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Absolutely. The stores are uncluttered, clean, good prices and good selection of low-to-mid brow goods. And they're not Wal-Mart. I know Zellers tried to take a page from the Target book, but that failed, if only because their stores are still dirtier and more cluttered than W-M, their marketing stinks, and so inconsistant.
 
aren't they building a target at castlefield & caledonia or is that a loews?
 
Which is exactly why they are successful - a mass market merchandiser that has managed to tap into a decent design aesthetic. They are perfectly positioned between the low-brow Wal-Marts of the world and high-brow Bergdorfs of the world.
 
I found them to be like a glorified WalMart.

It's far from perfect, but has escaped criticism of the great abuses conducted at Wal-Mart, and at least its charitable contributions and cultural sponsorships are far, far, more that Wal-Mart's highly-advertised but measly "good works". It doesn't have the stigma, and is able to provide better merchandise, often in very urban stores (like the ones I've been to in LA and New York) in a nicer setting.

If Target comes, Zellers will likely be toast. Unfortunately, I would see that as HBC's own fault for the inerta - they had plenty of opportunity to adapt, before Wal-Mart came in 1993, before Wal-Mart went on its post-Woolco boom, and before Target comes.
 
and at least its charitable contributions and cultural sponsorships are far, far, more that Wal-Mart's highly-advertised but measly "good works"

Akin to buying indulgences.

Regardless, it's just my opinion. People can shop where they like.
 
It's far from perfect, but has escaped criticism of the great abuses conducted at Wal-Mart, and at least its charitable contributions and cultural sponsorships are far, far, more that Wal-Mart's highly-advertised but measly "good works". It doesn't have the stigma, and is able to provide better merchandise, often in very urban stores (like the ones I've been to in LA and New York) in a nicer setting.

I agree, the only way in which Wal Mart and Target are similar is 'size'. Wal Mart is a brutal, rock-bottom retailer, whereas Target actually manages to offer quality merchandize, and quality designers, at a decent price point.
 
Target’s ‘cheap chic’ may head to Canada

TORONTO — Target, the U.S. retail giant whose department stores are so coveted by Canadians they are often the sole purpose of a cross-border shopping trip, is reportedly looking at potential markets in which to open stores in this country.

Industry sources say the Minnesota-based retailer is conducting a market analysis in what could be a step closer to a long-rumoured expansion into Canada.

Target Corp. has successfully battled Wal-Mart in the United States by democratizing high fashion and design, offering so-called “cheap chic†items in addition to its low-priced mass market offerings. It has paired with numerous fashion and industrial designers for collections, including Stella McCartney, Isaac Mizrahi and, recently, a line from Liberty of London.

The news comes as U.S. retailers have been looking to Canada with renewed vigour after our retail market held up better than theirs during and after the recession. TJX Cos., which operates Winners, Home

Sense and three StyleSense footwear stores in this country, is also reportedly close to debuting a fourth chain here.

Target has reportedly hired a Canadian team to assess sites in the Greater Toronto Area. “This is closer than they have been before,†said a source. “They are further down the road than Kohl’s is,†referring to another large U.S. retail chain apparently eyeing this market.

Target, Wal-Mart’s chief competitor in the United States, is scouting locations rather than looking to do a deal with Richard Baker of NRDC Equity Partners, which owns the Bay, Zellers and Home Outfitters chains, the source said.

Another senior executive with a major real estate company said Target “is not just talking; they are looking for real prospects. When you are taking something serious like this, you start looking at competitors and doing the grunt work.â€

While Target is further along than it ever has been before, the source said, there is no guarantee it will come to Canada.

“They’ll proceed with caution. They’ve been up here before and disappeared. I’d say it’s 50/50 at this point,†he said, adding if a deal were done it would be well into 2011 before Canadians could see any stores.

Target spokeswoman Amy Reilly said the company is “currently exploring Target store expansions outside the lower 48 states, including Alaska and Hawaii, as well as international development like Canada. We are excited and confident about our future opportunities, but I can’t share any details at this moment.â€

TJX, which has nearly 300 Canadian stores, did not respond to requests for comment.

Target looked to be close to entering the country five years ago. But Jack Klaiman, president of retail advisor Oberfeld Snowcap, said the latest rumours make good sense because of Canada’s current retail economy and the strong performance of U.S. chains in this market.

“It’s a wide open market,†he said. “The only competition Target has in their field today is Wal-Mart, and that does an outstanding job in Canada, and Zellers is no longer what it used to be. Mexico, [as a potential next move for Target], has a lot more people than here, but they are a much more limited market.

“Ninety-nine per cent of the American retailers in Canada perform better in there operations here than in the U.S.,†he added, noting Wal-Mart’s store in Mississauga’s Square One mall is one of the retail giant’s top five performing stores worldwide.

One wrinkle standing in Target’s way, at least legally, could be getting the rights to its corporate name in Canada. Isaac Benitah, owner of Toronto-based I.N.C. Group, which operates chains such as Fairweather, Randy River, Les Ailes de la Mode and International Clothiers, owns the rights to the Target name and operates a handful of apparel stores in Ontario under the banner.

Read more: http://www.financialpost.com/Target+cheap+chic+head+Canada/3217712/story.html#ixzz0sIhpCVVq
 
At Target headquarters in downtown Minneapolis they have a two-story store, very similar to the Canadian Tire at Bay & Dundas. I could see them doing something like that here.
 
With Kohl's and Target possibility opening their stores in Canada, maybe Sears should bring K-Mart back to Canada.

Our market isn't big enough to support many mass market retailers. That segment is pretty well served between Wal-Mart, Zellers, Canadian Tire and Superstore. I could see room for Target, but not much else.
 
Maybe Superstore can go retro

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Nothing like that old school Don Watt Loblaw aesthetic
 
from today's Montreal Gazette.....


Retailer Target sets sights on Canada
Trade show abuzz as Wal-Mart rival talks rollout plan

By HOLLIE SHAW, Postmedia News October 6, 2010 -Target Corp. was the hot topic at a Toronto shopping centre trade show yesterday as representatives of the cheap-chic Wal-Mart rival held meetings with developers to discuss its store rollout plan for Canada, with an eye to opening up to 200 stores.

The second-largest mass merchant in the United States -behind Wal-Mart Stores Inc. -is looking to open six to 10 stores in late 2014 or 2015, said Fred Waks, chief operating officer with RioCan, the largest public real-estate developer in Canada.

This is the first time representatives of the retailer have attended the trade show, and the biggest indication yet that the retailer will make Canada a key component of its international expansion strategy.

"We are exploring opportunities in Canada," Amy Reilly, a Target spokeswoman, said yesterday. "We are optimistic that our first stores could open by mid-decade."

In June, the company confirmed that it was looking at Canada and other international development opportunities, but stopped short of saying it would open stores here.

Waks attended one of several meetings Target executives had with real-estate executives yesterday morning, the first day of an International Council of Shopping Centres convention in Toronto.

"They wanted to discuss rollout plans -they are looking for an urban strategy and will roll out first in the Greater Toronto area," Waks said. "From our perspective, they are really going to change retail in Canada."

He said the retailer is looking to open "a couple of hundred units" during a period of about 10 years. Reilly could not comment on future store opening details.

Minnesota-based Target, long sought out by Canadians shopping south of the border, has flourished in spite of Wal-Mart's dominance in the U.S. market by making affordable product design and style as a key part of its retail strategy.

Like Wal-Mart, it sells low-priced mass-market offerings as well as low-priced but fashionable items, and has partnered with fashion and industrial designers to sell exclusive lines at the chain. It has 1,743 stores in the U.S.

Target has offered more fresh food at its stores as part of a more recent consumer-focused service strategy that has also seen the behemoth pursue urban stores in the U.S. It opened its first retail outlet in Manhattan this year and is now building smaller-format urban stores between 60,000 and 100,000 square feet; a typical Target store is 125,000 to 180,000 square feet.

The news comes as Canadian retailers have been consistently outperforming their U.S. counterparts since the recession ended, and U.S. retailers without a presence in Canada have been taking notice. TJX Cos., which operates Winners, Home Sense and three StyleSense footwear stores in this country, announced in July that it will open the first Canadian Marshalls stores in the spring of 2011.


Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/busi...ights+Canada/3629234/story.html#ixzz11aKWwglS
 
The news comes as Canadian retailers have been consistently outperforming their U.S. counterparts since the recession ended, and U.S. retailers without a presence in Canada have been taking notice. TJX Cos., which operates Winners, Home Sense and three StyleSense footwear stores in this country, announced in July that it will open the first Canadian Marshalls stores in the spring of 2011.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/busi...ights+Canada/3629234/story.html#ixzz11aKWwglS

If the first Marshalls is opening in the Spring, they must have already leased the space by now. Anyone know its location?
 
They have leased 6 locations....in most cases they are going into old Winners spaces where Winners has moved onto new space.

Colossus Centre, Warden and Eglinton, Laird and Eglinton are the ones I have heard
 

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