Much of this is just wrong. No store, Target or otherwise, can prevent you from leaving - ever. Writing you up in response to you doing something is not preventing you from doing it.
As for the location being 20 miles away, that's completely on you. They didn't tell you where to live. They don't tend to offer you a job at a specific store either. You apply at a store, that store accepts or denies your application, they don't typically redirect you to another store, so if you're working at a 20 store 20 miles from where you lived, that means you almost certainly chose to do so.
Living 20 miles from your store under no circumstances should result in you spending half your wage on the commute unless you are relying on something like lyft or uber to get you there.
An uber trip to a Target 22 miles from me is currently quoting me $37.73, a round trip would be around $75, a 8 hour shift would pay around $120. At this point, over half my wage would go to the commute, but to drive 22 miles? That's about 1 gallon of gas each way, or roughly $6.50, hardly half of $120.
The part about needing a redcard is outright wrong. You can pay with a redcard, cash, or a giftcard. There is also a reloadable redcard where you can add money to it as you see fit.
They're not slow with paying team members. They pay everyone every other Friday, like clockwork, worked here 7-8 years, never not been paid on time. The only thing you might be getting late would be like, some sort of disability pay related to a LOA, etc.
As for this whole $24/hour pay concept, that has never been stated as what Target pays in any official capacity. You may have read an article on wall street journal, or some other news site that mentioned $24 a hour, but that was taken out of context from Target saying that some positions pay as much as $24 a hour, ie. TL positions, in some regions.
