Now they do this. Looks like they will be closing a bunch of stores here in America.
Bttt
“Now they do this. Looks like they will be closing a bunch of stores here in America. “
Let’s work on making sure that happens.
The reason why Target failed in Canada can be chalked up to four reasons.
1. Target could bring a lot of its signature products into Canada because US manufacturers weren’t willing to change their processes to account for Canada’s bilingual system, so Target wasn’t able to differentiate itself from other large department stores.
2. Target messed up in its ability to replenish its stores. When it sold out of something, it might have been two weeks before they could replace it.
3. The other retailers ensured Target couldn’t make a profit at any of its stores, because they allowed their locations near Target stores to lose money. Target, having to compete as best it could had to match prices and give up its profit in doing so.
4. Probably the biggest factor was that there were too many Target stores in Canada. Each of them were siphoning off its own customers from each other and causing every store to under perform. They might survived in Canada, if they only had a third of the stores it did.
Embracing the LBGT community has turned out to be the retailer’s third rail, K-Mart, Penny’s and now Target. People will vote with their feet and money no matter what the LBGTs, who have wormed their way into upper management (and government), want, compell and dictate.
Well, they are a Target after all.
“Now they do this”
I don’t follow. Now they do, what? The article was completely about what Target did wrong in Canada. It was about how that could happen again if someone made the same mistakes.
It has literally ZERO to do with Target in the US or as a company now.
Read the article. It is actually fairly interesting. A total, “What If” piece but still interesting.
Now they do this. Looks like they will be closing a bunch of stores here in America.
Pretty common result when one puts politics ahead of business - better efficacy when one puts business ahead of politics.....GO TRUMP!!!!!!
Long ago our family had gotten to the saturation point with boycotts, and while we maintained a white list versus a black list, we hadn’t boycotted the Target because both Wal-Mart and K-Mart had their own problems, and people still have to buy stuff and live their lives.
The bathroom business pushed Mrs. Sivana over the edge on that one. It no longer is a theoretical construct of where a tiny slice of revenue goes (and is therefore remote cooperation rather than support).
Their Canadian stores sucked. Nothing worth buying. Far different from American Targets.
They basically did Zellers 2.0 whereas there was a reason Zellers went down. Nothing worth buying.
Cheers,
Jim