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Is your local Target closing?
CBS News ^

Posted on 11/04/2015 12:54:04 PM PST by matt04

MINNEAPOLIS -- Target (TGT) plans to close 13 stores nationwide, including one in New Ulm and two others in Milwaukee and Superior, Wisconsin.

The Minneapolis-based retailer says a decision to close a store usually follows several years of decreasing profitability. The retail giant plans to close the stores on Jan. 30, 2016.

Target was hurt by a massive credit-card breach before Christmas 2013 that sent shoppers temporarily fleeing. The company also botched a major expansion into Canada and pulled the plug on that earlier this year.

Layoffs in 2015 included 2,500 jobs, or about one-fifth of the workers in the company's corporate offices in Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park.

In an emailed statement, a Target spokeswoman wrote, "The decision to close a Target store is not made lightly. We typically decide to close a store after careful consideration of the long-term financial performance of a particular location."

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: business; liberalism; minneapolis; minnesota; target
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To: matt04

Never been to one, is it basically a Walmart w a French name?


21 posted on 11/04/2015 1:17:53 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Idiocracy used to just be a Movie... Live every day as your last...one day you will be right)
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To: fwdude

Love Wal-Mart. Problem is they are cutting products. Also, shelves aren’t getting stocked.


22 posted on 11/04/2015 1:19:55 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: Albion Wilde

All part of their “distraction-free” shopping experience, while issuing every employee a radio, but not issuing a ear-peace.


23 posted on 11/04/2015 1:21:16 PM PST by matt04
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To: TexasTransplant

Think WM but almost exclusively attracts libs who are “too good” to shop at WM.


24 posted on 11/04/2015 1:23:30 PM PST by matt04
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To: matt04

We had one close in a part of Orlando that is in decline. The moved5 miles away. Ghetto creep will catch up to them again in a few years.


25 posted on 11/04/2015 1:27:27 PM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: matt04

Target has a pretty good marketing ploy in its little red cards, whereby shoppers are “rewarded” with a modest discount for shopping at Target (the card is only good the target store).

However, I will never return to Target, since Target plainly does not want my business.
I was left standing on line while the computer kept saying TILT to my red card. Clerk had no idea what to do. Manager unavailable. Finally, I paid with, as I recall, an Amex card for my modest purchase.
Later wrote to Target asking for the matter to be corrected.
No response whatsoever.


26 posted on 11/04/2015 1:27:29 PM PST by faithhopecharity (Brilliant, funny, and incisive Tagline coming to this space soon.....)
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To: Red Badger

I think Sears to already going down. I just found out they no longer carry water filters for their refrigerators. But they still try to sell them on their website.


27 posted on 11/04/2015 1:31:03 PM PST by aimhigh (1 John 3:21)
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To: matt04

Just don’t ask anyone to get something off a top shelf because racism (according to moochelle.)


28 posted on 11/04/2015 1:31:20 PM PST by subterfuge (TED CRUZ FOR POTUS!)
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To: TexasTransplant

No. More expensive with some nice home goods. Clearance racks sometimes yield some good deals.

We have 2 in our town but both aren’t convenient. I simply forget they are there.


29 posted on 11/04/2015 1:31:35 PM PST by bonfire
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To: fwdude

“Good riddance. I haven’t shopped their in five years since they bent over for the sexual deviants.”

Same here.


30 posted on 11/04/2015 1:34:06 PM PST by tuffydoodle (Shut up voices, or I'll poke you with a Q-Tip again.)
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To: matt04
Odessa, FL.

5.56mm

31 posted on 11/04/2015 1:35:16 PM PST by M Kehoe
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To: matt04

Nope......because I don’t have one.....lol...never been to one.


32 posted on 11/04/2015 1:36:10 PM PST by Cold Heat
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To: matt04

33 posted on 11/04/2015 1:37:37 PM PST by CodeToad (Stupid kills, but not nearly enough!)
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To: TexasTransplant
Target was originally part of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation (as in the Dayton who's now the Democrat Governor of Minnesota) until the Target chain became bigger than old fashioned department stores like Dayton's or Hudson's or Marshall Field's.

I never really got Target. You could buy your groceries at Wal-Mart if you didn't mind the crowds and the lines.

Target had aisles full of some things -- cookies, chips -- but lacked a lot of the essential foods people would want to buy each week.

IMHO, Target is more of an advertising concept than a real store.

34 posted on 11/04/2015 1:40:44 PM PST by x
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To: Red Badger

The East Flint one was a first class dump for some time. I remember doing audits there when I was with Target loss prevention in the early nineties. Not suprised by that one.

CC


35 posted on 11/04/2015 2:05:14 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (CC: purveyor of cryptic, snarky posts since December, 2000..)
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To: Cowboy Bob

I was thinking ‘zackly the same about the Victorville, CA store.....in the past several years, that area has exploded population-wise.


36 posted on 11/04/2015 2:10:54 PM PST by ErnBatavia (It ain't a "hashtag"....it's a damn pound sign. ###)
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To: aimhigh

I have to wonder if all of these stores have stayed open as long as Obama is in office. One he’s out they’ll all go under and blame the next president....republican or democrat.


37 posted on 11/04/2015 2:12:16 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: matt04

The Milwaukee one was built in a neighborhood that once had a thriving large mall, but the neighborhood got overrun with badness. The mall folded years ago and Target was just hanging on. Walmart has come in and the hood rats and their peeps would rather shop and shoplift from there.


38 posted on 11/04/2015 2:46:23 PM PST by freemama
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To: Red Badger

Ours isn’t on the list. We haven’t been there in ten+ years, though.


39 posted on 11/04/2015 2:49:30 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Keep trying! You’ll get them on the next list!.............


40 posted on 11/04/2015 2:53:23 PM PST by Red Badger (READ MY LIPS: NO MORE BUSHES!...............)
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