MINNEAPOLIS — Target Corp. is wooing Cyber Monday shoppers by bringing back last years 15%-off sale, but launching it a day early and extending it to purchases made in brick-and-mortar stores as well as on the Target.com web site. “Target is building on last year’s record-breaking Cyber Monday event with a truly spectacular two-day offer,”
MINNEAPOLIS — Style is one of Target Corp.’s signature categories, businesses the retailer has said it wants to be known for, and that offer some of the biggest opportunities for it to stand out and win with consumers. Beauty (along with apparel and home) plays an important role within style, notes John Butcher, senior vice
NEW YORK — Target Corp. on Tuesday unveiled its 2016 holiday strategy, which includes new merchandise and promotions, and a marketing campaign centered around a Broadway-style production called “The Toycracker.” “Target is at our very best during the holidays, and we’re building on last year’s winning formula to make the 2016 holiday season even better,”
The autumn holiday selling season is upon us — and clues are scarce as to which mass retailers will emerge in the best shape. Indeed, very little data has surfaced as to which products look to dominate, or which retailers appear most confident that the upcoming Christmas selling season will turn out well. The soon-to-be-waged
The struggles between brick-and-mortar retailers and their online offspring continue. More precisely, the competition shows no signs of abating — or reaching any conclusion. If anything, it has gathered momentum, with the insertion of Amazon as the target of brick-and-mortar retailers seeking to build a viable online business. Perhaps enough has been said and written
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS MinuteClinic has opened eight new locations inside Target stores in the Dallas-Fort Worth metropolitan area. Parent company CVS Health said Tuesday that the new MinuteClinics are located in Allen, Denton, Flower Mound, Frisco (in two Target stores), Hurst, Plano and Watauga, Texas. Overall, MinuteClinic now has 50 walk-in medical clinics in
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — MinuteClinic’s locations in the Chicago area now include Target stores. CVS Health said Monday that MinuteClinics have opened inside 13 Target stores in Cook, DuPage, Kane and Lake counties in Illinois. Chicago represents MinuteClinic’s largest metropolitan market in the United States. The new retail health clinics give MinuteClinic 56 locations overall in
SEATTLE — Amazon.com Inc. has filed suit against Arthur Valdez, its former senior supply chain and logistics operator, seeking to prevent him from starting a new job with Target Corp. Target announced last month that it had hired Valdez to serve as executive vice president, chief supply chain and logistics officer. Valdez, who is due
WOONSOCKET, R.I. — CVS Health has opened its first MinuteClinic walk-in medical clinics inside Target stores in the Charlotte and Raleigh-Durham, N.C., markets. CVS said Tuesday that the clinics are located in three stores in Charlotte and Concord and eight stores in The Triangle in Apex, Carey, Durham, Raleigh and Wake Forest. All have been
NEW YORK — Target Corp. is making major investments in its supply chain infrastructure as it seeks to facilitate increased online sales and support better in-stock conditions in its stores. “Our future depends on getting the fundamentals right,” Target chairman and chief executive officer Brian Cornell said during his company’s recent meeting with the investment
MINNEAPOLIS — Target Corp. has hired Amazon.com Inc. executive Arthur Valdez to serve as executive vice president, chief supply chain and logistics officer. He will lead Target’s supply chain transformation including planning, distribution and transportation. Valdez, who will join the company on March 28, will report to Target executive vice president and chief operating officer
Walmart has begun closing stores, as the retailer had previously announced. Most of the closings involve the Express stores the company began opening over the past two years in the belief that it could more successfully compete with the likes of such small-store retailers as drug and dollar stores with convenience-oriented stores than the big