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FaceTime with the Content Guy:  A Target Badly Missed

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Just across the street from the new Wegmans about three miles from where I live, Target has opened a 117,000 square foot store that I went to check out.  What I found was a depressing, dispiriting, mediocre retailing experience that speaks volumes about Target’s current problems.  Here’s my question:  How is it possible for a store open just a few days to suffer from “nobody gives a damn disease?”  

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