{"id":2212,"date":"2011-11-07T12:04:16","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/?p=2212"},"modified":"2011-11-07T12:04:16","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:04:16","slug":"target-seeing-positive-sales-results-from-addition-of-fresh-foods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/target-seeing-positive-sales-results-from-addition-of-fresh-foods\/","title":{"rendered":"Target Seeing Positive Sales Results from Addition of Fresh Foods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/target.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2213\" title=\"target\" src=\"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/target-300x67.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"67\" srcset=\"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/target-300x67.gif 300w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/target-342x77.gif 342w, https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/target.gif 999w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> Target\u2019s 2nd quarter profits increased 3.7%. The business credits the increase to adding fresh food to its stores. Target said sales increased from more consumers consolidating shopping trips at its locations.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Wal-Mart has experienced a 9th straight quarter of negative sales. While Wal-Mart has said it is actually seeing sequential monthly improvements, consumers are buying smaller pack sizes of products.<\/p>\n<p>However, not all shoppers are tightening up their budgets. Target is seeing some of its customers trading up to higher end brands which include Smith &amp; Hawken and Fieldcrest.<\/p>\n<p>Across all of retail, the 20% of households with the highest incomes are shopping a lot more often and spending more, while the other 80% have been cutting down on trips and being economical.<\/p>\n<p>Target\u2019s core customer has a median home income of $55,000. Many experts have said Wal-Mart\u2019s core shopper has a household income in the low $40,000s.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target\u2019s 2nd quarter profits increased 3.7%. The business credits the increase to adding fresh food to its stores. Target said sales increased from more consumers consolidating shopping trips at its locations. In contrast, Wal-Mart has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1218,1217],"class_list":["post-2212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shopping","tag-sales","tag-target"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2212"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2215,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2212\/revisions\/2215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}