Photo: #Target got its start in 1962 as a discount retailer, but soon learned its customers overlapped with more elite department stores.
Larger view
Target got its start in 1962 as a discount retailer, but soon learned its customers overlapped with more elite department stores. (MPR Photo/Martin Moylan)

Audio

MPR News
Radio

Listen Now

On Air

The Splendid Table®

Schedule

Shortcuts
Hourly Newscast
Hosts
Station Map

Other Radio Streams from MPR

Classical MPR
Radio Heartland

Services

Target Corp. goes on 50 years of Black Friday's

by Annie Baxter, Minnesota Public Radio

ST. PAUL, Minn. — They didn't call it Black Friday at the time, but 50 years ago Target held its first-ever day-after-Thanksgiving sale.

The discount retailer had just begun to operate in May 1962. By coincidence, Wal-Mart and Kmart also opened their doors that year.

MPR News reporter Annie Baxter discusses Target's 50 years and how the retailer has evolved in that time.

Broadcast Dates

Your Voice




Related Topics



Become a sponsor

Most Shared

  1. On a desert island, first find a source of water; then, a light to read by
  2. Religion, politics and the common good
  3. More and more, faculty work for less pay and no security
  4. Minn. cycling race gives athletes a rough ride
  5. Minnesota budget deal: Higher taxes for top earners, smokers

Latest News & Features


News Cut

with Bob Collins

  • A Marine and his dog
    Ross Gundlach didn't have to bother with the hearing in Des Moines on his request to adopt a dog.
    4:36 p.m.
    more