"We are in the age of the superstore, like Home Depot, Lowe's and Super Target.
"The Super Target is 80percentt a Target Greatland store and 20percentt a grocery store," Ms. Morris added.
The prototypes range from the Target Store, which is between 90,000 and 125,000 square feet, the Target Greatland, with 135,000 square feet and the Super Target Greatland, with an average of 177,000 square feet.
Small town after small town, street after street of one- and two-story houses with lawns, then the commercial strip, the same everywhere, McDonald's, Burger King, Holiday Inn, Super 8, Wal-Mart, Kmart, Super Target, and then the smaller regional stores with names that rhyme — Rib Crib, Hobby Lobby, Taco Tico, Prime N' Wine.
Normally, a Target store — even one not designated a Super Target — has jillions of items for sale, including many things that you need and many more that you don't need but somehow end up buying anyway; because everything is so cheap, you go into a Target intending to spend about twenty dollars, and you leave having spent a hundred and sixty-five.
Jarritos is made with granulated natural sugar — not high-fructose corn syrup as are many mass-market soft drinks — and is sold in glass bottles at grocery and convenience stores, as well as some Super Target and Wal-Mart stores, in the United States.
Target stores — especially Super Targets — have also made a huge investment in organics.
Target began opening stores primarily devoted to groceries, called SuperTargets, in the 1990s.
The switch in roles has given birth to a related trend that he described as "super targeting," in which companies that have tapped into business school students' expertise then seek help from specialists in other departments, like computer science professors.
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Most of the new stores will be "SuperTargets", selling a broader range of food than normal stores a formula that has worked well in Wal-Mart's "Supercenters".By contrast, Mr Storch is dismissive of Kmart's latest turnaround under its new boss, Charles Conaway, who is reviving the retailer's Blue Light special offers to lure back shoppers.
