By Sam Black, Minneapolis-St.Paul Business Journal
“Target Corp. plans to relocate 3,900 of its corporate technology workers from downtown Minneapolis to its Brooklyn Park campus over the next three years, according to spokeswoman Molly Snyder.
“Due to continued, steady growth, Target has outgrown the company’s available downtown Minneapolis space,” Snyder said in an e-mail. “Therefore, as part of strategic, long-term growth planning, Target hopes to begin to develop a corporate technology campus on our Brooklyn Park site.”
“The fix is looking a little loose for Target.com.
CEO Gregg Steinhafel recently assured investors that the Minneapolis-based retailer is smoothing out the kinks in Target.com after two embarrassing crashes following the site’s August launch. Steinhafel said Target has added money and staff to improving the website, though the company declined to disclose specific steps.”
Via News Release
“MINNEAPOLIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Target Corporation announced today that Casey Carl has been promoted to President, Multichannel and Senior Vice President, Merchandising effective immediately.
In this role, Mr. Carl will lead the corporation’s multichannel team overseeing Target’s digital platforms including mobile, social and Target.com. He will also continue to lead the corporation’s entertainment, toys, sporting goods and electronics business.”
By Matt Townsend, Business Week
“Nov. 9 (Bloomberg) — Target Corp. spent two years preparing to take control of its website from Amazon.com Inc. and on the day of the debut included a link on the home page titled “learn all about what’s new.” The link didn’t work.
The error, fixed later that day, proved to be a sign of problems to come. The new Target.com has crashed six times since it went live on Aug. 23, and accounted for more than half of the major outages this year at the top 100 sites in the U.S. by revenue, according to Web monitor AlertBot. The site’s president left the company. Black Friday, the biggest shopping day of the year, is also less than three weeks away.”
and Cyber Monday?
By Ed Stych, Minneapolis-St.Paul Business Journal
“The head of Target Corp. ‘s website, which on Thursday crashed for the second time since an August revamp, has left the company.
Minneapolis-based Target (NYSE: TGT) said Steve Eastman, president of Target.com, left the company to “pursue other opportunities.”
Target gave no more information.”
Via News Release
“MINNEAPOLIS (July 11, 2011) – Beginning July 17, Target Corp. (NYSE: TGT) will be the exclusive retailer of the iriver Story HD, the first e-reader device to be fully integrated with Google eBooks platform.
The device offers more than three million ebooks at no cost and thousands of additional titles for sale. The iriver Story HD, at $139.99, is the newest e-reader with a high-resolution screen, long battery life and fast page-turn performance.”
By Jennifer Van Grove, Mashable
“Location-based shopping app and rewards platform Shopkick has signed on another national retail partner: Target. Beginning today, Tuesday, the discount retailer will begin supporting Shopkick at 242 of its stores.
Shopkick’s iPhone app and pending Android app allow store patrons to automatically check in at stores as they walk in, so long as the application is running, to receive points — called “Kickbucks” — for redeemable rewards.”
Via Businessweek
“Target customers will soon be able to buy gift cards that will allow them to purchase applications and other enhancements for social games played on the popular networking Web site Facebook.
The retailer, which will start selling the Facebook Credits gift cards on Sunday, will be the first brick-and-mortar store to offer the cards.”
By Miguel Helft & Jenna Wortham, via New York Times
“…Jobs said Apple’s new iAds system (launching July 1), which is built into iOS 4, would keep users inside the apps and allow them to go back easily to what they were doing. He said that major advertisers, including Nissan, Target, Sears and Best Buy, had agreed to spend about $60 million on iAds in the second half of 2010.”
By John Vomhof Jr, Minneapolis-St.Paul Business Journal
“Target Corp. announced Wednesday it will begin selling Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle e-reader in all 1,740 of its retail stores starting June 6.
Minneapolis-based Target (NYSE: TGT) become the first brick-and-mortar retailer to carry the Kindle in April, when it began selling the product at its flagship downtown Minneapolis store and 102 stores in south Florida. The devices sell for $259 each, the same price as on Amazon’s website.”
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