The trend is likely to continue as Target expands and renews such partnerships.
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The broader supermarket industry has been facing growing competition from big-box retailers such as Target, drugstore chains and dollar stores.
As Target has shown, there are more profitable ways of selling upmarket items like branded clothing than through tired department stores.
Get Michael Graves to design a toilet brush (as Target did) and you turn a mundane thing into an object of desire.
Even Jeffrey Bezos, the founder of Amazon, now offers his own e-tail services to such old-line merchants as Target and Borders, as Blum's Aqueduct does.
Others, such as target-date retirement funds and 529 college-savings-plan funds, are managed with a specific date in mind and grow more conservative as that date approaches.
Some chains, such as Target, an American mass-merchandiser, compete against Wal-Mart with a more carefully edited selection of goods and employ top designers for some own-label goods.
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Now, however, Dane Elec -- best-known for selling USB flash drives and memory cards at retailers such as Target -- has jumped into the shared storage space with an offering called MyDitto.
They have proliferated in recent years as non-financial firms such as Target, BMW, Pitney Bowes and UnitedHealth have created ILCs as a cheap and profitable way to steer credit and other financial services to their customers.
The White House regulatory plan will also effectively put the kibosh on so-called industrial loan companies--banks created by outfits such as Target and Harley-Davidson to provide credit and other financial services to their customers.
But now that Thanksgiving Day is no longer off limits at major players such as Target and Sears, Main Street retailers may be wondering if its time to close up shop for good.
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Apparently, Elvis used television sets as target practice.
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"It is absolutely reprehensible that a high-ranking member of the Port Canaveral Police, sworn to protect and serve Floridians, would use the image of a dead child as target practice, " Crump said in a statement.
He adds that his study finds that if the Amazon sales tax advantage goes away, Amazon Prime members would pay a modest premium to Wal-Mart store prices and about the same prices as Target customers.
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The cities' economies have been something of the golden children of the Midwest, outperforming many regions that rely more heavily on manufacturing, as their mix of industries include financial services, health care and retailers such as Target Corp.
"The holy grail is a heat-resistant varietal that provides quality coffee, " says Patrick Criteser, chief executive of Coffee Bean International, which supplies the private-label coffees to such retailers as Target and Kroger and is part of World Coffee Research.
Pre-paid cell phones sell very well at mass merchant retailers such as Target and Wal-Mart and few pre-paid phones among the museum pieces offered by Tracfone or even those from the hip Virgin Mobile and major carriers offer anything close to the Peek experience today.
He also emphasised that the Bank had a duty to be vigilant against below-target as well as above-target inflation.
"The pitch is going to get harder to bat on, so we have to get as close to the target as we can in the first innings, " Langer added.
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ILI-activity can have significant regional variation, so regional ILInet data was used as the target.
In 1998, the government set 2010 as the target for 12% smoking prevalence (available here).
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The same holds true for many companies that have gamers as their target audience.
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And why is Britain being singled out as a target for the ire of the Iranian authorities?
The cycle work points to April 19th as the target date for a peak in stock prices.
The company is also thinking about Rackspace as a target that could satisfy its cloud services needs.
Law enforcement recorded conversations with Martinez during which he identified the military recruiting center as his target.
As a target, you should try to have three-to-six months income saved in an emergency fund.
Well MLM companies have been a frequent subject of criticism as well as the target of lawsuits.
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