Comments on: Target Training: Basics of Shopping Target

By: Rebecca Foxworth

Rebecca Foxworth — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 18:40:24 +0000

Our local Targets donate salvaged items to the local Goodwill. So far, I’ve got a new headboard missing its screws, a Bissell little green machine missing a $7 brush (I bought it online), A mirror that needed a sharpie run over its scratched, black frame. Figuring out which Goodwill they send to is well worth the time and effort.
Also, our two in-town Target stores have slightly different prices, too. A friend and I stopped to figure one time, and realized those little differences added up to more than $30 a month ($360 a year!!!). The manager said this Target was for “a different clientele” than the other Target in town. I told my friend, “Clearly, I’m the OTHER clientele!”

By: Christy

Christy — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:37:24 +0000

@Craig No, you don’t get the item for free. That would be fun though! I don’t know what happens to each item for certain, but I know a good amount of the salvaged items from Target get donated to Goodwill.

By: Craig

Craig — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 20:31:57 +0000

You wrote:
“If you scan an item and you get a message that says ‘Item not found’ it usually means that the item had been clearanced and is no longer in their system. More times than not if you try to buy the item, the cashier will tell you that it has been salvaged and they cannot sell you the item.”

I’m curious: What happens next? Does the cashier give you the salvaged item to take for free? Or does the cashier keep the item? If it’s the latter, what happens to the item after that? Does the cashier get to keep it and take home, is it sent back to a warehouse and/or donated to charity, or does it go to the dumpster behind the store?