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
Target
Retailing
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
Retailing
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
Retailing
Target Rolls Out Enhanced Family Care Benefits
Part-time, hourly and salary team members to benefit beginning fall 2019
Top 100/TWICE Research
2019 TWICE Top 100: Best Buy Keeps The CE Crown, But Barely
All eyes are on wildcard Walmart
Retailing
Price Check: Best Buy Vs. Walmart Vs. Target
Secret shoppers compared retails and in-stocks for Field Agent.
Retailing
Target Targets TV For Black Friday
... and kicks off the promo season with a one-day Nov. 1 sale.
Retailing
Target Trials Private-Label Tech Line, And Likes It
The fashion-forward discounter is having a payday with Heyday.
This Week In Amazon
Dolby Atmos Coming To Prime Video, Echo Gets An EQ
Also: Trump's latest tweetstorm
Retailing
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?
Retailing
Target Ups Its Online Fulfillment Game
The discounter is rolling out a host of online and in-store initiatives.
Retailing
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.
Retailing
Target To Offer Same-Day Delivery By Early Next Year
The Holy Grail of e-tail – same-day delivery – is close at hand for Target.
Keeping Current
The Battle Of Black Friday 2017: How Best Buy, Walmart And Target Plan To Dethrone Amazon
National chains are trying new tactics to reclaim Black Friday.
Keeping Current
Big-Box Retailers Doubling Down On Brick-And-Mortar
Amid media declarations of a retail apocalypse, national chains like Walmart, Target and TJX are building more stores to penetrate urban and smaller markets...
Keeping Current
Target CEO High On Holidays
Rising consumer confidence and a raft of in-store improvements should put Target in good stead this holiday season.
Retailing
Black Friday 2017: Box Chains’ November Promos Revealed
‘Tis the season for pre-holiday retail promotions to whet consumer appetites. And helping to stoke the seasonal fires is our old friend BFAds.net, which...
Keeping Current
Google Retail Alliance Targets Amazon
Target is deepening its year’s-long shopping partnership with Google. The expansion will allow the discounter’s customers to order by voice via Google Assistant, and could conceivably extend...
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...
Retailing
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...
Retailing
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...
Retailing
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...
Industry
Rick Gomez Replaces Jeff Jones As Target CMO
Target executive VP Rick Gomez has been given the additional role of chief marketing officer. The promotion, effective Jan. 29, gives Gomez responsibility for...
Retailing
Target Holiday Sales Fall 5%; Electronics Even More So
Weak store performance and a slow start to the holiday season led to a 4.9 percent decline in total sales for Target during the...
Executive Insight
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...
Retailing
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...
Retailing
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...
Retailing
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...
Retailing
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...
Retailing
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...