Inside a Target in the 1980s: Vintage news video

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  • Опубликовано: 8 дек 2022
  • Here is raw footage taken inside the Target at Southdale in Edina, Minnesota, in January 1986. Take note of the cash register and people writing checks - and the hair!
    If you recognize anyone in this video, let us know! Email melissa.turtinen [at] fox.com.

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  • @peytondoss405
    @peytondoss405 Год назад +1149

    People behaved so well in public back then. That’s what I noticed right away.

    • @philipdefibaugh5683
      @philipdefibaugh5683 Год назад +78

      Yeah where are the Karens?

    • @diegoaespitia
      @diegoaespitia Год назад +152

      this is ONE video. how do u come to such a general conclusion after seeing ONE video of 1986?

    • @spaceorbison
      @spaceorbison Год назад +158

      @@diegoaespitia Because that's how it was....

    • @exil3dlivecom
      @exil3dlivecom Год назад +90

      We weren't racially divided. Ask yourselves who did it.

    • @spectre3492
      @spectre3492 Год назад +89

      lol what target are you going to? people behave the same today as well. stop living in the past thinking its that much better than it is today, it isn't

  • @mermaidlu5125
    @mermaidlu5125 Год назад +464

    imagine being 85 years old in 1985 and seeing how much the world has changed since atleast the 1920s

    • @HenritheHorse
      @HenritheHorse Год назад +74

      My Great grandma lived to be 100, was born in 1905 and died in 2006, she was really fun and clearheaded until the end.

    • @LC-fx2lo
      @LC-fx2lo Год назад +14

      That’s what I was thinking too!!

    • @Atl-jv1kw
      @Atl-jv1kw Год назад +69

      The oldest living person in 1985 was born in 1871.. now they've seen an insane amount of change.

    • @Ambaa436
      @Ambaa436 Год назад +18

      My great nan lived until 104 years old she was born in 1900 and got to see so many changes in the world

    • @darlenegattus8190
      @darlenegattus8190 Год назад +8

      I'm 51 and feel like that now.

  • @dennisk207
    @dennisk207 Год назад +532

    I worked at Target as a cashier / cart attendant from 1987-1989 (not here, in Colorado) and this is exactly how I remember it. No laser scanners at the check-out line until 1988. Lots of people writing checks and having to manually process credit cards...the stone ages 🙂

    • @guerralg63
      @guerralg63 Год назад +62

      I would gladly trade the technology of today to live in a better time!

    • @dennisk207
      @dennisk207 Год назад +36

      @Christopher Jacobs I believe $3.75/hr. which was around minimum wage back then. As a teenager, an extra $40 in my pocket per week seemed like a fortune in those days.

    • @reneastle8447
      @reneastle8447 Год назад +2

      The Retro Decade Revival Project can help with it.

    • @sandmanlopez9920
      @sandmanlopez9920 Год назад +6

      🤣THE STONE AGES

    • @EfootballC7
      @EfootballC7 Год назад +4

      What happened if the checks bounced?

  • @zms8092
    @zms8092 Год назад +257

    Target looks pretty much the same today - aisle markers, signage, everything. I don’t know why but I could watch footage like this for hours.

    • @ramon78433
      @ramon78433 Год назад +19

      The only difference is that you couldn’t get groceries from there back in the day

    • @TexasDog3
      @TexasDog3 Год назад +5

      I noticed that too.

    • @TimoteoDeBaum
      @TimoteoDeBaum Год назад +9

      @@ramon78433 right reminds me of Kmart in the 90s but they had a
      Concessions stand !

    • @ramon78433
      @ramon78433 Год назад +7

      Yup and had they not added the grocery piece to their inventory, they would’ve Paris just like Kmart did

    • @josels1292
      @josels1292 Год назад +4

      Just keep rewatching this video all day.

  • @SkinniJ
    @SkinniJ Год назад +317

    5:14 nice to know fucked up baskets have always been a timeless thing lmao

  • @hadassahbenson4020
    @hadassahbenson4020 Год назад +226

    That’s crazy no music or anything. What struck me first is how quiet things are. No music no target ads playing regularly. Nothing it’s just ambient noise and people talking. Man seems peaceful. I love the old telephone ringing, and the receipts being written up!

    • @momokoblue8032
      @momokoblue8032 Год назад +25

      His microphone is just not quite good enough to pick up the muzak in the background. If you notice you can barely hear the male stocker speak until he is right near him.

    • @ganymededarling
      @ganymededarling Год назад +10

      I worked at target in the early 2000s and corporate had a rule that no music should be playing in the store because it created a distracting environment. So I was surprised when they reversed course about five years ago and began playing background music.
      I also wonder if they didn't have walkies yet back when this video was recorded. That would definitely contribute to the quiet!

    • @dennisk207
      @dennisk207 Год назад +4

      @@ganymededarling Definitely no walkies. Either you called the operator who would page someone over the loudspeaker or some of us had to carry beepers. How the beepers worked is that you would dial the beeper number and say something like "Cart Attendant to the front lanes" which the person with the beeper would hear. Sort of a one-way walkie talkie I guess.

    • @Donna777
      @Donna777 Год назад +15

      I thought I heard the Eddie Money song "Take Me Home Tonight" playing in the book section lol

    • @geneterrell999
      @geneterrell999 Год назад +5

      Get you a hearing aid. I hear music in the back.

  • @LC-fx2lo
    @LC-fx2lo Год назад +211

    The people smiling while they were being filmed had no idea the future was staring back at them.

    • @Philitron128
      @Philitron128 Год назад +22

      That's the case with nearly every single photo and video ever

    • @marissaveloz9724
      @marissaveloz9724 Год назад +6

      I Love the way you worded that! But there were some people in the video not happy being filmed.

    • @replysoon3216
      @replysoon3216 Год назад +6

      @@Philitron128 Not anymore. Now days if you take a video camera into a Target or Walmart the loss prevention people escort you out and call the police.

    • @originalkingalpha5116
      @originalkingalpha5116 Год назад +4

      ​@@marissaveloz9724@6:19😂😂😂

    • @jaykojumbles7409
      @jaykojumbles7409 10 месяцев назад +1

      im high as ballsrn u blew my mind wow ma,n...

  • @starr9dust
    @starr9dust Год назад +145

    The fact they have kept the same font is amazing to me, even for the sale signs etc.

    • @BebaDivested
      @BebaDivested Год назад +8

      Noticed that too

    • @ilkvomit88
      @ilkvomit88 Год назад +13

      And the shelving system, it's the same exact one used to this day

    • @richardsequeirateixeira
      @richardsequeirateixeira 11 месяцев назад +10

      Yes! Much of the original spirit of Target is very much alive today. Still exciting and love to go to Target.

    • @anthonymeans7439
      @anthonymeans7439 10 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@BebaDivestedIKR!

  • @user-uv7ip4qz5r
    @user-uv7ip4qz5r Год назад +98

    Target was aesthetically way ahead of the times. Very modern for 1985. The white minimalistic color palettes, the ambient lighting and the cleanliness is if this video was taken 10 years ago. Compare that to the dark earth tones, crome and fake wood that was common at the time most other stores had a very cavernous layout but Target was the outlier.

    • @Ellie80681
      @Ellie80681 Год назад

      Um not really

    • @Kevin-ht1st
      @Kevin-ht1st Год назад

      Yeah once I saw a video from 1984, still had a 70s vibe, much like how 2004 had a 90s vibe

    • @Kgio-2112
      @Kgio-2112 9 месяцев назад +1

      I like the older styling. Target stores look overlook hotel men's room

    • @robertriley1569
      @robertriley1569 3 месяца назад +1

      In 1985 I wonder if they had the pick your own gender childrens clothes

  • @Robynator......
    @Robynator...... 11 месяцев назад +109

    Seeing the old folks is heart warming! They're all gone now, but sure brings back memories of my grandmother and her friends...

    • @thebestchannel5456
      @thebestchannel5456 11 месяцев назад +17

      A few might still be alive

    • @rpierce7004
      @rpierce7004 8 месяцев назад +3

      They are not gone....now we are them!

    • @Tarkusine
      @Tarkusine 6 месяцев назад

      There's lots of old folks. Statistically there are more than ever both numerically and per capita.

  • @franko6677
    @franko6677 Год назад +320

    Target still looked like this through the 90s and maybe even into the 2000s. I would have actually guessed this footage later than 1986!

    • @ecoRfan
      @ecoRfan Год назад +33

      90s/00s Target was neon all over the walls.

    • @yodhin79
      @yodhin79 Год назад +24

      @@ecoRfan I worked for various Targets from 1999-2003 and some stores still maintained the older look. Others were definitively 'neon'.

    • @Galidorquest
      @Galidorquest Год назад +12

      My local Target in Illinois looked like this until the Mid 00's.

    • @johnhruby6205
      @johnhruby6205 Год назад +24

      Target still looks like this

    • @PlayWaves1
      @PlayWaves1 Год назад +5

      ​ @ecoRfan Yep I remember the neon ribbon lights as a kid. I wish they still had it.

  • @randykroells8049
    @randykroells8049 Год назад +93

    I still see old grannies writing checks at the grocery store.

    • @ecoRfan
      @ecoRfan Год назад +15

      Even at Staples 2017-20 I still saw people paying with checks

    • @spectre3492
      @spectre3492 Год назад +11

      they're missing out on those credit card rewards

    • @ecoRfan
      @ecoRfan Год назад

      @@spectre3492 they could still be getting store rewards programs and pay with any method in addition to their coupons

    • @PraveenSriram
      @PraveenSriram Год назад +8

      They were born in the 1910s and were in their 70s in the 1980s

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад +3

      wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.

  • @samnierman6626
    @samnierman6626 Год назад +36

    It’s so bizarre! No one is in a hurry. The body language is so different!

    • @PoseurGoth
      @PoseurGoth Год назад +1

      Since this is news footage, I'm assuming that this may have been a new store, so I assume that more people are going there to browse, rather than trying to get in, get what they need, and get out. And the store looks far less full than most of them today (although I'm more accustomed to Wal-Mart, and don't make it out to Target often, despite finding the place a pleasant shopping experience).
      But, I will concede that even with all of the technology that makes mundane tasks so much faster, more convenient, and easier, it constantly feels like we are somehow forced to rush more and more. Even compared to 20 years ago when I was just entering adulthood, the pace of life feels far more frantic.

    • @jogmas12
      @jogmas12 Год назад +2

      Probably shot in a small town

    • @everettjenkins9262
      @everettjenkins9262 Год назад

      No smartphones, longer attention spans, people actually aware and present. We'll never live in times like those again. It's sad that some targets and other stores are closing due to theft.

  • @Freepeter-ui2vf
    @Freepeter-ui2vf Год назад +149

    Great video! While cell phones and technology has its place, I do miss the days when people didn't always have a phone in their face and actually spoke to one another. I also miss the fashions and quality of products in the 80s. I was a teenager in the 80s. Great times!

    • @I_come_out_after_dark
      @I_come_out_after_dark Год назад +11

      Do you think its was the best decade? I wasn't alive back then but it seemed so fun with the bright colors and neon lights.

    • @-108-
      @-108- Год назад +12

      @@I_come_out_after_dark It was. Truly the best time to be alive.

    • @I_come_out_after_dark
      @I_come_out_after_dark Год назад +7

      @@-108- im jealous lol. i wish i could have experienced the 80s.

    • @karenroy9045
      @karenroy9045 Год назад +7

      The 80s was the best times of my life. Got married to my love and had my 2 kids. I wish I could go back.

    • @carolsanders3979
      @carolsanders3979 Год назад +2

      I know me too I miss those days I was a teenager back in the 80s and I agree everyone has a cell phone up to their face now I am guilty of it sometimes myself but when I walk up to the register to pay for my items or whatever it is if I'm not going through self-checkout I acknowledge the cashier just the other day I was in WinCo and this lady behind me was on her cell phone the whole entire time when we were in line nothing wrong with it but she had her phone on speaker so I can hear everything the whole conversation that she was having with her friend about her marriage problems I have no issues with someone on the phone that's fine but keep it to yourself the whole damn market doesn't need to hear your conversation anyway she was still talking on the phone you when she got it to the cashier continue talking no respect not even Hi how are you doing or put your phone down and wait till your done paying then get back on but we don't have that kind of respect anymore these days and she wasn't that young she looked to be in her forties.

  • @pearllee08
    @pearllee08 Год назад +14

    I really miss the good ole days. These videos make me happy and sad at the same time.... i wish we could go backwards...

  • @cdevidal
    @cdevidal Год назад +42

    I find it remarkable how little has changed. This was 37 years ago. 37 years before that was 1949. HUGE differences between stores in 1949 and 1986, but only small style differences between then and now. A lack of laser UPC checkout and paper bags and no cell phones are the only major changes I see. The rest is just styles.

    • @cdevidal
      @cdevidal Год назад +7

      And even the styles really aren’t that radically different. Think about 1949 styles compared to this. It’s like we as a society figured out what we like and stuck to it.

    • @bigpicturethinking5620
      @bigpicturethinking5620 9 месяцев назад

      All because of the Roswell recovery.

    • @cdevidal
      @cdevidal 9 месяцев назад

      @@bigpicturethinking5620 the what now

    • @bigpicturethinking5620
      @bigpicturethinking5620 9 месяцев назад

      @@cdevidal Do you think that everything changed in 37 years spontaneously? That humans suddenly had great ideas that they were just waiting to put to purpose? The breakthroughs that changed the modern world from the late 50s forward have non human origins, of course.

    • @lucialuciferion6720
      @lucialuciferion6720 8 месяцев назад +3

      People just seem more polite back then, more classy and more respectfull. I was 13 when this was filmed. It's bittersweet. I feel immense sadness , I miss those days deeply 😢

  • @kaykepop4084
    @kaykepop4084 Год назад +48

    The sound of the register brought back so many memories. Never would have thought that I would have missed hearing it.

    • @--MAD
      @--MAD Год назад +5

      I thought the same thing! 😂

  • @GeekBoyMN
    @GeekBoyMN Год назад +184

    Manually typing in SKUs, old credit card imprinters, writing checks, noisy dot matrix printers, so much different back then. When I started at Sears in 1992 we had similar equipment but we already had new PoS (Point of Sale) terminals ready to replace the old NCR cash registers, which we did a couple months later and those had barcode scanners and full keyboards. A few years later the dot matrix printers were replaced with thermal printers that were quiet and printed receipts much faster. No more having to replace print ribbons on a regular basis!! How times have changed!!!

    • @shawnaburns5158
      @shawnaburns5158 Год назад +1

      Yeah sorry I'm a big huge fan of dot matrix printers ,,,sorry

    • @GeekBoyMN
      @GeekBoyMN Год назад +1

      @@je862 High school? Not relevant. Stayed there 10 years until 2002.

    • @snotloutisagod2956
      @snotloutisagod2956 Год назад +3

      Oh yes, I remember when I first started working at Target back in 1996, when the IBM 4683 terminals were in use back then, the handheld barcode scanners, and the separate MICR check readers. All with a simple counter with no conveyor belts. The dot matrix printers were music to my ears, but was sad to see them go once they were replaced with the IBM 4610 SureMark thermal printers.
      I don't think I've been in a Target back in the 1980's with those type of registers, I only remember seeing the earlier IBM 3683 POS terminals back around '86-'87 when I was younger.

    • @ChristiRich
      @ChristiRich Год назад +7

      I liked the sound of the dot matrix printer cash registers. I found them soothing.

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад +5

      wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.

  • @starmann30
    @starmann30 Год назад +179

    More of these vintage videos please!!!

    • @jogmas12
      @jogmas12 Год назад +1

      Living in the past huh?

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад +4

      wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.

    • @jakethesnake4971
      @jakethesnake4971 Год назад +7

      ​@Trophy Tapes everyone dies brother, this was half a lifetime ago

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад +1

      @@jakethesnake4971 so should we pop champaine bottle everynight and watch family guy?

    • @tias.6675
      @tias.6675 Год назад +2

      There's channels with plenty 😊

  • @jenninscho1980
    @jenninscho1980 Год назад +80

    The young toddlers in these videos are all grown up in their late 30's.

    • @TheKnifed
      @TheKnifed Год назад +10

      I was born in January 1986, I just turned 37 a few weeks ago. It is certainly something to think about. Although, we had caldors and bradlees where I lived

    • @Sajomo
      @Sajomo Год назад +8

      And the senior citizens in this video are all dead

    • @DV-zv4ox
      @DV-zv4ox Год назад +7

      I'm 38 and can remember my local Target and K-Mart looking similar to this. Another thing I remember is the smell of cigarettes! Way more people smoked per capita back then, and you were allowed to smoke virtually anywhere except church. Although there are some conveniences about living in 2023, for the most part, the 80's and 90's were a wonderful time to be a kid.

    • @ThorStoneGaming
      @ThorStoneGaming Год назад +2

      I know, it's shocking that time passes and people age. Thanks for reminding me.

    • @PraveenSriram
      @PraveenSriram Год назад +2

      I was definitely a toddler when this video came out

  • @fuelcapgaming5753
    @fuelcapgaming5753 Год назад +45

    It feels like Aesthetically, Target hasn't really changed much at all. It's a lot of the same stuff, same styles of signs, and such.
    The main thing that's changed at the Targets I go to over the years is that the food courts are gone and photo departments. That's kind of what jumps out at me first.

    • @straightpipediesel
      @straightpipediesel Год назад +5

      The food courts just got upscaled into Starbucks.

    • @minipandora22
      @minipandora22 10 месяцев назад

      Now they’ve hired a Satanic 👿 monster to design children’s clothing….

  • @LostinMIA
    @LostinMIA Год назад +40

    It says this was in Edina, Minnesota, it boarders Minneapolis. One thing I noticed was the low amount of stress there. People were focused on each other as well as the time they spent there. No cell phones or technology to distract you. You can feel it in the atmosphere even in the video. I remember it too!

    • @karenroy9045
      @karenroy9045 Год назад +3

      Such a different world back then.

    • @LostinMIA
      @LostinMIA Год назад

      @@karenroy9045 Yes it was 😄😘

  • @jillmayer9501
    @jillmayer9501 Год назад +90

    It's new years eve and all I can think about is how these people are just out here existing. Not connected to any sort of mobile device. I wish life were still this way

    • @exil3dlivecom
      @exil3dlivecom Год назад +5

      Intro to the ALWAYS connected web changed the world. Carzy how fast aswell.

    • @ThorStoneGaming
      @ThorStoneGaming Год назад +6

      You type that on a smart phone or PC, so you are part of the problem.

    • @94champs
      @94champs Год назад +15

      @@ThorStoneGaming There is nothing wrong with using a PC or phone to leave a comment on an old video, so no, she is not "part of the problem". The problem is when these devices start to rule your life and you live on social media. This applies more so to the younger generation. TikTok, Facebook, Twitter etc. are the main culprits. Anything where your actual name is attached and you post 100 selfies a day to get "likes". That's the real issue here. Watching old videos on youtube though is fine.

    • @danacaro-herman3530
      @danacaro-herman3530 Год назад

      ​@@ThorStoneGamingso true!!😂

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад

      wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.

  • @bunnyyyyyy398
    @bunnyyyyyy398 Год назад +38

    What a time capsule. Thanks for sharing!

  • @spaceballs44
    @spaceballs44 Год назад +19

    Wow!!! The lady in line in under a minute is writing a check almost nobody does that anymore. When I see the older customers it’s sad to think they probably have passed on.

    • @HeWhoLoMeins138
      @HeWhoLoMeins138 Год назад +1

      Some people are so stupid and easily irritated/impatient now that they barely understand easily used debit cards and tap to pay on a phone. Lines take way longer than back then.

  • @jamieakagibby
    @jamieakagibby Год назад +6

    No self check out, no rude and impatient customers, we need to go back to this!

  • @Atarian1979
    @Atarian1979 Год назад +5

    Love the sound of the receipt printer machine.

  • @jamiemorgan3649
    @jamiemorgan3649 Год назад +5

    So peaceful and everyone is so patient.

  • @watchinglion7774
    @watchinglion7774 Год назад +29

    Wow, i enjoy watching these vintage videos. I used to work for Target in the 1980s and it was a fun place to work. My favorite part of the store where we had the clearance end caps in the electronic department. I would work in automotive and the hardware section. I would straighten out the isles making sure it was presentable to our guests. One thing I learned it to never refer the shopper as a customer but refer to them as guests. My other jobs were answering phone calls on the floor when a gust called in about a product. I would also do what we call “go backs” I would get a shopping cart loaded with merchandise from customer service to where I had to put back each item back in its proper department.

    • @strangebrew1231
      @strangebrew1231 5 месяцев назад +1

      Go backs are still a thing today I worked at a target in electronics from march to December

  • @ilkvomit88
    @ilkvomit88 Год назад +6

    I can't believe Target still has the same shelving today as they did in the '80s

  • @mothx95
    @mothx95 Год назад +15

    It's kind of weird how much it still looks like a target today. Sure it's different, but somehow immediately identifiable.

  • @CreolePearls_
    @CreolePearls_ Год назад +12

    It’s hurts that times have changed for pretty much the worst 😢and the 80s, 90s and early 2000s are gone and not returning ☹️

  • @jennosyde709
    @jennosyde709 11 месяцев назад +4

    It is kind of crazy how much quieter it is without music playing.

  • @user-chariot
    @user-chariot 7 месяцев назад +1

    The sound of the register and check scanning keying things in even the loose change sounds good

  • @brandyyolidio4213
    @brandyyolidio4213 Год назад +8

    Target was hands down my favorite store back in the 90's! They had great prices and inventory and you could get everything there! Clothes, food, toys for the kids, pet food, and fresh popped popcorn!! Miss those days 😢

  • @wendelynyoung8609
    @wendelynyoung8609 Год назад +36

    Writing checks and that cash register. Good times.

    • @jogmas12
      @jogmas12 Год назад +2

      People still write checks although credit cards been around for 60 years. Never the less writing checks slows the line down

    • @GeemailMailboxx
      @GeemailMailboxx Год назад +4

      @@jogmas12 What's the hurry? 1 extra minute at most. Slow down a little, you'll live longer. 🌻

    • @jogmas12
      @jogmas12 Год назад +1

      @@GeemailMailboxx hope you have the concept when standing in a long line at Disney world waiting for a ride or better yet in a traffic jam, will you still have “a stop and smell the roses 🌹 “ mentality

    • @GeemailMailboxx
      @GeemailMailboxx Год назад +2

      @@jogmas12 I always do. I never sweat the small things. I've learned to enjoy my life, not rush through it. I even make time to be thankful and meditate every day. It's like living in a different world. Especially when I see everyone so stressed out over nothing these days. I find it strange you stress out at Disneyland "Happiest place on earth " of all places 💖.

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 Год назад

      not "strange" at all, sensitive one.

  • @MNWILD43
    @MNWILD43 Год назад +39

    I'm 56, I miss the 80's! lol Only FOX 9 posts the cool, stuff. 💪🏻

    • @stephenstead7270
      @stephenstead7270 Год назад +7

      Am 63 and i miss the 80s good old days mate

    • @MNWILD43
      @MNWILD43 Год назад +5

      @@stephenstead7270 Yup, you're my oldest brothers, age! Best to you, buddy!

    • @stephenstead7270
      @stephenstead7270 Год назад +4

      @@MNWILD43 do you ever wish then days was back even tho there was no money about i do mate

    • @MNWILD43
      @MNWILD43 Год назад +4

      @@stephenstead7270 All the time, my friend.

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад +2

      wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.

  • @goldengalsclazy
    @goldengalsclazy Год назад +20

    I ♥ the 80's! It's funny that the shopping carts are still the same! They haven't gotten any bigger.

  • @Splitter4416
    @Splitter4416 Год назад +33

    Wild seeing boxes of cigarettes amongst the merchandise the employees were stocking on the shelves. Different times indeed!

    • @stephaniemartin-ward4578
      @stephaniemartin-ward4578 Год назад +2

      I worked at Targer from 88 to 90. We had to get cigarettes from the cigarette case for the customers, even though they could have grabbed them themselves. Stocking the cigarettes and candy was our job as cashiers. We wore our own clothes and a name tag, while people in the departments wore smocks over their clothes.

    • @boostedmaniac
      @boostedmaniac Год назад

      I remember cigarette machines in the lobby at restaurants. Yes different times.

    • @carinarosales6899
      @carinarosales6899 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@stephaniemartin-ward4578i know right I miss those days

  • @alexanderbanos8125
    @alexanderbanos8125 Год назад +51

    Target stores back in the 1980's looked a lot different than today. Before Target introduced colorful department signage and funky neon lights, all Target stores in the 80's had red stripes on white walls along with plain department signage. This scene reminds me of the 1991 movie Career Opportunities. Even the bullseye on the Target logo signage outside looked different, as the entire bullseye (outer red ring, middle white ring, and center red dot) would glow at night and stand out perfectly. By the 1990's, most of the Target stores that opened in the 80's or earlier were given the funky neon interior with colorful department signage. Today, Target stores are now heavily remodeled with newer red or gray walls with new red department signage.

    • @sunniertimer598
      @sunniertimer598 Год назад +5

      No Starbucks and pizza hut inside either.

    • @VHSJoeSlaney
      @VHSJoeSlaney Год назад +2

      wow imagine all those elderly people in this video are probably all dead laying in there grave now.

    • @jackietaylor5035
      @jackietaylor5035 Год назад

      Fedmart was the store before target was around..

    • @jackietaylor5035
      @jackietaylor5035 Год назад

      Back in 1980

    • @alexanderbanos8125
      @alexanderbanos8125 Год назад

      @@jackietaylor5035 Absolutely. In Los Angeles and San Diego CA, and Tucson and Phoenix AZ. Target's debut in AZ and CA was in 1983 a year after FedMart closed. Target also opened in some former Woolco and Zody's locations in AZ.

  • @GunsNFunTV
    @GunsNFunTV Год назад +30

    It’s crazy how much the inside of a target has not changed that much. Just updated models on posters but layout of the store and shelves all still look the same

  • @svenlundergard1
    @svenlundergard1 7 месяцев назад +3

    People seem so polite back then. So much more respectful and decently dressed in public. Paper bags instead of plastic. People writing checks...nobody on their cell phones and SO MANY people shopping. When retail outlets still existed. People we have to stop so much online shopping, and we can keep our local people in a job.

    • @JayNoodles
      @JayNoodles 2 месяца назад

      “Polite” but more racist, sexist, more likely to abuse children, etc.

  • @ClubAmerica92
    @ClubAmerica92 Год назад +31

    Sad to think most of these people have passed away.

    • @butterfliesandfate
      @butterfliesandfate Год назад +1

      It is sad. I was thinking the same. When I saw that most of the elderly in this video would have been around the same age as my grandparents at the time, I almost shed a tear.

    • @SexAndCandyHair92
      @SexAndCandyHair92 Год назад

      Well most of the elderly people have passed

    • @graveyardheathen
      @graveyardheathen Год назад

      Yeah target is mostly a store for old folks like grandparents my grandma loved this store she’s still living tho

  • @allthatjazzspaz95
    @allthatjazzspaz95 Год назад +14

    The bane of my existence when I was working at Target was having to refold all the towels that people unfolded and tossed wherever they pleased… people sure love to trash a store. some things never change 🙄

  • @sweetipie1995
    @sweetipie1995 Год назад +10

    Looks like I had that exact squeaking shopping cart last week😂

  • @Dollsteak69
    @Dollsteak69 9 месяцев назад +2

    Target is based out of Minneapolis/St.Paul. Edina is one of the wealthiest burbs in the entire metro. I graduated from Bloomington in 86. The stores look kind of the same. But the population has lost its way from 35 years ago. Great vid!

  • @judiharting5265
    @judiharting5265 Год назад +17

    I remember hand punching numbers. Before that in the hardware store we hand wrote all the numbers that had to be reordered and then hand punched the numbers into a machine and then we called the supplier on Sunday night and one fit over the receiver and we electronically sent the order. If you didn’t have it sent by 8:00 pm no order that week.

  • @damin9913
    @damin9913 Год назад +4

    People dressed so nicely back in my time I miss that the smell of walking in to those store was magical as heck man

  • @sc0191
    @sc0191 11 месяцев назад +5

    Everyone seemed so much more purposeful and efficient, even with all the manual work. And friendly!

    • @Cargo_Bay
      @Cargo_Bay 8 месяцев назад +2

      You don’t think it’s because there’s a cameraman filming them?

  • @AsH0LE_
    @AsH0LE_ Год назад +5

    It's awesome that everyday life in the past was recorded for future generations to see!

  • @mmille10
    @mmille10 Год назад +9

    Wow. I remember the look and sound of that cash register at my Target (Boulder, CO), after all these years.

  • @AwfullWaffle
    @AwfullWaffle Год назад +12

    6:03 been there. “I don’t need a buggy, I’m just grabbing a couple things” **proceeds to purchase half the store but stoically sticks to the decision to remain sans buggy

  • @god563616
    @god563616 Год назад +6

    this is incredible!!!!I love everything 80's!!

  • @wtchfrmpnw
    @wtchfrmpnw Год назад +2

    Wow! Look at all the open checkouts!

  • @HorrorFreak68
    @HorrorFreak68 6 месяцев назад +2

    I used to have to ask how they were going to pay prior to ringing them up. If they were paying by credit card, I’d have to insert one of those green slips in the register prior to ringing up the first item.

  • @JayDillDrums
    @JayDillDrums Год назад +6

    Amazing how different n quiet n well behaved ppl were lol

  • @TimoteoDeBaum
    @TimoteoDeBaum Год назад +4

    Even the older folks moved so quickly and seemed more active and alert. But also maybe ppl looked older back then too? So interesting

  • @HunterLohseRRVideos
    @HunterLohseRRVideos 7 месяцев назад +1

    The cigarette behind the ear while stocking the merch on the clock and no one batting an eye, wow that dates it a lot!

  • @bluesky5384
    @bluesky5384 7 месяцев назад +2

    I was born in 1989 and loved growing up in the 90s. Wish I could've experienced a bit more of the 80s. So interesting to see all of this that existed before I did. Even the babies are now older than me!

    • @METALFAN4EVS
      @METALFAN4EVS 7 месяцев назад

      I was 10-19 during the 80’s, it was incredibly awesome, especially later teen years like 15-19.. Buddies, girls, beer and a little herb and we had a blast! Haha

    • @carinarosales6899
      @carinarosales6899 5 месяцев назад

      ​@METALFAN4EVS yes true

  • @josels1292
    @josels1292 Год назад +3

    40 years later and they still have the 30% off sale.

  • @MadPlasmatist
    @MadPlasmatist Год назад +6

    Wow, this is the only video from the 80's I've seen that almost looks like it was filmed yesterday, neat.

    • @robroy6374
      @robroy6374 Год назад +1

      its the type of camera they used, obviously

  • @yugen
    @yugen 8 месяцев назад +1

    We didn't get a Target in our area (Vancouver, WA) until the 90's. It felt so modern. This video from the 80's feels just as modern, it must have been like living in the future going to a Target in the 80's. Especially compared to going to K-Mart.

  • @nukesean
    @nukesean Год назад +9

    I worked at Target 1999-2000, and plenty of people were still writing checks. The only things that really aged this video were the fashion and the registers. Otherwise, this could have been any Target through probably the early 2000’s.

    • @EfootballC7
      @EfootballC7 Год назад

      What if the check bounced? What would y’all do?

    • @Julieroo28
      @Julieroo28 Год назад

      This pretty much looks like my Target NOW except for the registers, book displays, fashion and diet pills.

    • @HorrorFreak68
      @HorrorFreak68 6 месяцев назад

      You’re forgetting the scanners at the cash registers. There are none in this video. They had to type in a six digit sku and the price for every item.

    • @carinarosales6899
      @carinarosales6899 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@HorrorFreak68oh yeah that's true

  • @blugreen123
    @blugreen123 Год назад +19

    Those diet drugs were basically speed in nicer packaging. 😂

  • @philipdefibaugh5683
    @philipdefibaugh5683 Год назад +68

    Paper bags in a Target? I never knew Targets used paper over plastic (then again Target didn't come to my area until 1995). kinda quiet, NO Karens and the employees seemed happier, darn I miss the 80's.....

    • @stephaniemartin-ward4578
      @stephaniemartin-ward4578 Год назад +3

      I worked at a Target 88 to 90. We never had paper bags. Only plastic.

    • @carissaexplainsitall8481
      @carissaexplainsitall8481 Год назад +2

      The checkbooks lol

    • @oooh19
      @oooh19 Год назад +2

      Now they have paper but charge customers 5 cents so customers just bring their own bags

    • @candysmith8724
      @candysmith8724 Год назад +1

      No Karens because everything was civil and normal, unlike today. I don't blame some of the Karens and Kens I see with today's issues.

    • @Philitron128
      @Philitron128 Год назад

      @@oooh19 good

  • @MillerMeteor74
    @MillerMeteor74 10 месяцев назад +2

    1980s- I never even heard of a Target store till sometime in the late 90s or early 2000s. We have one around here, but I don't think it's terribly old. Anyway, I enjoyed seeing this window into the not-so-distant past.

  • @madelinebell84
    @madelinebell84 10 месяцев назад +7

    I literally squealed out loud when I saw the kitchen section with the aprons, oven mitts, etc! Do you know how much I have to pay for this vintage stuff on Etsy or eBay now?!? Oh to have a time machine and some really big duffle bags! Wait, who am I kidding? If I had a time machine, I'd go and not come back! It was one of the happiest decades of my life.

    • @BaptistJoshua
      @BaptistJoshua 9 месяцев назад

      Same here. Take me to the 80's and leave me.

  • @Mulva_
    @Mulva_ Год назад +3

    Hand writing checks brings back memories of a better time.

  • @AnotherTruth
    @AnotherTruth Год назад +19

    It’s interesting because of the books on the display in the music and maybe some of the fashion, I could tell it was around 1986, but no later than that. I’m surprised they didn’t have automatic scanners to scan all of that. But I checked on the bull’s-eye view of the target timeline history. The UPC scanning stuff didn’t come into existence until 1988. This is wild. Thank you ever so much for sharing this with us.

    • @taoist32
      @taoist32 Год назад +1

      I worked at Target in 1989 when I was 15. We all had to learn how to use the new scanners.

    • @AnotherTruth
      @AnotherTruth Год назад

      @@taoist32 that must’ve been wild’ wow! Thanks for sharing

    • @strangebrew1231
      @strangebrew1231 5 месяцев назад

      UPC barcodes were invented in the 70s it took until 88 for them to be adopted

  • @kristineholcroft9163
    @kristineholcroft9163 7 месяцев назад +2

    People were kind and fun back then

  • @vanessastreit41202
    @vanessastreit41202 Год назад +2

    My Target (in central PA) was built in 2008 but it still looks exactly like this

  • @phacelesshero
    @phacelesshero Год назад +3

    This video is a gem. Thanks FOX9.

  • @RomanMofongo
    @RomanMofongo Год назад +4

    Sad how the people in this video are probably dead by now , whoever is dead may you rest in peace, at least we have a memory of you from this video!

    • @carmenmonroe7
      @carmenmonroe7 8 месяцев назад

      I feel they're blessed to not see people fall so far from grace. But may they rest in peace if they have crossed over.

  • @SpookyDollhouse
    @SpookyDollhouse 8 месяцев назад +1

    Greatly miss how Target used to be a mini department store. The whole atmosphere of it and everything! Unmatched! Stuff packed shelves floor to ceiling and there was always something going on. Fresh popcorn wafting 'round the store! Great stuff.

  • @ZefTillDeath8878
    @ZefTillDeath8878 Год назад +13

    Thanks for the upload. Was hoping to see some b-roll of the electronics department.

  • @EDHBlvd
    @EDHBlvd Год назад +2

    I miss the old days. :(

  • @nathanheide81
    @nathanheide81 6 месяцев назад +3

    This cashier knew how to do her job and did it very well! Look at her pound those keys!

  • @rocksiirose4536
    @rocksiirose4536 Год назад +15

    Wow! My first thought was I know all the old timers are dead by now. No one seems to be rushing. Thanks for posting I love vintage videos. They actually have music playing. Target now days are so dreadfully quiet. Except for the squeaky wheels.

    • @connor_flanigan
      @connor_flanigan Год назад +1

      that old granny looking at pencils has turned to dust by now

  • @davidobrienirl
    @davidobrienirl Год назад +19

    Brings back memories as a kid shopping there.

  • @derricklangford4725
    @derricklangford4725 Год назад +70

    I use to be a cashier at Target and there's always that 80ish yr old WW, who still pulls out a checkbook to pay for her purchase, "if it was good enough in 1972, it's good enough now" 🤣😆😂

    • @rachelc.5463
      @rachelc.5463 Год назад +12

      @Derrick Langford...Here in recent years I was with a friend in Old Navy and was wondering what was taking her so long looked in her direction and she was writing a check. I said to her don't you have a debit card use that it's a lot faster through check out.

    • @derricklangford4725
      @derricklangford4725 Год назад +3

      @rachelc.5463 Actually, while everyone behind them has this facial expression 🙄, it brought back memories of me growing up in the 80's and my aunt paying for groceries like that 😊

    • @mmille10
      @mmille10 Год назад

      @@rachelc.5463 - My mom would love it if she could write checks at the store. She doesn't trust digital tech. She generally pays cash when she has enough. Otherwise, she depends on me, with my cash/debit card, since she sometimes shops with me. :)
      The last time she had a credit card was in the 1970s. She used to have a gas card she'd use at Exxon stations (essentially a store credit card).

    • @mermaidlu5125
      @mermaidlu5125 Год назад

      @@derricklangford4725 in the 80s everyone did it to me since I grew up poor it made people look rich and sophisticated and a credit card was rich rich to me lol

    • @dreamcatcherjulie1
      @dreamcatcherjulie1 Год назад +5

      I still write checks, at 55.

  • @Crankerny58
    @Crankerny58 Год назад +12

    Just by watching this video it is amazing how far America has fallen since 1986! I could go on but you get the picture!

    • @guerralg63
      @guerralg63 Год назад +1

      It's hard not to. Go to target today and everything is locked up. Back in 1986 who would have ever believed that laundry detergent needed to be locked up!

  • @kurtdewittphoto
    @kurtdewittphoto Год назад +3

    4:35 Man, Those towels would be at least $15-$20 now...

  • @jakestoe
    @jakestoe 11 месяцев назад +1

    All cashier lanes open and no self check outs. These were good 'ol days I tell my grandkis about!

  • @real_exodus
    @real_exodus Год назад +2

    Turned 18 in 1987. This brought back some memories lol

  • @mazda9624
    @mazda9624 Год назад +3

    Every Target I've ever been to looks nearly identical to this one still. Of it wasn't for the way people are dressed in this video, I'd think it's 20 years newer.

  • @tomjacques6051
    @tomjacques6051 Год назад +3

    No electronic devices telling you where the item goes. No tracking of productivity. Simpler times

  • @maltikhurana9252
    @maltikhurana9252 3 месяца назад

    What a trip down memory lane! The good ol' days! Love hearing the printing sound of the receipts. Good times! 😊

  • @Richard-fv7rq
    @Richard-fv7rq 11 месяцев назад +2

    Wonderful without cell phones stuck to everyone's ears,eyes, hands!

  • @gemstone108
    @gemstone108 Год назад +3

    I always forget that these stores existed in the 80s. Sears and Kmarts and stuff I can picture because they were so synonymous with that time period but Targets just came into the world fully formed

  • @LC-fx2lo
    @LC-fx2lo Год назад +4

    The zooming in to the $1.99 bath towels at 4:26 made my 2023 wallet feel personally attacked.

  • @chrisdrake7689
    @chrisdrake7689 Год назад +2

    I need a Delorean Time Machine I miss the 80s so much!💯 Kid in the 80s and a teenager in the 90s 😆😂

  • @majorlifts
    @majorlifts 10 месяцев назад +1

    Awesome, so many memories

  • @Eddie1536
    @Eddie1536 Год назад +3

    This has to be at least 1986 you could hear Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight playing.

  • @RadianceRush
    @RadianceRush Год назад +3

    The frilly geese, teddy bear, and heart aprons scream 80's kitchen decor! lol

  • @alamahony
    @alamahony Год назад +2

    bought my first cassette in target 1985,Dire Straights brothers in arms.I was 5

  • @jenninscho1980
    @jenninscho1980 Год назад +7

    Stocking the shelves with Acutrim and Dexatrim.

  • @dizzle639
    @dizzle639 Год назад +3

    One thing I’ve noticed right away is the age of the customers. More elderly people. Nowadays it’s a bunch of moms like me with their Starbucks in hand 😂

  • @ashiaackov
    @ashiaackov 11 месяцев назад +1

    Quiet, methodical, relaxing shopping ❤

  • @Mitchelled
    @Mitchelled 2 месяца назад

    thank the people who took these videos.. im very glad they did. its a time machine.

  • @casualtyarmy87
    @casualtyarmy87 Год назад +8

    5:14 there’s always that one cart 😂😂