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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Target comes up
Advice Line: "Strategy Sessions"
- ▶ 40:53 Shazi Visram Like in retail, let's say we were selling, I don't know, 10 pack of pouches, um, uh, maybe at Target, it's on sale for a certain price point, and then at Walmart you might have a 20 pack that hits a similar price point so that there's…
e.l.f. Cosmetics: Joey Shamah. The Dollar Store Formula That Built a Cosmetics Giant
- ▶ 23:04 Guy Raz When we come back in just a moment, Joey gets a much-coveted meeting with a buyer from Target, but then she asks a question that he simply cannot answer.
- ▶ 33:47 Guy Raz Ok, so 2004, you're, you know, you're kind of incrementally growing, and I, I read that you also managed to get a pitch to Target that year, that you managed to make a pitch to them. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:42 Joey Shamah My target buyer got it.
- ▶ 49:14 Joey Shamah And basically if we had a four foot section in target, half of the section was a dollar. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 54:15 Joey Shamah So I'm not gonna have to wait when I sell to target or if I sell to retailers, I buy the goods, ship the goods, then get paid.
- ▶ 1:07:46 Joey Shamah We sell to Target and Walmart and Amazon.
STARR Restaurants: Stephen Starr. How a Non-Foodie Built Thriving Restaurants on Gut Instinct
Advice Line with Shazi Visram of Happy Family Organics
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method returns
iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon
- ▶ 18:16 Colin Angle The Target, or the shopping mall, money, and this all improves their profit margins and creates a good business.
- ▶ 37:20 Guy Raz So, you know, Brookstone, but still, Brookstone is not Target, it's not Walmart.
Advice Line with Angie & Dan Bastian of Angie's BOOMCHICKAPOP
- ▶ 16:27 Dan Bastian And that gave us the bandwidth to, you know, when we got tied in with Trader Joe's and Target and Costco, we kind of grew and that opened the door for, you know, our, our private equity. 2 times in the scene
Scrub Daddy: Aaron Krause. How a Failed Experiment Became a Billion-Dollar Sponge
- ▶ 56:57 Guy Raz The Walmarts or Targets or, you know, Kroger's of the world, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:29 Aaron Krause I know that person, and she'd give me the number, and I, and I could just call them and, and take it from there.
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado and Rashid Ali of Chomps
- ▶ 21:03 Zachary Bonder So, uh, since we just launched our wholesale line, we feel like we're ready for larger retailers like Whole Foods and Target. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Serial Entrepreneur Mark Cuban
Advice Line with Monica Nassif of Mrs. Meyer's
- ▶ 21:33 Monica Nassif And then that's not even Target, Walmart, Toys R Us.
- ▶ 37:10 Guy Raz And you had done, you know, you don't work for Target. 2 times in the scene
Exploding Kittens: Elan Lee. How cat-themed Russian Roulette changed game night forever
- ▶ 48:01 Elan Lee So we, um, contacted a bunch of retailers, uh, the Targets and the Walmarts and the Amazons of the world, and said, like, look, we've got this thing. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:15:37 Elan Lee Like, I get to walk down the aisles of Target holding my daughter's hand, and she can point at her signature on every single one of those boxes, and it's just, ah, it's just the greatest feeling in the world.
- ▶ 1:16:59 Guy Raz And that's everything from Target and Walmart to small, like.
Advice Line with Scott Tannen of Boll & Branch and Jamie Siminoff of Ring
- ▶ 12:58 Scott Tannen And so it just got to the point where Missy went to target
Advice Line with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace
- ▶ 22:36 Stacey Bernstein A mass retailer like a Target or, um, you know, we're definitely going down the natural path, grosser route.
Babylist: Natalie Gordon. How a new mom used nap time to build a $500M business.
Magnolia: Chip & Joanna Gaines. From House Flipping to Household Name
- ▶ 1:24:57 Joanna Gaines It's, it's going to be exclusively with Target. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:26:37 Guy Raz I mean, it's already, you've got a TV network that you're, you know, your owners in, and, um, you know, the magazine, and the shops, and, and the line with Target, and the new food line, and there, I mean, there, the possibility, and…
Advice Line with Randy Hetrick of TRX
Advice Line with Bobbi Brown of Jones Road Beauty
- ▶ 23:44 Abby Rosalier You know, they'll, they'll be in Urban, they'll be in Target. 2 times in the scene
Carlton Calvin: Razor. The wild rise, collapse, and reinvention of a mobile toy empire.
- ▶ 38:00 Carlton Calvin I, I mean, I clearly like any number of people, I had my relationships with Toys R Us and Walmart and Amazon and not Amazon, uh, Target, you know, all the players
- ▶ 1:01:05 Guy Raz Like, like, I mean, obviously Toys R Us isn't there anymore, and, you know, Walmart and Target still sell toys, but it's somewhat different.
- ▶ 1:04:33 Carlton Calvin And when we came out with something innovative, they got way behind it, you know, and we could always rely on three big customers, Walmart, Target, and Toys R Us.
Madison Reed: Amy Errett
Advice Line with Isaac Larian of MGA Entertainment
- ▶ 9:07 Guy Raz Target and Walmart.
- ▶ 20:42 Libby Mochan But I definitely see an opportunity to get into Target and differentiate because that's, that's the first place that I went when I was looking for insoles. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Troy Carter of Atom Factory
- ▶ 11:45 Troy Carter So is there a possibility of doing like a pilot program with a target or somebody along those lines?
Advice Line with Eric Ryan of Method
Perfect Snacks: Bill and Leigh Keith
- ▶ 1:04:41 Leigh Keith Keep in mind, you know, Target, uh, Kroger, Walmart, we're all starting to knock on our door.
- ▶ 1:13:32 Bill Keith Are we going to be able to make that jump, which is not guaranteed with a lot of brands that they can make the jump to conventional, make the jump to mass target and Walmart.
Advice Line with Steve Holmes of goba Sports Group
- ▶ 18:41 Cody Johnson My name is Cody Johnson, and I'm the founder of Grand Tongo, which is the great-smelling, powerful DEET alternative bug spray, which just launched in Target in 1180 stores. 4 times in the scene
Tecovas: Paul Hedrick
Hexclad: Danny Winer
Advice Line with Andy Dunn of Bonobos
Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day: Monica Nassif
- ▶ 2:40 Guy Raz Monica knew the brand would never take off in big box stores like Target or Walmart. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:30 Monica Nassif And she scoots across the table an internship at Dayton Hudson, which is now target organization. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:52 Monica Nassif And then I started to get all this work from my friend at Target saying, hey, could you work on this, work on that? 3 times in the scene
Hero Cosmetics: Ju Rhyu and Dwight Lee
- ▶ 1:09:38 Dwight Lee We were really focused on having a place where this brand could live on for 50 years, where I could bring my kids to Target later on and say, hey, this brand, it's still here, it's still flourishing.
Noosa Yoghurt: Koel Thomae
Advice Line with Chris Ruder of Spikeball
- ▶ 28:37 Chris Ruder Same thing when Walmart did it, when Target did it,
Advice Line with Angie Hicks of Angi
- ▶ 9:13 Paige McReynolds That day, I was bored at work, I was in a meeting, and I started sketching my dream jersey, what it would look like, and, you know, something that you would see on a Nordstrom rack, or something that you'd see in Target, you know, those…
21 Seeds: Kat Hantas
- ▶ 42:18 Kat Hantas They shop at Target, they shop at Walmart.
Advice Line with Brett Schulman of CAVA
- ▶ 26:15 Brett Schulman Where your consumer, your allerg, uh, parent that has a child with allergen issues or maybe have them themselves, um, are trafficking and where's that need state happening, whether it's target, whether it's a gift shop. 3 times in the scene
Advice Line with Mark Ramadan of Sir Kensington's
- ▶ 38:54 Beth Beneke We're, um, we just launched on target.com, and we are onboarding right now with Walmart. 4 times in the scene
Advice Line with Sarah Kauss of S'well
- ▶ 22:34 Jesus Rubalcaba And not only people that are shopping at, you know, like I mentioned, Latino specialty stores, but, you know, I shop at Target, and I shop at Walmart, so I would like to see more 2 times in the scene
Advice Line with Andrew Abraham of Orgain
Advice Line with Pete Maldonado of Chomps
Magic Spoon & Exo: Gabi Lewis and Greg Sewitz
Drunk Elephant: Tiffany Masterson
Liquid Death: Mike Cessario
- ▶ 59:12 Mike Cessario I mean, we had talked to, I don't know, like a broker for Target, and they were like, ah, yeah, guys, we don't think this is the right fit for mom.
CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman
- ▶ 15:37 Ted Xenohristos We, everything was from Marshalls, TJ Maxx, Target. 2 times in the scene
The art of letting go with Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn of Dang Foods
Sir Kensington's: Scott Norton and Mark Ramadan
- ▶ 1:05:34 Mark Ramadan We could effectively spend to support sales all across the country from Whole Foods to Kroger to Target to everyone in between.
Freshpet: Scott Morris
- ▶ 57:19 Scott Morris Um, we had an opportunity with both Kroger and with Target, and when we had 2 times in the scene
The Lip Bar (TLB): Melissa Butler (2020)
- ▶ 1:57 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Melissa Butler launched a lipstick brand at her kitchen stove and got it into hundreds of Target stores, all the while challenging an industry to change the way it thinks about color and beauty. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:14 Melissa Butler I was like, I'm going to find a retailer and target. 16 times in the scene
Harry’s Razors: Andy Katz-Mayfield and Jeff Raider
Sun Bum: Tom Rinks
- ▶ 1:02:33 Guy Raz Yeah, I mean, it's hard for me to, just to realize that it only launched in 2010 because today feels like such a dominant sunscreen brand, like, you see it in airport stores, you see it at Target everywhere, but to get to that point,…
- ▶ 1:13:24 Guy Raz That's Tom Rinks, co-founder of Sunbum, in the mind behind many other brands, including one that just launched in Target this month.
Men's Wearhouse: George Zimmer (2019)
HIBT Lab! Yolélé: Pierre Thiam
Tumi & Roam Luggage: Charlie Clifford
Happy Family Organics: Shazi Visram (2020)
- ▶ 52:02 Shazi Visram Ok, so we were the first, um, brand of baby food and pouches in Whole Foods and Target. 5 times in the scene
HIBT Lab! Blogilates: Cassey Ho
Zola: Shan-Lyn Ma
Telfar: Telfar Clemens and Babak Radboy
- ▶ 40:37 Telfar Clemens Um, I mean, in the fabrics that we're using, kind of like, I think the closest thing was like polar fleece, you know, that would be like a lot of target.
Dang Foods: Vincent and Andrew Kitirattragarn
Planet: Will Marshall and Robbie Schingler
Stasher and Modern Twist: Kat Nouri
- ▶ 43:15 Kat Nouri What happened is that Anova gave us a big order, and Anova was already in Target, and they needed a sous vide bag, and I had a sous vide bag for them. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:26 Guy Raz Um, once you had visibility from Shark Tank, did that help you get into bigger stores, like Target, for example? 6 times in the scene
Casper: Philip Krim
How I Built Resilience: Kara Goldin of Hint
- ▶ 9:00 Kara Goldin And I remember flying back on Friday the 13th and dropping into a Target store because I had started to see customer service 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:27 Guy Raz In March of twenty-twenty, as the pandemic started shutting things down, Kara noticed that Hint Water wasn't on the shelves at her local Target, and she realized the company had a big problem.
Boxed: Chieh Huang
Atlassian: Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar
- ▶ 4:59 Scott Farquhar Then she worked at Target or Tajay, as we like to call it in Australia, and McDonald's at different, at different stages.
Author and Podcaster: Tim Ferriss
- ▶ 41:34 Tim Ferriss It was basically one of these three-sided photo holders from Target or someplace like that.
Kodiak Cakes: Joel Clark
- ▶ 54:36 Joel Clark So one day we had a, we were at a trade show and I got the buyer's name for Target. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:02:37 Joel Clark So like people, particularly at Target, and I think it's because Target was mentioned on the show, and so people went to Target, and they just cleared the shelves, and so we struggled, we struggled for a couple months just to keep up with…
- ▶ 1:03:28 Joel Clark So the first time we'd ever put protein in a product and that hits the shelves at Target and just takes off.
- ▶ 1:07:30 Guy Raz I think by 2018, you were like the top pancake seller at Target. 4 times in the scene
The Lip Bar: Melissa Butler
- ▶ 1:14 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on the show today, how Melissa Butler launched a lipstick brand at her kitchen stove and got it into hundreds of Target stores, all the while challenging an industry to change the way it thinks about color and beauty. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:42 Melissa Butler And Target, it was our, our goal. 16 times in the scene
McBride Sisters Wine (Part 1 of 2): Robin McBride and Andréa McBride John
method: Adam Lowry & Eric Ryan (2018)
- ▶ 29:56 Eric Ryan I mean, a big part of our pitch was showing what we had proven locally and regionally, and the argument that we were going to go get Target next, and that we needed capital to be able to close Target and start to scale nationally. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:36 Guy Raz So, after Target, at that point, did it become easier to get into other big box stores and other retailers? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 50:32 Guy Raz Is it strange to go into a Target or a Whole Foods and see this bottle you designed, this soap you designed, this thing that you were making in a San Francisco group house, call it whatever you want, and it's not yours anymore.
Vita Coco: Michael Kirban
- ▶ 55:47 Michael Kirban Now we could go to national retailers, whether it be Walmart, Kroger, Target, and sell to them on a national level, while at the same time we were getting this great expansion of awareness.
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