Here is the one thing to know before you plan a grocery run: Target lists six stores on Oahu, and exactly one of them is a store you can reach on foot from a Waikiki hotel. We do not rent a car, we stay in Waikiki for weeks at a time, and the heaviest thing we carry on a normal day is a box of beer. That one detail decides almost everything about how we shop here.
All six Oahu stores, and which ones a Waikiki stay can use
Searched from the Waikiki ZIP code on Target’s store locator on September 16, 2026, these are the six:
| Store | Address | Realistic without a car? |
|---|---|---|
| Oahu Waikiki | 2345 Kuhio Ave, Honolulu | Yes — on foot |
| Oahu Honolulu Ala Moana | 1450 Ala Moana Blvd, Ste 2401, Honolulu | Yes — trolley or bus, inside Ala Moana Center |
| Oahu-Honolulu Salt Lake | 4380 Lawehana St, Honolulu | Car, or a bus with a transfer |
| Oahu-Kailua | 345 Hahani St, Kailua | Car, or a bus with a transfer |
| Oahu Windward Mall | 46-056 Kamehameha Hwy, Kaneohe | Car, or a bus with a transfer |
| Oahu-Kapolei | 4450 Kapolei Pkwy, Kapolei | Car, or a bus with a transfer |
The same locator also showed a Maui store in Kahului, so “six” is an Oahu number rather than a Hawaii number.
The bottom four sit where people live rather than where people vacation — Salt Lake, Kaneohe, Kailua, Kapolei. Reaching any of them from Waikiki is a project: a car, or a bus ride with a transfer. The fare is not what stops us; a HOLO card caps you at $7.50 of fares in a day. The afternoon is what stops us. Without a car, none of those four has come up as a candidate on our stays, so we are not going to describe shelves we have not walked lately.
The two that matter, side by side
We checked both store pages on September 16, 2026. Target publishes hours a week at a time, so treat these as the week of September 15–21 rather than as permanent:
| Oahu Waikiki (2345 Kuhio Ave) | Ala Moana (1450 Ala Moana Blvd) | |
|---|---|---|
| Store hours | 8 a.m.–11 p.m. daily | 8 a.m.–10 p.m. Mon–Thu, 7 a.m.–10 p.m. Fri–Sun |
| Wine, beer & spirits | 8 a.m.–11 p.m. | 8 a.m.–10 p.m. |
| Starbucks cafe | 8 a.m.–8 p.m. | 8 a.m.–8 p.m. |
| CVS Pharmacy in store | Not listed | 9 a.m.–1:30 p.m., 2–7 p.m. |
| Same Day Delivery (Shipt) | Not available | Available |
| Order Pickup / Drive Up | Both listed | Both listed |
Two things in that table change how a Waikiki week actually goes.
The first is the 11 p.m. alcohol close on Kuhio Avenue. Not because we use it — we are reliably asleep long before then, so consider that hour reported rather than field-tested — but because it means the beer counter is still open after a late dinner, on a street you were going to walk down anyway. The Ala Moana store’s alcohol window shuts an hour earlier and is a trolley ride away.
The second is that the Ala Moana store is the one with the CVS pharmacy. If you need an actual pharmacy counter rather than shelf medicine, that is the Target to aim at, and it sits inside Ala Moana Center, so you are combining it with a trip you were probably making anyway.
Then there is the getting-home problem. The Pink Line trolley is the tourist-facing link between Waikiki hotels and Ala Moana Center: a single-day ticket is $6.00 and it comes about every 15 minutes. Its published stop table, checked September 16, 2026, starts with a 10:00 a.m. first pickup at Waikiki Shopping Plaza and ends at 8:28 p.m. at Ka La’i Waikiki Beach. The time that matters when you are the one holding the bags is the mall itself: the last pickup at Ala Moana Center is 8:15 p.m. — the 7:15 to 7:42 p.m. times on that table are the Waikiki stops on the way out, not your ride back. Set that against the hours above and the squeeze is obvious: the Ala Moana Target is open until 10 p.m., but the last trolley leaves the mall an hour and forty-five minutes before the store closes.
The bus is not the cheaper escape hatch it looks like, either. Per TheBus fare page on the same date, an adult pays $3.25 in cash with no transfers, or $3.00 per tap with a HOLO card, which buys two hours of transfers. Round trip, that is $6.50 in cash, $6.00 on HOLO if you are out longer than two hours, and $3.00 if you are back inside them — against $6.00 for a trolley day ticket. So the fare decides nothing here. What you are actually picking is whose timetable you carry the bags on, and whether you can be finished at the mall inside two hours.
What we actually buy at Target
Our suite has the small, fully equipped kitchen the official description promises, and we barely use it. The microwave’s air-fry mode and the dishwasher are the whole operation; we do not cook real meals on vacation. So “groceries” for us means a stocked fridge and things to eat standing up, not a week of dinners.
Celery. It is cheap, it needs nothing done to it, and after two or three beers in the afternoon you want something that crunches. We keep it in the fridge the entire stay and buy it at Target more than anywhere else.
Kona Brewing, by the box. Big Wave Golden Ale is the default, stacked in the room fridge, with one unfamiliar IPA added to the basket when we see one we do not recognize. We are not quoting a price, because Target’s beer prices are set store by store and move; check the app against store 3438 if you want a number before you leave the room.
What we skip at Target is the candy aisle — neither of us eats many sweets, so we look and move on — and the wine shelf. Wine we buy at whichever Longs Drugs is closest, which is a CVS Pharmacy brand under a Hawaii name. On our stays, buying bottles four at a time has consistently come out cheaper there than buying them singly, and $10-ish bottles we can open without ceremony suit us better than one expensive one. We have never found those multi-bottle terms published online, though, so treat that as what we have seen at the register rather than a posted policy.
What we would do — and what we wouldn’t
We would do the whole heavy run on Kuhio Avenue. Target sits at 2345; Waikiki Market is at 2380, on the second floor, open 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. daily, with produce, deli and ready-made poke. Both are in the 2300 block. One walk, two stores: beer and celery at one, broccoli and fruit and prepared poke at the other. Waikiki Market also opens two hours before Target does, which matters on the one morning you wake up early and want fruit.
We would not haul anything from Ala Moana. We do look in at that Target when we are already at the mall for food or errands, but the return trip with bags is the part that never gets easier. Same chain, different job. It is the same arithmetic we ran on a cheap katsu plate near Ala Moana: worth it if you were going anyway, never worth the trip on its own.
If you drive, ignore all of the above and use the store nearest wherever you are staying — the four we skip exist precisely because people with cars live near them.
If you want Target stock without the walk, the Waikiki store lists Order Pickup, so you can have a basket assembled and just collect it. We have not used it there — we walk in, because the walk is the part we enjoy. Note that Same Day Delivery is listed at Ala Moana and not at the Waikiki store, which is the opposite of what a car-less visitor would want.
Before you plan around this
Store counts, hours and services all come from Target’s own store pages and locator, checked September 16, 2026, and Target posts hours only about a week ahead — re-check the Waikiki store page and the Ala Moana store page for your dates rather than trusting this table. Trolley fares and the last-pickup times come from Waikiki Trolley’s own Ala Moana Line page, and bus fares from TheBus, both on the same date. Prices for beer, wine and produce are store-specific and we have deliberately not quoted them.
The decision that does the work here is not which store is cheapest. It is how far you are willing to carry it.
