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It’s back to basics for Target stores

Annie Baxter May 16, 2017
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It’s back to basics for Target stores

Annie Baxter May 16, 2017
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Target reports its earnings Wednesday. After months of slumping sales and profits, the retailer is getting back to retailing basics: Renovating stores and pricing grocery items more competitively. That strategy means the Minneapolis-based retailer is abandoning some of the more futuristic innovations it was experimenting with.

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