It doesn’t offend me, but I will admit I’m not a fan of big box stores. It’s a combination of the number of people there, the distance you have to go just to get something and the volume of the noise. For instance, if you are buying groceries at Wal-Mart and need shampoo, you have to hightail it all the way to the other side of the store for that. I hate it. For some reason Target doesn’t bother me. I think it’s because their ceilings aren’t as high as those at Walmart, so the noise doesn’t echo around as much and they also don’t stock their merchandise way up high, which makes me uncomfortable. Of course, my local Target is a regular one, not a Super Target, so perhaps that is why I like it.
Around the holidays, forget about it. I do my holiday shopping almost exclusively online.