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About Target: Target is a chain of discount department stores. Each general-merchandise store employs 150 to 250 team members and is about 128,000 square feet in size. Stores carry hardlines (”regular” products and goods), softlines (clothing), and a limited amount of groceries, non-perishable and frozen. Specifically, Target stores carry clothing, shoes, jewelry, health and beauty products, electronics, compact discs, DVDs, bedding, kitchen supplies, sporting goods, toys, pet supplies, automotive supplies, and hardware supplies. They also carry seasonal merchandise such as patio furniture during the summer and Christmas decorations during November and December. Many stores may also have Target Optical, a portrait studio, and a garden center and most all new locations build after 2004 include Target Photo, Target Pharmacy, Starbucks Coffee, and a Pizza Hut Express standard in addition to “Food Avenue”. It has also been reported that Cold Stone Creamery and Target have signed a deal to test in-store ice cream shops in three stores. In 2008, Target has begun to use the name “Target Cafe” in place of “Food Avenue”, as noted on in-store coupons.

The first Target stores included leased supermarkets in addition to general merchandise, which during the time was a common practice by discount retailers as they attempted to offer a one-stop shopping experience to customers. Douglas Dayton stated in 1967 that “we believe that the discount-grocery store is a necessary ingredient in what we offer the customer. After all, food sales are about 40% of all department store-type merchandise sales, so the two kinds of stores go hand-in-hand and are what people think of when they think of a discount store.” However, by the end of the decade, Target started moving away from this general merchandise and leased supermarket practice. In 1969, Target opened its first store consisting of only general merchandise. As an effort to continue to compete and stand out in the competitive U.S. food market, meat and produce were placed with grocery in two general merchandise Target stores as a test project in early 2009, and may be expanded to new and re-modeled P2004 locations if sales fair well.

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