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Target Gets Rocked by the Harsh New Realities in Retail
The Street ^ | Feb 28, 2017 | Brian Sozzi

Posted on 02/28/2017 1:16:06 PM PST by aquila48

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To: aquila48
improving customer service

You might want to start by re-evaluating your genius decision to antagonize 90 percent of your customer base by groveling before a loud-mouthed 10 percent.

But hey, if the fags and pervs have enough presence to support you, so be it. What's that you say? They don't? Oops! Sucks to be you.

41 posted on 02/28/2017 2:38:13 PM PST by IronJack
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To: LongWayHome

Just stopped at Aldi for milk on the way home from work.

$1.03 a gallon.


42 posted on 02/28/2017 2:40:31 PM PST by Christopher
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To: dirtboy

There is a refurbished Aldi’s I drive by - they were busy before, but since it reopened it is PACKED all the time!


43 posted on 02/28/2017 3:03:59 PM PST by GnuThere
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That’s cheap. I pay about $2.19 a gallon at Aldi here in the northeast


44 posted on 02/28/2017 3:05:21 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: aquila48
Target is doing just fine if shareholders wanted a 30% drop in market value from the very day of the announcement.

Target's stock price on April 19, 2016 when they
announced the bathroom policy:
   $83.98
Target's stock price today (Feb. 28, 2017):    $58.77

Even if the stock made a miraculous 43% gain somehow, it would only make up lost value.

45 posted on 02/28/2017 3:09:02 PM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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To: Strac6

That is what Aldi does, they have a limited number of name brand items. Their brand is generally as good as the name brands. They consistently provide the best value around.

They own Trader Joe’s which uses a similar formula.

The nearest one to us is 1.5 hours away, if I am in the area I will stop there.
Today, I got a gallon of milk for $1.59 and eggs for 59 cents.


46 posted on 02/28/2017 3:11:47 PM PST by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: aquila48
Target, if you stop letting guys in women's restrooms, and announced that you were wrong, and you want Trump's voters to returning by given them 50% off...maybe you will get us back...

Or you can change your name to 'Going Out of Business'

47 posted on 02/28/2017 3:13:03 PM PST by ConservaTeen (Islam is Not the Religion of Peace, but The religion of Pedophilia...)
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To: aquila48

The international banksters aren’t very smart, are they?


48 posted on 02/28/2017 3:42:09 PM PST by PAR35
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To: LongWayHome

I was just at Aldis today. Can not beat the prices and lots of healthy choices


49 posted on 02/28/2017 3:42:54 PM PST by happyhomemaker (Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom 12:12)
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To: LongWayHome
If you have an Aldi near you.

Their big competitor, Lidl, is coming to the US. https://www.lidl.com/

They are starting in the East. Bigger selection, almost as cheap.

50 posted on 02/28/2017 3:45:38 PM PST by PAR35
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To: Chickensoup
Up here we go to MarketBasket!!!

Female millennials refer to that chain as 'Ghetto Basket'. Not sure why.

51 posted on 02/28/2017 3:52:07 PM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.com)
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It varies by locale here. Locally, we have a massive Harris-Teeter dubbed the Taj Mateeter in an upscale center, and we have a Ghetto Teeter on the bad side of town.


52 posted on 02/28/2017 3:54:55 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: phormer phrog phlyer
They own Trader Joe’s which uses a similar formula.

Nope.

Aldi US is part of Aldi Sud (Karl) (South Germany and the Catholic Rhineland)

Trader Joe's came out of Aldi Nord (Theo) (former Protestant north Germany).

The Albrecht brothers split up Germany, then the world.

53 posted on 02/28/2017 3:56:23 PM PST by PAR35
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To: aquila48
What I want to know is how the CEO still has his job after taking the company with a $50Billion market value and making that market value fall to $33Billion less than a year later.

I could have done far better and charge much less than the $16million Brian Cornell makes for destroying so much value for liberal stupidity.

54 posted on 02/28/2017 3:58:14 PM PST by Bon mots (Laughing at liberal tears!)
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“any Caucasian is routinely harassed or aggressively panhandled by the Amish in parking lot, 24/7...”

It’s the responsibility of Walmart to hire armed 101st Airborne and Marine vets to make the store and parking lot safe for shoppers and the neighborhood.

Do the 50 IQ Amish still hold their glocks sideways? Yes, as a matter of fact, they do. Too bad for them.


55 posted on 02/28/2017 3:58:52 PM PST by sergeantdave (Cats are like potato chips - you can't have just one.)
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To: aquila48

What a pretty woman.

Too bad she has bats in the belfry.


56 posted on 02/28/2017 3:58:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (NeverTrump, a movement that was revealed to be a movement. Thank heaven we flushed!)
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To: LongWayHome

Yep!
And pretty soon beginning in VA & NC Lidl will be able to run Target out of the grocery market.


57 posted on 02/28/2017 4:01:16 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Lucifer the fallen one commands his minions at the DNC)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I hear good things about Lidl....looks like they have done well against Aldi in Europe.


58 posted on 02/28/2017 4:06:22 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: aquila48

I won’t step into their stores. And haven’t ever since the told the Salvation Army Bell Ringers that they could not ring their bells in front of the Target store.


59 posted on 02/28/2017 4:10:00 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: sergeantdave

Less than two weeks after the OPD officer was murdered in the parking lot of an Orlando Walmart, a good looking 30 year old female blonde friend was loudly approached in the same parking lot, by an “Amish,” within 30 feet of the door, at 10:45 AM.

He yelled at her “Hey, Snowflake... how about you gives me $20 right now so I can cut my rap CD.... or maybe you’d like some big black snake instead”.

She got inside fast. No security anywhere.


60 posted on 02/28/2017 4:11:36 PM PST by Strac6 ("We sleep safe in our beds only because rough men stand ready to visit violence on the enemy.")
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