Target
Doesn’t it seem like you never heard of Target stores, and two days later they were everywhere? It’s as if someone in the Dayton-Hudson department store chain, the creators and owners of Target, said, “Now don’t think I’m crazy – but what if we created an upscale WalMart?” Crazy? Crazy like a fox. A very, very rich fox.
Target has done so well that it left the company’s true department stores – Dayton’s, Hudson’s, and Marshall Field’s – in its dust. The company finally gave up and changed its name to the Target Corporation in 2000.
Now, many communities are getting SuperTargets with a bank, food court, full grocery and deli, even a clinic in some stores. But they’ll still have the designer-influenced products, the better layout, and the feeling that you’re getting better quality for your dollar. That’s why we celebrate Tarzhay: a store dedicated to making us feel better about the stuff we have to buy.