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Dispatch from the front line
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lugnet.market.shopping, lugnet.trains
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Tue, 16 Feb 1999 05:37:35 GMT
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lpien@iwantnospam.ctp.comNOSPAM
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Well I hit my first MPLS Target today....
Perfect demographics... close in to the inner city, lots of
socioeconomically disadvantaged shoppers. No one with any serious money
for large sets. Should be a mother lode based on past experience. I'm
pumped. I plan to show my NLCWs (2) the thrill of the hunt and the glory
of the "kill".
So in I scurry, cackling with glee, shrieking with delight as I see the
disarray. This is the most disorganized and oldest Target I've ever been
in. Ripe for the plucking. Funny, it's not laid out the way other Target
stores are. No auto vector to Toys is available (1).
It's OK. I hunt around. I remind my NLCW (2) companions this is an old
one. It will be there. Trust me. Trust my nose for the brick. I make my
way past aisles in disarray, piled with boxes and detrius, filled with
Target-eers milling around aimlessly, pretending to stock shelves. I see
Toys, at last. I work my way there. I find the single end cap clearance.
What do I find in clearance? ONE small ninja set for 20% off. What went
wrong?
THEN I remember, this is the home Target of the Upper Midwest Lego Train
Club patriarch. I've been to his place. He has more LEGO than me. Way
more. He has more LEGO than me, and Gary Istok, and me again, and Gary
again, all put together. He has more LEGO than all the AUCZILLAs have
sold so far, I think. I've seen it. (4) He lives 2 miles away. Of course
it's cleaned out already.
It's gonna be a long dry winter here. :-) Guess I'll just have to bring
some with me.
1 - You know of what I speak. Come in the door. Decide which way the
store is mirrored. Based on that, turn right or left (away from the
snack bar in any case) Head past the checkouts, past the packaged snacks
and electronics, then turn towards the back on the last big aisle,
heading for toys. Head to the back end caps to see clearance. Or, big
win, see if there's a whole shelf aisle of it. You know of what I speak.
You've all done it. No harm in admitting it. It's not a sin to know the
layout of most any Target better than you do your wife, is it?
2 - Non Lego Co Worker (3)
3 - the footnotes are out of order. Deal.
4 - and John Neal said that I was like a kid in a candy shop. Being
there, in that basement filled with neatly sorted walls of parts, sorted
by color AND size/shape (5), was the closest I've yet come to being a
LEGO designer. If I believed in heaven, this would be it.
5 - because there were so many. Imagine an entire 3x4x5 inch compartment
filled with JUST black 1x1 plates with side loops. Then again for red,
white and grey. And for every other uncommon part. Standing rule: Never
use the last of a piece. Wasn't a problem for me. Ever. No way to run
everything out.
++Lar
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