Target, every mention
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every year anyone Ben Gilbert 18David Rosenthal 17Howard Schultz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Target comes up
Trader Joe’s: Hawaiian shirts and counter positioning (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:46:30 Ben Gilbert Also, it's kind of interesting that Walmart has great value, Target has Good & Gather, Amazon has Basics, Costco has Kirkland Signature, Trader Joe's has Trader Joe's.
- ▶ 2:10:07 David Rosenthal John, after GSB, had gone and worked at Macy's, and then at Mervin's, the huge retailer that got acquired by Target.
Epic Systems (MyChart) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:18:51 David Rosenthal It's like you're getting a stimulus to buy a handbag, and you could get the Target one, or you could get the Birkin bag, and they're all free.
IKEA (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 33:57 David Rosenthal This is here in America going back to the Best Buy circular in the Sunday paper or the Target circular or the Sears circular.
- ▶ 2:44:50 Ben Gilbert Target is about 450 dollars.
- ▶ 2:47:44 Ben Gilbert Target, Amazon, Wayfair, but then you start to get quickly into, like, more expensive CB-II, Pottery Barn.
- ▶ 2:50:55 Ben Gilbert Probably the most credible competitor from my perspective with me as a customer is Target.
- ▶ 2:51:02 Ben Gilbert I probably would look at Target.com and see if there are, because they partner with all these designers, they have, like, a reasonable sense of taste.
- ▶ 2:51:17 Ben Gilbert They don't just sell furniture, but, you know, Target's a seventy billion dollar company.
- ▶ 2:51:22 Ben Gilbert I don't think it's global in the way that IKEA is.
- ▶ 2:51:35 David Rosenthal I totally agree with you that within the U.S. or in North America, Target feels like the closest competitor to Ikea.
- ▶ 2:51:47 David Rosenthal Target is a North American company.
- ▶ 2:53:46 Ben Gilbert I guess we should assess it versus Target in North America, and-
Starbucks (with Howard Schultz) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:30:25 Howard Schultz Or Target that has 2000 Starbucks stores.
- ▶ 2:30:27 Ben Gilbert And those are Target operated?
Visa (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:40:36 David Rosenthal And famously, Walmart and Target, too, I think, have been trying to do this for years and years and years, and they never can make it work.
Costco (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 21:26 David Rosenthal Discounters are Walmart's, Kmart's, Targets.
- ▶ 24:00 David Rosenthal First, he invents the discounter, which then Sam Walton, Kresge with Kmart, Dayton with Target, copy, and becomes the dominant retail form of America.
- ▶ 29:23 David Rosenthal You might be listening and saying, like, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sounds good, but I'm thinking about, you know, I don't know, maybe I go to Walmart today, or I walk into Target, and I see some similar things written on the walls there.
- ▶ 1:07:50 David Rosenthal Walmart and Kmart and Target start, 1982 when all this is happening.
- ▶ 2:04:07 Ben Gilbert Target's about 450 dollars per square foot of revenue.
- ▶ 2:37:54 Ben Gilbert Target and Walmart's is something like 20%.
Holiday Special 2022 · Acquired
- ▶ 31:41 Ben Gilbert I was like, well, there's like stores, like Walmart and Target, and there's department stores, which are like more expensive and opinionated, and then the brands that have sort of their own stores.
Amazon.com · Acquired
- ▶ 2:42:09 David Rosenthal So they do it with Target.
- ▶ 2:42:12 David Rosenthal They literally ran Target's website for years, which ominously, they announced that deal on September 11th, 2001.
- ▶ 2:43:48 unnamed speaker They're doing this crazy stuff with Target and Toys R Us.
Walmart · Acquired
- ▶ 1:12:02 Ben Gilbert Even the, like, Target is sort of like a high-end discounter.
- ▶ 1:12:10 Ben Gilbert They're in the 29% category, but everyone was 33% or above gross margin at this point in history.
- ▶ 1:12:18 David Rosenthal Before this episode, I didn't think of Target as a discounter.
- ▶ 1:28:50 David Rosenthal The Dayton Hudson company in Minneapolis launches Target in 1962.
- ▶ 1:28:57 Ben Gilbert Which doesn't Target feel like a newer company than Walmart?
- ▶ 1:29:18 Ben Gilbert But it's worth knowing all three of these are existing variety store chains that we're used to making 33% on every single item they sold in their store, and if you look at four horses, this Woolco, Target, Kmart, which would come out of SS…
- ▶ 2:08:22 David Rosenthal Like one of the reasons I don't like shopping at Trader Joe's, Target, even Whole Foods too, like physically anywhere is the checkout lines.
- ▶ 2:11:20 David Rosenthal I knew that there were McDonald's and Subways and Walmart's like sort of the store within a store concept, and like Target has those too, and
- ▶ 2:20:28 Ben Gilbert If you look at Walmart's twenty-four-ish percent gross margin, so that's basically what they get from the goods that they sell on the shelf, you see, ok, it's less than Target, which makes 29 30% of anything that they sell on the shelf.
Peloton - the entire history and strategy behind America's trendiest workout · Acquired
- ▶ 1:18:13 Ben Gilbert You know, NordicTrack and Target making black and red bikes and making up Peloton-like sounding names for them, and...
Not Boring (with Packy McCormick) - Extended Cut · Acquired
- ▶ 2:51:04 David Rosenthal I think like maybe target was a client, but Walmart, like, you know, like lots of clients, including Amazon, lots of value.