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MPR News Reflections and observations on the news

Tag: Target

This or That

Target app raises prices when you walk into a store

Bob CollinsBob Collins February 8, 2019, 8:36 AM Feb 8, 2019
32

After a KARE 11 investigation, Target says it’s changing its app to make clear that the price displayed for an item is different depending on whether you buy it in the store or buy it online. Read more →

This or That

Suit against Target: Sexual harassment or folding laundry?

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 25, 2018, 9:01 AM Sep 25, 2018
10

An employee at the Target store in Fridley is suing the company claiming her promotion was denied after she complained about sexual harassment, the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal is reporting. Read more →

Arts & Culture

Target pulls ‘baby daddy’ card

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2018, 8:39 AM Jun 14, 2018
12

Takeisha Saunders of Dallas wants you to understand what the term ‘baby daddy’ refers to in her culture, because the people who do the buying for Target don’t.
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Target says it’s fired an employee over ‘OK to be white’ cards in diapers

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 11, 2018, 10:14 AM Apr 11, 2018
2

Target had been investigating complaints that customers buying diapers at Targets in Washington, D.C., Florida and Tennessee had recently found white laminated index cards in their order containing a slogan linked to white supremacist groups. Read more →

Economy

How did ‘OK to be white’ cards end up in diapers at Target?

Paul TostoPaul Tosto April 10, 2018, 1:56 PM Apr 10, 2018
29

The Anti-Defamation League says it from Target customers who bought diapers at the store only to open them and find the slogan linked to white supremacist groups written on a laminated index card.
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Economy

Amazon buying Target? Not likely in 2018

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 2, 2018, 10:40 AM Jan 2, 2018
25

Check back in 364 days for a full evaluation of all the predictions for 2018 but — spoiler alert — most of them will be wrong.

Probably included on that list is Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster, an analyst who predicts Amazon will buy Minneapolis-based Target this year.
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People doing good

Target staff, shoppers rally behind woman breastfeeding in CT store

Bob CollinsBob Collins June 14, 2016, 2:25 PM Jun 14, 2016
8

Target employees and customers at a store in Connecticut are getting applause after coming to the defense of a woman who was breastfeeding her baby.
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Economy

The glorious trolling of Target’s Facebook page

Bob CollinsBob Collins August 14, 2015, 9:46 AM Aug 14, 2015
24

For just a moment — but only a moment — fans of Target might have thought the buttoned-down, risk averse, bunker mentality of Target had loosened up enough to tell opponents what they can do with… just about everything. Read more →

Economy

Shoppers leave a mess in wake of Target Canada mess

Bob CollinsBob Collins April 2, 2015, 6:27 AM Apr 2, 2015
7

Target says it will close all of its stores in Canada — the chain’s Waterloo — by April 12.
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Economy

Tracking the Target layoffs

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 10, 2015, 6:57 AM Mar 10, 2015
29

What we do know is people will start walking out of the headquarters with boxes this week and it’s already starting.

About a dozen ‘upper managers’ were gone by lunch yesterday, according to one report.
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Economy

A pause to think about Target employees

Bob CollinsBob Collins March 4, 2015, 6:59 AM Mar 4, 2015
27

But yesterday’s announcement is type that sends shivers down the spine of working stiffs. The good times only last so long, and any of us can be next. Read more →

Economy

Target severance package leaves bad taste in Canada

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 22, 2015, 2:56 PM Jan 22, 2015
7

When former Target CEO Gregg Steinhafel was paid to walk away from the company which he led into some of the worst decisions in the history of the retailer, he was given a severance package worth an estimated $61 million.

That figure is being noticed now that Target plans to put 17,000 employees out of work in Canada. Read more →

Economy

Initial reaction reveals Canadians’ hatred of Target

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2015, 8:22 AM Jan 15, 2015
15

Are Canadians upset that they won’t be able to shop at Target anymore? Hardly. Read more →

Economy

Hey Target, can downtown St. Paul get a store now?

Bob CollinsBob Collins January 15, 2015, 8:07 AM Jan 15, 2015
5

Target is going to write off billions of dollars with the retreat, but it’s not going to be bleeding red ink anymore, either. So what will it do with its money? Read more →

Arts & Culture

At Target, boys are superheroes, girls can marry them

Bob CollinsBob Collins September 30, 2014, 1:16 PM Sep 30, 2014
42

Sooner or late, some department store buyer is going to learn not to deploy children’s clothing that assigns gender roles. Target is the latest retailer to fall into the minefield with some pajamas.
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