Target plans to close 13 stores nationwide, including one in Casa Grande, Arizona. The 13 are among Target's nearly 1,800 stores in the U.S.
The Minneapolis-based retailer plans keep the stores open through the holidays and to close them on Jan. 30. The store in Casa Grande is to be made available April 1, 2016. Target was hurt by a massive credit-card breach before Christmas 2013 that sent shoppers temporarily fleeing. The company also pulled the plug on a major expansion into Canada earlier this year.
The company said store associates at the impacted locations have been notified and eligible workers are being offered the option to transfer to another location. "Typically, the decision to close a store is as a result of seeing several years of decreasing profitability," the company said in a statement. Spokeswoman Kristy Welker said the closings are due to the stores' individual performance and unrelated to Target's overall performance.
While Target is opening 15 stores in 2015 in major cities including San Francisco, Washington D.C. and Chicago.Layoffs in 2015 included 2,500 jobs, or about one-fifth of the workers in the company's corporate offices in Minneapolis and Brooklyn Park.
Store closures include:
- Austin North East in Austin, TX
- Suncoast Pasco County in Odessa, FL
- Casa Grande, AZ
- Victorville, CA
- East Flint in Flint, MI
- Columbus Southwest in Columbus, OH
- Springfield, OH
- Northridge in Milwaukee, WI
- Superior, WI
- New Ulm, MN
- Ottumwa, IA
- Anderson, IN
- Dixie Highway in Louisville, KY