Photo: Target Corp.
August 13, 2014
Despite its recent challenges, Target will open three more Canadian locations this fall, bringing its total store count to 130. Two locations are in Ontario, and one in Manitoba.
The new locations include:
- Sheridan Mall in Mississauga, Ontario,
- Polo Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba, and
- St. Laurent Boulevard in Ottawa, Ontario.
Target employs an average of 150 staff, or ‘team members’ as they say, at each of its Canadian locations.
Minneapolis-based Target with its expansion into Canada. In May, it fired the president of its Canadian operations, Tony Fisher, and replaced him with Mark Schindele, a company veteran.
On July 31, Target announced PepsiCo executive Brian Cornell will take over as CEO of its US operations. He replaced chief financial officer John Mulligan, who had been in the job since Gregg Steinhafel resigned earlier this year, following a large data breach late last year.
“At Target we’re always looking for ways to enhance the guest experience, including opening stores in new locations that make shopping even more convenient for our guests,” said Mark Schindele, president Target Canada. “We look forward to serving our guests at these three new stores, two of which we built from the ground up.
Target is committed to providing Canadian guests with a one-stop shopping destination for stylish, quality products at unbeatable prices, including beauty, apparel and accessories, home, grocery, personal care and more. Each of the three new stores will carry an extensive range of Target owned and exclusive brands, as well limited time collaborations with Beaver Canoe (a member of the Roots Canada family); and ongoing collaborations such as the Nate Berkus Collection, Sonia Kashuk and Pixi beauty collections and Shaun White apparel.”
I am still watching Target openings (I have more faith in them than many people). These 3 have opened in the past couple of weeks. The 3 scheduled to open this fall include: Sheridan Mall Mississauga, Polo Park Winnipeg & St Laurent Blvd Ottawa.
Thank you, we’ve corrected the oversight.
target is making all these announcements about openings and new stores and changes to their operations.
If a good looking woman has to tell you she’s pretty…well she isn’t.
Target is much more attractive a shopping experience than Walmart. I hope they do well and solve some of the challenges they are experiencing. They need to align there strategy with the US stores and stop trying to be "Canadian".
Are theses 3 new stores going to have more inventory ?
We sure hope so – we were in a Target store yesterday and it seemed reasonably stocked.