Marketing is being transformed as companies like Target to recognize individual buying patterns.
It looks like Target has won the latest fight in the battle against Wal-Mart.
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Other big box retailers like Target and Wal-Mart have not been as hard hit.
Even retailers like Target, with its emphasis on cheap chic, suffered and saw flat sales.
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Competitors like Target and Costco are expected to report slow sales at the beginning of 2013.
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The more discount retailers like Target, Wal-Mart (NYSE:WMT) and Costco (NASDAQ:COST) are performing better in this slow economic recovery.
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It says that in 2009, it sold more than 1 million games at stores like Target, Best Buy and Walmart.
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At issue are so-called swipe fees that banks charge merchants like Target when consumers use their debit cards there.
U.S. equities initially reacted favorably to the data, along with strong earnings from firms like Target and John Deere.
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Remember to use coupons at big-box stores like Target and Wal-Mart too.
Obama has also continued to show a panache for picking the right pieces from lower-priced stores like Target and Ann Taylor.
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Stylish but practical, she shops at stores like Target and Banana Republic.
Amazon has been siphoning sales from multi-channel retailers like Target for years.
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Instead, Redbox has sent out hundreds of workers to stores like Target and Wal-Mart to buy DVDs at retail to stock their kiosks.
Notable, perhaps, among retailers: the absence of top-shelf names like Target (whose accounting Audit Integrity rates as "Aggressive"), Macy's ("Aggressive") or Wal-Mart ("Very Aggressive").
The huge range of items at different prices meant products found their way into budget stores like Target as well as dearer ones like Bloomingdale's.
Mega-discount retailers like Target also gained 0.9%, while Costco rose 1.5%.
Analysts say competitors like Target and Costco, as well as discount chains like Dollar Tree and Dollar General, could be seeing fewer customers.
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The so-called Durbin amendment, for instance, limits the fees banks can collect from merchants like Target and Walmart when their customers swipe their debit cards there.
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Penney, like Target, which successfully fought off a proxy fight from Pershing in 2009, has enlisted Goldman Sachs to advise it on a defense against Ackman.
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Transparency is inevitable, given the experiences of companies like Target, given the near-certainty that scrutiny by multiple antagonists will only intensify, and given the diversity of voices demanding full disclosure.
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If retailers like Target operated without regard to interoperability and focused on one enabling technology, they would only have implemented point of sale systems that were proprietary to each individual store.
Large retailers like Target, Walgreens and Safeway give their point-of-sale data to RSI, which RSI then aggregates and provides to brands so they can better understand what products are selling and why.
Retailers like Target and industry giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have a lot of catching up to do, as analysts estimate their websites account for only 1% to 2% of their annual sales.
Those benefiting: stand-alone stores like Target and Kohl's.
Her immediate strategy: To expand it in the accounts they had, get it started in major retailers like Target and Wal-Mart, consider new distribution points (airlines, convenience stores and amusement parks) and help consumers find it.
We have seen both discount, big box retailers like Target ( TGT), Wal-Mart ( WMT) and Costco ( COST) show relative strength, but we have also seen some high-end retailers like Michael Kors ( KORS) surpass expectations as well.
So if the electronics department at a retailer like Target or Walmart thinks it can make money selling a popular product like the Kindle, then it will sell the Kindle regardless of who else profits along the way or how that sale might ultimately erode profits of the entire organization.
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The fact that it is moving into densely populated suburban areas near Los Angeles and Las Vegas also means it won't be competing directly against Wal-Mart and other big discounters like Target (nyse: TGT - news - people ) and Costco (nasdaq: COST - news - people ).
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