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This article seems to be bias against Target for enforcing its no solictation policy, and ending its exemption for the Salvation Army. I see no need to mention a competitor in this article, as Wal-mart has always allowed Salvation Army bell ringers (not just in response to Target's decision).
In the history of the page, one user said he added "Salvation Army" to the title to make the decision stand out more. Target makes thousands of decisions each year that affect its customers.
Why is there a link to a organization that is calling for a boycott and not one to a website that supports Target?
There is no mention that Target's same store sales are higher than Wal-Mart's for year (and their estimate for December is higher than their competitor) This would lead one to believe that the presence or absense is not on the mind of most consumers.
There is no mention of when Target informed the Salvation Army of its decsion or that Target continues to donate to the Salvation Army.
There is no mention of other retailers that ban the Salvation Army (why pick on Target?).
There is no mention that the Salvation Army is a Christian organization, and that Target is a profit-based corporation that has customers of all different backgrounds and religions.
User:69.134.50.153 added sales figures for Target for December, but didn't include any source for this information of any kind. I've looked, but I'm not sure where to find such information. If someone can back up the information with a citation, please add it. Otherwise I have a hard time leaving it as is without removing the information. -- ABQCat 23:30, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
After removal of the information on the Salvation Army and Target Stores with the explanation that "salvation army info no longer relevant", I decided to make a quick case here for why it is relevant.
If the rationale for information removal is that it refers to an event which occurred in the past, Wikipedia is FULL of irrelevant information.
I'm very willing to see changes to the information as presented currently. However, I'm not sure that there are actually any circumstances except the season which have changed. As of now, Target Stores will still not allow the Salvation Army to return next Christmas (2005), and the information seems still relevant.
If there's inaccurate, false, or outdated information which would be best to remove or change, please do so and discuss it here. Removing the entire section probably isn't in keeping with the goals of Wikipedia in most cases, especially without any discussion on the article talk page.
-- ABQCat 22:13, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The basis for not including the Salvation Army information is not whether you support or don't support the Salvation Army or Target Corporation. How does this decision weigh any heavier than any other decision Target has made? I am not against including this information; however, I think it should be balance with all other decisions that have been made by Target Corporation. It has made many other decisions that should be included: store closings, controversial store openings, changes to the return policy (and many of these decisions upset just as many people). If those decisions cannot be properly researched, then the Salvation Army section should not be included either. How do you single out a single decision by a company and decide it is more imporant than other decisions made by the company? My point is that maybe Target opened/closed a store in my neighborhood, and that was a controversial decision that affected my neighborhood, but the majority of people do not see that as relevant..so it would not be included in the history of the company. Likewise, the Salvation Army decision upset certain people who like the organization, and others (probably the majority of Americans) do not see that as relevant.
I personally think the bottom line for including/not including this information might be: was it pivotal in the company's history? Has it caused the company to lose money/profits? No. Has it it caused the company to go bankrupt? No. Has it caused the company to improve results significantly? No.
I think the article has become more balanced, but it kind of concerns me that the Salvation Army section is so "detailed" (It is longer than the section about Target itself!). Perhaps it could be widdled down to one paragraph to say something like: 'Target made a controversial decision in 2004, in which the Salvation Army would no longer be allowed to have its bell-ringers on Target property. This decision wa sextremely controversial...etc etc"
Seeing that Target Stores is the primary division of Target Corporation (and TGT having shed Marshall Fields and Mervyn's, it may be appropriate to merge this into the Target Corporation page as a section. Or create a new article called "Target" to replace both Target Corporation and Target Stores, that would include information about the history of Target Corp and a section on the stores it operates?
I see your point. But, most companies operate their stores as a division of their corporation (example: CVS/pharmacy is a division of CVS Corporation, Wal-Mart Stores is a division of Wal-Mart, Home Depot Stores is a division of Home Depot Corp.)
I think that combining Target Stores with Target Corp would clean up some of the overlap (especially now that Target is the only retailing division of Target Corp.)
The pages have now been merged. Talk:Target Stores information was transferred to this new Talk:Target Corporation Page
Just so you know, hard line is anything on tile as well as Housewares and Domestics, and soft line is anything on carpet.
I think this article should mention Target's "transition period" from a minor retailer in the background to becoming a superpower in the retailing business. At least in America. From what I remember, in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, Target was a sparse unotable store. But then in the mid to late 1990s, Target started a campaign of redesigning their image, stores and introduced clean cut and cleaver commercials. Then in 2001 and 2002 they came to the forefront of the retail business. We need to find a way to neutralize this information and include it. Suso 01:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to see the Urban Stores section get expanded. Currently, the article mentions Target being flexible with their designs and mentions that there are multi-level stores in urban areas, such as the one in Downtown Minneapolis. However, the article doesn't reflect the appearance of some of these stores from the outside, for those who have seen the flashy ones. I don't know if there are other retailers that do this, but the point that should be made more clearly in this section is that some of these urban stores are designed in appearance to be very different than Target's suburban stores. Here are some examples:
I believe there is also a 2-story Target in California that looks flashy, but I can't find an image of it. Is there any way the Urban Stores section can be expanded to reflect that the design of such stores in question are unique, either by describing them or by uploading a free image of such a store? I would like to see an image on here (since I think it's the best way for readers to understand) but I don't live in Minneapolis or Brooklyn, etc. so I can't take a photograph of these buildings. Thanks. 68.226.61.4 06:09, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Can whoever worked on the criticism section back it up with some factual evidence? As it currently is, it just relates Target to Wal-Mart's downfalls and states most of the same problems, which I would argue is simply not true. I was an employee of Target and they offered rather decent benefits and wages despite what the section would lead one to believe.
Bottom line: we need CITES of these practices. -- BrandonR 17:12, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
If anybody's in the mood, the mascot, Bullseye, is becoming more and more popular. That could be another section. Anybody know the breed? - newkai | talk | contribs 05:53, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I've added that Bullseye the dog is a trademark of Target Brands Inc., a subsidary of Target Corporation. Source: http://www.target.com/ it says it right on the bottom of the main page. 68.226.61.4 07:38, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Newkai just posted on the differentiation section a part about management and Target's team oriented philosophy. In it, it added a description on "team leaders" as being middle management, and added a part about LODs, or Leaders On Duty. In my opinion, team leaders do not fit the description of middle management, and LODs do. Here is a hierarchy of what I view as management in a Target store:
etc...anyone else view this differently than I do? If team leaders are really considered middle management, then I'm not seeing why. 68.226.61.4 20:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation, I've expanded as much of what was pointed out here as I could so far and I would like to see the rest get expanded so this article can be nominated again. Things that need to be expanded are:
68.226.61.4 07:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I work for the company and I believe when Target is pronounced with the pseudo-French accent, it is correctly spelled as "Tar-zhay". The October edition of our company newsletter, "Red" features an interview with Pink where she pronounces Target with the pseudo-French accent and the newsletter spelled her pronounciantion out as "Tar-zhay". I'm changing it back to "Tar-zhay", because I don't know where this "Tar-jé" came from (and it was only changed from "Tar-zhay" to "Tar-jé" recently) so I doubt its credibility. 68.226.61.4 00:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Within the past week, there have been many edits to the Positions section of this article (causing the article to exceed 32k), yet none of the information on here has been verified. This section mentions jobs available in Target's retailing divisions. Some things wrong with this section in particular:
68.226.61.4 08:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I have removed a couple positions because I can't back them up and they sound more like corporate level jobs than retail jobs to me. I have also satisfied my own argument for original research, the section is now based off of Target Corporation's web site. Also, by the time I'm writing this, the article has expanded to 45k, so I have proposed that the section be split into a new article. Reasons are:
If this section is to be split, somebody please come up with a name for it and use the appropriate {{splitsection|NEW TITLE}} template. 68.226.61.4 23:26, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
EDIT: Added a couple more reasons.
In the store I work at, domestics is considered part of hardlines, not softlines as this section states. Whoever wrote this, please research this some more, as it doesn't appear to be universal. Also, some of areas of softlines, such as infants and shoes, do use planograms. This needs to be fixed. I'd fix it myself, but I'd like some input from other people as to how it is in the stores they know or what it says in any official literature. - newkai | talk | contribs 01:37, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I am a Softlines Specialist where I work and domestics is considered softlines. I know it is throughout the district I work at, maybe it's becasue we are a low volume district without any Greatlands or SuperTargets. Shoes is planogramed, as well as basics, infants gondolas, jewerly, hosiery, and domestics.
It seems as if Target Stores, Target Greatlands and SuperTargets differ greatly in the way they are run. It is obvious that people who work for Target (me being one) are conflicting with the people who work at SuperTarget. Because of this, I think the three divisions need to be split into three different articles.
We combined the Target Stores and Target Corporation articles a long time ago. There was too much overlap between the separate articles. Target Stores is a subsidiary of the Corporation and the article states that. I think it makes much better sense to have a "one stop" shop for all Target information. If most people want information about Target, they want information about the stores. Keep it all together. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I definitely think think that the job positions section should be split off into a new article, with the main article containing just the general positions, eg. just "Team Leader," not "Garden Center Team Leader," "Grocery Sales Floor Team Leader," etc. So basically just STL, ETL, Team Leaders, Specialists, and Team Leaders, and perhaps the regional and group executives. Any objections? - newkai | talk | contribs 17:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Listing all these positions is treading into trade secret violations and is too in depth. It also messes with the flow of the article. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
This is getting way too complicated and over in-depth. We are also treading in possibly violating corporate trade secrets violations with this much detail. I am removing this information. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Much of the information that was removed from the article was placed by Target employees looking to improve the image of the company (talking about Target "brand", RGY visits, etc). There was way too much of a "positive" vibe coming from the article. I have removed that to return a more neutral POV to the article. Also, putting this information starts to get into violation of trade secrets and getting too in-depth. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I live in the Omaha, Nebraska region, where there are three SuperTargets. One of these is notable for being the company's first SuperTarget store, and another one is the second SuperTarget store in Nebraska. The three SuperTargets in this region all provide a service called "Parcel Pick-Up", where after paying for merchandise, the guest has the option to drive up to the front of the store and have their purchased items, like groceries, loaded into their vehicle, as opposed to the more traditional straight-out-to-your-vehicle "Carry Out". I happen to do this job in one of the three stores, and I once heard that "Parcel Pick-Up" is unique to the three SuperTargets in the Omaha region and all other SuperTargets provide "Carry Out".
My question is if anyone who lives outside of the Omaha region and visits a SuperTarget know if their store provides "Parcel Pick-Up"? I have never visited a SuperTarget other than these three, so I don't know how credible that statement is, and since "Parcel Pick-Up" is not the traditional way of loading groceries into someone's vehicle (least in Omaha) I think something about "Parcel Pick-Up" would be remarkable to add to Wikipedia. I suppose I could confirm this again in work but I wanted to research this from outside of the company. Thanks. 68.226.61.4 02:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
SuperTargets in NC do not offer any such service. Wikipedianinthehouse 21:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
- The Mason City, Iowa SuperTarget store had a Parcel Pick-up area too. That store was the 4th ever SuperTarget. The Parcel Pick-up area was closed about three years ago. -
I'm sorry to say it but the people on this page who are hell bent on making this page a feature article have really ruined a very in depth page. I dont see how deleting all the detail that was added made this page any better. In my mind, it now sucks. This was a great article with a lot of information, now its just a skeleton. Lets put the detail back in and see where it can go.
Warning, this subject has been refactored from several different sections, and presents the perspective of one Wikipedia contributor. This summary might not reflect everything that was discussed previously, and none of it should be viewed as absolute truth or the opinions of those involved in these discussions. 68.226.61.4 04:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Didnt know whether to include this into Target or make it a new thing, but somethign should be mentioned about their restructured photo lab. I had a family member that was a manager of a photo lab that has information about what exactly has happened and such. For example, in June of 2005, Target and Kodak/Qualex contract was up and Target decided to take back their photo labs from them, laying off many staff members from the Photo Lab division. Just a thought currently, any suggestions? -- Something crazy 01:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I think this article should mention Target's "transition period" from a minor retailer in the background to becoming a superpower in the retailing business. At least in America. From what I remember, in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, Target was a sparse unotable store. But then in the mid to late 1990s, Target started a campaign of redesigning their image, stores and introduced clean cut and cleaver commercials. Then in 2001 and 2002 they came to the forefront of the retail business. We need to find a way to neutralize this information and include it. Suso 01:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
User newkai suggested that a section be made on the Bullseye Dog mascot. Known information:
I was fairly certain that the dog was a pit bull. Is that the same as a bull terrier? 69.174.71.38 20:49, 28 February 2006 (UTC)Ryan
As per Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation, the following sections need expansion:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801268.html This is a really interesting article about Target helping law enforcement catch criminals. I really hope this is incorporated into the main article. I'm new to Wikipedia and don't really know how to edit the pages in the correct format nor do I know how to draft well, but I want to help out this wonderful project. So I'm pointing out this article for those who may have the expertise. I hope it helps the project. Dtrizzle 05:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
there is conflicting information on this page. Are there 23 or 27 distribution centers? ( Jay 21:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC))
Recently an anonymous poster put under the Differentiation section a comment that implied that Target has its own loss prevention team and also that its competitors do not. I believe this is incorrect because Wal-Mart has their own loss prevention team, and I'm not too sure if there is a major discount retailer that does not have one. I do believe a mention of Target's assets protection team is worthy of noting on here though. Also, one remarkable work that they've done was catching some guy a couple weeks ago that had been doing ticket switching on Legos and had previously gotten away with stealing $200,000 of Legos from several other Target stores. I don't see any valid reason why content like this should be in the Differentiation section though, so it should be elsewhere. 68.226.61.4 07:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I think what the poster was trying to drive home was that there's a uniformed asset protection officer at the front of the store. That team member is specifically there to remind guests that Target is concerned for their safety and also to serve as a deterrent to would-be shop lifters. The security guard is a huge difference (better or worse) than the Wal-Mart greeter. I doubt anyone thinks Wal-Marts are insecure. --
Meadowbrook
00:26, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thought I'd mention that the Lego thief I mentioned above, William Swanberg, has his own article now. Any way we can work him in? 68.226.61.4 05:31, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't think there is enough difference between other corporations' LP programs and Target's to warrant a section on it. K-Mart uses a security guard at their exit at one of their stores in NYC. ( Jay 21:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC))
Someone just changed the founding year from 1902 to 1962. The Dayton Dry Goods Company was formed in 1902. In my opinion, this was the true beginning of the Target Corporation even if it was called something different way back then. What do you all think? -- MatthewUND( talk) 18:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
The article mentions Target having urban stores that appear way different than their boxy suburban ones. We could really use a free image of one of these places. Such stores include the ones in Downtown Minneapolis, MN, Brooklyn, NY, and Stamford, CT; however, there are others.
The section also mentions two-story Target stores using a Vermaport. There is already a free image of one.
The Similar urban Target stores with their own unique designs exist in... sentence is getting to be very long since I initially wrote it. I do not know if the stores that were added really do exist, nor do I know how remarkable they are. There needs to be a cite referring to each of them. Also, the sentence just looks funny anyways, it might better be represented as a list instead.
The Portland store doesn't sound remarkable enough to mention here, so I might just remove the paragraph. If there is reason to include the factual information in the article, then I will copyedit it. Unless someone beats me to it, I might also write a paragraph on the Atlantic Terminal store, since it is one of the busiest in the corporation. 68.226.61.4 03:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
The only particularly notable stores would be Atlantic Terminal
see photo (volume and location), Hollywood (location and ultra-unique design), and Nicollet Mall (I guess you could call this the flagship store?). I've never heard of the Portland store nor see why it is notable. (Springfield, VA is a mall location
see photo that is just as notable)
J.reed
04:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I've removed this note as I do update the store count every THREE months. There are only 3 store opening cycles a year. This allows all employees to be focused on holiday sales and not a store that isn't even open. Also, what are we looking to expand in the Urban Stores section?
J.reed
08:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Should the Target Corp. infobox point to department store or discount store? It had been pointing to department store ever since it pointed to anything besides public, and then suddenly last week it was changed to discount store, and without reason either. I know Target combines the two and claims it is a discount department store. However, in my opinion it should point to department store because that article defines what one is better. 68.226.61.4 05:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, a new WikiProject called Retailing has been created, and we invite anyone who is interested in joining to sign up. If you would like to join it, then list your name on Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List_of_proposed_projects#Retailing. Tuxide 00:32, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Thought I would post here that I've created a draft of the Target Corporation article, mainly for the heck of it. What I did was restructure the contents of the current article into a structure created by WikiProject Retailing that we so far believe is ideal for articles about retailing companies such as this one. From here, we can see that this article lacks a section describing the people in charge of Target Corporation. We might not do anything with it, but feel free to comment on it anyways. Tuxide 06:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
From the last edit: "read the sources related to Target Forensic Services. Those sources clearly state that their are critics."
From the reference: "Some people note the possible ethical complexities inherent in Target's tight government relationships. "It is a tricky issue when firms get too close to government," said Ernesto Dal Bó, assistant professor of business and public policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Dal Bó sees such alliances as fraught with potential conflicts, though he cautions against alarm. "There is no reason we need to say that anything bad is happening, but we do need to watch," he said."
The article's past: "Some critics worry that Target and other companies that provide these types of favors for governmental agencies may receive unfair advantages or use their philanthropy to get company special treatment from the government."
At no point are "critics" mentioned. Just one subject who objectively brought up potential problems that could arise simply by calling them "ethitical complexities". If someone would like to reword this reflecting valid information or provide a source that approiately validates the original edit, please do so.
J.reed
03:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Would a list of this type be informative enough to include in Wikipedia? What if it included opening dates?
J.reed
03:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
However, not all SuperTargets feature a full grocery department.[citation needed]
What constitutes "a full grocery department" -- Why does one SuperTarget carry a line of grocery radically different from another SuperTarget to qualify it as not a "full line". I'm not going to bother removing that line again and hitting 3RR, I know someone is going to re-add it anyway. Please cite or give a rational explanation.
J.reed
06:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree, as it's not too hard to have a "full grocery department", and as far as I'm aware of, all Super Targets feature produce, a bakery, and deli, which is all that's missing for a regular Target to have a "full grocery department". - newkai t- c 06:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I've just realized that the user that added it has been blocked because it was a sock puppet. I've removed the line as per the previous comment agreeing with me and
Tuxide's agreement outside of wikipedia.
J.reed
06:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Just thought I would ask this question here. After doing some research, I have found some reason to believe it is not. I am half-convinced that it is actually a term that is NPOV. What I discovered is that upscale discount retailing is a concept that John Geisse invented while he was employed by the Dayton Company, and that Target was the first upscale discount retailer ever. Another example of such a chain would be Venture. In a nutshell:
Comments, please? Tuxide 03:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I've heard things about Kmart somehow indirectly owning Target, does anyone else know about this? Gopherbassist 15:45, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
This is very amusing: A Target vending machine. Does anyone know anything about this, or has seen one? I would be interested in tying it into this article somehow. It appears Target Corporation did this for a year back in 2003. Here is an article about it as well as a page with images of this thing. Tuxide 02:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Some time ago I added:
E*TRADE ATM machines are still found in Super and regular Targets around the country.
and it was removed due to not citing a source. How do I cite something that I've seen in person many times over. - HumanZoom 21:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Some information I thought was interesting, now that Wikipedianinthehouse added the ClearRx information. I'm not 100% sure if these "facts" are true, but I would throw it in if I could cite it from the USPTO site.
Does someone who knows how to work out the USPTO site able to throw this in here with citations? Else I will when I have time to. 68.226.61.4 08:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
A full list of patents assigned to Target Brands is here. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:06, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Apparently "The ornamental design for a duck financial transaction card" has a seperate patent(D522,573), but I haven't had any luck finding one for ClearRx. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
I've reverted Image:TargetLogo1.png to Image:TargetLogo.png. Image:TargetLogo.png is a higher quality image and represents Target's corporate side more than the consumer. As the article pertains more to the corporation, it seems more appropriate. Objections? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hayfordoleary ( talk • contribs)
Speaking of the logo, I'd like to see the 1962-1968 logo uploaded onto here. I can expand the history section further if we had it. Tuxide 21:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
The addition of Holiday controversy seems to be very motive-driven to me, since User:CrazyInSane has been involved in numerous issues involving "secularization" (eg. changing BCE to BC). This new addition, while a good one, needs some NPOV-like balance like the other criticisms. It currently makes it sound like "Evil Target... How dare they secularize Christmas... Good thing some decent people set them straight". There's obviously a counter-argument to why retailers are doing this... Not to offend other religions, etc. It's 4:40am in Austria right now, and I'm pretty brain-dead right now, otherwise I'd do the edit myself. - newkai | talk | contribs 02:42, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed a sentence that started "Speculatively, " about why they might be using the word "holiday" a couple of times for the 2006 xmas season. It fails "No original research" and "cite sources", etc. - THB 04:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that footnote 13 currently links to http://www.saveroe.com/node/1714/, a page from a blog operated on a Planned Parenthood server. This reference does not appear to conform with Wikipedia:Verifiability#Dubious sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Evaluating secondary sources as it is a blog page and the server is run by an organization that is politically active in the area of reproductive services. Does anyone have another source for the claims made by this reference? -- Allen3 talk 00:49, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
The section on Assets Protection because it is highly POV and uncited, and it borders along trade secret violation. What's notable is the mention of Claude Allen, although in the same sense as William Swanberg. Both have their own article. Assets Protection definitely isn't notable enough to have its own section in this article; doing so is like adding one on Cart Attendant, which is flat-out stupid. I am removing this content. Tuxide 06:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
I overhauled the references in the article by citing the names, sources and dates. Previously, the references simply stated "Article on..." Clipper471 07:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Sometime next week, I am going to archive the 2006 discussions on this talk page. I might keep around some of the "active" discussions in its original form (if any), however I am probably going to refactor the unresolved ones in the same fashion as what was done towards the beginning of this year. Way to go everyone, this article has expanded and improved much since its last AfD nom. Regards, Tuxide 07:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I thought "target.direct" was changed to "Target.com" after the sale of Marshall Field's and Mervyns in 2004. target.direct was the group that oversaw all those e-commerce operations. It was labeled "Great stores. One site. One checkout." A search of Google found nothing since 2002 that referred to target.direct. But here's a 2003 webpage from Target.com that still is up and running. [16] Notice how all the retail divisions are under target.direct? I also noticed in the 2005 Annual Report that heads are listed for Target Sourcing Services, Financial Services, and Target.com, but no "target.direct". Changes are forthcoming in the sections labeled "Target Corporation" and "Subsidiaries." I've already changed the template. Clipper471 03:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I noticed someone made an to the subsidiaries section concerning Technology Services. Target Corporation indeed does have such a subsidiary, with offices in both the Minneapolis headquarters building and in India, and it should be included as per comment #2 on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation. What I do not know is if it is one subsidiary or two of them, and what they call themselves nowadays. It is not the same as Target.com. Technology Services provides support for the corporation's customer relationship management and supply chain management systems, etc. Tuxide 02:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Target Commercial Interiors: has showrooms in arizona as well they bought out a company called usbi you should put that down
I have given a major expansion to the pre-1990 part of Target Corporation to better reflect the content that I believe should be in there (like expansion to different regions of the United States and major transition periods). If anything, I would suggest moving the content of the top executives out of History and into its own section for further expansion. Also the post-1990 stuff needs to be expanded, else it looks stupid. Tuxide 07:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
Tuxide 21:19, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
Currently: "Also one of the many criticisms of the store is prominently shown—locking flow employees and janitors overnight in the store. "
"Flow employee"? What's that? Bizspeak? It isn't a phrase in common use, and not in the dictionary. I suggest that it either be parenthetically defined, linked to a definition, or reworded so it's intelligible to ordinary mortals. Jedwards05 02:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
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I have removed [17] from this article because I wasn't too convinced that it was remarkable enough for inclusion. Although it was uncited and leaned towards WP:NOT#CRYSTAL, I have seen citations to verify this. If anyone wants to add it back in, then feel free to, but please find a better way to work this in (like stick it in History or make Target Financial Services its own subsection?) Tuxide 07:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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I removed it. If you're going to add the tag, please leave an explanation as to WHY you think it sounds like an advertisement, and make suggestions to make it better. The article is about a retail outlet, so it's going to sound a bit like an advert. But I do not know of any weasel words or anything similar that, but I certainly didn't comb the article for them - hence why this discussion is needed if you're going to add it back. -- JT Holla! 04:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
In 1995, Target operated a "Smarts" store in a former Target on the Northwest side of Indianapolis. It served as a second sale point for clearanced Target info from all over the Midwest. Does anyone remember any other locations? I don't know how long the store was in operation, but it was long gone by 2000. Lambertman 22:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
User Suso suggested that this article's History section should be expanded to include Target's major transition period towards the end of the 1990s. User Tuxide has identified three major transition periods that the Target chain has experienced:
Just wanted to chime in here and say that I think the article has started to fill out a lot more about its rapid growth in the 90s and 2000s, not just in terms of stores, but in perceived image by consumers. Thanks for doing that. I still think more could be done because it seems like it went from being generally a background store that not many people where familiar with to a number 1 store that nearly everyone knows about. -- Suso ( talk) 02:14, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation/archive1, the following sections need expansion:
User J.reed suggested an article featuring a list of multi-level Target stores to keep users from adding non-notable stores to the this article's Urban stores section. User Tuxide points out that Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations)#Chains and franchises states that a "List of Wal-Marts in China" would be informative.
User Tuxide found an article on a Target vending machine [21] [22] and would like to find a way to add this to the History section. The History section also details failed concepts, such as the specialty store Everyday Hero.
User Tuxide wants to know if the term "upscale discount retailing" is Target POV. Upscale discount retailing is a concept invented by Target's cofounder John Geisse, and is defined as selling high quality goods for low prices by cutting expenses. Traditional discount retailing is defined as achieving low prices on goods by manufacturing cheap products.
User HumanZoom has requested verification on the current ownership of Target's ATM machines without using original research. What is needed is to tell which bank—E*TRADE or any other—owns them, and a source, such as an article, to cite from.
I see no reason why Target Australia should be included in this article, since it has its own article and it has not relationships with the subject of this article except a trademark licence. I think a {{otheruses4|retailer in the United States|retailer in Australia|Target (Australia)}} suffice. -- Samuel CurtisShinichian-Hirokian-- TALK· CONTRIBS 12:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Up until Recently Target had no stores in Alaska, but in October it is opening a store in Anchorage and another in Wasilla. I would have added it but the page is protected. Getagrip123 ( talk) 22:18, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
The Founder in the info box says George D. Dayton. Since Dayton died in 1937, long before the founding of Target stores in 1962, I believe the founder information is a bit misleading. Yes, George Dayton did found the company that eventually became Target Corporation, so is there a way to clarify this on the main page? For instance, who was the Dayton's CEO in 1962, who could presumably be credited with the actual founding of Target stores? Aaporter 87 ( talk) 03:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Target Corporation ( NYSE: TGT) is an American retailing company that was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902. The company originally was known as the Dayton Dry Goods Company.
Just to claify, Ulrich currently opperates as CEO and Chairman of the Board. He will retire as CEO effective May 1st, but will continue to opperate as Chairman until the end of the fiscal year 2008. I fixed this in the article, but just wanted to state it here. -- JT Holla! 16:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22577124/ -- JT Holla! 16:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC) It should be noted that Ulrich opposed his retirement as he appealed it to the Board, but was still forced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geskermann024 ( talk • contribs) 04:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
The slogan "Strength of Many. Power of One." was popularized by former CEO Bob Ulrich to assert his opinion that Target should sell of Daytons, Mervyns, Marshall Fields and other subsidiaries that were eating into Target's profits. Geskermann024 ( talk) 04:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC) (10/28/08)
Sorry, but this statement is completely wrong in every important respect. The "Power of One" referred to the advantages deriving from the synergy between the different operating companies. Canth1 ( talk) 21:23, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Two out of the three Hawaii stores are now hiring associates, http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081210/NEWS01/812100399/-1/RSS02?source=rss_localnews . Store management is already on-site. Wiki should reflect that Vermont is the only state without the retailer. Bbbc ( talk) 03:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
The article contains a good bit of jargon and language that reads like an annual report or prospectus (e.g., "team member," "diversity"). While this probably reads fine to an audience well-acquainted with American business practices, it is not the best approach for Wikipedia's worldwide general readership. Please see WP:BIAS for more information. — AjaxSmack 00:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
It's been a while since I've went through this article, but I removed the following content:
Target offers its customers many items using its own private labels. This include the following
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To me, it looked like cruft or a shopping directory. Yes I know Wal-Mart has a whole article devoted to this topic, but here it really has nothing to do with what this article is about, which is the parent company. There already exists a prosified version in the Subsidiaries section because most of these are owned by the Target Brands division. Tuxide ( talk) 07:43, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Frank Kertai: Study confirms Scotts Valley Target concerns
This report on supercenters (large discount stores that include full-scale groceries) analyzes the regional impacts of these facilities, and the factors that local governments and commuities whould take into account when considering their siting. —January 2004 [ http://www.bayeconfor.org/media/files/pdf/PPRSCscreen11_2.pdf SUPERCENTERS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BAY AREA GROCERY INDUSTRY: Issues, Trends, and Impacts Bay Area Economic Forum January] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fkertai ( talk • contribs) 23:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I just posted a referenced item that Target was among the businesses where customer credit card numbers were stolen in the biggest such case in history. It was quickly reverted here. The edit summary said, "this is the article about Target Corporation not the hacker, leave it in the article about him)" It's referenced and it's notable and it's about Target. This should not be a p.r. article for Target Americasroof ( talk) 02:46, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Sometime this next week I'm going to archive the 2007 discussions here. I might keep around some of the "active" discussions in its original form, however I am probably going to refactor the unresolved ones in the same fashion that I have been doing. Tuxide ( talk) 23:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I recently changed the Target Greatland section where P-Fresh is located to sound a little better, but I think it could possibly go in its own section between Greatland and SuperTarget since it seems like most new stores will be built this way, and some stores will be remodeled to this prototype [23]. I would move it myself, but only if I was allowed to cite the TGT Wiki, which is an internal wiki for Team Members so that it would have more information in it. The TGT Wiki has an entire page dedicated to the P09.400 (aka P-Fresh) prototype with pictures included. Etgeek ( talk) 02:03, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
No Consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 01:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Target Corporation → Target — Based on internal links (see below) and a cursory Google search (being done from a country in which Target does not operate), it looks like the retail store company in the United States is the primary topic for the "Target" title. I've moved the disambiguation page to Target (disambiguation), with an appropriate dabhat at the new redirect target (no pun intended) here, but I think it makes sense to simply have the article for the stores at Target and skip the unnecessary redirect. It looks like there are quite a few ambiguous links to Target that were intended for the stores, in any event, which I'll deal with (if necessary) pending the outcome of this discussion. jæs (talk) 00:56, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
I think the distinction in the article between Target Corporation and Target Stores is exaggerated. Especially, the manner in which the distinction is represented in the Wikipedia is confusing:
Target Stores should be a simple redirect to the main article, not to the section. The redirect page should not contain a cateory. Wal-Mart, Kmart are directly in Category:Discount stores of the United States and Target Corporation should be as well. patsw ( talk) 03:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
My edit on the redirect for Target (retail store) was reverted. Any other opinions? Here's a fact: Target breaks revenue into exactly two categories "Sales" and "Credit Cards", that's 97.1% 2.9%, which is why a distinction between "the corporation" and "the stores" makes little sense. As it the case with Walmart, K-Mart, Macy's, etc. "the corporation" is "the stores" and "the stores" are "the corporation". patsw ( talk) 03:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
From WP:3o - because this dispute is between more than 2 people (Patsw, Vegaswikian, jæs), I cannot provide a third opinion, but I'll provide an unnoficial fourth - do you really care that much? Hipocrite ( talk) 19:47, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
This support wavered in July 0f 2010, due to the donation of $150,000 to support the election of an anti-gay rights GOP candidate for Minnesotan governor. That's ALL?! -- 98.232.176.109 ( talk) 02:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I want to add an image of Target's footprint within the US. However, I'd like to get some input before I do so. First, the image:
File:Target footprint.png
Does anybody have any preferences for appearance?
It's pretty easy for me to change any of this as it's generated on the fly on my computer. Thoughts? Magog the Ogre ( talk) 02:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC) Addendum: the final version would include Alaska/Hawaii. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 19:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Per lack of any discussion otherwise, I've included the image as is. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 03:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Well for one, I already did Wal-Mart :). For another, they can't reproduce it, unless they're good enough at programming to write code to download an image, edit the image on the fly, and save the image, and then write an ad-hoc script for each corporation's website which can pump into another program/script and be run with the proper variables to ensure the right appearance. I am considering making parts of the script public or putting it on the toolserver. As for the time-lapsed map, I could only do that if I could somehow gain access to information on when each store was opened. It's not at target.com. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 05:15, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
1) I did not write the script in such a way that it will autoupdate. I wrote a webcrawler ad-hoc, as I do for any of my maps, save maps of banks which I can just get from the FDIC. I might be haughty enough to think I'm good, but I'm not that good. It will simply run out-of-date in a few months; feel free to put "as of August 2010". 2) It isn't coordinate data, it's zip code data, so the dots are approximate and set to a minor database I created by webcrawling a major map engine. 3) I have never worked in Flash, so it would be very difficult to extract the information from anything in Flash. If flash is compiled rather than implemented, it would make things difficult enough that I'd rather not do it (decoding transmissions on compiled text is difficult to the point of insanity). 4) As someone who's worked for a large corporation before, you'd be surprised about that data. In my case, we didn't even bother keeping data on when something was opened, let alone publishing it (some of the other information that wasn't available to us was borderline illegal for not being so... eh not going there anymore). If you want to contact a corporate representative and ask for the data, I say go for it. I'll be glad to run the data over my map. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 09:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Oh I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I just crawled http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/state_listing.jsp and ripped each zip code listed on the page. If you'd really like it, I can provide you with the source. I'll give you a peek:
$requestb = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/state_results.jsp?state=".$1); $htmlstores = $ua->request($requestb)->content; while ($htmlstores =~ / (\d{5})\<\/td\>/g) {print ", ".(0+$1); # 0 + numerical string -> integer, thus removing leading 0's, lest C think this is an octal variable}
Magog the Ogre ( talk) 20:36, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
They are svg maps; I've generated them by calculating then appending the circles to the svg maps, and finally converting it by hand to png via GIMP. There were no libraries other than the ones I created. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 22:42, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Originally I downloaded a file for it, but it was old, so I wrote a script to decode it directly by accessing the AJAX at MapQuest. The Supreme Court has ruled that information is not copyrightable, so I believe I'm in the clear. My only regret was making 100,000 hits to MapQuest (00000-99999) to create my small database. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:54, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
While I believe the article needs to reference Target's recent controversial political contribution to Minnesota Forward, I do not agree that this donation merits half of the article's introduction. While this recent act by Target has garnered considerable press, prominently mentioning it in the article's introduction creates the impression that this one act is one of the single most significant elements of this 60+ billion dollar company with 50 years of history. Content related to this recent current event should reside in the body of the article, perhaps with a one sentence reference in the introduction. Mill1627 ( talk) 23:52, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Some of the wording in the paragraph gives the impression that Target donated directly to Emmer, which is absolutely not true. I seriously doubt that at the time of their donation, Target knew that MN-Forward would put out ads in support of Emmer. 64.184.253.134 ( talk) 05:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Why isn't this mentioned in the article?? Its a big deal -- 98.232.176.109 ( talk) 05:25, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I am considering the addition of Target's re-launched in house brand "up and up" under the "Subsidiaries" category (Target Brands). I am also uncertain about the last sentence as the bullseye is no longer the design for the Target Brand. "The relaunch includes new packaging that replaces the traditional bullseye logo with colorful arrows and the new name." http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/06/22/daily37.html
Caro90 ( talk) 05:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
footnote 68 doesn't look to be valid anymore. Maybe the roof has changed? 69.241.114.130 ( talk) 03:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Target has come under fire for large political donations to extremely anti-gay causes and candidates. They have also selecttively sued marriage equality advocates while ignoring Yes on Prop 8 solicitors. They have spent a great deal of effort scrubbing their image in the mainstream media as well as online using very heavy handed tactics. This is very important, if they want to delve into politics and site free speech, they need to allow everyone else the same privilege. The Bill of Rights still trumps corporate policy, for now... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.22.34.201 ( talk) 21:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
"As of May 2010, the gay and lesbian community has been boycotting Target over donations to anti-gay groups and politicians." -- Minnesota Forward is not an "Anti-Gay" group, they are a political action group that has supported both Democrats and Republicans. I think the current blurb should be changed to something like: "As of May 2010, the gay and lesbian community has been boycotting Target over donations to Minnesota Forward, a bipartisan Political Action Group that funded Republican Tom Emmer in the Minnesota 2010 Gubernational Election". I really feel like the current information is very inflammatory given its lack of credibility. 174.53.138.123 ( talk) 03:56, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
I have removed Canada from the "areas served" section, as Canada is not currently being served by Target, and will not be until 2013 or 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.99.247 ( talk) 22:25, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
why does it say in wiki that Target does NOT serve the state of Vermont?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.229.28 ( talk) 09:04, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
In the article it states, "Target stores are designed to be more attractive than large box-department stores by having wider aisles, drop ceilings, a more attractive presentation of merchandise and generally cleaner fixtures and store personnel."
What exactly do they mean by "cleaner... store personnel" ? Do competing stores' employees bathe infrequently? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.34.13 ( talk) 05:39, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
the 89th reference is broken and there is nothing to validate the 3 million up from 2 million in weekly charitable donations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.126.56.193 ( talk) 02:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/07/13/target-refuses-to-sell-newly-out-frank-oceans-album-in-stores/ Anyone else heard about this? -- RThompson82 ( talk) 21:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
According to urbanlegends.about.com, this has been proven as an urban legend. Target stores HAVE participated in these programs in the past. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.81.62 ( talk) 3:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was not moved. -- BDD ( talk) 23:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC) ( non-admin closure)
Target Corporation → Target (store)
Everyone refers to this place as Target. No one says that they went to buy some clothes at Target Corporation or that they work at Target Corporation. Voortle ( talk) 04:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
By September 2010, Target Stores with garden centers had stopped stocking live plants and most garden supplies; in about 350 of its stores, Target used some of the space to stock an expanded selection of fresh food, meat and produce, with the remaining 700 stores gaining space for seasonal items.[38]>>
This article says that garden centers went away in about 350 of its stores. Then goes on to mention the "remaining 700 stores". One of these numbers must be wrong. Which is it? 4.238.6.241 ( talk) 16:25, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Why is there nothing on this article about the labor disputes that Target has had in New York?
It wasn't a minor incident as Target was found guilty of violating labor law and even shut an entire store down as a result. KurtFF8 ( talk) 15:18, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Split - History section is extremely long and overly detailed, and should be split into a new article entitled " History of Target", as this article is over 120 kB. Thoughts? -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 03:06, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Ericschwarz2001 ( talk) 20:40, 28 June 2014 (UTC) Is the holiday advertising section necessary?
Why is it that the Target data breach, one of the largest retail hacks in modern history (if not the largest) is relegated to a mere sentence at the bottom of an unrelated section? Surely this event, which fundamentally changed how financial institutions approached point-of-sale security, merits its own section if not it's own article.
This hack was too large and too widespread (hundreds of millions of people estimated affected) to be lumped in with other data breaches and be passed off in just a few words. I assert that this event is noteworthy as per Wikipedia's standards, and I purpose it be given its own section, regardless of the feelings at the Target P.R. department. 166.170.41.165 ( talk) 08:51, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Did someone forget that Target acquired Ayr-Way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.129.209.251 ( talk) 23:10, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I am currently working on an article about the Target Open House. I would love some help expanding the article.
/info/en/?search=Draft:Target_Open_House
Thanks, Daylen ( talk) 17:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
There's a lot of back and forth editing/reverting going on about Target's policy permitting bathroom use based an individual's gender identity. This is, of course, related to the bathroom bills, etc. Rather than edit warring, can we try and reach a consensus here as to whether this should be included in the article? Personally, I don't think it's notable enough for inclusion. By extension, nor do I think mention of the related "boycott(s)" are notable. Brianga ( talk) 18:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
I can see posting the boycott on the AFA page, but it seems more like a political axe to grind here. Wikidrg3rd ( talk) 15:32, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Even given WP:RECENTISM, I think the policy clearly merits mention; it seems to me to be the most widely-covered news item about Target since they had the credit card hack. Examples:
Rolf H Nelson ( talk) 00:34, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Interesting to note that user Npzinos who seems to think it is important to note that the AFA disagrees with Target also feels it shouldn't be mentioned that the SPLC has labeled the AFA as a hate group. I think if you're going to mention one, then in the interest of neutrality you should mention both. Npzinos doesn't seem willing to talk about it, but would rather continue the edit war. ( Wikidrg3rd ( talk) 19:25, 2 May 2016 (UTC))
Not sure where you got the idea that I wasn't willing to talk about it. As far as I can tell, the email from Biranga 4 minutes ago is the first invitation that I had to discuss the issue, and here I am ready to talk. I agree with Rolf Nelson here. This is the most significant consumer attitude issue affecting Target since the credit card hack. 1.1 million boycotters is not something to ignore, and it is the largest boycott of a retail chain in history (correct me in I am wrong). I am stating facts - my article does not state an opinion one way or another. On the other hand, by alluding to the AFA as a hate group the editor is stating an opinion (there are many who would disagree that AFA is a hate-group, while there is nothing in my edit that I think can be disagreed with on a factual basis). Basically by referring to the AFA as a hate group, the editor seems to be trying to denounce the boycott as made up of hate-mongering extremists. I would leave the entry as is, without the hate-group insertion. I do think that whoever placed the article further down in the article (chapter 8 I believe) was right to move it to a more proper location. talk 15:49, 2 May, 2016 (UTC) Npzinos ( talk) 20:49, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry ... this conversation was started several days ago. I guess I assumed that since you were reposting AFA boycott references repeatedly that you might have joined in on the talk earlier ... my bad. I guess I would say that it is a fact that the SPLC has labeled the AFA as a hate group. The note doesn't say the AFA is a hate group ... it merely says that the SPLC has labeled it as such. Perhaps if they had organized a boycott of the AFA you would be alright with the reference. :) I guess I could also say that this isn't the largest boycott of a retail chain in history ... neither one of us has demonstrated our opinion to be true on that point. Wikidrg3rd ( talk) 13:09, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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" Wesfarmers began operating an Australian version of Target in 1973,"
This statement is not correct, or at least very misleading. The "Australian version of Target", was started in 1973 by either the Coles company or the Myer company ( I don't recall which ), which merged in the 1980's. Wesfarmers did not acquire the Coles-Myer company until 2007. Wesfarmers were not involved in any way in starting or operating the Australian "Target" chain of store, prior to them acquiring the entire Coles-Myer business. Lathamibird ( talk) 05:51, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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I've seen several stories about Target's use of Big Data in customer marketing, including a reference to one customer's father learning that his teenage daughter was pregnant as a result of Target's marketing analytics system sending her targeted ads.
Target also provides aid to law enforcement, which in at least one cease led to a murder charge
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0421/102.html https://corporate.target.com/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-career-target-forensic-services-labo http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/02/target-sets-sights-on-hard-to-crack.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/09/01/stop-thief https://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/24475-Target-Corporation-Announces-Broad-Commitment-to-Law-Enforcement-Initiatives-New-Technology-Will-Help-Make-Minnesota-Communities-Safer
Would anyone object to an addition of these sections? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jguttenburg ( talk • contribs) 21:32, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
This is a possible EL link as it is an official video by CNBC WhisperToMe ( talk) 09:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
I plan on reworking the history section on this main article by shortening it to only around 3 paragraphs as it is currently too long for the main article. The majority of the history on Target will be redirected to the article on the history of Target.-- Excel23 ( talk) 02:16, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Formal request has been received to merge: History of Target Corporation to the history section of this article. The history of Target is already covered in the history section of this article and a history of Target Corporation separate article is not needed.-- Excel23 ( talk) 20:56, 8 February 2020 (UTC)
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This article seems to be bias against Target for enforcing its no solictation policy, and ending its exemption for the Salvation Army. I see no need to mention a competitor in this article, as Wal-mart has always allowed Salvation Army bell ringers (not just in response to Target's decision).
In the history of the page, one user said he added "Salvation Army" to the title to make the decision stand out more. Target makes thousands of decisions each year that affect its customers.
Why is there a link to a organization that is calling for a boycott and not one to a website that supports Target?
There is no mention that Target's same store sales are higher than Wal-Mart's for year (and their estimate for December is higher than their competitor) This would lead one to believe that the presence or absense is not on the mind of most consumers.
There is no mention of when Target informed the Salvation Army of its decsion or that Target continues to donate to the Salvation Army.
There is no mention of other retailers that ban the Salvation Army (why pick on Target?).
There is no mention that the Salvation Army is a Christian organization, and that Target is a profit-based corporation that has customers of all different backgrounds and religions.
User:69.134.50.153 added sales figures for Target for December, but didn't include any source for this information of any kind. I've looked, but I'm not sure where to find such information. If someone can back up the information with a citation, please add it. Otherwise I have a hard time leaving it as is without removing the information. -- ABQCat 23:30, 17 Jan 2005 (UTC)
After removal of the information on the Salvation Army and Target Stores with the explanation that "salvation army info no longer relevant", I decided to make a quick case here for why it is relevant.
If the rationale for information removal is that it refers to an event which occurred in the past, Wikipedia is FULL of irrelevant information.
I'm very willing to see changes to the information as presented currently. However, I'm not sure that there are actually any circumstances except the season which have changed. As of now, Target Stores will still not allow the Salvation Army to return next Christmas (2005), and the information seems still relevant.
If there's inaccurate, false, or outdated information which would be best to remove or change, please do so and discuss it here. Removing the entire section probably isn't in keeping with the goals of Wikipedia in most cases, especially without any discussion on the article talk page.
-- ABQCat 22:13, 30 Jan 2005 (UTC)
The basis for not including the Salvation Army information is not whether you support or don't support the Salvation Army or Target Corporation. How does this decision weigh any heavier than any other decision Target has made? I am not against including this information; however, I think it should be balance with all other decisions that have been made by Target Corporation. It has made many other decisions that should be included: store closings, controversial store openings, changes to the return policy (and many of these decisions upset just as many people). If those decisions cannot be properly researched, then the Salvation Army section should not be included either. How do you single out a single decision by a company and decide it is more imporant than other decisions made by the company? My point is that maybe Target opened/closed a store in my neighborhood, and that was a controversial decision that affected my neighborhood, but the majority of people do not see that as relevant..so it would not be included in the history of the company. Likewise, the Salvation Army decision upset certain people who like the organization, and others (probably the majority of Americans) do not see that as relevant.
I personally think the bottom line for including/not including this information might be: was it pivotal in the company's history? Has it caused the company to lose money/profits? No. Has it it caused the company to go bankrupt? No. Has it caused the company to improve results significantly? No.
I think the article has become more balanced, but it kind of concerns me that the Salvation Army section is so "detailed" (It is longer than the section about Target itself!). Perhaps it could be widdled down to one paragraph to say something like: 'Target made a controversial decision in 2004, in which the Salvation Army would no longer be allowed to have its bell-ringers on Target property. This decision wa sextremely controversial...etc etc"
Seeing that Target Stores is the primary division of Target Corporation (and TGT having shed Marshall Fields and Mervyn's, it may be appropriate to merge this into the Target Corporation page as a section. Or create a new article called "Target" to replace both Target Corporation and Target Stores, that would include information about the history of Target Corp and a section on the stores it operates?
I see your point. But, most companies operate their stores as a division of their corporation (example: CVS/pharmacy is a division of CVS Corporation, Wal-Mart Stores is a division of Wal-Mart, Home Depot Stores is a division of Home Depot Corp.)
I think that combining Target Stores with Target Corp would clean up some of the overlap (especially now that Target is the only retailing division of Target Corp.)
The pages have now been merged. Talk:Target Stores information was transferred to this new Talk:Target Corporation Page
Just so you know, hard line is anything on tile as well as Housewares and Domestics, and soft line is anything on carpet.
I think this article should mention Target's "transition period" from a minor retailer in the background to becoming a superpower in the retailing business. At least in America. From what I remember, in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, Target was a sparse unotable store. But then in the mid to late 1990s, Target started a campaign of redesigning their image, stores and introduced clean cut and cleaver commercials. Then in 2001 and 2002 they came to the forefront of the retail business. We need to find a way to neutralize this information and include it. Suso 01:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I would like to see the Urban Stores section get expanded. Currently, the article mentions Target being flexible with their designs and mentions that there are multi-level stores in urban areas, such as the one in Downtown Minneapolis. However, the article doesn't reflect the appearance of some of these stores from the outside, for those who have seen the flashy ones. I don't know if there are other retailers that do this, but the point that should be made more clearly in this section is that some of these urban stores are designed in appearance to be very different than Target's suburban stores. Here are some examples:
I believe there is also a 2-story Target in California that looks flashy, but I can't find an image of it. Is there any way the Urban Stores section can be expanded to reflect that the design of such stores in question are unique, either by describing them or by uploading a free image of such a store? I would like to see an image on here (since I think it's the best way for readers to understand) but I don't live in Minneapolis or Brooklyn, etc. so I can't take a photograph of these buildings. Thanks. 68.226.61.4 06:09, 17 November 2005 (UTC)
Can whoever worked on the criticism section back it up with some factual evidence? As it currently is, it just relates Target to Wal-Mart's downfalls and states most of the same problems, which I would argue is simply not true. I was an employee of Target and they offered rather decent benefits and wages despite what the section would lead one to believe.
Bottom line: we need CITES of these practices. -- BrandonR 17:12, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
If anybody's in the mood, the mascot, Bullseye, is becoming more and more popular. That could be another section. Anybody know the breed? - newkai | talk | contribs 05:53, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
I've added that Bullseye the dog is a trademark of Target Brands Inc., a subsidary of Target Corporation. Source: http://www.target.com/ it says it right on the bottom of the main page. 68.226.61.4 07:38, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Newkai just posted on the differentiation section a part about management and Target's team oriented philosophy. In it, it added a description on "team leaders" as being middle management, and added a part about LODs, or Leaders On Duty. In my opinion, team leaders do not fit the description of middle management, and LODs do. Here is a hierarchy of what I view as management in a Target store:
etc...anyone else view this differently than I do? If team leaders are really considered middle management, then I'm not seeing why. 68.226.61.4 20:54, 14 December 2005 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation, I've expanded as much of what was pointed out here as I could so far and I would like to see the rest get expanded so this article can be nominated again. Things that need to be expanded are:
68.226.61.4 07:50, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I work for the company and I believe when Target is pronounced with the pseudo-French accent, it is correctly spelled as "Tar-zhay". The October edition of our company newsletter, "Red" features an interview with Pink where she pronounces Target with the pseudo-French accent and the newsletter spelled her pronounciantion out as "Tar-zhay". I'm changing it back to "Tar-zhay", because I don't know where this "Tar-jé" came from (and it was only changed from "Tar-zhay" to "Tar-jé" recently) so I doubt its credibility. 68.226.61.4 00:33, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
Within the past week, there have been many edits to the Positions section of this article (causing the article to exceed 32k), yet none of the information on here has been verified. This section mentions jobs available in Target's retailing divisions. Some things wrong with this section in particular:
68.226.61.4 08:42, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
I have removed a couple positions because I can't back them up and they sound more like corporate level jobs than retail jobs to me. I have also satisfied my own argument for original research, the section is now based off of Target Corporation's web site. Also, by the time I'm writing this, the article has expanded to 45k, so I have proposed that the section be split into a new article. Reasons are:
If this section is to be split, somebody please come up with a name for it and use the appropriate {{splitsection|NEW TITLE}} template. 68.226.61.4 23:26, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
EDIT: Added a couple more reasons.
In the store I work at, domestics is considered part of hardlines, not softlines as this section states. Whoever wrote this, please research this some more, as it doesn't appear to be universal. Also, some of areas of softlines, such as infants and shoes, do use planograms. This needs to be fixed. I'd fix it myself, but I'd like some input from other people as to how it is in the stores they know or what it says in any official literature. - newkai | talk | contribs 01:37, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
I am a Softlines Specialist where I work and domestics is considered softlines. I know it is throughout the district I work at, maybe it's becasue we are a low volume district without any Greatlands or SuperTargets. Shoes is planogramed, as well as basics, infants gondolas, jewerly, hosiery, and domestics.
It seems as if Target Stores, Target Greatlands and SuperTargets differ greatly in the way they are run. It is obvious that people who work for Target (me being one) are conflicting with the people who work at SuperTarget. Because of this, I think the three divisions need to be split into three different articles.
We combined the Target Stores and Target Corporation articles a long time ago. There was too much overlap between the separate articles. Target Stores is a subsidiary of the Corporation and the article states that. I think it makes much better sense to have a "one stop" shop for all Target information. If most people want information about Target, they want information about the stores. Keep it all together. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
I definitely think think that the job positions section should be split off into a new article, with the main article containing just the general positions, eg. just "Team Leader," not "Garden Center Team Leader," "Grocery Sales Floor Team Leader," etc. So basically just STL, ETL, Team Leaders, Specialists, and Team Leaders, and perhaps the regional and group executives. Any objections? - newkai | talk | contribs 17:05, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
Listing all these positions is treading into trade secret violations and is too in depth. It also messes with the flow of the article. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
This is getting way too complicated and over in-depth. We are also treading in possibly violating corporate trade secrets violations with this much detail. I am removing this information. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:04, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Much of the information that was removed from the article was placed by Target employees looking to improve the image of the company (talking about Target "brand", RGY visits, etc). There was way too much of a "positive" vibe coming from the article. I have removed that to return a more neutral POV to the article. Also, putting this information starts to get into violation of trade secrets and getting too in-depth. Wikipedianinthehouse 18:17, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Hello, I live in the Omaha, Nebraska region, where there are three SuperTargets. One of these is notable for being the company's first SuperTarget store, and another one is the second SuperTarget store in Nebraska. The three SuperTargets in this region all provide a service called "Parcel Pick-Up", where after paying for merchandise, the guest has the option to drive up to the front of the store and have their purchased items, like groceries, loaded into their vehicle, as opposed to the more traditional straight-out-to-your-vehicle "Carry Out". I happen to do this job in one of the three stores, and I once heard that "Parcel Pick-Up" is unique to the three SuperTargets in the Omaha region and all other SuperTargets provide "Carry Out".
My question is if anyone who lives outside of the Omaha region and visits a SuperTarget know if their store provides "Parcel Pick-Up"? I have never visited a SuperTarget other than these three, so I don't know how credible that statement is, and since "Parcel Pick-Up" is not the traditional way of loading groceries into someone's vehicle (least in Omaha) I think something about "Parcel Pick-Up" would be remarkable to add to Wikipedia. I suppose I could confirm this again in work but I wanted to research this from outside of the company. Thanks. 68.226.61.4 02:07, 10 October 2005 (UTC)
SuperTargets in NC do not offer any such service. Wikipedianinthehouse 21:38, 22 November 2005 (UTC)
- The Mason City, Iowa SuperTarget store had a Parcel Pick-up area too. That store was the 4th ever SuperTarget. The Parcel Pick-up area was closed about three years ago. -
I'm sorry to say it but the people on this page who are hell bent on making this page a feature article have really ruined a very in depth page. I dont see how deleting all the detail that was added made this page any better. In my mind, it now sucks. This was a great article with a lot of information, now its just a skeleton. Lets put the detail back in and see where it can go.
Warning, this subject has been refactored from several different sections, and presents the perspective of one Wikipedia contributor. This summary might not reflect everything that was discussed previously, and none of it should be viewed as absolute truth or the opinions of those involved in these discussions. 68.226.61.4 04:27, 6 January 2006 (UTC)
Didnt know whether to include this into Target or make it a new thing, but somethign should be mentioned about their restructured photo lab. I had a family member that was a manager of a photo lab that has information about what exactly has happened and such. For example, in June of 2005, Target and Kodak/Qualex contract was up and Target decided to take back their photo labs from them, laying off many staff members from the Photo Lab division. Just a thought currently, any suggestions? -- Something crazy 01:16, 4 March 2006 (UTC)
I think this article should mention Target's "transition period" from a minor retailer in the background to becoming a superpower in the retailing business. At least in America. From what I remember, in the 70s, 80s and early 90s, Target was a sparse unotable store. But then in the mid to late 1990s, Target started a campaign of redesigning their image, stores and introduced clean cut and cleaver commercials. Then in 2001 and 2002 they came to the forefront of the retail business. We need to find a way to neutralize this information and include it. Suso 01:48, 27 August 2005 (UTC)
User newkai suggested that a section be made on the Bullseye Dog mascot. Known information:
I was fairly certain that the dog was a pit bull. Is that the same as a bull terrier? 69.174.71.38 20:49, 28 February 2006 (UTC)Ryan
As per Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation, the following sections need expansion:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/28/AR2006012801268.html This is a really interesting article about Target helping law enforcement catch criminals. I really hope this is incorporated into the main article. I'm new to Wikipedia and don't really know how to edit the pages in the correct format nor do I know how to draft well, but I want to help out this wonderful project. So I'm pointing out this article for those who may have the expertise. I hope it helps the project. Dtrizzle 05:32, 29 January 2006 (UTC)
there is conflicting information on this page. Are there 23 or 27 distribution centers? ( Jay 21:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC))
Recently an anonymous poster put under the Differentiation section a comment that implied that Target has its own loss prevention team and also that its competitors do not. I believe this is incorrect because Wal-Mart has their own loss prevention team, and I'm not too sure if there is a major discount retailer that does not have one. I do believe a mention of Target's assets protection team is worthy of noting on here though. Also, one remarkable work that they've done was catching some guy a couple weeks ago that had been doing ticket switching on Legos and had previously gotten away with stealing $200,000 of Legos from several other Target stores. I don't see any valid reason why content like this should be in the Differentiation section though, so it should be elsewhere. 68.226.61.4 07:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I think what the poster was trying to drive home was that there's a uniformed asset protection officer at the front of the store. That team member is specifically there to remind guests that Target is concerned for their safety and also to serve as a deterrent to would-be shop lifters. The security guard is a huge difference (better or worse) than the Wal-Mart greeter. I doubt anyone thinks Wal-Marts are insecure. --
Meadowbrook
00:26, 6 December 2005 (UTC)
Thought I'd mention that the Lego thief I mentioned above, William Swanberg, has his own article now. Any way we can work him in? 68.226.61.4 05:31, 15 February 2006 (UTC)
I don't think there is enough difference between other corporations' LP programs and Target's to warrant a section on it. K-Mart uses a security guard at their exit at one of their stores in NYC. ( Jay 21:08, 2 March 2006 (UTC))
Someone just changed the founding year from 1902 to 1962. The Dayton Dry Goods Company was formed in 1902. In my opinion, this was the true beginning of the Target Corporation even if it was called something different way back then. What do you all think? -- MatthewUND( talk) 18:16, 18 October 2005 (UTC)
The article mentions Target having urban stores that appear way different than their boxy suburban ones. We could really use a free image of one of these places. Such stores include the ones in Downtown Minneapolis, MN, Brooklyn, NY, and Stamford, CT; however, there are others.
The section also mentions two-story Target stores using a Vermaport. There is already a free image of one.
The Similar urban Target stores with their own unique designs exist in... sentence is getting to be very long since I initially wrote it. I do not know if the stores that were added really do exist, nor do I know how remarkable they are. There needs to be a cite referring to each of them. Also, the sentence just looks funny anyways, it might better be represented as a list instead.
The Portland store doesn't sound remarkable enough to mention here, so I might just remove the paragraph. If there is reason to include the factual information in the article, then I will copyedit it. Unless someone beats me to it, I might also write a paragraph on the Atlantic Terminal store, since it is one of the busiest in the corporation. 68.226.61.4 03:18, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
The only particularly notable stores would be Atlantic Terminal
see photo (volume and location), Hollywood (location and ultra-unique design), and Nicollet Mall (I guess you could call this the flagship store?). I've never heard of the Portland store nor see why it is notable. (Springfield, VA is a mall location
see photo that is just as notable)
J.reed
04:27, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
I've removed this note as I do update the store count every THREE months. There are only 3 store opening cycles a year. This allows all employees to be focused on holiday sales and not a store that isn't even open. Also, what are we looking to expand in the Urban Stores section?
J.reed
08:33, 20 April 2006 (UTC)
Should the Target Corp. infobox point to department store or discount store? It had been pointing to department store ever since it pointed to anything besides public, and then suddenly last week it was changed to discount store, and without reason either. I know Target combines the two and claims it is a discount department store. However, in my opinion it should point to department store because that article defines what one is better. 68.226.61.4 05:01, 1 May 2006 (UTC)
Hello, a new WikiProject called Retailing has been created, and we invite anyone who is interested in joining to sign up. If you would like to join it, then list your name on Wikipedia:Wikiproject/List_of_proposed_projects#Retailing. Tuxide 00:32, 4 May 2006 (UTC)
Thought I would post here that I've created a draft of the Target Corporation article, mainly for the heck of it. What I did was restructure the contents of the current article into a structure created by WikiProject Retailing that we so far believe is ideal for articles about retailing companies such as this one. From here, we can see that this article lacks a section describing the people in charge of Target Corporation. We might not do anything with it, but feel free to comment on it anyways. Tuxide 06:13, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
From the last edit: "read the sources related to Target Forensic Services. Those sources clearly state that their are critics."
From the reference: "Some people note the possible ethical complexities inherent in Target's tight government relationships. "It is a tricky issue when firms get too close to government," said Ernesto Dal Bó, assistant professor of business and public policy at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley. Dal Bó sees such alliances as fraught with potential conflicts, though he cautions against alarm. "There is no reason we need to say that anything bad is happening, but we do need to watch," he said."
The article's past: "Some critics worry that Target and other companies that provide these types of favors for governmental agencies may receive unfair advantages or use their philanthropy to get company special treatment from the government."
At no point are "critics" mentioned. Just one subject who objectively brought up potential problems that could arise simply by calling them "ethitical complexities". If someone would like to reword this reflecting valid information or provide a source that approiately validates the original edit, please do so.
J.reed
03:25, 14 May 2006 (UTC)
Would a list of this type be informative enough to include in Wikipedia? What if it included opening dates?
J.reed
03:21, 7 August 2006 (UTC)
However, not all SuperTargets feature a full grocery department.[citation needed]
What constitutes "a full grocery department" -- Why does one SuperTarget carry a line of grocery radically different from another SuperTarget to qualify it as not a "full line". I'm not going to bother removing that line again and hitting 3RR, I know someone is going to re-add it anyway. Please cite or give a rational explanation.
J.reed
06:16, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I agree, as it's not too hard to have a "full grocery department", and as far as I'm aware of, all Super Targets feature produce, a bakery, and deli, which is all that's missing for a regular Target to have a "full grocery department". - newkai t- c 06:25, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
I've just realized that the user that added it has been blocked because it was a sock puppet. I've removed the line as per the previous comment agreeing with me and
Tuxide's agreement outside of wikipedia.
J.reed
06:28, 11 August 2006 (UTC)
Just thought I would ask this question here. After doing some research, I have found some reason to believe it is not. I am half-convinced that it is actually a term that is NPOV. What I discovered is that upscale discount retailing is a concept that John Geisse invented while he was employed by the Dayton Company, and that Target was the first upscale discount retailer ever. Another example of such a chain would be Venture. In a nutshell:
Comments, please? Tuxide 03:34, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
I've heard things about Kmart somehow indirectly owning Target, does anyone else know about this? Gopherbassist 15:45, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
This is very amusing: A Target vending machine. Does anyone know anything about this, or has seen one? I would be interested in tying it into this article somehow. It appears Target Corporation did this for a year back in 2003. Here is an article about it as well as a page with images of this thing. Tuxide 02:47, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Some time ago I added:
E*TRADE ATM machines are still found in Super and regular Targets around the country.
and it was removed due to not citing a source. How do I cite something that I've seen in person many times over. - HumanZoom 21:57, 9 October 2006 (UTC)
Some information I thought was interesting, now that Wikipedianinthehouse added the ClearRx information. I'm not 100% sure if these "facts" are true, but I would throw it in if I could cite it from the USPTO site.
Does someone who knows how to work out the USPTO site able to throw this in here with citations? Else I will when I have time to. 68.226.61.4 08:45, 23 November 2005 (UTC)
A full list of patents assigned to Target Brands is here. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:06, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
Apparently "The ornamental design for a duck financial transaction card" has a seperate patent(D522,573), but I haven't had any luck finding one for ClearRx. JesseW, the juggling janitor 01:42, 24 September 2006 (UTC)
I've reverted Image:TargetLogo1.png to Image:TargetLogo.png. Image:TargetLogo.png is a higher quality image and represents Target's corporate side more than the consumer. As the article pertains more to the corporation, it seems more appropriate. Objections? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hayfordoleary ( talk • contribs)
Speaking of the logo, I'd like to see the 1962-1968 logo uploaded onto here. I can expand the history section further if we had it. Tuxide 21:08, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
The addition of Holiday controversy seems to be very motive-driven to me, since User:CrazyInSane has been involved in numerous issues involving "secularization" (eg. changing BCE to BC). This new addition, while a good one, needs some NPOV-like balance like the other criticisms. It currently makes it sound like "Evil Target... How dare they secularize Christmas... Good thing some decent people set them straight". There's obviously a counter-argument to why retailers are doing this... Not to offend other religions, etc. It's 4:40am in Austria right now, and I'm pretty brain-dead right now, otherwise I'd do the edit myself. - newkai | talk | contribs 02:42, 26 July 2006 (UTC)
I removed a sentence that started "Speculatively, " about why they might be using the word "holiday" a couple of times for the 2006 xmas season. It fails "No original research" and "cite sources", etc. - THB 04:08, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
I noticed that footnote 13 currently links to http://www.saveroe.com/node/1714/, a page from a blog operated on a Planned Parenthood server. This reference does not appear to conform with Wikipedia:Verifiability#Dubious sources and Wikipedia:Reliable sources#Evaluating secondary sources as it is a blog page and the server is run by an organization that is politically active in the area of reproductive services. Does anyone have another source for the claims made by this reference? -- Allen3 talk 00:49, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
The section on Assets Protection because it is highly POV and uncited, and it borders along trade secret violation. What's notable is the mention of Claude Allen, although in the same sense as William Swanberg. Both have their own article. Assets Protection definitely isn't notable enough to have its own section in this article; doing so is like adding one on Cart Attendant, which is flat-out stupid. I am removing this content. Tuxide 06:13, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
I overhauled the references in the article by citing the names, sources and dates. Previously, the references simply stated "Article on..." Clipper471 07:29, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
Sometime next week, I am going to archive the 2006 discussions on this talk page. I might keep around some of the "active" discussions in its original form (if any), however I am probably going to refactor the unresolved ones in the same fashion as what was done towards the beginning of this year. Way to go everyone, this article has expanded and improved much since its last AfD nom. Regards, Tuxide 07:51, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I thought "target.direct" was changed to "Target.com" after the sale of Marshall Field's and Mervyns in 2004. target.direct was the group that oversaw all those e-commerce operations. It was labeled "Great stores. One site. One checkout." A search of Google found nothing since 2002 that referred to target.direct. But here's a 2003 webpage from Target.com that still is up and running. [16] Notice how all the retail divisions are under target.direct? I also noticed in the 2005 Annual Report that heads are listed for Target Sourcing Services, Financial Services, and Target.com, but no "target.direct". Changes are forthcoming in the sections labeled "Target Corporation" and "Subsidiaries." I've already changed the template. Clipper471 03:50, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
I noticed someone made an to the subsidiaries section concerning Technology Services. Target Corporation indeed does have such a subsidiary, with offices in both the Minneapolis headquarters building and in India, and it should be included as per comment #2 on Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation. What I do not know is if it is one subsidiary or two of them, and what they call themselves nowadays. It is not the same as Target.com. Technology Services provides support for the corporation's customer relationship management and supply chain management systems, etc. Tuxide 02:37, 28 January 2007 (UTC) Target Commercial Interiors: has showrooms in arizona as well they bought out a company called usbi you should put that down
I have given a major expansion to the pre-1990 part of Target Corporation to better reflect the content that I believe should be in there (like expansion to different regions of the United States and major transition periods). If anything, I would suggest moving the content of the top executives out of History and into its own section for further expansion. Also the post-1990 stuff needs to be expanded, else it looks stupid. Tuxide 07:28, 23 March 2007 (UTC)
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Currently: "Also one of the many criticisms of the store is prominently shown—locking flow employees and janitors overnight in the store. "
"Flow employee"? What's that? Bizspeak? It isn't a phrase in common use, and not in the dictionary. I suggest that it either be parenthetically defined, linked to a definition, or reworded so it's intelligible to ordinary mortals. Jedwards05 02:51, 26 December 2006 (UTC)
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I have removed [17] from this article because I wasn't too convinced that it was remarkable enough for inclusion. Although it was uncited and leaned towards WP:NOT#CRYSTAL, I have seen citations to verify this. If anyone wants to add it back in, then feel free to, but please find a better way to work this in (like stick it in History or make Target Financial Services its own subsection?) Tuxide 07:47, 5 November 2007 (UTC)
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I removed it. If you're going to add the tag, please leave an explanation as to WHY you think it sounds like an advertisement, and make suggestions to make it better. The article is about a retail outlet, so it's going to sound a bit like an advert. But I do not know of any weasel words or anything similar that, but I certainly didn't comb the article for them - hence why this discussion is needed if you're going to add it back. -- JT Holla! 04:17, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
In 1995, Target operated a "Smarts" store in a former Target on the Northwest side of Indianapolis. It served as a second sale point for clearanced Target info from all over the Midwest. Does anyone remember any other locations? I don't know how long the store was in operation, but it was long gone by 2000. Lambertman 22:24, 15 January 2007 (UTC)
User Suso suggested that this article's History section should be expanded to include Target's major transition period towards the end of the 1990s. User Tuxide has identified three major transition periods that the Target chain has experienced:
Just wanted to chime in here and say that I think the article has started to fill out a lot more about its rapid growth in the 90s and 2000s, not just in terms of stores, but in perceived image by consumers. Thanks for doing that. I still think more could be done because it seems like it went from being generally a background store that not many people where familiar with to a number 1 store that nearly everyone knows about. -- Suso ( talk) 02:14, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
As per Wikipedia:Featured article candidates/Target Corporation/archive1, the following sections need expansion:
User J.reed suggested an article featuring a list of multi-level Target stores to keep users from adding non-notable stores to the this article's Urban stores section. User Tuxide points out that Wikipedia:Notability (companies and corporations)#Chains and franchises states that a "List of Wal-Marts in China" would be informative.
User Tuxide found an article on a Target vending machine [21] [22] and would like to find a way to add this to the History section. The History section also details failed concepts, such as the specialty store Everyday Hero.
User Tuxide wants to know if the term "upscale discount retailing" is Target POV. Upscale discount retailing is a concept invented by Target's cofounder John Geisse, and is defined as selling high quality goods for low prices by cutting expenses. Traditional discount retailing is defined as achieving low prices on goods by manufacturing cheap products.
User HumanZoom has requested verification on the current ownership of Target's ATM machines without using original research. What is needed is to tell which bank—E*TRADE or any other—owns them, and a source, such as an article, to cite from.
I see no reason why Target Australia should be included in this article, since it has its own article and it has not relationships with the subject of this article except a trademark licence. I think a {{otheruses4|retailer in the United States|retailer in Australia|Target (Australia)}} suffice. -- Samuel CurtisShinichian-Hirokian-- TALK· CONTRIBS 12:58, 21 February 2007 (UTC)
Up until Recently Target had no stores in Alaska, but in October it is opening a store in Anchorage and another in Wasilla. I would have added it but the page is protected. Getagrip123 ( talk) 22:18, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
The Founder in the info box says George D. Dayton. Since Dayton died in 1937, long before the founding of Target stores in 1962, I believe the founder information is a bit misleading. Yes, George Dayton did found the company that eventually became Target Corporation, so is there a way to clarify this on the main page? For instance, who was the Dayton's CEO in 1962, who could presumably be credited with the actual founding of Target stores? Aaporter 87 ( talk) 03:41, 14 October 2008 (UTC)
Target Corporation ( NYSE: TGT) is an American retailing company that was founded in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1902. The company originally was known as the Dayton Dry Goods Company.
Just to claify, Ulrich currently opperates as CEO and Chairman of the Board. He will retire as CEO effective May 1st, but will continue to opperate as Chairman until the end of the fiscal year 2008. I fixed this in the article, but just wanted to state it here. -- JT Holla! 16:15, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22577124/ -- JT Holla! 16:10, 15 January 2008 (UTC) It should be noted that Ulrich opposed his retirement as he appealed it to the Board, but was still forced. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Geskermann024 ( talk • contribs) 04:39, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
The slogan "Strength of Many. Power of One." was popularized by former CEO Bob Ulrich to assert his opinion that Target should sell of Daytons, Mervyns, Marshall Fields and other subsidiaries that were eating into Target's profits. Geskermann024 ( talk) 04:45, 29 October 2008 (UTC) (10/28/08)
Sorry, but this statement is completely wrong in every important respect. The "Power of One" referred to the advantages deriving from the synergy between the different operating companies. Canth1 ( talk) 21:23, 6 November 2008 (UTC)
Two out of the three Hawaii stores are now hiring associates, http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20081210/NEWS01/812100399/-1/RSS02?source=rss_localnews . Store management is already on-site. Wiki should reflect that Vermont is the only state without the retailer. Bbbc ( talk) 03:34, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
The article contains a good bit of jargon and language that reads like an annual report or prospectus (e.g., "team member," "diversity"). While this probably reads fine to an audience well-acquainted with American business practices, it is not the best approach for Wikipedia's worldwide general readership. Please see WP:BIAS for more information. — AjaxSmack 00:41, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
It's been a while since I've went through this article, but I removed the following content:
Target offers its customers many items using its own private labels. This include the following
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To me, it looked like cruft or a shopping directory. Yes I know Wal-Mart has a whole article devoted to this topic, but here it really has nothing to do with what this article is about, which is the parent company. There already exists a prosified version in the Subsidiaries section because most of these are owned by the Target Brands division. Tuxide ( talk) 07:43, 14 August 2009 (UTC)
Frank Kertai: Study confirms Scotts Valley Target concerns
This report on supercenters (large discount stores that include full-scale groceries) analyzes the regional impacts of these facilities, and the factors that local governments and commuities whould take into account when considering their siting. —January 2004 [ http://www.bayeconfor.org/media/files/pdf/PPRSCscreen11_2.pdf SUPERCENTERS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE BAY AREA GROCERY INDUSTRY: Issues, Trends, and Impacts Bay Area Economic Forum January] —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fkertai ( talk • contribs) 23:24, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
I just posted a referenced item that Target was among the businesses where customer credit card numbers were stolen in the biggest such case in history. It was quickly reverted here. The edit summary said, "this is the article about Target Corporation not the hacker, leave it in the article about him)" It's referenced and it's notable and it's about Target. This should not be a p.r. article for Target Americasroof ( talk) 02:46, 28 August 2009 (UTC)
Sometime this next week I'm going to archive the 2007 discussions here. I might keep around some of the "active" discussions in its original form, however I am probably going to refactor the unresolved ones in the same fashion that I have been doing. Tuxide ( talk) 23:36, 13 March 2008 (UTC)
I recently changed the Target Greatland section where P-Fresh is located to sound a little better, but I think it could possibly go in its own section between Greatland and SuperTarget since it seems like most new stores will be built this way, and some stores will be remodeled to this prototype [23]. I would move it myself, but only if I was allowed to cite the TGT Wiki, which is an internal wiki for Team Members so that it would have more information in it. The TGT Wiki has an entire page dedicated to the P09.400 (aka P-Fresh) prototype with pictures included. Etgeek ( talk) 02:03, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
No Consensus to move. Vegaswikian ( talk) 01:08, 10 April 2010 (UTC)
Target Corporation → Target — Based on internal links (see below) and a cursory Google search (being done from a country in which Target does not operate), it looks like the retail store company in the United States is the primary topic for the "Target" title. I've moved the disambiguation page to Target (disambiguation), with an appropriate dabhat at the new redirect target (no pun intended) here, but I think it makes sense to simply have the article for the stores at Target and skip the unnecessary redirect. It looks like there are quite a few ambiguous links to Target that were intended for the stores, in any event, which I'll deal with (if necessary) pending the outcome of this discussion. jæs (talk) 00:56, 3 April 2010 (UTC)
I think the distinction in the article between Target Corporation and Target Stores is exaggerated. Especially, the manner in which the distinction is represented in the Wikipedia is confusing:
Target Stores should be a simple redirect to the main article, not to the section. The redirect page should not contain a cateory. Wal-Mart, Kmart are directly in Category:Discount stores of the United States and Target Corporation should be as well. patsw ( talk) 03:08, 5 May 2010 (UTC)
My edit on the redirect for Target (retail store) was reverted. Any other opinions? Here's a fact: Target breaks revenue into exactly two categories "Sales" and "Credit Cards", that's 97.1% 2.9%, which is why a distinction between "the corporation" and "the stores" makes little sense. As it the case with Walmart, K-Mart, Macy's, etc. "the corporation" is "the stores" and "the stores" are "the corporation". patsw ( talk) 03:54, 10 May 2010 (UTC)
From WP:3o - because this dispute is between more than 2 people (Patsw, Vegaswikian, jæs), I cannot provide a third opinion, but I'll provide an unnoficial fourth - do you really care that much? Hipocrite ( talk) 19:47, 20 May 2010 (UTC)
This support wavered in July 0f 2010, due to the donation of $150,000 to support the election of an anti-gay rights GOP candidate for Minnesotan governor. That's ALL?! -- 98.232.176.109 ( talk) 02:15, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
I want to add an image of Target's footprint within the US. However, I'd like to get some input before I do so. First, the image:
File:Target footprint.png
Does anybody have any preferences for appearance?
It's pretty easy for me to change any of this as it's generated on the fly on my computer. Thoughts? Magog the Ogre ( talk) 02:31, 6 August 2010 (UTC) Addendum: the final version would include Alaska/Hawaii. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 19:07, 6 August 2010 (UTC)
Per lack of any discussion otherwise, I've included the image as is. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 03:23, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Well for one, I already did Wal-Mart :). For another, they can't reproduce it, unless they're good enough at programming to write code to download an image, edit the image on the fly, and save the image, and then write an ad-hoc script for each corporation's website which can pump into another program/script and be run with the proper variables to ensure the right appearance. I am considering making parts of the script public or putting it on the toolserver. As for the time-lapsed map, I could only do that if I could somehow gain access to information on when each store was opened. It's not at target.com. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 05:15, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
1) I did not write the script in such a way that it will autoupdate. I wrote a webcrawler ad-hoc, as I do for any of my maps, save maps of banks which I can just get from the FDIC. I might be haughty enough to think I'm good, but I'm not that good. It will simply run out-of-date in a few months; feel free to put "as of August 2010". 2) It isn't coordinate data, it's zip code data, so the dots are approximate and set to a minor database I created by webcrawling a major map engine. 3) I have never worked in Flash, so it would be very difficult to extract the information from anything in Flash. If flash is compiled rather than implemented, it would make things difficult enough that I'd rather not do it (decoding transmissions on compiled text is difficult to the point of insanity). 4) As someone who's worked for a large corporation before, you'd be surprised about that data. In my case, we didn't even bother keeping data on when something was opened, let alone publishing it (some of the other information that wasn't available to us was borderline illegal for not being so... eh not going there anymore). If you want to contact a corporate representative and ask for the data, I say go for it. I'll be glad to run the data over my map. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 09:00, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Oh I'm sorry, I guess I wasn't clear. I just crawled http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/state_listing.jsp and ripped each zip code listed on the page. If you'd really like it, I can provide you with the source. I'll give you a peek:
$requestb = HTTP::Request->new(GET => "http://sites.target.com/site/en/spot/state_results.jsp?state=".$1); $htmlstores = $ua->request($requestb)->content; while ($htmlstores =~ / (\d{5})\<\/td\>/g) {print ", ".(0+$1); # 0 + numerical string -> integer, thus removing leading 0's, lest C think this is an octal variable}
Magog the Ogre ( talk) 20:36, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
They are svg maps; I've generated them by calculating then appending the circles to the svg maps, and finally converting it by hand to png via GIMP. There were no libraries other than the ones I created. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 22:42, 11 August 2010 (UTC)
Originally I downloaded a file for it, but it was old, so I wrote a script to decode it directly by accessing the AJAX at MapQuest. The Supreme Court has ruled that information is not copyrightable, so I believe I'm in the clear. My only regret was making 100,000 hits to MapQuest (00000-99999) to create my small database. Magog the Ogre ( talk) 00:54, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
While I believe the article needs to reference Target's recent controversial political contribution to Minnesota Forward, I do not agree that this donation merits half of the article's introduction. While this recent act by Target has garnered considerable press, prominently mentioning it in the article's introduction creates the impression that this one act is one of the single most significant elements of this 60+ billion dollar company with 50 years of history. Content related to this recent current event should reside in the body of the article, perhaps with a one sentence reference in the introduction. Mill1627 ( talk) 23:52, 7 August 2010 (UTC)
Some of the wording in the paragraph gives the impression that Target donated directly to Emmer, which is absolutely not true. I seriously doubt that at the time of their donation, Target knew that MN-Forward would put out ads in support of Emmer. 64.184.253.134 ( talk) 05:35, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
Why isn't this mentioned in the article?? Its a big deal -- 98.232.176.109 ( talk) 05:25, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
I am considering the addition of Target's re-launched in house brand "up and up" under the "Subsidiaries" category (Target Brands). I am also uncertain about the last sentence as the bullseye is no longer the design for the Target Brand. "The relaunch includes new packaging that replaces the traditional bullseye logo with colorful arrows and the new name." http://www.bizjournals.com/twincities/stories/2009/06/22/daily37.html
Caro90 ( talk) 05:23, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
footnote 68 doesn't look to be valid anymore. Maybe the roof has changed? 69.241.114.130 ( talk) 03:51, 2 March 2011 (UTC)
Target has come under fire for large political donations to extremely anti-gay causes and candidates. They have also selecttively sued marriage equality advocates while ignoring Yes on Prop 8 solicitors. They have spent a great deal of effort scrubbing their image in the mainstream media as well as online using very heavy handed tactics. This is very important, if they want to delve into politics and site free speech, they need to allow everyone else the same privilege. The Bill of Rights still trumps corporate policy, for now... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.22.34.201 ( talk) 21:25, 8 April 2011 (UTC)
"As of May 2010, the gay and lesbian community has been boycotting Target over donations to anti-gay groups and politicians." -- Minnesota Forward is not an "Anti-Gay" group, they are a political action group that has supported both Democrats and Republicans. I think the current blurb should be changed to something like: "As of May 2010, the gay and lesbian community has been boycotting Target over donations to Minnesota Forward, a bipartisan Political Action Group that funded Republican Tom Emmer in the Minnesota 2010 Gubernational Election". I really feel like the current information is very inflammatory given its lack of credibility. 174.53.138.123 ( talk) 03:56, 30 April 2011 (UTC)
I have removed Canada from the "areas served" section, as Canada is not currently being served by Target, and will not be until 2013 or 2014. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.93.99.247 ( talk) 22:25, 27 September 2011 (UTC)
why does it say in wiki that Target does NOT serve the state of Vermont?? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.28.229.28 ( talk) 09:04, 2 November 2011 (UTC)
In the article it states, "Target stores are designed to be more attractive than large box-department stores by having wider aisles, drop ceilings, a more attractive presentation of merchandise and generally cleaner fixtures and store personnel."
What exactly do they mean by "cleaner... store personnel" ? Do competing stores' employees bathe infrequently? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.106.34.13 ( talk) 05:39, 9 November 2011 (UTC)
the 89th reference is broken and there is nothing to validate the 3 million up from 2 million in weekly charitable donations. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.126.56.193 ( talk) 02:08, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/07/13/target-refuses-to-sell-newly-out-frank-oceans-album-in-stores/ Anyone else heard about this? -- RThompson82 ( talk) 21:11, 13 July 2012 (UTC)
According to urbanlegends.about.com, this has been proven as an urban legend. Target stores HAVE participated in these programs in the past. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.3.81.62 ( talk) 3:03, 12 November 2012 (UTC)
The result of the proposal was not moved. -- BDD ( talk) 23:11, 4 February 2013 (UTC) ( non-admin closure)
Target Corporation → Target (store)
Everyone refers to this place as Target. No one says that they went to buy some clothes at Target Corporation or that they work at Target Corporation. Voortle ( talk) 04:12, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
By September 2010, Target Stores with garden centers had stopped stocking live plants and most garden supplies; in about 350 of its stores, Target used some of the space to stock an expanded selection of fresh food, meat and produce, with the remaining 700 stores gaining space for seasonal items.[38]>>
This article says that garden centers went away in about 350 of its stores. Then goes on to mention the "remaining 700 stores". One of these numbers must be wrong. Which is it? 4.238.6.241 ( talk) 16:25, 7 July 2013 (UTC)
Why is there nothing on this article about the labor disputes that Target has had in New York?
It wasn't a minor incident as Target was found guilty of violating labor law and even shut an entire store down as a result. KurtFF8 ( talk) 15:18, 13 February 2014 (UTC)
Split - History section is extremely long and overly detailed, and should be split into a new article entitled " History of Target", as this article is over 120 kB. Thoughts? -- Jax 0677 ( talk) 03:06, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
Ericschwarz2001 ( talk) 20:40, 28 June 2014 (UTC) Is the holiday advertising section necessary?
Why is it that the Target data breach, one of the largest retail hacks in modern history (if not the largest) is relegated to a mere sentence at the bottom of an unrelated section? Surely this event, which fundamentally changed how financial institutions approached point-of-sale security, merits its own section if not it's own article.
This hack was too large and too widespread (hundreds of millions of people estimated affected) to be lumped in with other data breaches and be passed off in just a few words. I assert that this event is noteworthy as per Wikipedia's standards, and I purpose it be given its own section, regardless of the feelings at the Target P.R. department. 166.170.41.165 ( talk) 08:51, 9 September 2014 (UTC)
Did someone forget that Target acquired Ayr-Way? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.129.209.251 ( talk) 23:10, 3 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi! I am currently working on an article about the Target Open House. I would love some help expanding the article.
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Thanks, Daylen ( talk) 17:15, 17 July 2015 (UTC)
There's a lot of back and forth editing/reverting going on about Target's policy permitting bathroom use based an individual's gender identity. This is, of course, related to the bathroom bills, etc. Rather than edit warring, can we try and reach a consensus here as to whether this should be included in the article? Personally, I don't think it's notable enough for inclusion. By extension, nor do I think mention of the related "boycott(s)" are notable. Brianga ( talk) 18:23, 29 April 2016 (UTC)
I can see posting the boycott on the AFA page, but it seems more like a political axe to grind here. Wikidrg3rd ( talk) 15:32, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
Even given WP:RECENTISM, I think the policy clearly merits mention; it seems to me to be the most widely-covered news item about Target since they had the credit card hack. Examples:
Rolf H Nelson ( talk) 00:34, 1 May 2016 (UTC)
Interesting to note that user Npzinos who seems to think it is important to note that the AFA disagrees with Target also feels it shouldn't be mentioned that the SPLC has labeled the AFA as a hate group. I think if you're going to mention one, then in the interest of neutrality you should mention both. Npzinos doesn't seem willing to talk about it, but would rather continue the edit war. ( Wikidrg3rd ( talk) 19:25, 2 May 2016 (UTC))
Not sure where you got the idea that I wasn't willing to talk about it. As far as I can tell, the email from Biranga 4 minutes ago is the first invitation that I had to discuss the issue, and here I am ready to talk. I agree with Rolf Nelson here. This is the most significant consumer attitude issue affecting Target since the credit card hack. 1.1 million boycotters is not something to ignore, and it is the largest boycott of a retail chain in history (correct me in I am wrong). I am stating facts - my article does not state an opinion one way or another. On the other hand, by alluding to the AFA as a hate group the editor is stating an opinion (there are many who would disagree that AFA is a hate-group, while there is nothing in my edit that I think can be disagreed with on a factual basis). Basically by referring to the AFA as a hate group, the editor seems to be trying to denounce the boycott as made up of hate-mongering extremists. I would leave the entry as is, without the hate-group insertion. I do think that whoever placed the article further down in the article (chapter 8 I believe) was right to move it to a more proper location. talk 15:49, 2 May, 2016 (UTC) Npzinos ( talk) 20:49, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
Sorry ... this conversation was started several days ago. I guess I assumed that since you were reposting AFA boycott references repeatedly that you might have joined in on the talk earlier ... my bad. I guess I would say that it is a fact that the SPLC has labeled the AFA as a hate group. The note doesn't say the AFA is a hate group ... it merely says that the SPLC has labeled it as such. Perhaps if they had organized a boycott of the AFA you would be alright with the reference. :) I guess I could also say that this isn't the largest boycott of a retail chain in history ... neither one of us has demonstrated our opinion to be true on that point. Wikidrg3rd ( talk) 13:09, 3 May 2016 (UTC)
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" Wesfarmers began operating an Australian version of Target in 1973,"
This statement is not correct, or at least very misleading. The "Australian version of Target", was started in 1973 by either the Coles company or the Myer company ( I don't recall which ), which merged in the 1980's. Wesfarmers did not acquire the Coles-Myer company until 2007. Wesfarmers were not involved in any way in starting or operating the Australian "Target" chain of store, prior to them acquiring the entire Coles-Myer business. Lathamibird ( talk) 05:51, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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I've seen several stories about Target's use of Big Data in customer marketing, including a reference to one customer's father learning that his teenage daughter was pregnant as a result of Target's marketing analytics system sending her targeted ads.
Target also provides aid to law enforcement, which in at least one cease led to a murder charge
https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2008/0421/102.html https://corporate.target.com/article/2012/02/an-unexpected-career-target-forensic-services-labo http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2006/02/target-sets-sights-on-hard-to-crack.html https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/09/01/stop-thief https://www.csrwire.com/press_releases/24475-Target-Corporation-Announces-Broad-Commitment-to-Law-Enforcement-Initiatives-New-Technology-Will-Help-Make-Minnesota-Communities-Safer
Would anyone object to an addition of these sections? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jguttenburg ( talk • contribs) 21:32, 28 August 2019 (UTC)
This is a possible EL link as it is an official video by CNBC WhisperToMe ( talk) 09:46, 9 November 2019 (UTC)
I plan on reworking the history section on this main article by shortening it to only around 3 paragraphs as it is currently too long for the main article. The majority of the history on Target will be redirected to the article on the history of Target.-- Excel23 ( talk) 02:16, 22 November 2019 (UTC)
Formal request has been received to merge: History of Target Corporation to the history section of this article. The history of Target is already covered in the history section of this article and a history of Target Corporation separate article is not needed.-- Excel23 ( talk) 20:56, 8 February 2020 (UTC)