SALE BOAT.(shopping at Target's temporary store at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 09-DEC-02

Bookmark this article Print this article Link to this article Email this article Digg It! Add to del.icio.us RSS

COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

There could hardly be any news more thrilling to discount-minded Manhattanites, whose bargain-hunting triumphs are usually on the order of buying a couple of bags of postholiday candy at Duane Reade at fifty per cent off (you've just missed the last of the brown and orange Halloween M&M's, but soon enough there will be half-price Reese's peanut-butter Christmas trees), than that Target has come to town. Manhattan has a lot going for it, but until two weeks ago we didn't have a Target store. And, just like that, Target has already been taken away. The Minneapolis-based store set up shop on a boat at Chelsea Piers for a fortnight that just ended, to test the waters for a possible full-blown store in Manhattan and to give New...

Read the full article for free courtesy of your local library.