Target, Inc.

EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. -- Flexing its muscle in an increasingly crowded Twin Cities grocery market, Cub Foods said Tuesday it will have 50 metro-area stores by early 2005.

MINNEAPOLIS - Target Corp. on Thursday said its second-quarter profit increased 4 percent as the addition of new Target stores and growth in its credit-card operation offset revenue declines at the company's Marshall Field's and Mervyn's stores.

Denver -- Six King Soopers stores in Denver and Colorado Springs are battlegrounds in Kroger Co.'s attempt to stave off competition from dollar stores and their discount brethren.

NEW YORK - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said it was on track to meet its June sales forecast, but it gave little indication of whether demand for summer merchandise was finally improving, reports Reuters.

ORLANDO, Fla. - The Tupperware Party is over at Target Stores. Tupperware Corp. here said it would stop selling its Tupperware products in Target stores by Sept. 1 because the relationship discouraged consumers from attending Tupperware parties.

MINNEAPOLIS - Grocery distributor Supervalu on Friday confirmed it now supplies 31 SuperTarget stores located in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana. Target recently canceled a distribution deal with one of its former food suppliers, Fleming Cos., which in April filed for bankruptcy.

MINNEAPOLIS - Target Corp. hopes to boost sales and drive traffic by expanding the food offerings in its namesake stores, according to a report in the Star Tribune.

A high-flyer of the Nineties, the chain has been stung by competition, the economy, and its own acquisitions. Now it's focusing on business fundamentals to revitalize its top and bottom lines.