The nearest Target is 60 miles from our home, Walmart is 17 miles from our home. I still shopped Walmart over Target when they were both the same distance from us. Walmart offered more groceries than Target. That’s what I usually shop for. Necessities.
Both are equal distance from us, along with K-Mart, and we shop the bargains, where ever we find them. I always try the Charity Thrift Stores first (I don’t go to the For Profit second hand thrift stores), and then go to the discount stores second.
I like Walmart because I find them to be cheaper than Target for kids’ clothes, which is a big thing I shop for there. (I have a pre-schooler). I may check out Target once in a while to see what’s new, but basically I hit up Walmart more often.
A couple of years back, after getting frustrated by the walmarteers, I decided not to go into one again. I was able to go for 17 months and 6 days without setting foot inside a Wal-Mart store. I suffered no withdrawls or serious side effects, other than the eye-rolls from my wife and friends, which, you get used to.
Since then I can count on one hand how many times I have been back in one, each time under duress and not of my own choosing.
So, Target I guess.
I purposefully travel an extra ten minutes to a Walmart in a rural area (as opposed to the closer one that is more crowded, noisier, smaller parking lot, longer lines) because the one I like and am willing to travel to is clean, quiet, usually empty. Same stuff as any other Walmart, nicer experience.
Ugh, neither. Big box stores like that are so depressing.
Then again, the only thing I really “buy” lately is food. For everything else, it’s that old depression-era standby: “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without.”