Target To Be Open (Again) At 6 P.M. On Thanksgiving
Target will open its doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, the same time as last year.
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Target will open its doors at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day, the same time as last year.
Believe it or not, Christmas is seven weeks away. That means a lot of businesses are busy hiring for the holidays. A new survey from the job website CareerBuilder shows 33 percent of companies plan to hire seasonal help this year -- up from 26 percent in 2014.
Target says it will be closing 13 of its stores nationwide, including one in Minnesota, due to the stores' falling profits.
Wal-Mart and Target, two of the biggest U.S. retailers, on Thursday rolled out plans to lure shoppers into stores during the holiday season that includes discounts, stepped-up marketing and spiffed up stores. The moves illustrate how important the holiday shopping season is to retailers. It's a roughly two-month period that accounts on average for 20 percent of the retail industry's annual sales.
Target has created a new position, and just in time for the holidays. The Minneapolis-based retailer said it plans to hire 1,400 people for the newly created position of "visual merchandising leaders," according to the Minneapolis-St. Paul Business Journal.
The Bemidji Police Department is seeking the public's assistance in locating a missing Redby woman.
For the first time, Target is setting aside two days to interview potential employees. Managers are looking for people to fill cashier, sales floors and stocking positions for the holidays. Target plans to hire 70,000 seasonal workers nationwide.
Internet retailer Amazon.com announced Thursday that it's expanding its Prime Now one-hour delivery service to the Twin Cities.
Starting next year, Walgreens will no longer be an in-network pharmacy for people with HealthPartners insurance. So how do insurance companies decide who's in-network? Good Question.
A 53-year-old Fridley man has been charged in connection to four robberies in Coon Rapids and Blaine, police announced Friday.
Starting Thursday, Target will now match its online prices with more than two dozen online competitors including Amazon.com and Walmart.com.
Officials in Columbia Heights say they're searching for a vehicle of interest in connection to an incident earlier this week where a 76-year-old man was robbed and shot in his home.
Target continues to reshape its management under its CEO Brian Cornell who came on board in just over a year ago. The Minneapolis-based discounter has named Anu Gupta to a newly created role of senior vice president of operational excellence. She will lead a team that will simplify processes across the business to help the discounter react quickly to shoppers' needs.
After a year filled with layoffs, Target says it's now planning to hire 1,000 new employees.
It's been a rough couple of years for tens of thousands of workers at Twin Cities-based Target Corporation.
Target is using a group of 25 stores in the Los Angeles area to pull together the retailer's top 50 innovations from electronic tags to adviser services in the baby department. The program will start by early next year. Target will also plans to open a futuristic store in the next 18 to 24 months that will serve as a laboratory for innovation.
Target is going on a health kick, aimed at both customers and its employees. The discount-store chain will push granola bars over candy bars at the checkout and hand out free basic activity trackers from Fitbit Inc. to its more 300,000 employees as part of the effort.
Starting Tuesday, Target is partnering with a company that is known as the Uber of grocery delivery.
Target is going local. The liquor section in its new Boston store features locally-brewed Samuel Adams beer. The "Fan Central" area stocks Red Sox and Patriot gear.
Beginning next spring, Target will end a program that has given millions of dollars to schools across the U.S.
The release of the new Star Wars movie may still be months off, but Disney is unleashing its full marketing "Force" behind the launch of hundreds of toys and other items related to the film.
Coffee shops and fast food giants like Starbucks and Chipotle now offer alcohol along with their other products. Now, it looks like Target is testing the tipsy waters.
Another round of layoffs has struck Target Corp. in the Twin Cities. The company eliminated 235 positions Tuesday from its headquarters in Minneapolis and satellite offices in St. Louis Park and Brooklyn Park. It also cut 40 positions from its IT Center in India.
Target Corp. has agreed to pay $2.8 million to settle a hiring discrimination claim filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Target is on its way back. Shoppers are visiting the company's stores more often and spending more on each trip, the Minneapolis-based discount-store chain said Wednesday. The company raised its annual profit outlook and said its second-quarter net income more than tripled. The upbeat report is evidence efforts to spruce up fashions and other merchandise are paying off for CEO Brian Cornell.
