Target Corp. plans to open 300 new stores over next decade; company focuses on large-format locations with expanded food sections and digital fulfillment capabilities

A new Target store is more than just a building.

It’s new, affordable choices for fresh food, everyday essentials and inspiring style.

For our team members, it’s a new opportunity to gain skills and build rewarding careers.

And for the community, it’s a new shopping destination, where you can stock up, discover only-at-Target finds and check out quickly.

As Target tracks to open more than 300 new stores over the next decade, we’re not just building a bigger network of boxes to put us closer to your home. With these latest locations and the ongoing investment in remodeling most of our nearly 2,000 stores, we’re also gaining room to offer the best shopping experience in retail to ensure you can get the best of Target how you want it, when you want it.

In adding stores, we’re not just making it easier to discover the Target store experience…we’re adding horsepower to the engine for our digital business. Our stores are the fulfillment power plant behind Drive Up, same-day delivery via Target Circle 360, and fast brown-box shipping for those times when a guest’s shopping mission isn’t an in-store trip.

Michael Fiddelke Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Target

That makes a new Target store simply transformative — for our guests, team members, communities and our business. Here’s how.

The right place to be

While we have formats to fit every neighborhood, most of our newest stores will be large-format — like our Target in Boiling Springs, South Carolina, which opened this past August. At 148,000 square feet, it features our newest design with two entrances and a roomy, open layout so that we can offer the most inspiring products and convenient services to guests, whether they’re shopping in its aisles or online.

This includes an even bigger food and beverage section with fresh and organic options; welcoming, bright lighting; stylish fitting rooms; as well as a larger back room where team members quickly prep purchases for Order Pickup, Drive Up and to ship to guests’ homes.

More budget-friendly, high-quality options, from groceries to health and beauty to home, mean more joy for local families, says Chelsea T., executive team lead for specialty sales at the store and a Boiling Springs native: “When we think of the ease of everyday life, I think that’s what this is really bringing to the area.”