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Sam's Club was the top-rated company across all industries and only one of eight organizations with an "excellent" rating in the 2012 Temkin Experience ratings. Five other retailers were in the top 20 positions in the overall rankings: Amazon.com, Target, Walgreens, BJ's Wholesale Club and Lowe's.

Target's new mobile advertising campaign that aims to offer consumers coupons for the company's in-store groceries would have been more successful had it been optimized for mobile. The company is running mobile banner and full-page ads, as well as audio advertisements within Pandora's iPhone application.

One father has apologized to a Target employee after storming into a store near Minneapolis. He complained to a manager that his teen daughter was receiving coupons for cribs and baby clothes. Turns out Target knows his daughter better than he did. She really was pregnant.

Sears Canada announced a revamped pricing strategy, lowering day-to-day prices by an average of up to 30 percent on a wide range of popular items, taking a page from rival Wal-Mart Canada's book. The move comes as Sears Canada faces increasing pressure to boost years of sales declines, part of a strategy from new chief executive Calvin McDonald to compete in a fierce retail market that is girding for the arrival of mass merchant Target next year.

Despite making a clean break with Costco in late 2010, Apple could be looking to expand its footprint with one of the wholesale retailer's rivals, a new report suggests.

Target is running mobile commerce-enabled ads to let music fans buy their favorite albums before the upcoming Grammys. The mass merchant retailer is making music sales the focus of the advertising campaign but is also promoting other entertainment-related products.

Blogger Ginger Harris hauled herself out of bed at 6:45 on Feb. 5 and headed to Target for the new Jason Wu collection. But after waiting in line for the store to open, all that remained were larger-size dresses and tops. So, where did everything go?

"Showrooming" has struck fear and anger into the hearts of many brick-and-mortar retailers since mobility became a potent force. Now Target is explicitly seeking help from its suppliers to combat this phenomenon. In a letter sent earlier this month and signed by CEO Gregg Steinhafel and EVP of merchandising Kathee Tesija, Target asked suppliers to create special products that would set it apart from competitors, or if that wasn't possible, to help the retailer match rivals' lower prices.

It's estimated that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) lose upwards of $66,000 annually through fraud. An increased awareness of fraud among large merchants has forced fraudsters — those individuals who perpetrate crimes against retailers — to switch their attention to small businesses that provide an easier target because of the lack of safeguards they have in place.

Just a few weeks after unveiling the locations of its first 24 stores in Canada, Target released an expanded list of stores that will debut in 2013. The stores listed included two in Alberta, two in British Columbia, 29 in Ontario and one in Saskatchewan.