{"id":49548,"date":"2017-10-30T04:54:27","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T04:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=49548"},"modified":"2017-10-30T05:02:10","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T05:02:10","slug":"targets-new-changes-could-boost-stock-barrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/targets-new-changes-could-boost-stock-barrons.html","title":{"rendered":"Targets new changes could boost stock Barrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Targets new changes could boost stock Barrons<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Targets new changes could boost stock Barrons: The Minneapolis-based discount chain has been making strides to better compete with Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), boosting online sales to 4.4 percent of revenue in the latest fiscal year, up from 2.8 percent in fiscal 2016, Barron\u2019s said. That is higher than roughly 3 percent at Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), Barron\u2019s said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Retailers have to price well and provide items that cannot be bought elsewhere in order to beat Amazon, Barron\u2019s reported, citing Ivan Feinseth, chief investment officer at Tigress Financial Partners.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Target recently introduced several exclusive new brands, including its Cat &amp; Jack children\u2019s clothing label, and is rolling out 12 more in-house brands this year, Barron\u2019s said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Other plans include trying to get more customers to use its credit and debit card loyalty program, known as REDcard, and focusing on new store formats, such as smaller stores for densely populated areas, Barron\u2019s reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Source:https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-target-stocks\/targets-new-changes-could-boost-stock-barrons-idUSKBN1CY0SJ<\/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\/targets-new-changes-could-boost-stock-barrons.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>Targets new changes could boost stock Barrons Targets new changes could boost stock Barrons: The Minneapolis-based discount chain has been making strides to better compete with Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O), boosting online sales to 4.4 percent of revenue in the latest fiscal year, up from 2.8 percent in fiscal 2016, Barron\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24258,24183,87942],"class_list":["post-49548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-best-usa-latest-business-updates-and-news","tag-current-business-updates-in-usa","tag-targets-new-changes-could-boost-stock-barrons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49548","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=49548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}