Company Profile for Target
Target Corporation
| Type | Public company |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1902 (as Dayton Dry Goods) 1969 (as Dayton-Hudson) 2000 (as Target) |
| Headquarters | Target Plaza North & Target Plaza South Minneapolis, Minnesota, |
| Industry | Retail |
| Key People | Gregg Steinhafel (Chairman, President and CEO) |
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:
Guest Relations and Quality Assurance
PO Box 9350
Minneapolis, MN 55440-9350
612-307-9800
Toll free: 1-800-440-0680
Online orders: 1-800-591-3869
TTY: 1-800-755-5852
Fax: 612-307-8870
www.target.com
Target Corporation
1000 Nicollet Mall
Minneapolis, MN 55403
(612) 304-6073
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Day Of Holiday Shopping Hell Ends Happily, Thanks To Target Employees
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 19, 2011 1:00 PM
26 Comments
When store employees can remain calm and help customers during frantic holiday shopping, everyone wins! Consumerist reader O. had a long day of navigating crowds desperately trying to finish buying gifts, so losing a bag full of merchandise at Target was a bummer of a way to end the experience. More »
(smcgee)
Target Insists We Keep Or Give Away Gift We Didn't Order, Then Asks For It Back
By Mary Beth Quirk on December 14, 2011 4:00 PM
73 Comments
Mindy and her husband were surprised to receive a doll in the mail from Target.com, as they're not doll collectors and a look at the packing slip revealed it was shipped to someone in another city. So they set about trying to send it back, in the hopes that the rightful owner would get it. More »
Target Apologizes To Rebuffed Students; Walmart Ups The Ante With More Cash
By Chris Morran on December 14, 2011 11:15 AM
86 Comments
Yesterday we brought you the story of an Ohio middle school teacher who penned an open letter to Target after an employee told her that she and her group of 25 students would not be permitted to do their annual holiday shopping to benefit a local charity. As you might have predicted, once this news hit the web that goes worldwide, Target had a change of heart — and Walmart made a nice counter-offer to the put-out teacher and her charges. More »
Target Doesn't Want Your Group Of Students To Spend Thousands Of Dollars At Its Store
By Chris Morran on December 13, 2011 12:15 PM
197 Comments
UPDATE: Target has now felt the wrath of the internet and changed its mind about not letting these children spend thousands of dollars. Of course, Walmart has come up with an even sweeter deal. More »
More Shoppers "Renting" Electronics From Retailers
By Chris Morran on December 13, 2011 11:15 AM
85 Comments
A new study shows that a growing number of electronics purchases — up to one in five — are being returned to retailers, and that a large majority of the items returned as defective are in fact perfectly fine. More »
(pdxmac)
Target Demands Extra $189 To Exchange Camera No Longer On Sale
By Laura Northrup on December 7, 2011 11:15 AM
221 Comments
Coco took advantage of a great deal at Target, buying a digital camera on sale for $189 below list price, with a $75 Target gift card on the side. Neat! Trouble was, he didn't open or test out the camera until a week later, once the sale was over and the gift card had been spent. Photos taken with the camera didn't come out, so he took the camera back to Target to exchange it for a working one. The trouble was, they couldn't exchange it for him unless he paid an extra $189 and return the $75 gift card. More »
Study: JCPenney, Avon, Gap Websites Are Worst At Responding To Customer E-Mails
By Chris Morran on November 30, 2011 4:45 PM
20 Comments
After years of being trained to dread contacting a company via phone, lest we get trapped in the automated phone tree, customers are turning to e-mail for resolving their customer service issues. And while a new study shows that a majority of the top online retailers did a passable job of replying to customer inquiries, a handful of websites apparently decided to give their e-mail customer service teams some extra time off this holiday season. More »
Does Anyone Need Perfectly Shaped Mini Baked Goods Of Uniform Size?
By Mary Beth Quirk on November 22, 2011 10:00 AM
97 Comments
Are you hankering after six perfectly formed donut holes right now? How about some circus waffles? If you had any of the plethora of niche baking machine options one of our Consumerist commenters espied, you'd be set for baked goods for life (and maybe short on storage space). More »
Now Available At Target: The Cordless Tea Kettle
By Laura Northrup on November 17, 2011 9:30 AM
117 Comments
Would it technically be possible to have a cordless electric tea kettle? It doesn't exist yet (Dyson is probably working on it as we speak) but in the reality-free zone that is Target, anything is possible. And cordless tea kettles come with a generous amount of cord storage. More »
Target Responds To Workers Who Don't Want To Work Thanksgiving Night
By Chris Morran on November 16, 2011 12:30 PM
154 Comments
Earlier this week, we wrote about how one Target employee had started a petition asking the retailer to cancel its plans to open at midnight after Thanksgiving. And even though the petition now has more than 100,000 names, Target is shrugging it off because that employee wasn't scheduled to work that night anyway. More »
