Target to Invest Billions in Store Improvement as Sales Slump
WSJ Minute Briefing
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 19 November 2025
⏱️ 3 minutes
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| 0:40.7 | Target is planning to invest in additional $1 billion next year, bringing its total new investment to $5 billion to try to end a sales slump. |
| 0:49.9 | Target is planning changes to improve stores, make its merchandise more exciting, and improve its digital capabilities. |
| 0:56.9 | Shoppers in recent years have complained about messy stores and items missing on shelves. |
| 1:01.8 | Executives say the spending is necessary after the retailer reported its 12th consecutive quarter of weak or falling sales. |
| 1:08.6 | For the third quarter, total sales fell 1.5% and the company |
| 1:13.1 | cut its profit outlook for the year. Larry Summers has resigned from the board of OpenAI |
| 1:19.0 | following criticism over his previously undisclosed correspondence with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. |
| 1:25.0 | The OpenAI board says it respects his decision. Summers earlier this |
| 1:29.1 | week said that he is, quote, deeply ashamed of his actions and is stepping back from public |
| 1:33.7 | commitments to rebuild trust. He said he will continue his teaching duties at Harvard as a professor. |
| 1:39.5 | A Harvard spokesman said today that the university has launched a review of Summers' interactions |
| 1:44.2 | to determine what actions may be warranted. And we're exclusively reporting that McKenzie |
| 1:50.5 | has elected one of its smallest partnership classes in recent years, promoting 224 people to the |
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