{"id":3670,"date":"2025-09-15T11:20:51","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/?p=3670"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:20:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T15:20:26","slug":"rules-target-changing-forever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/rules-target-changing-forever\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rules of Shopping at Target Are Officially Changing Forever \u2014 The &#8216;Store of the Future&#8217; Is Here, and It&#8217;s Bigger Than You Think"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of America&#8217;s top retailers, Target, is changing its shopping rules. The change comes as a result of a plan to change to shopping issue that the retailer has been dealing with. Therefore, the way consumers will be shopping in the future might just change because of this plan.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>The retailer&#8217;s change<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Currently, a lot of retailers are busy closing store locations due to pressure from the economy and the increased tariffs. Although this is currently occurring in the retail industry, <a href=\"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/not-target-not-walmart-kohls-changes-everything-with-its-own-brands-and-surprises-everyone-it-could-be-the-end-for-them\/\">Target<\/a> is betting on massive growth on the other hand. The retailer is even trying to navigate sales declines, shifting consumer habits, and even backlash over the retailer&#8217;s position on social issues.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the retailer announced that it plans to open seven new stores this fall. Six of these new stores will be larger than its standard 125,000 square-foot format. Also, the new locations are part of a broader strategy the retailer is currently focused on, which is to open more than 300 stores over the next decade.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Large-Format Target Stores<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The retailer has already been rolling out these larger formats, where two of these openings will be occurring this spring and the other three stores during summer. Furthermore, by the end of 2025, the retailer is expecting to open around 20 new stores. A large majority of these stores will be large formats and remodel many existing locations.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, all seven of these new stores is expected to open between October 12 and 19 in the following locations. Below is a list of where these new locations will be opened:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Arizona:<\/strong>\u00a037854 N Gantzel Road, Queen Creek, AZ 85140 (146,000 sq. ft.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Florida:<\/strong>\u00a027920 Pink Flamingo Lane, Wesley Chapel, FL 33544 (149,000 sq. ft.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nebraska:<\/strong>\u00a03400 West 13th Street, Grand Island, NE 68803 (148,000 sq. ft.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>South Carolina:<\/strong>\u00a05345 Crossridge Boulevard, Indian Land, SC 29707 (149,000 sq. ft.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Virginia:<\/strong>\u00a0Building 8, 24670 Arcola Landing Drive, Sterling, VA 20166 (148,000 sq. ft.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>California:\u00a0<\/strong>205 South Clovis Avenue, Fresno, CA 93727 (148,000 sq. ft.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Texas:\u00a0<\/strong>12565 Arc Lane, Stafford, TX 77477 (125,000 sq. ft. standard format)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Target&#8217;s new strategy<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The retailer is currently focusing on a new strategy and that is turning <a href=\"https:\/\/corporate.target.com\/news-features\/article\/2023\/09\/stores-as-hubs-strategy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stores into hubs.<\/a> This model of Target leans largely on the retailer&#8217;s physical locations. There are currently 95% of Target&#8217;s digital orders that are fulfilled directly from stores. This includes the same-day delivery intervention, which is received through Target Circle 360. This delivery strategy now covers about 80% of the United States population.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, by consolidating fulfillment into stores, the retailer aims to reduce its reliance on warehouses. It also aims to cut costs and reinvest in a broader assortment and consumer experience. The efforts of the retailer that is currently occurring is tied to the company&#8217;s goal. This goal was announced in March, and it is to produce more than $15 billion in sales growth by the year 2030. This is set out to be done through a mixture of physical, digital, and social commerce investments.<\/p>\n<p>According to the company&#8217;s Chief Executive Officer (<a href=\"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/starting-now-targets-new-ceo-announces-major-moves\/\">CEO<\/a>) Michael Fiddelke, the retailer built a successful digital business that is profitable at a total of $20 billions. At times it feels like this growth happened overnight as he mentioned in the earnings call.<\/p>\n<p>He further alluded to the fact that, <em>&#8220;You&#8217;re juggling that digital business growth and working every day to maintain a great in-store experience. And you&#8217;ve heard me say from the start of the year, bringing more consistency to that in-store experience is a key priority of ours.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the company&#8217;s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jim Lee agrees to the fact that the company will continue to leverage the new stores as fulfilment hubs. He further stated that, <em>&#8220;It&#8217;s an incredibly fast, efficient and capital-light approach to running an omnichannel business and to ensure our store teams can deliver an outstanding in-store shopping and digital experience.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of America&#8217;s top retailers, Target, is changing its shopping rules. The change comes as a result of a plan to change to shopping issue that the retailer has been dealing with. Therefore, the way consumers will be shopping in the future might just change because of this plan. The retailer&#8217;s change Currently, a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":270,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"subtitle":"","format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"hide","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"1","show_view_counter":"1","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"custom","post_date_format_custom":"m\/d\/Y H:i","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"0","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"no-crop","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-715"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-3670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-retailers","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3670"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3675,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3670\/revisions\/3675"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gcn.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}