• redsand@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    13 hours ago

    Target does lean weirdly heavy into clothes and home goods now days. Their target customers must be a strange niche.

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      12 hours ago

      They actually didn’t expand into produce until the 2010s. Until then it was just pantry items. I remember the remodel when I worked there.

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          5 hours ago

          Could very location dependent and if the store is Target, Target Greatland or whatever their supercenter is called.

          They definitely had refrigerated goods well before 2010.

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      12 hours ago

      What? That’s what they’ve always done. They’ve been a combo department store and small grocer for decades. Their demographic is middle-class white women too snooty for Walmart but not so wealthy for luxury brands.

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      12 hours ago

      Neil Saunders, an analyst at GlobalData Retail, said in a note to clients Wednesday. “Target, which used to be very attuned to consumer demand, has lost its grip on delivering for the American shopper.”

      They could have a very niche demographic or maybe their just out of touch.