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Target joins the growing bad forecasters’ club

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NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) – Know your customer: it’s the golden rule of retail, and one that U.S. store chain Target seems to have flunked. The company slashed https://investors.target.com/news-releases/news-release-details/target-c

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