http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ This is an XML content feed of; Middletown Forum : Middletown Area Businesses : Goodbye Target in Middletown Mon, 05 Oct 2026 19:52:08 +0000 Sun, 18 May 2014 14:48:46 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 10.12 360 www.middletownusa.com/forum/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=5605 http://middletownusa.com/images/blog-logo.jpg http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/ http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42437&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42437 Author: Iron Man
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Posted: May 18 2014 at 2:48pm

I moved to Middletown because they had a Target store, and the art center of course. ]]> Sun, 18 May 2014 14:48:46 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42437&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42437 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42419&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42419 Author: over the hill
Subject: 5605
Posted: May 17 2014 at 7:28pm

I wish Gilleland hadn't close all of our swimming pools in Middletown. The long hot summer is just beginning and you all remember when we were young we all went to the swimming pool to check out the girls and guys maybe make a little time if we could but it was good clean fun. What does our youth to day in Middletown have as the days get longer, hang on street corners and get into trouble. It's very sad we don't have more things for our youth to keep them off street corners. We have to take care of our youth, give them a choice to not hang on the streets. Just my opinion ]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 19:28:32 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42419&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42419 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42417&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42417 Author: Vivian Moon
Subject: 5605
Posted: May 17 2014 at 4:42pm

Welcome TCLAUD

Yes, I moved back to Middletown because it was in the middle of my work area when I was in construction.


]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 16:42:43 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42417&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42417 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42416&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42416 Author: tcaud
Subject: 5605
Posted: May 17 2014 at 4:23pm

The demise of Middletown target comes as little surprise. In fact I'm surprised it carried on as long as it did. Their prices were higher than Walmart's and Big Lots' in an low income area. That's a sure recipe for failure. K-mart had the same problem. Neither Walmart Middletown nor Meijer nor Big Lots gets a ton of business. Most people living in Middletown, apparently, get their groceries and other items someplace else, with only the poor bothering with any of them.

It's good that Towne Mall is being revived but it's difficult to see how they expect to compete given their current strategy. Prem Outlets in Monroe has largely captured the market for premium goods in this area. It's become convention that young people will go to Cincinnati to have a good time... services in Middletown cater only to the older population and the poor. Of course there's the issue that most young people this day and age are relatively poor, but that's a whole 'nother discussion.

It just seems to me that Target's closure was a simple reality of business. Ever since the AK strike this area has been having a rough time. In many ways its current growth is unjustified... it has neither the population nor the relative appeal to make use of the money put into it for expansion 15 years ago. Middletown and Franklin are the slums of Butler Co.... West Chester, conversely, is the pot of wealth and gold, and Hamilton is the middle. That's the shape of it.

If you want Middletown to grow, the first thing to do is give people something to do. Cater to young people. Encourage people to settle in Middletown and go to work farther north and south. Live the life of a suburb and don't even worry about "attracting" business... that's not particularly feasible given the logistics. Middletown is a stop between Dayton and Cincinnati, and that is the end of it. Give its working class population something to do, and you'll notice it gradually creep back up to middle class status. But right now its youth have next to nothing.
]]> Sat, 17 May 2014 16:23:01 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=42416&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#42416 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41105&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41105 Author: over the hill
Subject: 5605
Posted: Feb 14 2014 at 5:36pm

Doesn't work for me either. Would love to see those old pictures]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 17:36:09 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41105&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41105 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41104&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41104 Author: swohio75
Subject: 5605
Posted: Feb 14 2014 at 11:47am

It's because its a link to your AOL inbox..]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 11:47:24 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41104&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41104 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41103&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41103 Author: spiderjohn
Subject: 5605
Posted: Feb 14 2014 at 7:42am

loaded for me, Mike
I dunno why it won't work 4 u

A pic of our store(formerly Reddy's) on Verity
from the late 60s
Ironically we did very well, as did Liberal's just down the same street

a different and much more active "downtown" back then]]> Fri, 14 Feb 2014 07:42:23 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41103&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41103 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41102&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41102 Author: Mike_Presta
Subject: 5605
Posted: Feb 13 2014 at 2:29am

spiderjohn wrote: there once was a very successful grocery market in the downtown area, but it was forced to vacate http://mail.aol.com/38380-111/aol-6/en-us/mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=28611447&folder=NewMail&partId=3

Spider:
This link doesn't work...at least not for me.]]> Thu, 13 Feb 2014 02:29:05 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41102&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41102 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41101&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41101 Author: acclaro
Subject: 5605
Posted: Feb 12 2014 at 10:57pm

http://youtu.be/Hd3oqvnDKQk

Disposable income.


]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 22:57:03 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41101&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41101 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41100&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41100 Author: spiderjohn
Subject: 5605
Posted: Feb 12 2014 at 9:53pm

there once was a very successful grocery market in the downtown area, but it was forced to vacate

http://mail.aol.com/38380-111/aol-6/en-us/mail/get-attachment.aspx?uid=28611447&folder=NewMail&partId=3]]> Wed, 12 Feb 2014 21:53:44 +0000 http://www.middletownusa.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=5605&PID=41100&title=goodbye-target-in-middletown#41100