@@boznsjbruhstudios6383 yeah but those things are so hard to find without traversing heavily around and really not much of a choice for there to be any real options of negotiation of the prices because if ya do not wanna do it then they might know that already SOMEONE will even without you.. so yeah its kinda a rock and a hard place like trynna impress or make a good impression etc with new people particularly for avoiding burning potentially vital bridges etc for whether for bussiness or other relationships or for romance etc etc and even the friends or paticularly fam etc of somebody if like talking making a good impression of like for romance-wise a "good &/or approved fit" so to speak to an extent... of ones potential itnerests fam and friends that obviously are the more probale if not firstly gonna be the most probable to influence after the persns own decisions what they do or choose... after all they "just met you" hehe you know what I am saying
It’s funny how this video is over 18 years old but still looks a lot like yesterday. Minus a few electronics it still looks very present. It’s nothing like watching a video from the 90s
I'm glad a lot of people are saying here not much has changed. I think between 2000's, 10's and 20's- when it comes to lifestyle and culture, pretty much catastrophic events like 9/11, recession, crazy elections and pandemic are the only things that set them apart.
It sucks that Foodcourts are a dying art. I always loved the Targets and Walmarts that had Chick Fil A's and McDonald's and such in them, probably because they remind me alot of physical malls which I also adore
They were; I want to say the last time I saw one that really made a difference in my childhood was being able to play Rogue Squadron on the N64 in the back of my local Wal-Mart at the time in their McDonalds (literally the back of the store; it's weird thinking about it now when they want to throw Auntie Anne's, Subway, and Starbucks in the front now)... heck, live lobsters being sold were still a thing. K-Mart's K-Cafe was also a treat. Feels like yesterday and the 2000s were a blur with how quickly it had passed. In the local metro area where I reside, malls have been so dead inside that I don't know how they survive; I remember they had miniature flea markets where you'd buy baseball cards, Pokémon cards from the first generation, and they'd have fountains galore... the total ambiance just sounded like life and fun. EB-Games for example where I used to buy and trade my PS2 and Xbox games are only but a distant memory. Makes me feel so old! Used to buy Star Wars figures at K*B Toys in anticipation for the release of Episode 1. If I could, I would definitely go back and relive my childhood. The very same Wal-Mart I referenced was where my dad and I picked up the PS1 for my 7th birthday and I got a PS1 with Twisted Metal 2 on its release date. We then went to go and eat at Ryan's... I'm not even sure if those are still around anymore because the last time I ate there was almost 20 years ago lol.
My Target, which opened in 2003, had a food court and a Starbucks. The Starbucks is still there, but several years ago the food court was converted into some strange department that sold alcohol, opening up an aisle for grocery. The food court originally had a Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and random other food. Their chicken noodle soup was amazing because it sat in the slow cooker all day. At one point though, they cheaped out and literally started microwaving bags instead. It was difficult staffing it since they had to be properly trained. On a few occasions, they would make me work there, even though I lacked the training. It was only for an hour or two before the section would close, and some days they would just decide to close it early instead. Pretty much I was shown how to heat up the pizzas, but then told to only do so when ordered (they take 8 minutes) because any left overs had to be thrown out, because they did not want to encourage wastefulness in an attempt to feed the underpaid worker ($7/hr at the time this was filmed). Because they had a Taco Bell, I would buy the nachos, which was 75¢ at the time. I was underweight and poor, but it got me through the day. Most people just wanted icees. I remember microwaving mac and cheese once, but also remember when they finally closed the Taco Bell portion. It made no sense, just dropped the sign, and like 4 menu items. They had a box of that nacho cheese in the closet, which I found YEARS LATER. One day, as a treat, they had nachos in the break room. 😳 It’s now Drive Up storage.
@@beepboop7041 I don’t know what you’ve been through and wish you the best, but I feel it. Times felt much more happier back then. And of course, it makes me feel really old after realizing this was 17 years ago. Glad these videos exist. Never would I have thought to film an everyday video of shoppers so others, decades from now, could reminisce on the nostalgia.
It wasn’t that much different honestly. Social media wasn’t as big, but it was still around. MySpace and online gaming was huge. CZcams was also starting at the time.
The fact that this was recorded during Christmas of 2005 is crazy. The Xbox 360 barely came and the PS3 wasn’t even out yet till Christmas of 2006. HDTVs were barely coming a thing, and Call of Duty 2 and NFS: Most Wanted were a few of the launch titles for the Xbox 360. Even Herbie Fully Loaded came out that time too lol.
I remember seeing the new 360 titles in Hollywood Video on the shelf knowing I wasn't a rich kid, all I wanted was to play Saints Row because it looked NOTHING like San Andreas... those consoles... $$$ took a couple years before I got my black Elite... Fable 2 first game for it
@@myidolgwen359 Crazy how time flies. I was only 9 in 2005 and I too remember seeing lots of Ads and commercials of the Xbox 360. The console was definitely ahead of its time in terms of graphics and performance. The games still hold up well to this day.
Man that section with digital cameras hit hard. Some of those models are so familiar like it happened two years ago. I spent more than half of 2005 trying to pick out a digital camera.
Really uncanny valley to see a world that looks mostly, almost entirely like it does now with the one exception that people aren't checking their little computers all the time
I was a cashier at Target in 2004. Can confirm... it looked like this lol. They had a system where you'd be rated by how quick you could get each customer through. "G" green was good, "R" red was bad. They wanted us to get 90% G ratings. But the customers were responsible for a lot of R's Every time a customer paid by check, i knew it would be an R. It was a pretty stressful and annoying system to work by. Thank goodness I only worked there for a few months.
@@the.seagull.35 sorry I didn't meanit like that 😂😂 I meant it like it's cool how different things were back then, and I guess cool that we don't do it like that anymore lmao
I loved the Targets with small food courts; though I'm sure the employees didn't love sweeping up the popcorn I spilled while checking out all the awesome Lego Star Wars sets that were coming out around this time. Those Xbox 360 and digital camera displays bring back a lot of memories as well!
Jackson MI still had their cafe until last year. It was called Food Avenue. It closed and was walled off and is now their pickup area. Jackson is one of the few targets without a Starbucks or pizza hut.
The Target the is closest to me just got rid of it's small foodcourt last year or the year before. They replaced it with a storage area containing items for those drive up and go customers
This was the era of Target I remember when I worked for one from 2008-2014. It was my first retail job. I started that job in October 2008 and got to experience my first Black Friday inside a store before it opened to those crazy Black Friday shoppers. I'll never forget that experience.
@@vampirerobot oh yeah, I remember that. It had improved a bit. It ain't even called Black Friday anymore, instead "Black Thursday", as most stores will continue to be open and will have organized lines inside the store. Some employees can't even have a nice Thanksgiving dinner with their family. Sad to hear that.
I have confirmation that he’s still there! I saw him! It seems he was actually a glitched NPC the whole time! 😄 I can’t believe no one knew this whole time.
It’s crazy to think the loved ones we all had that passed were alive walking around doing whatever they do in this video 😢 rip to all our loved ones and these times were what everything miss the good days
Crazy to see how everything was so nice and neat and well stocked. Now all the Target locations in my area look like a tornado hit them with very few items on the shelf.
I was 13 in 2005 and i miss those times like crazy. People didn't do crazy things in public, society was much calmer/nicer, music was way nore whilesome, people had wayyyy more sense, morals and values were the majority not the minority.... I could go on. At 30 it breaks my heart to see whwre society is now. I cant imagine what it will be like in another 10-15 years😢💔
I disagree . I was 10 in 2005. Looking back on it, the biggest difference has to be social media. It’s not like the 90s & beyond where there were drastic changes.
Yaasss I was the same age in 2005 and social media killed society girl. I remember shopping at Walmart and Sam’s mostly with my mama lol growing up. Target was every blue moon for us back then.
@@cheesyrichard This is true, some even claim fashion has remained fairly similar since the late 90s. A ton of stores didn't really update their looks until just a few years ago as well. What stood out to me in this vid is how most of the older people still look like they're in the 80s or 90s. Maybe we just stop paying attention to youth trends after our 30s 😅
My local Target used to have those lights until maybe 2016 or so (which was also around the time when they turned the Pizza Hut Express that used to be there into a stupid sandwich shop). Nowadays, the lights are completely gone and the upper walls are a dull prison gray instead of red like they used to be. :(
I was 3 years old in 2005 and there are so many relics of the past I really miss about Target. The neon lights on the walls, the higher-quality clothes lines they had (I really miss Mossimo and WhoWhatWear), the higher quality decorations they sold during Christmas and their beautiful set-ups, the dark gray video game displays, the old TVs that played cartoons of the time at the front of the DVD section, the CD track sampling machines in the music section, the more minimalistic designs on their brand-name food products, and the smell of cooking hotdogs, soft pretzels, and buttered popcorn that wafted from their special dinning area. When I’d go to our local Target with my mom, she would sometimes treat me with a bag of Market Place fruit snacks (with the original flavors), and a frozen Coke from the icee machine. I don’t know if it’s because I’ve grown up or if their quality has just dropped, or if it’s due to capitalism, but Target has definitely lost its magic over the years…
This really takes me back to my very early childhood. This is the Target that I remember. Plus, seeing Sonic Rush in display at 5:04 really gets me hyped and nostalgic. Also, seeing those demo machines in the video game section also makes me cry a bit too.
I'm glad I'm just old enough to remember the neon lights and red walls right before they replaced them with boring prison gray walls and removed their iconic lights.
I have such fond memories of going to Target in the early-mid 2000’s. I was in middle school around that time, and I remember my mom used to pick me up after school and we’d go spend the rest of the day at Target. I used to spend so much time hogging the XBOX controller to play the Jet Set Radio Future demo 😂
@@TonyMichaels166 maybe at yours, the targets here still have color coded hangars, the fitting room has an entire sorting tray full of the colored tags they stick on
The earliest of a mid-2000's Target store. The outside of the store has the early 2000's look with red frame entrance doors, Target logo sign (horizontal variant) on top on entrance doors, and 90's style Target logo pylon sign (not on video). But on the inside, it's carrying the mid 2000's look, with interior walls colored red with white neon lights in the shape of semicircles, canoe shaped department signs colored red with white Helvetica Extended text inside, and departments arranged differently (like P-fresh stores in early 2010's).
Glad I discovered this channel, watching these video's is like a time capsule or a time machine. Stepping back to what life was like during those times and the fact this was filmed during Christmas brings back memories. This was the year I got a Gamecube and I was so excited! Up until then I had been playing my brother and sister's old NES and SNES!
It's weird, I was born the year this was filmed yet all the games and consoles in the store shown in this video still felt new to me when I was a kid, because stores like this would keep the same games and consoles on the shelves for years to come. Also because most of the times kids grow up with consoles made around the time they were born, or before, instead of the newest ones especially if they have older siblings, which was the case with myself. Interesting.
I’m turning 33 in a few weeks. So this was when I was a freshmen/sophomore in high school. You couldn’t pay me to go back to those years. I don’t even get much nostalgia from this. Just a bad vibe because my life then was total crap. I can only be grateful for how well my life turned out.
I was born in 05 and it’s crazy how much technology evolved since then, my target had the neon lights until like 2017/18 ish, and I remember the other location in my city that’s connected to our mall had a food court but it closed due to Covid
I used to have a Target that was literally 5 minutes away from where I lived. Not only that a Sears was right across the street from it. Obviously Sears shut down and then that Target closed but man do I have a lot of memories of my dad taking me and sister to both stores, especially during the holidays. Now the nearest Target to me is about 25 minutes away on the freeway so I rarely even go now. Good times.
2005 and the 2000s as a whole were great when I look back at all the things we had. I was 3 years old then, and I remember going to Target at Southbay mall to look at toys all day. The early 2010s weren't too bad either to be either.
It is incomprehensible, that most of these stores had to go ecommerce in order to survive, it shows you the social distancing we are living these days,not in general speaking
I remember in the early 00's I was dreaming about being in the 80's and how things use to be better, now were wanting to be in the early 00's again. Lol 😂
We’re the same age! I do remember when target had food instead of Starbucks and I do think I remember seeing those bright neon lights. I feel like we did get to experience a little bit of the old target.
imagine one day you can enter a simulation that looks just like this, that is indistinguishable from reality. feed an AI this video and then ask it to render a 3D scene for you to experience with all five senses
I miss when Target was like this. I mean, they basically still are, but all the Targets near me decided to go full on grocery sections and cut their stores in half. So everything else was either cut in half or taken out to make room for the food section. Other wise this video is still pretty similar to how it is today, except now it's all Switch, PS4/5, and Xbox One/Series games instead of GBA and Xbox 360 lol
5:00 definitely brought a lot of memories back for me. Getting money for a birthday or something and my mom taking me to Target to get a new game for my Nintendo DS. Having to call over an employee to unlock the cabinet, holding it in my hands and being so ecstatic to finally buy it. I remember vividly buying Animal Crossing Wild World not long after it's release and it being around $30 or so dollars and now New Horizons goes for about double. My mom would always get us the super salty popcorn from the food court and me always ending up spilling it all over the floor as I wandered up and down the toy aisle while my mom looked at books. Good times. Hard to believe it's been so long
This is almost 20 years ago. The gameboy advance games were such a flashback for me. This was the year Xbox 360 came out, and same year CZcams was founded. The next year they would have made the Nintendo Wii.
Almost 20 years ago, and yet the two only differences are the prices and the lack of smartphones. Besides that, this Target doesn’t really look any different than one today.
I was the Electronics Manager at Target in 2005. I remember our whole crew got off work an went to the 12am showing of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith opening. Good times.
my mom bought me a gameboy sp from target :') i was 11 I couldn't believe it. and then my asian friend gave me some of his unwanted games on the bus and i was so happy. and they all had kirby with all the cables and could connect 4 players, i remember playing while the bus traveled through a tunnel on a field trip. great memories.
Holy shit, you can hear someone playing Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time at 4:30. That would have been freshly released during the Holiday season of 2005. That's crazy.
the classic smell of popcorn when you walk in omg. I used to beg my mom to let us get the cafe food after shopping and she caved in most of the time haha. I miss it ☹️💔
I totally remember this being a toddler in 2008 back in Florida. For some reason they stopped? I don't really smell popcorn anymore when I walk into target nowadays.
Around 2005-06, was when things changed big time in terms of technology. Floppy disk disappeared from computers, big o white desktop also started to go away, car cassette players were now replaced fully with CD players, navigation was still at its infancy with Garmin aftermarkets popular. Those navigation systems were not perfect, might take you to an unknown destination. Back then, people still use hand maps for road trips, I think Yahoo offered directions then. Miss those days, was 19-21 in college.
I was 13 in 05. For Xmas I got my first ever iPod and Confessions on a Dancefloor by Madonna on CD :) it doesn’t feel like too long ago but then this footage does look dated now- the clothing and no smart phones.Things felt more normal.
@Adam West I think that sometimes certain moments don’t feel like a long time ago even though they were. But yes I get what you mean, things are very different now.
I would have been 7 years old at the time. I loved the narrow video game ailes with their demo screens. I spent ages there while my parents shopped. Thank you for posting this.
This video is emotionall yet intriguing, I don’t remember most of my childhood for reasons and this gives me a glimpse into what I would’ve been my parents point of view and more. Wow
Electronics section was always my favorite area when I was a young lad. Didn't even care all that much for toys, just mainly video games, lol. Play outside all day and game at night 😎. Look at how stocked up it looks in this place. Definitely don't see that anymore, smfh.
Watching videos like this really puts things in perspective for me. I would see many older senior citizens in stores like this around this time. More times than not they probably served in WWII or were in their 20s. Now 20 years more or less later, men that same age are Vietnam veterans at best.
Target hasn’t changed much. I used work in the backroom of that store for 6 years. Take the merchandise from the back and then stock shelves. It was not a bad experience, just wasnt paid enough.
My local target is still set up this way. They even still had the food court but sadly took it out during the pandemic. I've been going to that same target since I was a kid. It's kinda cool to still have that and be able to still enjoy shopping at Target.
I think it’s great that these videos exist to document life in these times.
True and to get to see stuff on display still unopened and brand new but not discontinued yet
Agreed
It was only a couple years ago
@@boznsjbruhstudios6383 yeah but those things are so hard to find without traversing heavily around and really not much of a choice for there to be any real options of negotiation of the prices because if ya do not wanna do it then they might know that already SOMEONE will even without you.. so yeah its kinda a rock and a hard place like trynna impress or make a good impression etc with new people particularly for avoiding burning potentially vital bridges etc for whether for bussiness or other relationships or for romance etc etc and even the friends or paticularly fam etc of somebody if like talking making a good impression of like for romance-wise a "good &/or approved fit" so to speak to an extent... of ones potential itnerests fam and friends that obviously are the more probale if not firstly gonna be the most probable to influence after the persns own decisions what they do or choose... after all they "just met you" hehe you know what I am saying
Nowadays it would be considered weird and illegal to film people without permission and back then they all just let it happen
I like how quiet it is. Now they blast music like it’s a rave.
And the music they currently blast at full volume is straight up garbage.
That's true. Target use to be very quiet
If you think they blast music like it's a rave at Target, I have bad news about how old you are.
@@postmalort9267 I’m old enough to remember when shopping at Target was a pleasant experience.
No they don’t. They play it at calm and normal volume still
It’s funny how this video is over 18 years old but still looks a lot like yesterday. Minus a few electronics it still looks very present. It’s nothing like watching a video from the 90s
Yep. 2005 is still part of the modern era. You can even see the difference between 2001 and 2005.
I'm glad a lot of people are saying here not much has changed. I think between 2000's, 10's and 20's- when it comes to lifestyle and culture, pretty much catastrophic events like 9/11, recession, crazy elections and pandemic are the only things that set them apart.
That's why I love the 2000s. 😅
i actually think the 90's essence died after 2012. after 2012 everything changed. every. single. thing.
It looks so different compared to today, some of y’all need to get out of the ghetto
Crazy to think how all those kids we see were literally us
Yes.
It sucks that Foodcourts are a dying art. I always loved the Targets and Walmarts that had Chick Fil A's and McDonald's and such in them, probably because they remind me alot of physical malls which I also adore
They were; I want to say the last time I saw one that really made a difference in my childhood was being able to play Rogue Squadron on the N64 in the back of my local Wal-Mart at the time in their McDonalds (literally the back of the store; it's weird thinking about it now when they want to throw Auntie Anne's, Subway, and Starbucks in the front now)... heck, live lobsters being sold were still a thing. K-Mart's K-Cafe was also a treat. Feels like yesterday and the 2000s were a blur with how quickly it had passed.
In the local metro area where I reside, malls have been so dead inside that I don't know how they survive; I remember they had miniature flea markets where you'd buy baseball cards, Pokémon cards from the first generation, and they'd have fountains galore... the total ambiance just sounded like life and fun. EB-Games for example where I used to buy and trade my PS2 and Xbox games are only but a distant memory. Makes me feel so old! Used to buy Star Wars figures at K*B Toys in anticipation for the release of Episode 1.
If I could, I would definitely go back and relive my childhood. The very same Wal-Mart I referenced was where my dad and I picked up the PS1 for my 7th birthday and I got a PS1 with Twisted Metal 2 on its release date. We then went to go and eat at Ryan's... I'm not even sure if those are still around anymore because the last time I ate there was almost 20 years ago lol.
foodcourts will never die in the suburbs. my target has a starbucks and dominos
My Target, which opened in 2003, had a food court and a Starbucks. The Starbucks is still there, but several years ago the food court was converted into some strange department that sold alcohol, opening up an aisle for grocery.
The food court originally had a Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and random other food. Their chicken noodle soup was amazing because it sat in the slow cooker all day. At one point though, they cheaped out and literally started microwaving bags instead. It was difficult staffing it since they had to be properly trained. On a few occasions, they would make me work there, even though I lacked the training. It was only for an hour or two before the section would close, and some days they would just decide to close it early instead.
Pretty much I was shown how to heat up the pizzas, but then told to only do so when ordered (they take 8 minutes) because any left overs had to be thrown out, because they did not want to encourage wastefulness in an attempt to feed the underpaid worker ($7/hr at the time this was filmed). Because they had a Taco Bell, I would buy the nachos, which was 75¢ at the time. I was underweight and poor, but it got me through the day.
Most people just wanted icees. I remember microwaving mac and cheese once, but also remember when they finally closed the Taco Bell portion. It made no sense, just dropped the sign, and like 4 menu items. They had a box of that nacho cheese in the closet, which I found YEARS LATER. One day, as a treat, they had nachos in the break room. 😳 It’s now Drive Up storage.
I miss the Pizza Hut pizzas ☹️
@@wickedhouston5538that’s not a food court tho… lol those are franchised food places … not the same thing as the OG target food court
Im 29 and it’s wild that this doesn’t even feel like that long ago! Many of my memories from that time still feel fresh
That part
I'm not much older than you, and I thought the same thing. It's very surreal how long ago my teens and early 20s were at this point.
2005 is so yesterday.
I'm 29 as well and same !!
@@beepboop7041 I don’t know what you’ve been through and wish you the best, but I feel it. Times felt much more happier back then. And of course, it makes me feel really old after realizing this was 17 years ago. Glad these videos exist. Never would I have thought to film an everyday video of shoppers so others, decades from now, could reminisce on the nostalgia.
Hits hard. Kids now really dont know how good we had it back then. Glad i was alive to experience the time.
It wasn’t that much different honestly. Social media wasn’t as big, but it was still around. MySpace and online gaming was huge. CZcams was also starting at the time.
Me too. Smartphones ruined everything.
@@Poway19 smartphone made people smart in some sense.
@@Jason21012 culture was massively different 15 years ago. We’re in the midst of widespread massive societal decline
Everything back then was still on the fringe.
The fact that this was recorded during Christmas of 2005 is crazy. The Xbox 360 barely came and the PS3 wasn’t even out yet till Christmas of 2006. HDTVs were barely coming a thing, and Call of Duty 2 and NFS: Most Wanted were a few of the launch titles for the Xbox 360. Even Herbie Fully Loaded came out that time too lol.
I noticed the Herbie ad too, made me sad for Lohan all over again 😔
I remember seeing the new 360 titles in Hollywood Video on the shelf knowing I wasn't a rich kid, all I wanted was to play Saints Row because it looked NOTHING like San Andreas... those consoles... $$$ took a couple years before I got my black Elite... Fable 2 first game for it
@@myidolgwen359 Crazy how time flies. I was only 9 in 2005 and I too remember seeing lots of Ads and commercials of the Xbox 360. The console was definitely ahead of its time in terms of graphics and performance. The games still hold up well to this day.
I remember PS3 came out that was a massive hit
what no i 9 and the ps3s all that came out when i was 12-13
Crazy to see how much Target hasn't changed lol.
Man that section with digital cameras hit hard. Some of those models are so familiar like it happened two years ago. I spent more than half of 2005 trying to pick out a digital camera.
Wholesome. I hope you picked wisely and made great memories with it
@@atomictreehouse he made lots of cuckold prono with his wife and bbc
Same here! My mind went to MySpace and family vacations 🥹 A time right before smartphones stole their shine.
6 megapixels for like $300 lollll
@@mishaa7263 real cinematic cameras start at $2000
it's crazy to me that the majority of this is ALMOST indistinguishable from a store today
2005 wasn't that long ago 😅😅😅👨🦳😢
@@the.seagull.35 18 years ago is a while.
@@ethanfishell1930not really
@@Alex-1611 Its nearly 2 decades. I guess it depends on what one's definition of "a while" is.
Really uncanny valley to see a world that looks mostly, almost entirely like it does now with the one exception that people aren't checking their little computers all the time
I was a cashier at Target in 2004. Can confirm... it looked like this lol. They had a system where you'd be rated by how quick you could get each customer through. "G" green was good, "R" red was bad. They wanted us to get 90% G ratings. But the customers were responsible for a lot of R's Every time a customer paid by check, i knew it would be an R. It was a pretty stressful and annoying system to work by. Thank goodness I only worked there for a few months.
Lol it was my first job in 2003 system was brutal
Well, I can guarantee that's not the case today lol
wow bro, that's so cool wtf
@@schqrr lol I never said it was a great story but it is true.
@@the.seagull.35 sorry I didn't meanit like that 😂😂 I meant it like it's cool how different things were back then, and I guess cool that we don't do it like that anymore lmao
I loved the Targets with small food courts; though I'm sure the employees didn't love sweeping up the popcorn I spilled while checking out all the awesome Lego Star Wars sets that were coming out around this time. Those Xbox 360 and digital camera displays bring back a lot of memories as well!
🤣🤣🤣
I just hated the parents who made a mess and walked away. Never EVER would knock someone for spilling popcorn over sheer amazement of something.
Jackson MI still had their cafe until last year. It was called Food Avenue. It closed and was walled off and is now their pickup area. Jackson is one of the few targets without a Starbucks or pizza hut.
@@eyeflaps Dearborn MI and Alexis Rd Toledo OH both had one as well that became part of the order fulfillment area due to covid
The Target the is closest to me just got rid of it's small foodcourt last year or the year before. They replaced it with a storage area containing items for those drive up and go customers
Back when the main aisles of Target weren’t cluttered with shelves full of product. I miss those days. The store was much easier to maneuver
Fax
This was the era of Target I remember when I worked for one from 2008-2014. It was my first retail job. I started that job in October 2008 and got to experience my first Black Friday inside a store before it opened to those crazy Black Friday shoppers. I'll never forget that experience.
I bet lol. BF was a little more chaotic back then. I think things changed a little after that Walmart employee was trampled to death some years back.
@@vampirerobot oh yeah, I remember that. It had improved a bit. It ain't even called Black Friday anymore, instead "Black Thursday", as most stores will continue to be open and will have organized lines inside the store. Some employees can't even have a nice Thanksgiving dinner with their family. Sad to hear that.
Now target supports the rainbow alphabet community.. I’d do anything to go back to 2005
@@kevin2400 I thought Target always supported them?
@@kevin2400 nobody asked
Some say that guy is still fondly looking at those cameras to this day
Lol
😆 It does make me wonder which one he got, and if he used it for MySpace lol.
@@NostalgiCrazy Yes
I have confirmation that he’s still there! I saw him! It seems he was actually a glitched NPC the whole time! 😄 I can’t believe no one knew this whole time.
@@NostalgiCrazy Or CZcams.
It’s crazy to think the loved ones we all had that passed were alive walking around doing whatever they do in this video 😢 rip to all our loved ones and these times were what everything miss the good days
Very true, looking at it from that perspective it is actually pretty tear jerking 😢. R.I.P.
2005 one of the best years of my life. Playing PS2, seeing friends and not even thinking about tomorrow
Crazy to see how everything was so nice and neat and well stocked. Now all the Target locations in my area look like a tornado hit them with very few items on the shelf.
Target by my area still looks this clean and well stocked in Long Beach
looks like a totally normal Target to me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
You're just talking yourself into being right cause you're a weirdo. Never seen a store look anything but fine.
Nah, I make sure my zones are on point.
There was also a ton more of cameras and video recorders in the electronics section. You can only find a few of those things now on display today.
I was 13 in 2005 and i miss those times like crazy. People didn't do crazy things in public, society was much calmer/nicer, music was way nore whilesome, people had wayyyy more sense, morals and values were the majority not the minority.... I could go on. At 30 it breaks my heart to see whwre society is now. I cant imagine what it will be like in another 10-15 years😢💔
Yeah… like my mom said, everything is going to shit
I disagree . I was 10 in 2005. Looking back on it, the biggest difference has to be social media. It’s not like the 90s & beyond where there were drastic changes.
Yaasss I was the same age in 2005 and social media killed society girl. I remember shopping at Walmart and Sam’s mostly with my mama lol growing up. Target was every blue moon for us back then.
This was the last year of my life I was happy!!!!!!
I feel you, but people were still doing crazy things in public, they just weren’t posting it on the internet.
This was when my mom was in her mid twenties, I feel like this is the base of what she pictures in her mind when she thinks of target lol.
2005 doesn't feel that long ago to me and this comment just made me feel old as hell 🤣
@@cheesyrichard the Jews
@@cheesyrichard This is true, some even claim fashion has remained fairly similar since the late 90s. A ton of stores didn't really update their looks until just a few years ago as well. What stood out to me in this vid is how most of the older people still look like they're in the 80s or 90s. Maybe we just stop paying attention to youth trends after our 30s 😅
@@cheesyrichard Also... that name is disgustingly funny 😝
@@cheesyrichard you’re correct nothing’s original. The last decade plus is just various ripoffs
Target used to sell a Vanilla Peppermint scented "Method" air freshener, and that scent always reminds me of Christmas time at Target back in 2005.
Man....those neon lights...
I use to work at target during this time and they were starting to upgrade stores and phasing those wonderful accents out.
My local Target used to have those lights until maybe 2016 or so (which was also around the time when they turned the Pizza Hut Express that used to be there into a stupid sandwich shop).
Nowadays, the lights are completely gone and the upper walls are a dull prison gray instead of red like they used to be. :(
I was 3 years old in 2005 and there are so many relics of the past I really miss about Target. The neon lights on the walls, the higher-quality clothes lines they had (I really miss Mossimo and WhoWhatWear), the higher quality decorations they sold during Christmas and their beautiful set-ups, the dark gray video game displays, the old TVs that played cartoons of the time at the front of the DVD section, the CD track sampling machines in the music section, the more minimalistic designs on their brand-name food products, and the smell of cooking hotdogs, soft pretzels, and buttered popcorn that wafted from their special dinning area. When I’d go to our local Target with my mom, she would sometimes treat me with a bag of Market Place fruit snacks (with the original flavors), and a frozen Coke from the icee machine.
I don’t know if it’s because I’ve grown up or if their quality has just dropped, or if it’s due to capitalism, but Target has definitely lost its magic over the years…
It''s definitely not just you. Their quality seems to have dropped over the years.
This really takes me back to my very early childhood. This is the Target that I remember. Plus, seeing Sonic Rush in display at 5:04 really gets me hyped and nostalgic. Also, seeing those demo machines in the video game section also makes me cry a bit too.
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They kept this “red target” look well into the 2010s. Too bad they don’t have those neon lights anymore.
I miss “neon Target”
I'm glad I'm just old enough to remember the neon lights and red walls right before they replaced them with boring prison gray walls and removed their iconic lights.
Walking around a target aimlessly still makes me feel grounded. I was just there a few days ago
Careful, you might turn gay.
I have such fond memories of going to Target in the early-mid 2000’s. I was in middle school around that time, and I remember my mom used to pick me up after school and we’d go spend the rest of the day at Target. I used to spend so much time hogging the XBOX controller to play the Jet Set Radio Future demo 😂
Forgot there was a time in retail when every article of clothing had a hanger with a colorful label to indicate its size.
Wow. I totally forgot about that. Hangars are straight black with white writing now.
@@TonyMichaels166 maybe at yours, the targets here still have color coded hangars, the fitting room has an entire sorting tray full of the colored tags they stick on
I remember when Targets looked like this, they stayed in this same look long after 2005 as well with not much change until the mid-2010's.
Nothing has changed..only in your mind
This still feels so fresh. Even though times have definitely changed, it feels great to see my childhood depicted like this.
I'm so greatful people took the time to document the way of life. Now I can re experience my childhood as an adult. Very cool!
I was 18 years old in 2005. Great memories!!
Same here and seeing these videos makes me wonder where did the time go ?
@@retro8696 I know! Time went fast.
Respect to this man for time traveling back to 2005 to show us what it was like to shop at Target back then🫡
I would do things like this if I had a time machine tbh
@@user30017 same
@@skyzflxshy I would go to the 1950s. There’s really not much of a difference between 2005 and today
@@tentthegamer790 Looking at the large picture there isnt much difference between the 1950s and today, I'd go back to atleast the 16 or 1700's
It looks exactly the same
The earliest of a mid-2000's Target store. The outside of the store has the early 2000's look with red frame entrance doors, Target logo sign (horizontal variant) on top on entrance doors, and 90's style Target logo pylon sign (not on video). But on the inside, it's carrying the mid 2000's look, with interior walls colored red with white neon lights in the shape of semicircles, canoe shaped department signs colored red with white Helvetica Extended text inside, and departments arranged differently (like P-fresh stores in early 2010's).
Glad I discovered this channel, watching these video's is like a time capsule or a time machine. Stepping back to what life was like during those times and the fact this was filmed during Christmas brings back memories. This was the year I got a Gamecube and I was so excited! Up until then I had been playing my brother and sister's old NES and SNES!
It's weird, I was born the year this was filmed yet all the games and consoles in the store shown in this video still felt new to me when I was a kid, because stores like this would keep the same games and consoles on the shelves for years to come. Also because most of the times kids grow up with consoles made around the time they were born, or before, instead of the newest ones especially if they have older siblings, which was the case with myself. Interesting.
When you think about it there wasn't much going on between 2005-2006 in the u.s
I Was 5 Years Old In 2005
I miss the neon lights and the smell of popcorn when you walk in
I love watching these vintage old videos.
Its sad to know all of these people in this video are dead now. RIP
Stop making me feel old 😂 “vintage” is not fair
😂😂😂
Nah the kids are still alive but are grandparents now
Cheeky lass
All these people are dead ? 😂😂
I’m turning 33 in a few weeks. So this was when I was a freshmen/sophomore in high school. You couldn’t pay me to go back to those years. I don’t even get much nostalgia from this. Just a bad vibe because my life then was total crap.
I can only be grateful for how well my life turned out.
I was born in 05 and it’s crazy how much technology evolved since then, my target had the neon lights until like 2017/18 ish, and I remember the other location in my city that’s connected to our mall had a food court but it closed due to Covid
I used to have a Target that was literally 5 minutes away from where I lived. Not only that a Sears was right across the street from it. Obviously Sears shut down and then that Target closed but man do I have a lot of memories of my dad taking me and sister to both stores, especially during the holidays. Now the nearest Target to me is about 25 minutes away on the freeway so I rarely even go now. Good times.
6:50 that toddler is old enough to drink beer now 😂
That toddler is probably the same age as my sister. She is 21 now.
life peaked in these times 😢
The past is gone and tomorrow will never be as good as today. Live in the moment.
Ya like a couple years ago relax
@@boznsjbruhstudios6383 it’s almost 2 decades 🤣🤣🤣 did you fail grade 1???
@@Ashen1Always lawl
@@trooper326 so we are in the future a horrible future 😢
2005 and the 2000s as a whole were great when I look back at all the things we had. I was 3 years old then, and I remember going to Target at Southbay mall to look at toys all day. The early 2010s weren't too bad either to be either.
YES, SOMEONE AGREES WITH ME
Imagine watching this and suddenly you see your mom there, nonchalantly picking out sweaters in 2005.
It is incomprehensible, that most of these stores had to go ecommerce in order to survive, it shows you the social distancing we are living these days,not in general speaking
No one has social distanced since early 2021 wut lol
Target is still around lol
Luckily for you if you drive a bit Target will be there. Hasn’t gone anywhere
I remember in the early 00's I was dreaming about being in the 80's and how things use to be better, now were wanting to be in the early 00's again. Lol 😂
I was in middle school back then. I miss those times.
I was 5 and now I am 23. I don't remember what 2005 look like but it is so cool to relook the past
We’re the same age! I do remember when target had food instead of Starbucks and I do think I remember seeing those bright neon lights. I feel like we did get to experience a little bit of the old target.
imagine one day you can enter a simulation that looks just like this, that is indistinguishable from reality. feed an AI this video and then ask it to render a 3D scene for you to experience with all five senses
It doesn’t feel like that much has changed in the past 18 years. Back in 2005, a lot had changed since 1987.
Life changed completely
Wow, feels so refreshing to see the toys section without all those social media influencer toys around.
2006- No Instagram, Twitter, FB for everyone, CZcams Vlogs, or other social media crap. NO smartphones or Apps.
2023- EVERYTHING
Twitter launched in 2006. Facebook took off a year later, but Myspace was huge. CZcams vlogs were definitely around by then.
target always had a "store of the future" vibe to it, even in 2005
Thats why it looks the same
Legend has it that elderly man is still wandering around checking out pet accessories.
The video game displays were amazing!!
the good old days
yup better than current times
I would have been five. It feels like a distant dream watching this
Immortalized those older folks ❤️🔥
“CZcams is the closest thing we have to a time machine”.
-Some guy on CZcams
My god.
I miss my childhood so much.
In my early 30s and I remember ‘05 like it was yesterday. It’s crazy how scenes in this video clip just felt like any other normal day back then.
I miss when Target was like this. I mean, they basically still are, but all the Targets near me decided to go full on grocery sections and cut their stores in half. So everything else was either cut in half or taken out to make room for the food section. Other wise this video is still pretty similar to how it is today, except now it's all Switch, PS4/5, and Xbox One/Series games instead of GBA and Xbox 360 lol
When I see the intro on these Videos it feels like I'm watching a Dead Mall Video before The Dead Mall Videos where a thing.
The good old days
I like how we're all here to watch a person record random people in 2005 but the nostalgia is kickin in too hard to pay attention to that fact lol
The best era for the video game section
5:00 definitely brought a lot of memories back for me. Getting money for a birthday or something and my mom taking me to Target to get a new game for my Nintendo DS. Having to call over an employee to unlock the cabinet, holding it in my hands and being so ecstatic to finally buy it. I remember vividly buying Animal Crossing Wild World not long after it's release and it being around $30 or so dollars and now New Horizons goes for about double. My mom would always get us the super salty popcorn from the food court and me always ending up spilling it all over the floor as I wandered up and down the toy aisle while my mom looked at books. Good times. Hard to believe it's been so long
This is almost 20 years ago. The gameboy advance games were such a flashback for me. This was the year Xbox 360 came out, and same year CZcams was founded. The next year they would have made the Nintendo Wii.
Target still has wild prices. Looks like the same prices as today 😮
Almost 20 years ago, and yet the two only differences are the prices and the lack of smartphones. Besides that, this Target doesn’t really look any different than one today.
I was the Electronics Manager at Target in 2005. I remember our whole crew got off work an went to the 12am showing of Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith opening. Good times.
my mom bought me a gameboy sp from target :') i was 11 I couldn't believe it.
and then my asian friend gave me some of his unwanted games on the bus and i was so happy.
and they all had kirby with all the cables and could connect 4 players, i remember playing while the bus traveled through a tunnel on a field trip. great memories.
Definitely a trip down memory lane
Whoa! The glimpse of the toy section was amazing, wish there was more of it.
Holy shit, you can hear someone playing Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time at 4:30. That would have been freshly released during the Holiday season of 2005. That's crazy.
Imagine showing a video of 2023 you’ll have people stealing😂
What I wouldn't give to go back to these days.
A treat to watch. Thank you for uploading. I'm not lying when I say Id rather be in 2005. Also, I miss the Mossimo brand!
the classic smell of popcorn when you walk in omg. I used to beg my mom to let us get the cafe food after shopping and she caved in most of the time haha. I miss it ☹️💔
I totally remember this being a toddler in 2008 back in Florida. For some reason they stopped? I don't really smell popcorn anymore when I walk into target nowadays.
Nobody is walking around with their heads down stating at their phones.....I'm only 27 but gosh I miss these times.......
By 2005 people were looking at cell phones but mostly text messages.
Because Smartphones didn't exist yet Captain Obvious 🙄😒
2005 was only two years before the first iPhone came out. So it was like the very last days of the pre-smartphone era.
@@AdamWest-yo1hyi think a lot of people was still using "dumb phones" up to 2013. I didn't get my first android until 2012
@@Rolo555 This video itself is literally proof that people didn't look at their phones back then, so why even comment something like that?
Damn that toy section tho Power rangers SPD and TMNT (2004) good times man 🙌🔥
why do I find this so peaceful? times looked so easier than what they are today.😌
this bring back so many childhood memories for me.
Around 2005-06, was when things changed big time in terms of technology. Floppy disk disappeared from computers, big o white desktop also started to go away, car cassette players were now replaced fully with CD players, navigation was still at its infancy with Garmin aftermarkets popular. Those navigation systems were not perfect, might take you to an unknown destination. Back then, people still use hand maps for road trips, I think Yahoo offered directions then. Miss those days, was 19-21 in college.
Mapquest haha
Yeah, makes you realize how new tech didn't really take off til the next decade. Though I'm not sure if that ended with 2010s into 2020s.
yup, I was 9 in 2005 and I remember my dad using paper maps to get us from indiana to florida.
I was 13 in 05. For Xmas I got my first ever iPod and Confessions on a Dancefloor by Madonna on CD :) it doesn’t feel like too long ago but then this footage does look dated now- the clothing and no smart phones.Things felt more normal.
@Adam West I think that sometimes certain moments don’t feel like a long time ago even though they were. But yes I get what you mean, things are very different now.
I would have been 7 years old at the time. I loved the narrow video game ailes with their demo screens. I spent ages there while my parents shopped. Thank you for posting this.
I miss the 2000s. 😢❤❤
This video is emotionall yet intriguing, I don’t remember most of my childhood for reasons and this gives me a glimpse into what I would’ve been my parents point of view and more. Wow
I Was 5 Years Old In 2005 I Remember My Mom Was A Cashier For Target She Was 29 Years Old Back In 2005
Electronics section was always my favorite area when I was a young lad. Didn't even care all that much for toys, just mainly video games, lol. Play outside all day and game at night 😎. Look at how stocked up it looks in this place. Definitely don't see that anymore, smfh.
Watching videos like this really puts things in perspective for me. I would see many older senior citizens in stores like this around this time. More times than not they probably served in WWII or were in their 20s. Now 20 years more or less later, men that same age are Vietnam veterans at best.
Target hasn’t changed much. I used work in the backroom of that store for 6 years. Take the merchandise from the back and then stock shelves. It was not a bad experience, just wasnt paid enough.
My local target is still set up this way. They even still had the food court but sadly took it out during the pandemic. I've been going to that same target since I was a kid. It's kinda cool to still have that and be able to still enjoy shopping at Target.
me: "2005? that wasn't even that long ago. Not impressed"
*looks at calendar*
"Holy Shit that was almost 20 years ago!"
Oh gosh I remember the camera displays 😂 before we had our smartphones that’s crazy
This video makes 2005 feel like 1995…
I was a security guard at target in 2005. And can confirm this was the first year that yoga style pants came into fashion.