Quote Originally Posted by davewindsor View Post
WTF did you just say? Middle to higher low income?? Is that even a category?? Regardless, the cheapest stores are not Walmart, but the Dollar shops that offer no return policies. That's your invented lower "low income" category, which means Walmart is in the Target category. At least with Walmart, if a product is garbage, you can return it the following week, so there's at least some motivation for quality control vs. letting the buyer beware with Dollar shops. Most of the stuff sold at Walmart and Target are basically the same items made by the same manufacturers with different UPC codes or a different generic name. It's an apples to apples comparison. Target is not competing with the Macy's category; they are competing with Walmart. Regardless, whatever you just said, did not work because Target had to close all their stores in Canada and is now closing stores in the US.


Walmart wouldn't open up in downtown Detroit either. Their loss prevention department couldn't handle the losses....
I heard that same thing about the Meijer loss prevention department. However, they seem to be doing pretty good with their one [[soon to be two) stores in the city. Looks pretty busy every time I go by there.