It was sometime in 2007 that I heard Doug Scovanner laugh at an offer (I think it was from Chase) to buy Target's credit card portfolio for $13 Billion. What a difference a collapsing bubble makes. About $7 Billion, or over 50%.

It's a weird reality indeed when Target makes more profit from lending money to people to buy their merchandise (or anyone else's) than they make selling the merchandise itself. I don't think that's a sign of health in our economy, when everyone wants to be a bank except the bankers. I'm glad Target has finally sold.

Thanks for working for me, Target employees. I do nothing and yet I'm still given money created by the employees simply because I had the money to buy some Target stock. Thanks again Target employees. Now get back to work and skip your lunch break. My dividends depend on it.

To insinuate Target operates under a merit badge is like claiming Taco Bell has the best Mexican food simply because it is the largest Mexican food corporation.

Sounds like they've let the Bean Counters take over management. Sell the credit card division? So more bean counters who care only about profits are in charge, at a nice distance. Yep, more quarterly profits. For a while. Lots of us shop at Target because- it started as a Minnesota company- a spin off of Dayton's. Local-ish. Minnesota nice. Now- its drifting off into "profit is everything" land, and I'm not so enthusiastic. And am likely to become more so. You know what would get my attention- and loyalty for years? How about - NO Black Thursday-Friday. Stay CLOSED- Thursday AND Friday, when everyone else is open- so your employees actually have a Vacation. And if you opened for the Holidays on Saturday morning- you'd be the only store with NEW bargains- and employees who were smiling and rested. You'd stand out. As? Compassionate, and Smart. But. Nah. It's The Quarterly Report, Stupid.