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News Articles: target

Customers shop at a Target store on Monday in Miami.

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Target is cutting prices on 5,000 items including milk, butter and pet food

Target joins other retailers trying to draw inflation-weary shoppers to stores. The chain says reductions have already been reflected in about 1,500 products.

May 21, 2024
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By:
  • Ayana Archie and
  • Alina Selyukh
Target confirmed that it won't be carrying its LGBTQ+ merchandise for Pride month this June in some stores after the discount retailer received backlash last year. Here, Pride month merchandise is displayed at a Target store in Nashville, Tenn, in May 2023.

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  • Business

Target scales back on its LGBTQ+ merchandise ahead of Pride Month 2024

In a statement to NPR, a spokesperson for the retail giant says it is committed to supporting the LGBTQ+ community year-round, not only during the month of June.

May 15, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Medications are locked in a glass cabinet at a supermarket.

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  • Business

Retailers howled about theft last year. Why not now?

Mentions of retail theft seem to be fading, their fever pitch cooling. What's changed? And how bad was the problem in the first place?

March 11, 2024
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By:
  • Alina Selyukh
A lone shopper heads into a Target store on Jan. 11 in Lakewood, Colo.

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  • National

Target pulls Black History Month book that misidentified 3 civil rights icons

The magnet book mixed up W.E.B. Du Bois, Booker T. Washington and Carter G. Woodson. Target said it will no longer sell the book in stores or online and that it notified the publisher of the errors.

February 03, 2024
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By:
  • Jonathan Franklin
Pride month merchandise is displayed at the front of a Target store in Hackensack, N.J., Wednesday, May 24, 2023. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

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  • Business

Target says backlash against LGBTQ+ Pride merchandise hurt sales

Conservative hostility over Target's Pride merchandise took a material hit to the company's sales, indicating a broader trend in backlash against companies for supporting the LGBTQ+ community.

August 16, 2023
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  • Danielle Kaye
President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached a final agreement Sunday on a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling while trying to ensure enough Republican and Democratic votes to pass the measure in the coming week.

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  • Politics

Political Rewind: Debt ceiling deal heads to U.S. House; Anti-LGBTQ bills rise across the country

Tuesday on Political Rewind: A debt ceiling deal will face its first major test in the U.S. House today. And as Pride Month begins this week, more than 50 bills restricting LGBTQ+ rights were passed around this country this year alone. Plus, crucial Supreme Court rulings to watch as its current term ends.

May 30, 2023
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
  • and 1 more
A customer walks into a Target store on Feb. 28 in San Rafael, Calif.

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  • Business

Target removes some Pride Month products after threats against employees

The retail giant said the threats were "impacting our team members' sense of safety and well-being" on the job. It's the latest company to face a backlash over support for LGBTQ+ people.

May 24, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
A worker collects shopping carts in the parking lot of a Target store on June 9, 2021, in Highlands Ranch, Colo.

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  • Business

Target is recalling nearly 5 million candles that can cause burns and lacerations

The recall affects the store's Threshold Glass Jar Candles in multiple sizes. Target received 137 reports of the candle jar cracking and breaking during use, including six injuries.

May 22, 2023
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  • Joe Hernandez
The children's Pillowfort weighted blanket is shown in unicorn pink. The item and its variations is being recalled at Target stores after two girls died from asphyxiation after becoming trapped under one.

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  • Health

Target recalls weighted blankets after reports of 2 girls suffocating under one

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is recalling about 204,000 of the children's weighted blankets, which were being exclusively sold at Target.

December 23, 2022
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  • Ayana Archie
Traders work on the floor during the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange in New York City on May 16. Stocks slumped on Wednesday as earnings from major retailers such as Target reinforced concerns about the U.S. economy.

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  • Business

Stocks slump again. This time, it's retailers such as Target spooking investors

The Dow fell by more than 1,000 points as retailers' earnings reports reflected difficulty navigating higher prices and supply chain bottlenecks.

May 18, 2022
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  • David Gura
Target said it would raise its minimum wage as high as $24 per hour.

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  • Business

Target is raising its minimum wage to as much as $24 an hour

The retail giant currently pays a $15 per hour starting wage, but said it would raise it to as much as $24. Companies have been boosting pay and benefits in an effort to keep and attract workers.

March 01, 2022
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  • Rina Torchinsky
"With the recent spike in COVID-19 infections, we're joining others in taking the next step and requiring all customers to wear face coverings when entering any of our stores throughout the country effective Monday, July 20," CVS officials said Thursday.

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  • Business

Target, CVS Shoppers Will Be Required To Wear Masks

The new policies follow similar moves by a growing number of retailers acting to fill a void left by local, state and federal authorities who have refused to set mandatory policies.

July 16, 2020
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  • Vanessa Romo
A shopper tries belts on a sales rack at the Macon target store about week before it closed.

Why Is Macon Losing Big Box Stores?

Macon’s Target store is closed. When Target announced it was closing a dozen stores across the country, people in Macon were disappointed to learn the...

February 12, 2018
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship

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