Yesterday I read that all the Target stores in Canada were going to shut down. To me, this was a mighty strange thing. I like Target well enough. It’s a decent place to pick up stuff at reasonable prices, from electronics to DVD/BluRays to Food (human as well as pet) to candy to clothing to…well, you get the idea. Target, like Walmart, is a “one stop shop”, where you can find just about all your needs in one convenient location.
So why would a store that is so successful in the United States be a failure in Canada? Turns out there was a pretty good reason. Check it out in this article presented in Slate magazine and by Jordan Weismann and, in particular, the damning photographic evidence that explains better than anything else the reason for Target’s failure north of the border: