Target — Local services in Garden Grove

Dealing with entitled and disrespectful behavior from people who were fully aware they were in the wrong.

First, a white Tesla, possibly a Model Y, with license plate "9BRG151" pulled into the space next to mine. The driver was a short Vietnamese woman, likely in her late 40s to 50s, wearing a white outfit and a red hat. I had already been parked, and there was a shopping cart left between my truck and another truck next to me.

Instead of taking the cart to the nearby return station, this woman shoved it directly onto the front of my truck. I rolled down my window and told her she couldn’t do that, especially since the cart had scratched my vehicle. She looked me straight in the face, scoffed, and then pretended not to understand English, saying “What lady?” I responded, “You are the lady,” because it was clearly her. This was after she had just been laughing and speaking perfect English. Then, without any concern, she pushed the cart toward the other truck, scratching both of our vehicles, and walked into the store like nothing had happened.

Shortly after that, as I was trying to leave, a small black car with a custom black and yellow license plate that read "LUV ABG" was illegally parked in the handicapped spot behind me. There were no disabled tags visible anywhere. The two people who got out, a young Vietnamese man and woman, stood on the sidewalk watching me as I tried to back out. They clearly knew they had not parked correctly. Their car was still halfway in the road, making it so difficult to reverse that I could barely turn my wheel.

They asked me, “Are you waiting for this spot?” I said yes, thinking they had just come out of the store to walk to their car. But it turned out they had just parked like that and knew they were in the way. Only after I said something did they get back in the car and repark it properly. They knew they had no business leaving the car like that in the first place if they were waiting for me to "hit their car" by reversing.

Honestly, all of them knew exactly what they were doing. There was no confusion, just a complete lack of respect and consideration for other people. It was inconsiderate and totally avoidable if they had just acted...

I made a quick trip to Target today. While there I was examining an item I didn't need, because, well, that's what you do at Target. There's a young lady working in the aisle across from me when an older gentleman walks up and very politely asks, "can you tell me where I can find....". I didn't hear what it was he asked for, only that he needed assistance. She immediately responds "we don't have any in this store". He asks "can you check another store to see if I can go somewhere else for it". She makes a face and says "I don't know". Again he asks for assistance in finding the item, she gives a heavy sigh and pulls out her magic finder and proceeds to tell him which store has the item in stock. She starts to turn from him when he asks if she could give him the address. She tells him the cross streets and he again asks for the address. She rolls her eyes and gives him the cross streets. At this point, I'm about ready to twist her ear but decide it best not to physically attack a sales associate. Instead I say "You know, this gentleman is asking very nicely for your help and you are grunting and rolling your eyes like a child. Do you not realize that your job is to assist customers? Now be nice and help him." I walked away fuming. I check myself out and stop to report her behavior to a gentleman working at the store and he begins to laugh and says "These young kids, that's how they are." I ask, "so, you think it's ok for your associates to act disrespectful to customers?" I said "I didn't ask you to fire her, but is that how you train employees to respond?". He immediately wiped the smile off his face and said "Um, I'll talk to her". I seriously doubt that he did because he's probably afraid to correct someone on the payroll for not doing a proper job. Where the heck has common courtesy gone and why would a forty year old man be hesitant about correcting poor behavior from an employee? Target stores, its time to do some proper...

Worst Target in the history of Targets! This store used to be so much better 3-4 years ago, would choose this location versus 17st NW in Santa Ana. Have been there three times since this whole pandemic has started. One out of two was an online pick up which went by smoothly. The store is gross, items piling up in the customer service checkout, as if they do not have time to restock their go backs. Worst part is the way they are directing the lines. They have one older Asian- American gentleman directing the lines, it curves over to the center of the store. Of course people seem to be uncivilized, with no respect or regard to the order of the line. Today as I am waiting in line, he asked if anyone is self checkout, 4 people got out of the line (Guy behind me cut in front of me) two of the 4 were directed to the self checkout isles, meanwhile me and another woman were asked to get back in line, told we would be called on. Now at this point the line has already reached passed the childrens clothes, tried to get back to where I was since I was the 4th in line. At this point the woman that was behind me starts being confrontational about the entire situation, arguing about my place in line. I totally get it, it looks like I cut her off, however that entire interaction could have been avoided if they did a better job at monitoring/directing their lines. Needless to say this will be the final time I frequent the Brookhurst location. Demographic that goes to this store does not seem to know how to respect one another. Plus the way this store is ran is awful, need better management. Target should be more than willing to pay their employees better, also not...