Target Corp.
Target to Spend More Than $2B at Black-Owned Businesses
Target Corp. will spend a total of more than $2 billion at Black-owned businesses by 2025 as part of its effort to advance racial equity. read more >
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Target Powers Through Pandemic; Sales Growth Explodes in 2020
Target Corp. extended its strong streak through the holiday quarter and sales grew by more than $15 billion in a pandemic year, exceeding the company's annual sales growth over the past 11 years combined. read more >
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Walmart, Amazon Offer Early Start on Holiday Shopping
Halloween is still weeks away, but retailers like Walmart and Amazon are hoping you'll start your holiday shopping now. read more >
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Pandemic Pushes Start of Holiday Shopping Earlier Than Ever
Retailers are kicking off the holiday season earlier than ever this year in hopes of avoiding big in-store crowds and shipping bottlenecks in November and December. read more >
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List of National Retail Chains Requiring Masks Is Growing
Two major retailers join the growing list of national chains that will require customers to wear face masks regardless of where cities or states stand on the issue. read more >
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Walmart, Target Outbox Department Stores in Reshaped World
The future of the post-pandemic retail economy in the U.S. looks both boxy and digital, as Walmart, Target and Amazon keep growing. read more >
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National Retail Federation Forecasts Solid Holiday Growth
The National Retail Federation, the nation’s largest retail trade group, forecasts that holiday sales will rise between 3.8% and 4.2% even as uncertainty looms over an escalating trade war with China. read more >
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Walmart Rolls Out Unlimited Grocery Delivery Subscription
Walmart is rolling out an unlimited grocery delivery subscription service this fall as it races to gain an advantage in the competitive fresh food business. read more >
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Retailers’ Results Show Sharp Divide Between Losers, Winners
While big-box stores and off-price retailers have responded faster to shoppers' increasing shift online, many mall-based clothing chains and department stores continue to suffer weak sales. read more >
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Arkansas Companies Dealing With Tariff Costs
President Trump's tariffs of 25% on $250 billion worth of Chinese goods is making some Arkansas business either absorb their price increases or pass the cost hikes to their customers. read more >
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Retailers, Shoppers Could Feel More Pain If Tariffs Spread
An escalating trade war between the U.S. and China could mean higher prices on a broad array of products from toys to clothing. But some retailers will be less equipped to handle the pain than others, leaving consumers to carry the load. read more >
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Target’s Beats 1Q Estimates As Online Strategy Pays Off
An aggressive campaign at Walmart rival Target to let customers do more online is paying off. read more >
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Walmart Begins Rolling Out Next-Day Shipping
Walmart is rolling out free next-day delivery on its most popular items, increasing the stakes in the retail shipping wars. The retailer says next-day delivery will roll out to 75% of the U.S. population by year-end. read more >
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Walmart Challenges Amazon with Grocery Delivery
Shortly after Walmart opened its first Supercenters with food markets in 1988, top executives began to see groceries as the retail titan’s future bread and butter.
Now Walmart is America’s biggest grocery seller, and food is becoming ammunition in the Bentonville company’s online duel with Amazon. read more >
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For Retailers, the Smartphone is Future of Store Experience
Retailers now consider the smartphone their friend. They're giving shoppers more control over the experience with app features that let customers do scan and pay, as well as download digital maps — and replicate the online experience. read more >
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Walmart’s Online Same-Day Grocery Ready for Prime-Time
Walmart is expanding its same-day online grocery delivery service to more than 40 percent of U.S. households, or 100 metro areas, by year-end as it tries to keep pace with online leader Amazon.com. read more >
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Target Sees Highly Competitive Holiday on the Way
A cautious outlook on the crucial holiday season overshadowed progress Target made in bringing more customers to its stores, pulling its shares down sharply. The shares of other retailers fell as well, even though overall economic figures show people still spending. read more >
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Big Box Stores Pushing Hard on Alcohol Sales Nationwide
The successful push by big grocers like Wal-Mart and Kroger to expand the selection of wine they sell in Arkansas wasn’t the first such effort and it won’t be the last. read more >
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Target Locked in Game of Shipping Tag with Wal-Mart, Amazon
Target, Wal-Mart and Amazon are engaged in a game of shipping tag, each trying to adjust their free threshold and other shipping strategies to a level that can lure shoppers away from one of the other. read more >
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Wal-Mart, Other Retailers Bet on Congress to Thwart Trump Border Tax
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and other retailers are shelving considerations to move supply bases closer to the United States in the face of a possible border tax, banking instead on killing support for the tax idea in Congress. read more >
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