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The Compound and Friends

Jeff Macke on the History and Future of Target (with Josh)

The Compound and Friends

Josh Brown

Business News, News, Investing, Business

4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Josh here - my friend Jeff Macke is an investor and an expert in the retailing giants Amazon, Target, Walmart and Sears. Jeff's dad ran Target for Dayton-Hudson in the 1970's and he knows more on this topic than anyone I can think of. Today in 1962, Target was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Jeff and I look back at what made the 2,000-store chain great and what the future brings as the retail giants take the fight back to Jeff Bezos. Enable our Alexa skill here - "Alexa, play the Compound show!" https://www.amazon.com/Ritholtz-Wealth-Management-LLC-Compound/dp/B07P777QBZ Talk to us about your portfolio or financial plan here: https://ritholtzwealth.com/ Obviously nothing on this channel should be considered as personalized financial advice just for you or a solicitation to buy or sell any securities. Please see this 3,000 word terms & conditions disclaimer if you seriously need this spelled out for you. https://thereformedbroker.com/terms-and-conditions/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, so I'm on with my friend Jeff Mackie, who is an investor. You probably are aware of him in some way, shape, or form if you consume any kind of financial media. Jeff's been around a long time and he knows Target better than probably anyone and

0:16.4

today's an interesting anniversary for Target. Jeff what happened today I think in

0:21.2

1962? 57 years today I think in 1962.

0:23.8

57 years ago today Josh Brown,

0:26.5

target an apple in George Dayton's eye

0:29.6

was founded outside in suburban Minneapolis in Minnesota the heartland.

0:34.0

So Dayton Hudson was the department store that Target was kind of incubated within.

0:41.0

Right on it.

0:42.0

And so Dayton's department stores was kind of one of those old school, really huge elaborate Minneapolis department stores.

0:49.0

And they incubated Target. Target was started at the same time,

0:52.0

it was Kmart and Walmart. All three, the same time as Kmart and Walmart all three the same exact

0:55.1

year discount retail just exploded on the scene about 60 years ago.

1:00.0

Wow I didn't know that they were all they all came along at the same time.

1:04.0

They came along with the highway system and Sam Wallin, of course, is American legend.

1:09.0

Kresge Kmart is the guy that no one talks about anymore and he was kind of favored to sort of take over the entire space and they were all gunning for Sears because Sears was outmoded Sears had those tiny boxes and the boomers were happening so the suburbs were

1:23.6

getting big and these guys just came with like a wave with big discount stores

1:28.3

given rich people bargains that's what my old man would say because that was his

1:32.2

job to find the

1:33.0

target spaces. He said, you know, rich people like deals too. Yes, I'm going to get

1:36.6

into that in one second. Why do you think, but why do you think they all had the same

1:40.0

idea at the same time? Was it a coincidence? Okay. It was every generation or so you get another wave of

1:48.4

distribution and retail and American fortunes are made and in this case it was just people moving out to the suburbs and folks just making suburban homes. So you think about your consumption all of a sudden you need a lawnmower, you need a garage door opener, you know, all that

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