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Target continues to try and stay ahead of its competition.

Lately, they’ve been collaborating with great designers like Missoni and Jason Wu, but now they’re adding something different.

Target will soon offer specialty shops within their stores.

The retail giant is teaming up with boutique companies to offer items like trendy dog treats to high-end home accessories.

In fact, Target is even teaming up with Apple and

Tags: accessories, apple, boutique, collection, designers, jason wu, missoni, retail, stores, target

Paris might be known as the fashion capital of the world, but prepare yourself for rude sales reps if you decide to shop there.

The famed Avenue des Champs-Elysées, which features some of the biggest names in fashion, was ranked as number 22 in terms of customer service.

Reports showed that 40% of the time the sales staff seemed irritated to have to deal with customers.

Leslie Kambourian, an account director in charge of fashion and luxury at Presence,

Tags: fashion, irritated, luxury, paris, retail, retailers, rude, sales, shopping, stores

After a Texas mother complained that employees at a local Target store humiliated her for breastfeeding her baby in the store, a group of mothers came together to stage a "nurse-in" to send a message to Target headquarters.

In many states, nursing moms are allowed to breastfeed anywhere they please, even if it's public.

Good for these moms!! Mothers should be allowed to feed their children when they please and where they please.

Do U agree??

Watch above to see the latest on the "nurse-in."

Tags: breastfeeding, moms, nurse in, public, stores, target

Walmart might soon have even more legal issues to deal with.

Walmart Stores Inc has reported in a securities filing that it has started an internal investigation to determine if employees have bribed foreign officials.

The SEC filing yesterday states that Walmat began a voluntary internal review of its policies relating to its global anti-corruption compliance program.

They stated:

Tags: employees, illegal, securities and exchange commission, stores, walmart

Not only did Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) see a spike in sales (both at the stores and online) but credit card usage went up as well.

On Black Friday, purchases made by credit card were up 7.4% from the previous year.

It's a good thing that people are spending money and helping the economy, but not so good that they're doing it with credit.

Though even more surprising is an estimate made by Javelin Strategy & Research that forecasts credit card payments for online purchases will go up 63% by 2016 with just a 2% increase for debit cards.

Some credit cards do

Tags: black friday, credit cards, cyber monday, increase, money, sales, shopping, stores, travel

This isn’t good news for teen store fave Claire’s.

The accessories and jewelry chain which caters to the tween/teen population saw a decline in profits in its third quarter.

Reports show their income dropped 48% to $1.9 million. Last year they brought in $3.6 million.

And while their US stores saw a small 2.2% rise in sales, their European stores saw a 7.1% drop.

The company’s CEO

Tags: accessories, claire-039s, jewelry, profits, sales, stores

Target might have had a big boost in sales thanks to its new Missoni collection, but customers are none too happy with the company’s website.

Turns out Target.com crashed again this past Tuesday.

The company, which ended its long partnership with Amazon in August, also suffered a crash last month when customers tried to order Missoni items.

A rep

Tags: amazon, partnership, sales, stores, target, website