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Target sales surge as Americans lean on big box stores

by AP Retail Writer
| August 19, 2020 4:03 AM

NEW YORK (AP) — Target reported the largest quarterly sales growth, including an online sales spike, in its 58-year-history, the latest evidence that Americans are consolidating their trips to big box stores and pivoting their spending to around the home during the pandemic.

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