Posted AT 10:13 PM EDT on 13/08/04
Gaining the cult of Target
Two years after I left Los Angeles, a friend e-mailed to tell me that there had been a retailing earthquake in our otherwise grotty Hollywood neighbourhood: "There's a Target at the corner of La Brea and Santa Monica now," she wrote. "I bet you wish you'd never left."
Sadly, it's true. Had I known about the Target, I'd be there now, stuck in the checkout aisle, my cart filled with fuzzy zebra-print slippers (only $7.99 U.S.
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