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Atlantic Center
Category: Shopping Shopping Centers Shopping Centers [Edit]
625 Atlantic Ave(between 5th Ave & Fort Greene Pl)
Brooklyn, NY 11217
Neighborhood: Fort Greene
(718) 622-7893
- Nearest Transit:
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Atlantic Av (B, Q)
Atlantic Av (2, 3, 4, 5)
Lafayette Av (A, C)
- Price Range:
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- Accepts Credit Cards:
- Yes
42 reviews for Atlantic Center
Review Highlights
42 reviews in English
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Review from Quana C.
11/12/2011 4 Check-ins Here
Not the greatest Mall in the wall, but it serves it's purpose.
My favorite stores are Daffy's and Coldstone Creamery (shut up don't judge me).
Of course Tar-jay is a wonderful place to fill bags upon bags with items we do not need but it's fun.
The DSW is surprisingly big and well stocked.
Children's Place and Bath and Body Works serve their purpose and are usually staffed by friendly people.
All in all this mall ranks a-ok in my book which is the reason I gave it 3 stars. -
Review from Pamela S.
2/18/2012 3 Check-ins Here
Atlantic Center is like the relative that you cannot spend more than 2 hours with or so before you start to twitch from frustration. It is also the place that you want to stay away from between 3 and 5pm on weekdays. CRAP SHOW!
Old Navy, DSW, Target...I am glad you are within walking distance to my home.
Thank you. -
Review from Tiffany S.
Brooklyn, NY
12/8/2011 1 Check-in Here
After going to the largest mall in America for four years (Mall of America in Minnesota), anything less just seems like a poor excuse for a mall.
However, before I left for college in Minnesota, Atlantic Center wasn't that bad. I was able to always find something I liked and could afford at my favorites stores: Marshalls, Old Navy, Daffy's, and DSW.
But 5 years later, it's like everything has just gone terribly awry.
What happened to you Atlantic Center? Why do you mistreat me so?
I used to have such a great experience each time I visited you. But now, I am confronted with the after-school crowd, understocked isles, long lines, and shi*ty service.
I miss how it used to be, and it pains me to know it will never be the same again.
Goodbye Atlantic Center,
Once truly yours,
Tiffany S. -
Review from Acynicsdream C.
Brooklyn, NY
10/23/2011
I avoid this mall only because the "After school" crowd comes in and gets in my fucking way....GO DO SOME DAMN HOMEWORK!
I only come in here for:
Buffalo Wild Wings: Love it! their boneless wings were good but the size of my scrotum...
Starbucks: One day I came in here and they charged me for One Venti Double chocolate chip frapp and TWO grandes (._.) I ordered ONE frap and two brownies..my gay ass lisp couldn't be THAT bad.
Gamestop: Really small. and full of kids from school.
Coldstone: At random the fat ass part of me wants some damn ice cream pricey: YES but it's worth it. -
Review from Diana R.
Brooklyn, NY
6/27/2011 8 Check-ins Here
I haaaate having to go to Atlantic Center. It will suck up your day and your life, no matter what you have to do there.
Every single store in there, whether it is Target or Old Navy or Marshall's or whatever, is probably some bottom operation on the long list of retail chains. Every one is poorly maintained and understaffed and understocked. -
Review from Deeandra D.
Brooklyn, NY
11/23/2011 1 Check-in Here
They are the absolute worst, no sales person available, and when u do find one they say, they don't work in that department. I do not recommend no one to shop here, a bunch of young kids hang in there where after awhile it makes u feel very uncomfortable, where they won't even move out of your way to pass. Three thumbs down.
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Review from Lauren M.
Brooklyn, NY
12/27/2010
For the pampered types, don't come here. This isn't your prissy Roosevelt mall or Jersey Garden, gosh darnit. This is Flatbush, bitch!
The Pathmark is crowded, cheap and sometimes a little grimy (though less so after the remodel). So is the Marshall's, except picked clean of all the good brands now that the Park Slope moms have trickled down for Target, which they also overcrowd.
DSW is nice and neat, kind of a haven from the chaos. The McDonald's (or Lord of the Flies), will always be hell on earth but that is McDonald's in general.
Old Navy will have a line sprawling through out the entire store.
The Body Shop will eternally be on sale on products women love to buy and are practically all the same product.
The DMV will be a uniting force of every socio-economic background against the DMV.
But it's our mall and nobody will take it's dignity and filth away from us! -
Review from Isabella W.
Brooklyn, NY
10/25/2010
Not a mall to inspire shopping, which is probably good for my wallet. Only come here for specific stores, for specific reasons: Target, DSW (which is the least crowded branch I have ever been in NYC), Marshalls (good days: they just organized it, bad days: ransacked by mindless shoppers). Oh and Sleepy's for mattress.
Don't even bother to go up to Burlington's Coat Factory. That place is cut-my-veins-depressive. -
Review from Megan C.
3/6/2011 1 Check-in Here
If I didn't happen to love my best friends and their three and five year olds with all my freaking heart, I would have been content to never set foot in this place. I had a feeling the madness would give me a panic attack and right I was.
The Target is so completely and totally understocked that it looks like it's going out of business. The employees seem incompetent and indifferent. The whole place is a total shit show and I LOVE Target. Going home to the Super Target near my parent's place in Colorado is like leaping through a field of poppies and puppies.
We went up to Chuck E. Cheese to celebrate the littlest man's third birthday and I was in awe of how poorly it was run. Every other machine was broken, all the fountain sodas were out, every table that praise baby Jesus happened to be open was covered in trash, and oh, by the way, it's Chuck E. Freaking Cheese. Ugh.
Our adventure there didn't last long until the over-21 set was tearfully begging for beer. We made our way over the Buffalo Wild Wings and were quickly sat. The service was actually pretty decent and their selection of specialty craft beers was more than I was expecting. Their hot wings are most definitely hot, but their Asian Zing wings, while a yummy flavor, didn't have the zing their name implied. -
Review from Kris D.
Brooklyn, NY
10/4/2010
I've only gone here to go to Gamestop or Target.
Though I have had the displeasure of being chased down by some of the vendors on the floors to try some of their nasty smelling "perfume"
When I say I'm not interested, it means just that. It isn't some code for you to run after me like a psycho, unless your goal is to get completely brained by a Xbox or a shoe.
Seriously, it's not my fault you chose a commission only job. But I digress:
Target was ok.
Though when I asked for help finding a pair of Converses, I was pointed toward a wall of mixed match and sloppily placed shoes while the "assistant" walked off.
The cashier was super nice and I didn't have to wait long to check out, so that's a plus.
Gamestop as a company is terrible but this store takes the cake. Not only do they have completely incompetent people working there, they also try to scam you.
I got a used Xbox 360 from them which ended up having a broken disc tray. I go to return it the next day, they open it and try to tell me that I tampered with the system because the sticker was "gone". I was never shown said sticker, I just had to " take" her word for it.
They refused to give me another system but said they would refund me. I thought fair enough, expecting to get my near $200 back.
Fat chance.
I only got $36 bucks because they had to "send it in for repairs".
Fucking retarded.
A time earlier than that, I went there to sell my Elite. Mind you, this thing was brand new at the time. I only got to play it a few times, as I ended up needing to sell it for rent. Hard times came suddenly.
Anyways, the "manager" (this guy is a manager somehow, yet I'm older than him?) sets it up to make sure it works. It does fine, but all of a sudden he's looking at it all hard, telling me how "dirty" it is and he was afraid fucking ROACHES were going to come pouring out of it. Like to say because I happen to be black I MUST live in the ghetto and have roaches.
I wanted to slap the fucking shit out of him right there. Instead I opted to take my business to the Gamestop at Court St. When he heard that, he was then apologetic and tried to save the sell. I didn't feel like going all the way over to Court so I just sold it and my games there. I came away with $278 bucks, so there's that.
I'm sticking to buying my games/systems from Amazon from now on.
Target is decent, but I wouldn't go on weekends or expect any kind of real help finding anything.Listed in: Avoid Like The Plague
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Review from Caroline W.
Brooklyn, NY
10/19/2010
All I have to say is that 99% of the reason I enjoy going to the Atlantic Center is being able to say "I am going to the mall!". What New Yorker says I am going to the mall on a Friday night? This one! It brings me back to those middle school years, where things were awkward and I spent all my allowance at Sanrio Surprises.
But seriously, the only reason I go is for Target and Marshalls. Good deals, but very picked over. It's also a great place if you like to stand in lines. Really long lines. Like, really really really long lines. -
Review from Monica R.
Brooklyn, NY
1/6/2009
Consistently understocked stores with lousy employees (Target, Pathmark, Victoria's Secret and the like)? CHECK
Random girl yelling at her assumed "boyfriend" on her cell phone about her facebook "relationship status?" CHECK
Crowds of 13-17 year old BABAY kids (ya that's right I said babay kids) gossiping about god-knows-what and that should probably be at home doing their homework? CHECK
Shady "car service" drivers that harass you as exit Target? CHECK
Shady "car service" drivers that yell "damn girl, you got ass" or "hey cutie, I'll give you a ride." as you cross the street to Pathmark? CHECK
Coldstone Creamery? CHECK
Long ass lines at Subway when all you wanna do is "eat fresh" NOW? CHECK
You get the point. If this place did not house the Target that is less than 2 miles from my apartment, I would never, EVER EVER enter this place that should in fact be named Purgatory, not a mall. -
Review from Mary C.
Brooklyn, NY
9/21/2010
I don't understand the terrible reviews. This place is really convenient and it has stores that are good (Target, DSW and Marshall's are my main ports of call). I've been here lots of times and never had issues. This is New York. Lines are long, people are self-involved. Is this news to anyone?
I'm not sure what kind of personalized customer service people are expecting from this place. It's not really that bad! -
Review from Lauren L.
New York, NY
8/9/2009
God I hate this place.
I was exuberant to learn there was indeed a Target in Brooklyn when I moved here. However, the Target at Atlantic Center is not really a Target. It's the Seventh Circle of Hell.
Mile long lines, not enough cashiers, stupid screaming kids and their idiot parents, picked over merchandise all over the floor, etc etc etc. I loathe coming here. The only thing that brings me back are the Target prices, which on personal care and pet items, can't be beat.
The Vicky's Secret sucks, the Daffy's is fucking scary, as is the Subway, and the Old Navy. It feels like heaven when you emerge from the hot, sticky, nasty subway station below, but after 5 seconds of screaming kids and ghetto-unfabulous teenagers running rampid, you realize you're still in Hell.Listed in: Nasty Crap., Mah Fave-o-ritz!
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Review from Kirill C.
Framingham, MA
9/5/2011
This mall is huge. Especially the Target store. This is my 2nd favorite place to shop in New York City. Transportation is right next door. This place rocks!
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Review from Andy H.
Brooklyn, NY
11/8/2008
This mall is awful.
Full of overcrowded stores with long lines.
Pretty much every train stops by this mall (including the Long Island Railroad), making it easy to access with mass transportation. (Dont drive here, its like midtown Manhattan with traffic and craziness with cars)
But honestly it is not worth your time to go out on your way to visit this location. -
Review from Gisselle H.
Brooklyn, NY
5/7/2009
Well the only reason why I ever get trapped into passing by this mall is because the DMV office is inside of the mall.
If you are a female,be prepared and very aware.Men here are like dogs at a meat market,ready for the attack.Always on the prowl.They stand on a corner,either hustling,or advertising.From cab drivers harrasing you for a ride to others trying to persuade you into giving them you're number.
One of the only things I ever do in this mall,is go too hoolihans to eat.Besides that,there are no deals,lack of stores and clothing selections.Save you're money and go elsewhere. -
Review from Jennifer S.
Huntington Station, NY
1/12/2007
As if traffic in this area wasn't bad enough as it is....lets build a stadium!
I do enjoy that there is a target 2 subway stops from my apartment though. -
Review from Asparagus S.
Brooklyn, NY
12/23/2008
I love Target. But I hate this Target.
Rude cashiers, rude shoppers, people yelling into cell phones, kids yelling, long lines, messy, inventory picked over. The savings aren't worth ruining your day and your mood. But, if you must, get up early and go at 9am. Get in and get out before the place turns into shopping hell. -
Review from David C.
Brooklyn, NY
2/24/2010 1 Check-in Here
I go here for the same reason everyone else does: it's the only game in town. Like it or not, Target has the cheap stuff we all want and need.
Of course it's housed in The Atlantic Center, a miserable, entirely wretched excuse for a mall that takes about as long to get into as it does to walk to, and just might be the least pleasant place in all of Brooklyn. A trip there requires steeling oneself against any number of possible frustrations, including the whipping winds and terrifying, lawless traffic pattern that swirl around the entrances, the big crowds/long lines, the hordes of bored teenagers...you get the idea.
But the one that consistently annoys me (and I find never occurs at any other Target) is the fact that virtually every time I set foot in the store, at least one, perhaps two products I'm looking for are ENTIRELY SOLD OUT. Pantene Shampoo? All gone--all of it. Space heaters? Three giant shelves worth, all gone. At this point I'm completely convinced that this particular Target's "marketing strategists" believe that a great deal of their sales are impulse buys--as their stores ARE stocked with many such strategic selling points--and as such, their main objective is to get you to return as often as possible.
That said, it's like buying snacks at the movie theater, or food at the airport before a flight--what other options do you have? There are no other discount retailers in the area, and as a result Target will continue to get my hard-earned money. Long live the monopoly. -
Review from Dan T.
7/9/2011 1 Check-in Here
While I'm sure it'll flourish if/when the Atlantic Yards project is completed, this place kinda ruins the area and everything about it is, well, whack.
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Review from Kristy C.
Brooklyn, NY
11/1/2010 3 Check-ins Here
This place is not super fancy but it is great to have for a quick mall trip.
I go here to visit Marshall's, Burlington Coat factory, Target ( although the new one at Flatbush Junction is my Fav), and I cannot forget Mandee's! Hubby and the kid LOVES the game Stop there and with the new Best Buy moving in , well they both will be very happy.
So it's a win win situation for me.
While they shop at their favorite stores, I can shop at mine :) -
Review from Allison C.
New York, NY
3/24/2010 1 Check-in Here
I go here for the sheer reason I'm sure others do: easy subway access and Target. I'd go to this Target over the one near Marble Hill in the Bronx. (I almost lost my temper that that particular one...alas, that's a story for another time, children...)
The Target in this mall has the stuff I need, but it's not a Target I prefer to go to at all. The clothing selection for women IS pretty decent, I'll give it that much. The Old Navy here disappoints tremendously. It makes me long for the one near my old apartment in Yonkers at the Cross County Mall. As some others have mentioned, the Daffy's IS rather daffy. (Hardy har har har...) While I'm pleased with the Bath & Body Works and the Victoria's Secret, I wouldn't go out of my way to travel here JUST to go to those two stores when I can go to plenty in Manhattan.
For such a big space, this mall feels so...I don't know...isolated. Everything is it's own separate entity. Not that malls usually scream out "I'm warm, fuzzy, here I want to give you a big hug!", but there is just something about this particular mall... *myeh*
If Target wasn't there, I'd never ever go. -
Review from Scott T.
Brandon, FL
2/17/2009
It is what it is: a nondescript-looking mall, housing a lot of 'meh' stores, kiosks selling knockoff toys, and a Target. An unclean Target, with picked-over aisles and astonishingly long checkout lines. The shopping cart-only escalator, and oversized elevators do help.
This gets 3 stars, because Houlihan's restaurant (is it still there?) has the best calamari.
That, and Beacons Closet and a well-kept Key Food are (were?) just down the street. -
Review from Will C.
10/17/2010 12 Check-ins Here
Needs immense improvement, but it's a local hot spot. I'd rather still have it there just in case.
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Review from Frank L.
Brooklyn, NY
12/27/2010
Really crowded, really picked over, really unpleasant overall.
That's what happens when a bunch of low-budget places are collected in one place, over a major transportation hub. All the stores here have counterparts around the five boroughs, but this is the only one that is really easy to get to on a huge variety of buses and trains. The result is predicably very high traffic and so all the problems I already mentioned. Add to it the fact that it's located on an oddly shaped plot of land that has a number of major avenues running adjacent to them, and what you get is a compete mess of a mall where you take your life in your hands every time you cross the street to get to it.
Most people have it right -- you can expect them not to have the best sale items in stock, and what they have will be picked over.
But here's a tip: go at a weird time. Like 11 AM on a weekday. Then the crowds are not so bad. Look at the stores' circulars online to go at the beginning of the weekly sale cycle for the store you want (admittedly doesn't work for Marshalls and DSW because those two buy closeout stock and so get stuff in on unpredictable days) and you should be able to snag the right item for a good price. You should still prepare for a long wait though -- every single one of these stores that I've been inside of have obscenely long lines even at weird hours, including Office Max. It's like they deliberately create long lines or something.
It's the only way to get anything other than a one star experience out of this place. If you come here on a weekend day, God help you. -
Review from Ryan C.
Brooklyn, NY
1/12/2007 3 photos
In 1996, Bruce Ratner, the ubiquitous, rich asshole who built the grotesquely conceived Metrotech Center in downtown Brooklyn, decided that he wasn't quite finished eradicating the magisterial landscape of Atlantic Avenue (think Williamsburgh Savings Bank, Brooklyn Academy of Music, etc) With all the architectural perspicuity of a daffy beaver, Ratner proceeded to build a mall so devoid of character, it embodies all the charm and warmth of an animal kill shelter. Pathmark, one of AC's tenants, operates under the guise of saving Park Slope, Prospect Heights and Fort Greene residents money on their shopping...an enterprise made difficult by the exorbitant parking prices they charge for use of their garage. Other stores located in Atlantic Center are:
Marshalls: A hotbed of XXL sizes, gaudy Italian slacks, and ties worn by people who have given up on life.
Circuit City: Where shady salesman hone their 'bait and switch' techniques. If you come looking for something you saw in the Sunday news circular, I sincerely doubt they ever had it to begin with.
Chucky Cheese: I reviewed the rat here http://www.yelp.com/bi...
Ratner isn't done. He recently purchased the Atlantic Yards, located just across from his hideous space pod mall. He claims he procured this property in order to bring professional sports back to Brooklyn in the form of the New Jersey Nets. Useless civic figurehead, Borough President Marty Markowitz, rationalizes this blatant property grab (as shameful as any orchestrated by Robert Moses) by saying that it will heal the wounds inflicted on Brooklyn when the Dodgers were stolen from us by Los Angeles. How? By becoming hypocrites and stealing the Nets from Jersey? That's not what Brooklyn is about. And don't forget about all the tenants that are going to be displaced by this project with the abuse of eminent domain. Landlords and homeowners are being compensated handsomely by Ratner to "move on", but where will that leave the tenants? Literally and figuratively out in the cold. Know what else? Bruce doesn't give a Ratner's ass about professional sports coming back to Brooklyn. He cares about the skyscrapers, apartments and other visual abominations he plans on building AROUND the Nets new stadium. Ratner cares about bling, not sports. His creations are just like his ethics: fucking ugly. -
Review from bridget e.
Brooklyn, NY
5/5/2009
"this practice of having long fingernails is so pernicious that it is forbidden even in witchcraft." -francisco goya
this useless mammoth of a mall, is an encroaching exercise in futility.Listed in: if you have masochistic…
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Review from Ron C.
1/3/2011 1 Check-in Here
This place is always packed on the weekends. The only plus about Atlantic Center is that the Brooklyn Flea is across the street and there is a Pathmark here that is open 24/7. That's about it. I usually come here to meet a friend then head to the city. Also if I forgot to buy something in the city and i'm too lazy to go back....
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Review from Barbara G.
Brooklyn, NY
3/2/2011 3 Check-ins Here
Lots of cool stores to shop at. I like that there is a Target, Best Buy, Old Navy, Burlington Coat Factory, Victoria Secret, Pay Half and other stores all in the same area. Never too busy and its nice to go by yourself to shop, its quiet. I love going there when I have no desire to go to Manhattan
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Review from Ian J.
10/17/2010 1 Check-in Here
Convenient, but crowded, loud, and dirty. It's not an ideal place to shop, unless you have to.
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Review from Victor H.
Brooklyn, NY
1/10/2011
This was the mall I went to sometimes when I was a student at Brooklyn technical High School. If you wish to shop for clothes, then this is definitely not the place for you. If you want something to eat, this is a decent place. The mall is very small, and the majority of the stores do not interest me. Furthermore many of the shoppers there are obviously from the ghetto because they are extremely obnoxious and annoying.
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Review from Jonell D.
Brooklyn, NY
3/24/2010 34 Check-ins Here
This is probably the crappiest mall in Brooklyn,foot traffic always gets detoured,understocked stores,unhelpful employees especially in Target and Pathmark long lines for checkout and guest services and most times just over crowded with loiterers and bad behaved school kids.
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Review from Nicholas T.
Brooklyn, NY
3/3/2007
Rattner and Brooklyn do not mix. It's a mall, like all other malls, except even more heinous due to the circumstances and reality of its existence.
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Review from diana m.
Brooklyn, NY
7/15/2008
The best part about this place is that is conveniently located and you can get there from virtually any train that goes in and out of Brooklyn. This place is overcrowded and the stores here never have a very good selection.
Listed in: Malls
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Review from stephen b.
Brooklyn, NY
9/28/2010
This mall has a few standard mall stores: children's place, bath and body works, target, gamestop, verizon, guitar center. Also a Daffy's that's ok for kids but pretty weak for men's clothes. The crowd is sometimes insane. I've been locked into verizon while bands of screaming kids were shoplifting and chased around by police and security.
Bottom line, if you have convenient access there's a lot of shopping that can be done, but rarely a pleasure to shop here. -
Review from Hugh S.
Brooklyn, NY
4/13/2010
This is about as unpleasant a shopping experience as you can find in North America or Europe.... It's like Stalin meets Miami. Looking for shopping carts along the Gowanus Canal with refuse in them compares favorably. The situation has improved slightly (very slightly) with the completion of the rehab to the LIRR station, but that's about it.
The Target, the big magnet store of the whole eyesore, is like a trip to Montgomery Wards circa 1977. There are no dying parakeets or dead fish for sale, but the stocking is pathetic. Stuff is abandoned wherever people see fit. The staff spends more time jawing than working. Things appear one week and never appear again. And the checkout is a nightmare. My guess is Target was pressured into opening in NYC but banned from Manhattan. This place is a serious case in trademark dilution. Daffy's is about as bad.
The plus for both is the occasional steal -- something great at a low price. But you have to weather the conditions.
The layout of the mall is terrible. Outside, the building is an atrocity -- an eyesore even by Brooklyn standards. Neo-Stalinism at its worst. Of course, there is 'Fulton Mall' not far away -- not a throwback to the worst of 1977, but an actual piece of '77 that never changed. -
Review from michael a.
Brooklyn, NY
1/11/2010
Its not a bad mall but it can be so much better and I hate the dmv here id rather go to coney island for all my auto needs
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Review from brooklyn b.
Brooklyn, NY
1/21/2010
Every now and again, I forget how truly awful this place is and decide to shop there for the low prices of stores like DSW, Old Navy, and Target, and convenience of having a bunch of stores in one place.
After going here last time, I have vowed never to back again, ever, under any circumstances, for any reason.
After I spent over an hour in Pathmark waiting on line and trying to get a manager to help me with something, I went to Target, where almost everything was picked over. The last time I went to Old Navy it looked like a bomb went off - what little inventory they had was strewn all over - on the floor, and in big random piles.
I won't go into all the mundane details, but let's just say that the entire Atlantic Center is just really a terrible, awful, horrific place to shop. -
Review from R M.
New York, NY
1/2/2011
This review is for Target. I miss customer service!!! Usually out of everything I need. Good luck if you can't find something - if you are lucky enough to get an employee to talk to you, they will not know if the store carries what you are looking for.
