Edwardsville Marketplace — Attraction in Edwardsville

This is a clean, nice Target but something I noticed which is not justifiable is how few employees of color there were compared to even the Shiloh Target which is in a demographically similarly diverse community. I had to write a paper about diversity in workplaces for a class at a local university and this Target is a prime example of lack of racial diversity. I was noticing employees stocking things, at the Starbucks, cashiers, greeters, and folding clothes and only saw 2 in the whole store at the time, one was a cool young man with dark, skateboarder hair who was my cashier during the visit and at a glance was a young black woman at the Starbucks. When you deliberately are looking for this things to write a paper, it becomes glaringly obvious that there must be some level of at minimum unconscious hiring bias at this location. The attitude of cashiers and employees here is nothing to scoff at and they always have at least standard customer service, but I invite other regular customers to be aware of these things that affect the culture for the few floor employees of color at...

A large variety of stores from travel, personal care, banking (two), fast food, Pizza, grocery and a target (employee’s call it a mini target) but it seems to have a sufficient amount of items to keep business. Heck two bed stores around, and more.

Multiple entrances, one is traffic controlled with a signal, the others are a bit risky, especially if you want to turn left from the Target side (this is due to the fact there is Home Depot, QuikTrip, and a busy intersection all in close proximity.

The area lost the small Sears store, but I was honestly surprised it was in business as long as it...

The Kitchen Store is fantastic if you want to spend all your money on kitchen wear and tea napkins with cuss words on them. They also have gourmet popcorn, candy, fudge, and these amazing sodas flavored like buffalo wings, bacon, tire treading or whatever you can think of. Definitely a good novelty gift. Target is also good for spending literally all your money, but you already knew that, and you probably already spent all your money at the kitchen store. There’s other stuff there as well, and it’s...