DCist: Beer and Wine at Target?

downtown rez

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 17:09:17 -0500

I've been to target 4 times since it's opened- I love it. BUT, maybe un necessarily, I'm worried about a few things: 1st- It was really well stocked when it opened (duh), but the shelves are a bit thinner now. That bugs me. Second (and on topic for this thread) the reason I love target is that it carries the 1.5 million things I couldn't easily buy in DC until it opened. Seriously, beer and wine were not two of those. Yeah, yeah, call me silly, but I just don't know that it's in my interest that any of their hallowed shelf-space go to products that I can find on just about any other corner in DC.

alyssa

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:07:14 -0500

I didn't think D'vines had actually gotten its act together quite yet to open?

DCzSlimmest

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:40:43 -0500

As a regular drinker, I'm actually pretty cool to the idea of Target getting a liquor license. I simply don't feel that alcohol is so expensive as to warrant the entry of a discount seller into our local community. I also really would like to see places like D'Vines succeed. I'd really prefer they expand their grocery section with a produce aisle.

Stone

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:21:03 -0500

Sorry....I'm not a Target hater by any means, but I went to the new DC for the first time and found yogurt tins spilled all over the grocery section, shoes scattered all over the floor in the shoe section, clothes scattered on the floor, and the shelves basically half empty. I want to support this Target, but had to end up going to Maryland to get any decent shopping done. Target needs to get its sh*t in order before it starts expanding.

registeringsucks

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:58:14 -0500

Ok, but will they sell loosies?

MikeB

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:52:21 -0500

My biggest gripe is that D.C. law of not being able to buy beer or wine after ten. Amen to that. One thing I miss from living in California for most of my life is the ability to buy booze from 6 a.m. to 3 a.m. This also made my high school job as a bag boy at Safeway amusing from the occasional customer who would walk/stumble in at 6:05 a.m. to pick up a tallboy of Miller High Life or Country Club. Will Target let me drink while shopping? I could get behind that.

cairo

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:38:46 -0500

D'Vines is open across the street from Target. They are a locally grown wine/beer store with their first shop down at 18th and U St. They have a super knowledgeable staff on both fine wine and craft/import beers. I doubt Target's selling cheap Bud light will effect them too much, but I would hate to see a Walmart-effect squash local business.

IMGoph

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:32:08 -0500

stone, you must not get out much

WHAZZUP

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:30:14 -0500

Is it really that nasty? I haven't been there, but I did go to the Best Buy and found it very clean and the sales staff to be disturbingly nice.

Stone

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:16:15 -0500

The DC Target is the nastiest Target I've ever been too. They don't need beer and wine to make it even nastier.

Deep

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:03:06 -0500

My biggest gripe is that D.C. law of not being able to buy beer or wine after ten. How dry I am sometimes after ten. I don't drive and I don't want to go to a westeraunt.

IMGoph

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:49:27 -0500

capitalism at its finest...more better cheaper i suppose

Deep

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:46:25 -0500

Now I can buy Video Games....beer...shoes...BBQ wings.......oh my...in one spot. Land-o-gushin!

MrTinDC

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:35:31 -0500

Great news! Nobody will object except for the usual blowhards with time on their hands on the CH Yahoo listserv.

guest number 10

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:34:28 -0500

that's because it's legal for just about anyone to sell beer & wine in va. except for maybe the abc.

IntangibleArts

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:33:44 -0500

1: 'ere, is that...rat tart? 2: yes. 1: ......disgusting.

robotrock

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:25:30 -0500

Most of the NoVa Target stores I've been to have Beer/Wine

WHAZZUP

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:22:34 -0500

If this happens, it will pretty much cement my decision to move back to the CH/Mt. P area.

monkeyrotica

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:07:38 -0500

Is there anyone who actually thinks beer and wine at Target would be a bad thing? Gee, I dunno. Maybe a couple thousand churchies who live in P.G. County and double park every Sunday maybe? I'll call the police. (Shouldn't you call the church?) Call the church police! All right. (shouting) The Church Police! (sirens racing up, followed by a tremendous crash, the church police burst in the door) What's all this then, Amen!