{"id":48294,"date":"2017-10-23T07:54:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-23T07:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=48294"},"modified":"2017-10-23T07:54:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-23T07:54:31","slug":"target-gears-up-for-holidays-with-free-shipping-and-gifts-under-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/target-gears-up-for-holidays-with-free-shipping-and-gifts-under-15.html","title":{"rendered":"Target gears up for holidays with free shipping and gifts under $15"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Target gears up for holidays with free shipping and gifts under $15<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Target gears up for holidays with free shipping and gifts under $15: Target, which has promised about <\/span>1,700 holiday<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"> products including \u201cStar Wars,\u201d LEGO and Netflix merchandise and hundreds of $1 stocking stuffers, said it would offer promotional deals during weekends for the last two months of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The retailer is also rolling out a service that allows online customers to send friends and family electronic gift boxes that let them make changes to items or select entirely different gifts before they ship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Several industry surveys have indicated that shoppers will spend more on holiday gifting this year, helped by higher online sales and a strong labor market.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">The Minneapolis-based retailer said in September it was hiring 100,000 temporary holiday workers, up from the 70,000 workers it hired in each of the previous four years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">That month, Target also lowered prices on thousands of essential items, from cereal to baby formula, making good its vow from earlier in the year to compete with rivals by aggressively clamping down on prices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Target said its holiday assortment would include more than 1,400 toys, including L.O.L. 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Big Surprise and items from popular Netflix Inc show \u201cStranger Things\u201d and the next \u201cStar Wars\u201d installment, \u201cThe Last Jedi.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">\u201cStar Wars\u201d was the U.S. toy industry\u2019s top-selling property for 2015 and 2016, with $1.5 billion in sales over the two years, according to research firm NPD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\">Wal-Mart, the world\u2019s largest retailer, is also counting on \u201cStar Wars\u201d toy sales this <\/span>holiday,<span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 12pt;color: #000000\"> and has added a large assortment of \u201cStar Wars\u201d products to its holiday layaway program, which allows shoppers to put aside holiday merchandise and make payments in installments.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 8pt;color: #000000\">Source:http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-target-holiday\/target-gears-up-for-holidays-with-free-shipping-and-gifts-under-15-idUSKBN1CS0ES<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/target-gears-up-for-holidays-with-free-shipping-and-gifts-under-15.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target gears up for holidays with free shipping and gifts under $15 Target gears up for holidays with free shipping and gifts under $15: Target, which has promised about 1,700 holiday products including \u201cStar Wars,\u201d LEGO and Netflix merchandise and hundreds of $1 stocking stuffers, said it would offer promotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":48312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24235,81936,24234],"class_list":["post-48294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-latest-business-updates-and-usa-news","tag-target-gears-up-for-holidays-with-free-shipping-and-gifts-under-15","tag-top-usa-latest-business-and-regional-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}