Target, every mention
14 scenes (2022) · ← back to Target
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every year 2022 anyone Ben Gilbert 18David Rosenthal 17Howard Schultz 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Target comes up
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...