Store manager Kelli Nassif snipped the ceremonial ribbon to launch Goleta's new Target at a ceremony held with some friends and families of its 323 new employees. That was just one of the celebratory openers for the South Coast's newest department store — a small media and elected officials walk-through took place earlier Tuesday afternoon at the former Kmart, in advance of the soft opening on Wednesday — doors open at 8 a.m. — and the grand opening on Sunday.
Employees, both local and from other stores, worked to finish adding shelf tags and to perfect the alignment of the wares on display, which they have been setting up for the past month and a half. At least two semi-trucks have been unloading every day, employees said.
The 117,000 square-foot store contains the goods South Coast
shoppers have had to go to Ventura to find, even after Target's
"boutique" version opened in Santa Barbara in April. Goleta is
guaranteed to eclipse that one in every way.