target sucks....or Pj didnt...

THEBIBLEISTEN

You think if Pj is releasing a cd at Target then Target would have the CD. Alot of them have no clue. They dont have the Cd, record etc. I know their are other posts on this but doesnt target have mangers that check on this crap? Does Pj have management that checks to see if the targets are ready to go and have the merchandise? Kinda strange. Fuck Target. They should be ashamed. I think next cd gets released only at Burger King. You can listen to the new songs in the B.K lounge. You want fries with that......

smithnic

I totally agree!!
The Target in my neighborhood (BROOKLYN) didn't fucking have it! Great job

Stacy

LOL! Hate to laugh BUT I worked in retail after high school & NONE of them managers knew WTF was goin on! It was pathetic!!!! Sorry my fellow PJ friend...

Porchsitter

Same here. Got up this morning, drove 25 minutes to the nearest Target, walked in....and nothing! The guy didn't have a clue about it. You would think with an "exclusive" that Target would be just a bit more prepared for it. I was a bit disappointed and drove to the next Target and got it there.

Ledbetterman10

That sucks. The Target close to me had dozens of copies on display right by the cash register....but that's not the point. This Target deal is fucking stupid if there's people who can't simply go to the store and buy it on release day.

gettingright

same thing at a target out here in denver....the cd was not out in the music section....i did later see it displayed as an end-cap at the cash registers

the staff had no idea about the shirt. they tried to tell me that they didn't get the shirt or cd. after some persistence, one staff member knew were they were and got the shirt for me.

it is very soft

THEBIBLEISTEN

What target in Denver. Thats where i am

37pheet

i think pj wood/ or is pissed about how things got handled. i wood be if it was my band. i hope they can recoup some $ or something in return for crap being so messd up. pj most likely will have something to say about this.

Ledbetterman10

wood?!?!

BF89905

Target in Brooklyn at Erskine st. and the Belt Pkwy has plenty all over by the registers - you don't even have to walk to the music section. Enjoy.

RITFWinCO

I went to Target in Denver too...the one located on Colorado Blvd and Alameda (one of the more central Denver locations) ... and it was only displayed as an endcap by the cash register. I searched around the music section for about 10 minutes and was saying WTF to myself. Bought a couple of groceries and fotunately saw them by the cash register..weird to have absolutely zero in the actual music area

gettingright

THEBIBLEISTEN wrote:

What target in Denver. Thats where i am

PM sent---the one off Colorado Blvd...the address on the list is virginia st

Plankton

Whoever thought of making the release date a Sunday really should have seen sense.

joeybuckets

smithnic wrote:

I totally agree!!
The Target in my neighborhood (BROOKLYN) didn't fucking have it! Great job

the one on Gateway Drive ( Erskine St exit off belt pkwy) didnt have it?

fanofzs

I went to this Colorado Blvd store as well. I just went to check out what they had for sale, maybe get a shirt. Should have my 10C order tomorrow. Yeah, couldn't find the CD in the Music Dept. Walked to the counter and these guys were folding the shirts. I said, "hey, you got an XL". They had one XL and only 4 shirts total left. They said they only received 20 shirts at that store. Are the shirts that limited? Man. And this was at like 11am. Glad I stopped by early in the day.

BTW, the CDs were only for sale at the checkout lane (26 I think). Crazy

Ok

two stores in the nyc metro area had nothing. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:

joeybuckets

BF89905 wrote:

Target in Brooklyn at Erskine st. and the Belt Pkwy has plenty all over by the registers - you don't even have to walk to the music section. Enjoy.

the CD or the T-Shirt?

bettielee

What about the guy who said he worked at Target and they had it weeks in advance? sorry guys, this really sucks.

bettielee

Plankton wrote:

Whoever thought of making the release date a Sunday really should have seen sense.

qft

oona left

The fact that Target is running ads, thereby benefiting from the Q-Rating they must know is there, makes this all the more incredible.

They use clips of a live performance of the first single, flash their own logo behind the band, spend X number of dollars on the commercial time, then can't even distribute a simple memo? How hard is it to inform store locations/managers that, on a certain day, the product is to be made available to the public?

Yes, I'm oversimplifying things. And no, I've never worked retail.

But honest to God - a company signs on to be the official distributor, then blow it?

I doubt Target ever pulls this crap when a new Hannah Montana P.O.S. comes out :evil:

paper tiger

I'm a retail manager and I can see how these things get screwed up, people in stores have no say over screw-ups from distribution and if the managers aren't passing notes about different events to the weekend staff, nobody knows what the hell is going on.

BUFFALO target on delaware had plenty of copies but not a damn person in that store knew about the shirts

mattcleary

The Target in Beaumont, TX was clueless too... "We ain't got it yet" Gotta love a (B)/(M)illion dollar company's reputation hanging on a minimum-waged worker, most likely pissed at working Sunday AM... I pre-ordered the iTunes version, to try out the new 'LP' - good stuff w/two concerts available to DL.

I'll just buy the Rockband DLC direct from XBOXLIVE.

Wobbie

Ledbetterman10 wrote:

wood?!?!

How can you spell "would" as "wood" but know how to spell "recoup"? :shock:

blondieblue227

I’m hearing some bad things.
If I were PJ I’d want to hear about this.

My target(va beach) had no shirts. But I had expected that from the shirt list. Not every store would have them.

I was expecting some kind of banner or poster advertising ‘Pearl Jam at Target’. All I saw in the entire store was this sign about the size of a piece of paper with a pic of the cd cover out on September 20 over the new releases shelf. I mean that’s it, I was shocked! With the Prince release there was crap all over the place.
THEN the Backspacer was nowhere to be found. I got there late in the day but still it couldn’t have sold out that fast.
I thought gezz they didn’t order enough.
I wasn’t leaving until I spoke to a staff. (give me my PJ god damnit! Lol!)
The guy said he had to get it from the back. And he asked if that’s all I wanted. (I guess for Rock Band or whatever)
I told him there was none on the shelf. He relied with something. I forgot the word he used but I’ve never heard it before. Merchandise jarkin.

I got the album but damn that was weird.

And I saw plenty of the commercial on TV last night, then I go to actually buy the thing and there was notta.

VOLITION

wow that fucking blows. I walked into my HMV to see two huge Pearl Jam posters and than bought the album.
I bet PJ never uses Target ever again after this huge fuck up. That is fucking lame!

blondieblue227

VOLITION wrote:

two huge Pearl Jam posters and than bought the album.

that's what i wanted to see!!

what a cluster fuck.

realisthis

College Point Target in Queens, NY had an end cap with Backspacer discs, but no vinyl singles - which they had a a few weeks back. No one had any clue about the t-shirts even though they are listed as a store to carry them. So, I went down to Brooklyn just for kicks and they didn't have a clue about the disc or shirt. I'm going back to College Point tomorrow to look again cause I forgot about the shirt when I was there, but then called them while in Brooklyn. Grrrr..

jimbojones1138

to be completely honest...sunday is a rather odd day for an album release... im sure a lot of the staff thought this stuff didnt go out until tuesday...so they may have the shipment in the back...

most of the employees at my target location are between the ages of 14-23...so they really wouldnt know to put the stuff out two days earlier than normal...call it shitty management, or whatever you wanna call it...my store here in nj was ready to go at 8am

hopethatuchoke

bettielee wrote:

Plankton wrote:

Whoever thought of making the release date a Sunday really should have seen sense.

qft

Why? He's right.

BadFlounder

Another fellow coloradoan here although I'm up near Boulder. Nice to see a couple other PJ nuts from around here online.

Meine liebe

I work at a Target. I was all pumped to go in this morning and get the album before my shift. Then I get in and no album, no shirt (yes we are on the list). I was more than disappointed.

I looked into it and found out that we haven't yet received our shipment from the Distribution Center. When I heard that I figured that there had to be many more stores with the same problem. I think, like others, that the Sunday release had to have something to do with the tardiness.

I am keeping my fingers crossed that Backspacer s on tonight's truck. This is the first time in my life I haven't had a new PJ album on the day of release!