I believe most accidents occur in shopping centre carparks. I've had a few close calls and I know about people scratching you and doing the dishonest thing. Some of these people can barely manouvre through carparks let alone on roads.

[Kittsharley]

Australia targets didn't have thing I was looking for that I would normally find in one place in the usa

[sulkiercupid]

Target in Australia has less variety then Target in the US or even equivalent stores such as K-Mart and Big W in Australia.

[danielsa1775]

Coles Myer purchased the rights to use the Target Logo in Australia from the american corporation in 1968.

Outside the name and logo, Target Australia which is now owned by Wesfarmers has no relationship to the american company at all.

[Spudee]

I think the main difference between Target USA and Target Oz is the accents of the checkout operators!