Posted on 12/03/2004 6:58:27 AM PST by Tarpaulin
Former Target employee ping!
Why JCP? What did I miss?
The publisher and I will be checking it out a various Penny's stores today and tonight.
K-Mart. Good customer service, also.
ShopKo has the Salvation Army kettle and the ringers sitting inside their store--not in the entrance. Happy Day!
The company used to be called DaytonHudson, they simply changed their name to Target because it's their most successful division. Mervyns used to be their best division but through their idiotic marketing they managed to turn it into a problem.
I was in a Target yesterday, and I gotta say I think the banning of the bell-ringers is a mistake from a strict dollars-and-cents point of view. Even absent the effect of any boycott, without the bell ringers, you did not get the feeling that it is Christmastime at Target. I am sure their in-store signage was changed, but who notices something like that. After years of shopping at Target, I stopped noticing their in-store signage years ago.
But here's the thing, I spend money like a drunken sailor at Christmastime, but I'm tighter than a tick the other eleven months of the year. At Target yesterday, I was feeling like it was July, and didn't spend much. Usually, when I walk by those bell ringers on the way in, I'm throwing stuff in the cart as soon as I'm in the door.
But maybe that's just me...
Smarter than the management at Target. And they have the courage to admit that they made a bad business decision.
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