Bob CollinsAfter a KARE 11 investigation, Target says it’s changing its app to make clear that the price displayed for an item is different depending on whether you buy it in the store or buy it online. Read more →
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An employee at the Target store in Fridley is suing the company claiming her promotion was denied after she complained about sexual harassment, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is reporting. Read more →
Takeisha Saunders of Dallas wants you to understand what the term ‘baby daddy’ refers to in her culture, because the people who do the buying for Target don’t.
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Paul TostoTarget had been investigating complaints that customers buying diapers at Targets in Washington, D.C., Florida and Tennessee had recently found white laminated index cards in their order containing a slogan linked to white supremacist groups. Read more →
The Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
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Check back in 364 days for a full evaluation of all the predictions for 2018 but — spoiler alert — most of them will be wrong.
Probably included on that list is Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster, an analyst who predicts Amazon will buy Minneapolis-based Target this year.
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Target employees and customers at a store in Connecticut are getting applause after coming to the defense of a woman who was breastfeeding her baby.
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For just a moment — but only a moment — fans of Target might have thought the buttoned-down, risk averse, bunker mentality of Target had loosened up enough to tell opponents what they can do with… just about everything. Read more →
Target says it will close all of its stores in Canada — the chain’s Waterloo — by April 12.
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What we do know is people will start walking out of the headquarters with boxes this week and it’s already starting.
About a dozen ‘upper managers’ were gone by lunch yesterday, according to one report.
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But yesterday’s announcement is type that sends shivers down the spine of working stiffs. The good times only last so long, and any of us can be next. Read more →
When former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel was paid to walk away from the company which he led into some of the worst decisions in the history of the retailer, he was given a severance package worth an estimated $61 million.
That figure is being noticed now that Target plans to put 17,000 employees out of work in Canada. Read more →
Are Canadians upset that they won’t be able to shop at Target anymore? Hardly. Read more →
Target is going to write off billions of dollars with the retreat, but it’s not going to be bleeding red ink anymore, either. So what will it do with its money? Read more →
Sooner or late, some department store buyer is going to learn not to deploy children’s clothing that assigns gender roles. Target is the latest retailer to fall into the minefield with some pajamas.
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