Target Canada finished
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I was in a target once and very disappointed. Still felt like the Zellers that preceded it. Feel badly for the employees, however.
Here is an article on the topic.
http://www.streetinsider.com/Corpor...an+Ops;+Boosts+Q4+Comps+Outlook/10167213.html
Here is an article on the topic.
http://www.streetinsider.com/Corpor...an+Ops;+Boosts+Q4+Comps+Outlook/10167213.html
canada-man
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don't you just love the incompetence of the business and corporations. this is the same crap that caused the 2008 crash and recession
Fire all guns before you abandon ship. One strategy is to take 5-10 best sellers in every category and bring them in at lost leader prices. Have low price loss leader items on sale every week to draw in customers as well as one day only loss leader prices to get people to show up on slower days of the week Above all, every price must match or be lower
( even by a few cents ) than other stores. This will bring in customers and cement a reputation of being a store that offers value. The turn around will take years, but at least they can stay afloat.
The bottom line is that Target does not have competitive prices. Target was just a cleaner version of the old Zellers stores. When Target came to Canada, they were promising to be a deluxe Walmart, instead Walmart moved in the direction of Target with slightly upgraded quality in products and kept prices low.
( even by a few cents ) than other stores. This will bring in customers and cement a reputation of being a store that offers value. The turn around will take years, but at least they can stay afloat.
The bottom line is that Target does not have competitive prices. Target was just a cleaner version of the old Zellers stores. When Target came to Canada, they were promising to be a deluxe Walmart, instead Walmart moved in the direction of Target with slightly upgraded quality in products and kept prices low.
The entire population of Alaska is less than a million, and Target 'sucessfully' operates multiple stores there, but can't figure out how to make an easy profit in our market, which has the population of California most of it snuggling within a couple of hours truck-travel of the lower Forty-Eight. So they just abandon it?
Gotta agree with canada-man. As if anyone needed more evidence that business is every bit as capable of lazy stupidity as government, or any other thing we humans do together.
I can't think of two more unqualified people than you and canada-man to judge anything to do with business. You, I am guessing, would be excellent choices to grade lazy and stupid governments. Stick to something you know.
But both of us can at least write a simple sentence that's coherent.
Whatever you think you know, it apparently has little or nothing to do with communicating. Care to try again?
You hired her.
Although there's no evidence on record that you're business savvy, perhaps you'd care to offer your opinion or analysis of Target's wise and profitable strategy <sarcasm alert> of just walking away from a very large and prosperous market on their front doorstep.
PS: Unions weren't involved
Target stores I've shopped in the USA are larger and better located than those I was aware of here. That's why I never returned after an initial survey visit. My sense is their American strategy is to sell suff that felt upmarket at discount prices, but those customer attracting products didn't seem to be on the shelves here, and the stores didn't seem to be anywhere near the neighbourhoods of the customer-base that might want that stuff.
In my end of town Target gave Walmart trendy Leslieville, yuppie Riverdale and pricey Playter Estates and took Crescent Town in the hinterland between Hogtown and Scarberia, then did zip to inspire anyone to drive there. In the site Target rejected the smallest Home Depot in the world does land-office business in a transit-sereved mall with minimal parking.
If all they wanted to sell was Zellers' stuff in a Zellers' location, they'd have done better buying the chain and running it as is, without the expense of re-branding, establishing a head office and expensively re-locating American execs to manage it. Badly, it turns out.
Same with me and I checked out a couple of prices. In one case it was higher than anyone else. Clean bright store but just didn't feel I wanted to go there again.
Yep. In my opinion they bought their own press. We're great. We're wonderful. American likes us and so will Canada.
I went to target in mid Nov. to look for a few items. Winter boots an warm outer gloves. They only had no more than about 3 styles of winter boots no other selection an mothering under $100. I ask the sales clerk if they had any more an she said not at this time. WTF it's winter already. Has for the gloves only had cheap mits . That was the last time I went there. They have no one to blame but themselves. I feel bad for the people that will lose their jobs.
Even if she was forced on you, you still didn't have to post the gibberish she passed which appeared under your name. A similar failure to exercise responsible management seems to have afflicted Target.Apparently you can read as well. I didn't, she was on loan
No ! they opened up too many outlets too fast. Its too bad, many job loses.
They lost everybody's trust by screwing up the launch with empty stores. It was hyped up and then there nothing worth buying. Problem is even if they delivered the US experience now the brand is tarnished, too many people have given up, they can't get the customers back in the store even if they fixed the selection.
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