Monday Tipsheet: Target Glitch = Long Lines | Hillary at Costco | CA ‘safety warning’ on Soda?

  “Target Hit with Register ‘Glitch’ and Long Lines on Sunday” by Kavita Kumar at Star-Tribune.  “Customers around the country took to social media Sunday night reporting long check-out lines due to ­registers not working.  Target did not elaborate on the exact problem or problems, but said it would provide updates as they became available. […]

Friday Tipsheet: 8 Worst Things @ T.Joe’s | Lowe’s Lab | Target Mtg: 1 Stroller

  “Whole Foods’ CFO dishes on the early days” by Colleen Leahey at Fortune.  “What was the atmosphere like when you first started? We were just about to open stores seven and eight [Richardson, TX, and Palo Alto, CA], so the company was very small. [Co-founder] John Mackey actually did the financial plan on a spreadsheet […]

Thursday Tipsheet: Lowe’s New ‘Holoroom’ | Target’s Quick Mtg | Rest. Hard. Shines

  “Amazon to take on Angie’s List/Home Depot/Lowe’s by connecting patrons with service providers” by Deepa Seetharaman at Reuters via Columbus Dispatch.  “Amazon.com Inc. plans to launch a marketplace this year for local services, a broad term that encompasses anything from baby sitters to handymen, people familiar with the matter said…at least one of the […]

Wednesday Tipsheet: Target: Mtg, Strollers & Liquor | HD Sup.+6% | Wgreen VC Fund

  “Michael Bloomberg Backed Moms in Action Take Their Fight to Target Shareholder Meeting”  “Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America today announced that it will host a “Stroller Jam,” a gathering of moms and children with their strollers, outside of Target Corp.’s annual shareholder meeting in Dallas on Wednesday to continue its call […]

Tuesday Tipsheet: Target CEO Moves Execs | F. Dollar Poison | D. Gen. to 43 States

  “At Target, board vote should be 6 yes, 1 no” by Lee Schafer at Star-Tribune.  “(James) Johnson is no more responsible for Target getting hacked than any of the others, but he should have long since been gone from this board because of his disastrous turn as CEO of Fannie Mae. While he’s managed to […]

Monday Tipsheet: H.Depot to expand HQ? | Wmart ‘profoundly sorry’ | Target on Wed.

  “Wal-Mart Shareholders recap: Customers and new tech are the focus” by Kim Souza at The City Wire.  “(Doug) McMillon said the goal (of Click & Collect) is to adopt something like he saw at ASDA recently. He said the grocery order was placed online to pick up at the store. But on the way to the […]