--- title: Target Is Closing Another 11 Stores description: On Tuesday, Target announced it will be closing 11 U.S. stores, making a total of 19 closures in less than 12 months. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2014-11-05T15:44:37.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T09:58:54.000Z' section: Business tags: - Brian Cornell - free shipping - holiday shopping - Holidays - Recession - Retail - Shopping - Target - Tarjhay - The Economy word_count: 295 canonical: https://money.com/target-closing-stores/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** Money may earn a commission when you click on the products and services below. Opinions are our own, but compensation and in-depth research determine where and how they appear. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/) about how we make money. ![woman with shopping cart and wallet](https://img.money.com/2014/10/141017_gen_em_shopping.jpg) In the aftermath of last year's monumental [data breach](https://money.com/data-breach-target-home-depot-holiday-shopping/) of customer credit card information—not to mention years of [underwhelming sales](https://money.com/target-walmart-tarjhay/) at some retail locations—Target decided to [close eight stores](http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-provides-update-on-data-breach-and-financial-performance) in May, including two stores in the Las Vegas area and two stores in Ohio. This week, [Target announced](http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-announces-upcoming-store-closures) it will be closing 11 more stores in the U.S., including two [Chicago-area locations](http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-target-closures-1105-biz-20141104-story.html) and three Targets in Michigan. The 11 stores will be shut down by February 1, 2015. "The decision to close a Target store is only made after careful consideration of the long-term financial performance of a particular location," a company statement accompanying the announcement explained. "In most cases, a store is closed as a result of seeing several years of decreasing profitability,” a Target spokesperson added in an email to [(Minneapolis) *StarTribune*](http://www.startribune.com/business/281476551.html). There are roughly 1,800 Target stores in the U.S., and the number of planned closures pales in comparisons to the likes of troubled chains such as RadioShack and Sears. Yet it's worth noting that that Target's reputation among shoppers and the retail industry as a whole has declined greatly since the pre-recession years, when the cheap-chic darling was belovedly [known as "Tarjhay."](https://money.com/target-walmart-tarjhay/) Over the summer, Target hired a [new CEO](https://time.com/3063260/target-ceo/), Brian Cornell, a former CEO at PepsiCO Americas Foods, with the hopes that new leadership could help the company rebound from its troubling slump, as well as the embarrassing and [costly data breach](http://business.time.com/2014/02/26/target-credit-hacking-earnings-data/) that potentially compromised the information of well over 100 million customers. More recently, [Target introduced](http://pressroom.target.com/news/target-unveils-plans-for-holiday-2014) its plans for the 2014 winter holiday season, which include a special offer of free shipping with no minimum purchase required on all orders placed at [target.com](http://www.target.com/) through December 20. *Read next: [It Doesn’t Matter if Alex From Target Is Real or Fake](http://time.com/3559118/alexfromtarget-target-real-meme/?xid=time_readnext)* ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/target-closing-stores/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Business", "item": "https://money.com/business/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Retail", "item": "https://money.com/retail/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Target Is Closing Another 11 Stores" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/target-closing-stores/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/target-closing-stores/", "name": "Target Is Closing Another 11 Stores", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2014-11-05T15:44:37.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/target-closing-stores/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/target-closing-stores/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T09:58:54.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Target Is Closing Another 11 Stores", "articleSection": "Business", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2014/10/141017_gen_em_shopping.jpg", "width": 2716, "height": 1810, "caption": "141017_Money_Gen_EM_Shopping" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2014-11-05T15:44:37.000Z", "description": "On Tuesday, Target announced it will be closing 11 U.S. stores, making a total of 19 closures in less than 12 months. 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