Target took a beating at their annual shareholder meeting from shareholders who think the big box retailer should focus on selling stuff rather than discriminating against gay people. Target’s CEO Gregg Steinhafel actually reached a white flag raising point of asking for questions on ANY issue other than the issue he brought onto himself last [...]
John Farrell left an interesting comment on my post over at MinnPost about Target and shoplifting: On May 10, 2011, John Farrell says: Ed, Target isn’t better at catching shoplifters. The reason they have so many marks on the police report is that Target calls police and prosecutes every single shoplifting incident, at enormous public [...]
Last night, NPR ran a piece about Target and WalMart’s new store layouts used in some urban locations. One mentioned is in the Uptown area of Chicago, which appears to be similar to the downtown Minneapolis store’s layout (2-story with parking underneath, corner entrance). Regarding a Target with a more traditional layout in the Columbia [...]
HRC, the damn fine group that works to provide equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender folks, has found itself dragged into the Minnesota political scene due to Target and Best Buy’s choice to donate money to MN Forward, who’s using Target and Best Buy’s money to fund political ads in support of the [...]
The whole “Target target’s” thing was ripped straight from the first 10 seconds of the story out of Detroit: I dig that FOX went with the breastfeeding shots in their story. Since this story was about a mother, the comments immediately degraded into the typical hell hole mothering debate. An anonymous commenter fired the first [...]
I’ve started reading the 2003 book, On Target, which takes a glowing look at how Minnesota’s favorite big box chain retailer came to be what it is today. Clearly, a book with the subtitle, “How the World’s Hottest Retailer Hit a Bull’s-Eye” is going to present the company favorably at every opportunity. So far, the [...]
I don’t know about you, but I’ve found that the best way to buy gifts is to pull random ideas out of a hat. Be sure to think about what to buy before you think about who you’re going to give it to. Or, something like that. Which makes me excited to see Target’s new [...]
Here are two of the funniest local blog posts I’ve read this weekend: Doodledee points out that – you can’t make this up – Target ran an ad saying “eat well. pay less.” (no caps ’cause they’re trend forward or something). In this ad, they feature what kind of “eat well” products? – Ice cream [...]
If Target is powerful enough to get the largest newspaper in the state to pull comments on a story about their return policy, should I expect a knock on my door from red-shirted, khaki wearing enforcers? Brian Lambert outlines the mystery of the disappearing Target comments on Nick Coleman’s column yesterday: So what happened Thursday [...]
This is the first in what is so-far a one-part series. Everyone seems to be feeling some pain due to rising costs of things like gas and travel combined with slowing of raises at work. Because of this, I thought I’d put together some tips I think are helpful for maintaining a tight budget. Money [...]
