Scavenger Hunt

      I went to Target in Bellingham at Bellis Fair. The Barbie dolls of different racial colors were difficult to find, I found 3 black dolls and 1spanish dolls. But the Barbie dolls that were white were very easy to find, most of them were white. The holiday cards were a bit tricker because they had no cards out for Christmas, just Halloween and fall. Some people don’t celebrate Halloween so the fall cards seemed to be there alternate. I did not find cards that were for LGBT couples. but I looked at the wedding/ anniversary area and I saw some didn’t have to be just for heterosexual couples, most were like "To the women I love" or "To my husband", they could of been used for both kinds of couples.       
      I saw shopping carts that had electric wheel chair accessibility, and the isle seemed to be bigger (may have been a coincidence though).  I didn’t see many signs for people over 60. The pictures frame fillers were had a variety of races, many were white but I saw some that were black and Asian. I did not find any Native American sports teams, did only found Seattle Blackhawks. Native American style blankets were popular, but other than that nothing seemed to be Native American.
      The clothing sections were fairly spaced out, but I think that if an elder person or larger person were going shopping they may find it hard to navigate their way around all the racks. The racks weren’t all in a straight line; they seemed to be cascaded everywhere. In America I always see plus size sections in different stores for both men and women; the store signs usually say “Plus Size”, there is also a section for maternity clothes. For the men I believe the larger sizes are mingled in with the other types of clothes men would wear.
      The workers in the store were a variety of people, from black to Chinese to white and many more. The employees seemed very happy and welcoming even to the questions people had to ask, they had no problem dropping everything and helping them. The customers were pretty much the same, a variety of different races. Lots of families were shopping for food and electronics. I only saw a few elder people as well as a few larger people. The average age that were shopping there would have been between the ages of 30-45.  

      This assignment was a little difficult because of all the things we needed to find, like the cards, but since the holidays were pretty general, like birthdays and Halloween, finding a variety was difficult. Finding cards for homosexual couples were a little difficult because I was a little bias due to all the cards could have been used for heterosexual or homosexual couples. The customers were a little pushy and rude waiting in lines or walking behind you, but overall they weren’t bad. The employees were/seemed friendly when I asked them where something was. I found it interesting when we needed to do this assignment because when doing it I finally paid more attention to the other stuff, like usually I would know what I would want and then go for that but this time I had to pay attention to the signs and stuff. Overall I thought this is assignment was pretty neat to learn some interesting stuff about things I usually don’t pay attention too.