{"id":1717,"date":"2016-02-20T09:07:38","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:07:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1717"},"modified":"2016-02-20T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T17:07:38","slug":"walmart-vs-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1717","title":{"rendered":"Walmart Vs. Target"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really cool infographic sent to me from <a href=\"http:\/\/storetraffic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SMS Store Traffic.com<\/a>\u00a0which compares two of the retail giants. \u00a0 Although Walmart is obviously way bigger, there&#8217;s a lot of similarities. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t know they were both founded the same year (1962) and their stock price has followed a similar trend, including a large drop within the last year. \u00a0 You probably won&#8217;t be surprised that Walmart gets more business from the lower income folks, and that Target appeals to younger shoppers more.<\/p>\n<p>At the bottom it shows that Target&#8217;s main growth strategy is to focus on smaller sites (Target Express.) \u00a0 I&#8217;ve talked about it before, but if these smaller sites are successful for them, I can easily see a time where they buy front store locations\u00a0from CVS (having already sold them their pharmacies) and they convert the buildings to Target Express with a CVS pharmacy. \u00a0They are much better at running the front store business than CVS but not as good running the pharmacy, so it makes sense for both companies. \u00a0 That way, if you happen to desperately need a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.target.com\/p\/rachael-ray-bakeware-set-orange-5-pc\/-\/A-12059542#prodSlot=_1_11\" target=\"_blank\">Rachael Ray bakeware set,\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0there will be a store near you to buy one at.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.image-maps.com\/m\/private\/0\/sh4qs087rkcatcoqbubunbhb24_walmart-vs-target-an-infographic.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a really cool infographic sent to me from SMS Store Traffic.com\u00a0which compares two of the retail giants. \u00a0 Although Walmart is obviously way bigger, there&#8217;s a lot of similarities. \u00a0I didn&#8217;t know they were both founded the same year (1962) and their stock price has followed a similar trend, including a large drop within <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1717\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-companies","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1717"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1717\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}