Posted on 11/19/2025 12:39:34 PM PST by BFW
Target sinks to new low as customers flee in droves - forcing bosses into drastic move
Inflation-weary shoppers are steering clear of Target's messy, understaffed stores.
On Wednesday morning, the Minneapolis chain with 1,980 stores said third-quarter profit took yet another hit, deepening a slide that has now stretched across three straight years.
Target's slump comes from a four-headed monster: shabby stores, sinking staff morale, jittery investors, and a leadership shake-up waiting in the wings.
And the pain isn't ending anytime soon. Executives warned the sales slump will drag straight through the critical holiday shopping season.
To stop the bleeding, Target is throwing another $1billion at store remodels and new locations next year, bringing its multi-year store facelift tab to roughly $5billion.
Bosses hope the massive investment will finally jolt the chain out of its prolonged funk. Independent analysts say the overhaul is not only welcome — it's years late.
'Stores are not optimized for the consumer,' Neil Saunders, a retail expert for GlobalData, said.
'There are too many out of stocks, too much mess, not enough assistance at registers, so forth.'
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Our Target is way across town so I have no reason to go there.................
Our Target is way across town so I have no reason to go there.................
Yeah.
Retail leaders in “social justice”.
For men who want to pee while women are forced to watch.
Go woke go broke.
Affordable stock at 85$ with a dividend close to 5$. Still, it’s Target and they don’t want my white money, so they get nothing from me.
I wonder if their new remodels will give women back their separate dressing rooms.
$1B To upgrade those stores? Yeah, sure. Put some lipstick on that pig. Woke = broke. Target needed to pull their collective heads out about 5 years ago.
The Target near me is not like portrayed in this article.
Last time I was in a Target, years ago, I saw men dressed as women employees.
Freaked me out man.
I was in my local Target recently (total ghetto environment) and would not help but wonder: what is stopping all the people from just walking out with the carts without paying?
Only about 4 workers visible in a store with over 200 customers.
I live in an area that is 70/30 red. Yet, our target that is across the street from Walmart is always packed. A bunch of hypocrites. How dare they buy toilet paper next to the purple-haired chick or the creeper dude at Wallyworld.
I much prefer Target to Walmart. Didn’t go to Walmart at all until recently and still prefer Target.
Maybe their demon dressing clowns and their furry pals will rush right out to save them?
Target seldom has better prices, but they do have a different selection.
I like that Target carts are very quiet and that the store is, too.
We only seem to stop by to see if their greeting card selection has something funny.
If that industry is already dealing with low sales, they should probably postpone or cancel building even more new stores, until more employees are hired and trained.
Otherwise, it only makes for a bigger, more costly pan of ‘scrambled eggs’ with not too many eating those eggs already made, packaged, labeled and shelved.
McDonald’s will often dilute it’s own market in this way, by opening too many franchises close together.
Target store one block from me. Total spit show. One guy is famous for saying “We’re out of stock” no matter what I ask for, and never even bothers to look. Kids from the local Jr. High run riot, after 3pm, no one does a thing to stop them.
Last time I was in there, got the run around, looking for a toilet paper dispenser. Ordered one from Amazon, on my smart phone, as I walked out in disgust. I was in the back of the store, and received an EMail confirmation before I got out the door. It arrived the next morning. Do not love Jeff Bezos, or Amazon, but it is like shopping on two different planets.
They let fags and trannies in the Ladies’ Room.
And now they’re suffering the consequences.
There is a Target store about 2 miles from me and I have no reason to shop there..
Yet, they’re building the largest Target store in the world in Liberty Hill, TX. Why?
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