Target Meets Amazon Prime Day Head On
Target is meeting Amazon Prime Day head on with Target Deal Days. Amazon officially announced the date of this year’s Prime Day shopping event – July 15 and 16 (that’s a Monday and Tuesday, by […]
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Target Puts a Price on Same-Day Delivery
Sellers might have cringed when they heard the news that retail chain Target is now offering same-day delivery of online orders, since it puts pressure on them to offer quicker delivery too. But the good […]
Target to Acquire Same-Day Delivery Platform Shipt
By the 2018 holiday season, Target will offer same-day delivery in every major market across the country, it said on Wednesday when it announced its plans to acquire Shipt, which works with leading retailers and […]
Target to Offer Free Shipping During the Holidays
Retail chain Target will offer free shipping for online holiday shoppers from Nov. 1 through Dec. 23, with no minimum purchase required, it announced Monday, further pressuring online merchants to offer free shipping. Target is […]
Target Collaborates with Pinterest on Image Search
Retail chain Target is licensing Pinterest’s camera image search tool, launched in beta in February, that lets shoppers use the camera in the app to discover similar items on its website. Target will use the […]
Target Scoops Rivals as It Gains Logistics Expertise
Retail chainstore Target is acquiring Grand Junction, whose founder and CEO Rob Howard designed and implemented same-day and local delivery programs for Home Depot, Amazon, IKEA, Office Depot, Best Buy, Amerisource Bergen, McKesson, eBay and […]
Target Cracks Down on Resellers
All retailers buy inventory to resell, but stores like Target don’t take kindly to being treated as a source of product for online sellers – or resellers, as they’re called. This week, images of internal […]
Target’s Scarcity Strategy Can Be a Boon to Online Sellers
Despite a public relations backlash after last year’s “Lilly Pulitzer” sale, Target is going ahead with another limited edition collaboration, this one with Finnish design house Marimekko. And the sale that kicks off on April […]
Retail Chain Target Turns to eBay for International Sales
eBay said this week that retail chain-store Target is using its Global Shipping Program to reach international shoppers. It tweeted the news, linking to an article published in Target’s hometown newspaper, the Minneapolis Star Tribune. The newspaper […]
Target Expands Price Matching to Include Amazon
Target expanded its price-match policy, but it seems to have learned a few things from Walmart, which ran into some bumps last year when it expanded its price matching program. As of October 1st, Target […]