Target — Local services in San Francisco

San Francisco Central, store number -- oh my gott, they stopped using store numbers!! Okay - the store @ 789 Mission Street in Downtown San Francisco one block south of Market Street. Weeellll,... it would appear that the work ethics of Target Corporate standards of member associate's conduct has dropped to a new low lately. I had to wait 4 minutes to get help, by pressing the Request Help Button repeatedly (while observing two (2) Target Associates nearby), for a locked display case for laundry detergent - while two (2) Team Members were standing at the other end of tbe aisle chitchating. Oblivious to my observing them. Until one of them noticed me staring @ them, then noticed my pumping the help button. And stopped yaking to come and ask if I needed assistance. The other one up and vanished. Unacceptable - when I worked at Target team members were reminded and discouraged (daily) to not socialize on the clock, on the sales floor. This is what breaks are for, not while you're supposed to be "working". Target in California pays a lot of good money for your wages. You shouldn't be abusing your job, by ignoring the shoppers. On the same visit today, another very poor job of customer service by the team member responsible for monitoring the self checkout stations. Long story short, I was almost done registering my purchases, but I needed additional help - so I was pressing the HELP ME! icon on the screen. But the team member was not only ignoring me, but she was also checking out shoppers who were waiting in line behind me, for 12 minutes on a vacant checkout station. Completely ignoring the flashing red beacon on my self checkout station. Maybe it was racial discrimination - because the people waiting to use the self checkout stations behind me just happened to be white people. Unfortunately racism is a common occurrence in San Francisco, it happens everywhere. Normally if you're already at a self checkout station, the Team Member responsible for monitoring those stations should be assisting those shoppers already at the checkout station, NOT assisting shoppers waiting to use the self checkout stations. And in plain...

The focus of the store is theft prevention, not sales. Went there to buy a cheap watch for my trip to Guatemala (that the site showed was in stock). Wondered for 10 minutes looking for watches. Went to the Electronics section. That was the only section with a sales clerk, since everything there was locked down in (bulletproof?) plexiglass cabinets. Waited for 10 minutes for the clerk to finish a sale to a homeless looking lady. The clerk said that the watches are by the shoes cabinet and he would call someone there on the intercom. Headed there, waited for 20 minutes. Nobody came. Studied the messy dirty cabinet made of plexiglass, that wasn't transparent enough due to scratches, and had a pile of watches underneath, without any order or organization. Headed back to the Electronics section, told him there was nobody to unlock the cabinet and asked to unlock it for me. The clerk reluctantly agreed, had me wait for 10min , and then warned that unless I know the exact watch I wanted and can locate it, he would not be able to help, since he was wheeling and guarding a cart with "valuable merchandise" that he did not yet have a chance to lock. When we arrived to the cabinet, he shook his head in the end saying that since I didn't see the watch I wanted on the surface of the pile through the dirty glass, he wouldn't even try to unlock the cabinet, since he was also multitasking guarding a cart with "valuable merchandise". I ended up ordering it on Amazon in front of him, while showing him the model on the Amazon app. Keeping this store open tarnishes the reputation of the chain in the rest of the country. I think only clueless tourists from Philippines and thieves go to this store. By the way, I traveled extensively through Central and South America, but I have never seen such a bad...

It's a pretty decent location, usually well stocked, but probably mostly because it's all under lock and key, and behind glass.

Sometimes it is fast for an employee to come help you get an item out, and sometimes it's painfully slow... There's always alot of people shopping whenever I go there which is always in the evening time.

Bathrooms are usually clean enough, and stocked, but don't think you're getting into the family restroom if you need to use it, because you'll be waiting at least a half hour to use it, while the person inside of it does whatever homeless people do in there (which I'm pretty sure is nothing).....

Security is always pretty heavy at this location, which is completely fine, if you don't mind them stalking you around the store, even if you haven't stolen anything.... I usually just try and ignor them.

Oh yeah and speaking of theft... Like most stores in SF, you can expect to be seeing people filling their whole backpack with all sorts of random things, that they couldn't possibly need all of them, which means you'll probably end up having to watch somebody argue with security because they're mad they didn't get away with what they wanted to steal....

Customer service is decent though, and I have never had any issues with any returns, as long as they were within the limits of the return policy. There's usually plenty of check stands open and even though the self check out line is usually pretty long it doesn't often take long enough for me to be bothered by the wait, although I am pretty patient..

Anyway it's pretty much like any target, ☆☆☆ Plus 1 extra star because I like...