Brits have weird TV shows
Also the internet is hardly a place to find faith in humanity
Smeddy, how have I never run into you at school yet?
Part of the ToS should be that you wear your HF username so it is visible to others. Please help make this policy.
Hey guys, quick question. Who has been Ottawa's scapegoat this year?
I don't understand
Target Corporation announces that it plans to discontinue operating stores in Canada
"After a thorough review of our Canadian performance and careful consideration of the implications of all options, we were unable to find a realistic scenario that would get Target Canada to profitability until at least 2021." <--- (wow!)
Target Canada stores will remain open during the liquidation process.
Target Corporation expects to report approximately $5.4 billion of pre-tax losses on discontinued operations in the fourth quarter of 2014. Target Corporation expects to report approximately $275 million of pre-tax losses on discontinued operations in fiscal 2015. Target Corporation’s cash costs to discontinue Canadian operations are expected to be $500 million to $600 million
I think I saw somewhere that most of them were leases from Zellers.
Target bought out the leases from Zellers(HBC), and drastically overpaid for them, IIRC.
As far as I can remember, the deal looked like a slam dunk win for HBC at the time... and hindsight is only proving that to be far more accurate than we could have ever imagined.
Has it even been 3 full years since Target announced that they were coming to Canada?
Stepped in a target 3-4 times since it's been around, never made one purchase. Good riddance.
About a year after Pole created his pregnancy-prediction model, a man walked into a Target outside Minneapolis and demanded to see the manager. He was clutching coupons that had been sent to his daughter, and he was angry, according to an employee who participated in the conversation.
“My daughter got this in the mail!” he said. “She’s still in high school, and you’re sending her coupons for baby clothes and cribs? Are you trying to encourage her to get pregnant?”
The manager didn’t have any idea what the man was talking about. He looked at the mailer. Sure enough, it was addressed to the man’s daughter and contained advertisements for maternity clothing, nursery furniture and pictures of smiling infants. The manager apologized and then called a few days later to apologize again.
On the phone, though, the father was somewhat abashed. “I had a talk with my daughter,” he said. “It turns out there’s been some activities in my house I haven’t been completely aware of. She’s due in August. I owe you an apology.”
One great reason to hate Target is because of it's data-mining practices. Unfortunately, any company will find that conducting data mining will greatly increase profits but there was a very interesting article by Charles Duhigg to promote his book The Power of Habit called How Companies Learn Your Secrets. The article is like 10 pages but if you check out page 7 there is this interesting excerpt:
NAC MAC FEEEEGGGLLLLEEEE
edit: after watching the Cher video I didn't realize there was a time when we actually watched performers singing the song instead of being bombarded with obscure sexual or violent images.