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The religious right’s annual “War on Christmas” is ramping up early this year, and at least one Minnesota-based company is on its hit list. Targeting retail stores that use the word “holiday” instead of “Christmas,” a trend it says the Nazis began, the American Family Association includes SUPERVALU, Eden Prairie–based owner of Cub Foods, among its targets for using the h-word in its ads.

Last year was abysmal for American workers, right? Not if you’re a CEO. Reuters reports that more CEOs saw pay increases last year than saw pay cuts. On top of that, “the median salary for CEOs of 200 large corporations increased by 4.5 percent to $1.08 million,” according to a new survey released Tuesday by [...]

Come March, madness isn’t reserved for just college hoops. The Consumerist, a Consumers Union blog, is seeing which corporations will earn Worst Company in America honors, based on reader voting. Local companies Target and Best Buy are in the running — and, in one case at least, aren’t faring well.

“Ahem! So bloggers don’t count!” So said Amy Jussel, after learning that “Target does not participate with nontraditional media outlets,” including her Shaping Youth blog. While the flap over a Target billboard she felt was sexually suggestive spread across the blogosphere and local mainstream media, it took two weeks for it to go national — [...]

Target spokesperson Amy VonWalter admits that her company has been traditionally conservative when it comes to dealing with the media, and its policy of not talking to trade publications and bloggers stems from that. But following this week’s flap over a billboard deemed sexually suggestive by a mom and blogger, she says the company is [...]

This Target billboard, spotted by a Flickr user in Times Square, seems to have completely missed its mark with some marketing watchdogs. Amy Jussel, founder of Shaping Youth, an organization that looks into the effects of marketing and media on kids, took issue with the bullseye on the female model’s crotch.  Calling it “sexualized ad [...]

Minneapolis-based Target Corp. is among a group of grocers named in a lawsuit accused of falsely selling milk as “organic.” Target purchases its organic milk from the Aurora Organic Dairy of Colorado. Aurora first made headlines in 2006 when Wal-Mart, which is also named in the suit, began selling its organic milk under the Great [...]

Target has become the first major retailer to offer refurbished products. Instead of sending returns or defective items back to vendors, they’re fixing some of them and reselling them at a discount.  Each item — including flat-screen TVs, GPS devices and iPods — have been refurbished by “either a manufacturer-authorized or Target-managed third party” and [...]

Other pharmacies will soon be jumping on the $4 generic drug program. The Snyders Drug Store in Mankato has posted a handwritten sign saying “We will beat the price on any $4 generic drug.” What does that mean? Their price is $3.99. Whether the chain will adopt the $3.99 price across all its stores is [...]