@@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
@ImYourPapi that makes sense... especially cause if 8t is someone really good with editing it makes it harder to tell although not impossible if it is verified with numerous sources (not affiliated with each other of course) but yeah.. only havng been really back then a feasible thing to do is edit things within the span of maybe two at most... vhs level of qaulity/etc "generation" dubs or duplicates for splices etc to "splice together" a film reel etc so fo speak... not really much of an issue now just merely copy whatever one choose prwtty much
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.
@@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.
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.
It wasn’t that much different honestly. Social media wasn’t as big, but it was still around. MySpace and online gaming was huge. RU-vid was also starting at 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
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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
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.
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.
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.
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'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.
@@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 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 😂
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!
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).
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.
@@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
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 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.
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.
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
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
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.
Ahhh yes, back when Target as well as Best Buy and Walmart used to be fun to shop at, even when Target used to have those neon lights and stuff, compared to nowadays. Target, Best Buy, and Walmart are not the same anymore, just like life in general is not the same anymore. Neon lights and stuff as well as 1980's fashion stuff need to make a huge comeback ASAP! They should be relevant to this day, not a thing in the past!
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.
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.
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 RU-vid was founded. The next year they would have made the Nintendo Wii.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I’m crying the Xbox 360 and PS3 was signaling the end of my childhood I was 15 when the Xbox came out and 16 when the PS3 came out and I bought the PS3 years into its cycle used seeing the 360 on display is unreal I miss these days.