Blogs
Retail Powerhouses Embrace Micromobility: Trends And Innovations In E-Bikes And E-Scooters
Retailers will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of urban transportation
Target
Another View
Guest Post: Bye-Bye Black Friday?
Breaking with tradition, national chains including Best Buy, Walmart and Target plan to remain closed on Thanksgiving Day
Products
Consumer Cellular Expands Offerings With Three New Devices
Top rated wireless carrier adds ZTE Avid 579, Motorola Moto E, and Motorola Moto G Power
Products
Consumer Cellular Announces Expanded Partnership With Target
Wireless carrier takes over space previously occupied by Verizon in nearly 1,500 Target store locations
Retailing
Amazon Go Cashier-less Tech For Sale To Retailers
Amazon says it has signed several deals with unnamed customers for its Just Walk Out technology
Retail
Target Aiming To Hire More Than 130,000 Seasonal Jobs
Hiring events at local stores Oct. 11-13 and Nov. 2-3
Retailing
Target Cuts Ribbon On 100th Small-Format Store
Company surpasses 500 store remodels, on schedule to finish 1,000th remodel by end of 2020
Accessories
Toys ‘R’ Us Set To Return To U.S. In 2019
The iconic toy store will have small-scale re-entry to market
Retailing
Target Takes On Amazon Prime Day With “Target Deal Days”
No membership required to purchase deals
Keeping Current
Over 600 U.S. Companies Call For Trump Administration To End Trade Wars
Encourages negotiation of strong deals to improve U.S. global competitiveness
Retail
Target Rolls Out Enhanced Family Care Benefits
Part-time, hourly and salary team members to benefit beginning fall 2019
Research
2019 TWICE Top 100: Best Buy Keeps The CE Crown, But Barely
All eyes are on wildcard Walmart
Retail
Price Check: Best Buy Vs. Walmart Vs. Target
Secret shoppers compared retails and in-stocks for Field Agent.
Retail
Target Targets TV For Black Friday
... and kicks off the promo season with a one-day Nov. 1 sale.
Retail
Target Trials Private-Label Tech Line, And Likes It
The fashion-forward discounter is having a payday with Heyday.
Retail
Target’s Heyday: 1st In-House Tech Brand Arrives Next Month
The collection includes boldly patterned headphones and accessories for $60 and under.
Keeping Current
Guess Who’ll Gain From Toys’R’Us’s Pain?
If you thought Amazon would be the biggest beneficiary of Toys"R"Us' liquidation, guess again.
Keeping Current
Toys ‘R’ Us Locations May Go Unleased — Unless Amazon Steps In
With big-box chains busy downsizing, who'd want the real estate?
Retail
Target Ups Its Online Fulfillment Game
The discounter is rolling out a host of online and in-store initiatives.
Retail
Best Buy Exiting CD Biz: Report
Packaged media will take another step toward tech-stinction this summer when Best Buy pulls the plug on CDs.
Keeping Current
The Future of Target Stores Looks Like This One in Downtown Minneapolis
The retailer intends to have more than one-third of its stores remodeled by the end of 2019 as part of the $7 billion investment...
news
Target Takes Aim At Same-Day Delivery, Again
In 2014 Target announced tests of a same-day delivery service in Boston, Miami and Minneapolis. “Undoubtedly, there will be kinks,” the discounter said, and...
news
Target Overhauling Store Design
Target will spend billions of dollars over the next three years to remodel nearly a third of its store base. The effort, announced this...
news
Target Announces 3-Year Plan In Wake Of Disappointing Q4
Target will open 30 smaller-format stores this year as part of a $7 billion, three-year capital investment plan. The chain announced the ambitions after...
Blogs
A Sign Of Things To Come
The following blog appears on Target’s corporate website and bears repeating. Target’s unprecedented offer this Cyber Monday — two days with 15 percent off nearly everything...
news
Target Taking 15% Off Everything, Everywhere During Two-Day Cyber Sale
Target is celebrating Cyber Week with a two-day, 15-percent-off omnichannel sale running this Sunday and Monday. The discount covers nearly every item in stores...
news
Target Comes Clean With 36-Page Black Friday Ad
After teasing a handful of Black Friday offers last week, Target has released its full Thanksgiving weekend insert. TVs dominate the first five pages,...
Keeping Current
Walmart Taking A Page From Target, And Vice Versa
The Nos. 1 and 2 discount chains are borrowing from each other’s playbooks this holiday season, with Walmart focusing on service — long a...
news
Target Extends Free Shipping To New Year’s Day
Target lifted the curtain a bit on its holiday plans. As expected, the chain will offer free shipping this season, but it’s extending the...
news
Black Friday 2016 Watch: Best Buy & Target To Offer Free Shipping This Holiday Season (Starting Now)
Best Buy revealed it will once again offer free shipping during the holiday selling season, and Target is expected to follow suit. Best Buy’s...
Keeping Current
Amazon Primed To Take Target’s Customers
Target has resumed selling Amazon’s Kindle and Fire devices this week, four years after they were shown the door. According to the author, whatever...
Keeping Current
Target’s Digital Guru, Jason Goldberger, Is Out
Target’s rising e-commerce king Jason Goldberger has left the company following a recent promotion to chief digital officer. “Jason Goldberger, Target Corp.’s recently promoted...
news
Target Blames Apple For Comp-Sales Decline
Target chairman/CEO Brian Cornell took Apple to task during a second-quarter earnings call today, blaming an innovation lull at the tech giant for much...
Home Automation
Smart Baby: Target Adds ‘Connected Nursery’ Sections
Target, an aggressive player in the smart-home category, has extended its IoT beachhead into baby products. The No. 2 discount chain has added Connected...
news
Target Grows Smart-Home Family With MonBaby
Target, which is aggressively plying the smart-home waters with a Connected Living shop, a connected Open House concept store and connected-healthcare displays, has made...
Industry
Target Takes A Bite From Apple With New Cook Hire
Target has brought on former Apple exec Ben Cook as global logistics, inventory allocation and replenishment senior VP. Cook, who was most recently Apple’s...
news
A Firsthand Look At Target’s New Smart Shop Pilot
TWICE recently reported on Target’s first formal in-store foray into smart devices — a six-section curated shop that is currently being tested in a...
news
Connected Living: Target Testing Its First Smart-Home Shop
Target has installed a smart-home and “Connected Living” section within the CE department of a Minneapolis-area store in what could presage a wider rollout...
Industry
Target Tags Nordstrom’s Mark Tritton As Chief Merchant
Target has brought in Nordstrom private-label chief Mark Tritton as executive VP and chief merchandising officer, filling a 10-month vacancy. He succeeds Kathee Tesija,...