On the Record · Target
Target competitors, on the record
The companies whose own annual reports name Target as a competitor, each with the sentence it appears in and the filing it came from.
Who Target names
Target’s annual reports for 2023 to 2026 describe its competition by kind of business and do not name competing companies.
Who names Target
Companies whose own annual reports name Target as a competitor.
Word for word“Walmart, Target, Kroger, and Amazon are among our significant general merchandise retail competitors in the U.S.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“The Company competes with mass merchandisers, such as Costco, Target and Wal-Mart.” 10-K for 2019
Word for word“● multi-channel retailers and mass merchandisers, warehouse clubs, discount stores, department stores and other retailers, such as Wal-Mart, Target and Amazon; ● online retailers; and ● independent, local specialty stores.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our primary competitors are specialty stores, mass merchants, and off-price stores, including Carter’s, Inc., Target Corporation, Old Navy, GapKids, and babyGap (each of which is a division of The Gap, Inc.), T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s (each of which is a division of TJX Companies, Inc.), Burlington Coat Factory, Inc., Kohl’s Corporation, Walmart Stores, Inc., and other department stores.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“Currently, we compete against a diverse group of retailers, including national mass merchants such as Wal-Mart, Target, Sam’s Club, and Costco, specialized national retailers such as Best Buy, Ashley Furniture and Mattress Firm, home improvement stores such as Lowe’s and Home Depot, and locally-owned regional or independent retail specialty stores that sell furniture and mattresses, home appliances, and consumer electronics similar, and often identical, to those items we sell.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“In Australia, we compete with retailers such as JB HiFi stores, Big W, Target and Amazon.com.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“We see discount retailers of consumable products, which include Costco, WinCo, Target, Trader Joe's, Aldi and Lidl, as competitors given their broad product offerings at low prices relative to conventional grocery stores.” 10-K for 2026
Word for word“The Company’s principal 9 competitors are, in alphabetical order, Aldi, Inc., Earth Fare, Inc., Food City (K-VA-T Food Stores, Inc.), Food Lion (Koninlijke Ahold Delhaize America N.V.), The Fresh Market, Inc., Harris Teeter (owned by The Kroger Co.), The Kroger Co., Lidl (Lidl Stiftung & Co. KG), Publix Super Markets, Inc., Sprouts Farmers Market, Inc., Target Corporation, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and Whole Foods Market.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We compete with select mass merchants, including Walmart Inc. and Target Corporation, which dedicate a portion of their selling space to selling Creative Products items.” 10-K for 2023
Word for word“Examples of our competitive set include but are not limited to Gap Inc., Amazon, Walmart, Macy’s, JCPenney, Target and TJX Companies.” 10-K for 2020
Word for word“Our retail drugstore operations compete with, among others, retail drugstore chains, such as Walgreens and CVS, along with independently owned drugstores, supermarkets such as Kroger, mass merchandisers like Walmart and Target, discount stores, wellness offerings, dollar stores and mail order and internet pharmacies.” 10-K for 2023
Word for word“Our markets are highly competitive and we compete locally, domestically and internationally with office supply resellers, including Staples, Internet-based companies such as Amazon, mass merchandisers such as Walmart and Target, wholesale clubs such as Costco, Sam’s Club and BJs, computer and electronics superstores such as Best Buy, food and drug stores, discount stores, and direct marketing companies.” 10-K for 2024
Word for word“Similarly, CBI competes with e-commerce businesses such as Amazon.com, Inc. and Alibaba Group, the e-commerce platforms of traditional retailers such as Target Corporation and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., and online marketplaces such as eBay Inc.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Walmart, Target, Kohl's, J.C. Penney, Macy's, The Home Depot, Lowe's, Best Buy and Amazon are some of the national retailers and businesses with which we compete.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“Our properties compete with other forms of retailing such as pure online retail websites as well as other types of retail properties such as single user freestanding discounters (Costco, Walmart and Target).” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“Our principal competitors include conventional grocers such as Albertson's/Safeway and Kroger, warehouse clubs and discounters such as Costco and Aldi, mass merchandisers such as Walmart and Target, foodservice delivery companies such as Sysco and US Foods, online retailers such as Amazon, as well as other specialty stores.” 10-K for 2018
Word for word“Our competitors within the overall grocery industry primarily include other specialty food retailers such as Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and smaller local or regional operators, conventional supermarkets such as Kroger, Albertsons, Safeway, H-E-B and Publix, as well as mass or discount retailers such as Target and Walmart, warehouse membership clubs, online retailers such as Amazon, specialty stores, restaurants, home delivery and meal solution companies, and any other outlets offering food and similar products as those found in our stores.” 10-K for 2025
Word for word“We also compete with online retailers such as Amazon.com, mass merchants such as Walmart and Target, warehouse clubs such as Costco, computer and electronics retail stores such as Best Buy, specialty technology stores such as Apple, print and marketing businesses such as FedEx Office, and a wide range of other retailers, including grocery stores, drug stores, discount retailers, and traditional office supply retail stores.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“In the domestic market, we compete with mass merchandisers, such as Walmart, Target and Kmart; consumer electronics retailers, such as Best Buy and GameStop; Internet and catalog businesses, such as Amazon.com; national and regional specialty, department and discount store chains; as well as local retailers in the geographic areas we serve.” 10-K for 2017
Word for word“Some of the Company's principal competitors include Acme, Aldi, Amazon/Whole Foods, BJs, Costco, Foodtown, Giant, Kings, Lidl, Safeway, Stop & Shop, Target, Trader Joe's, Walmart, Wegmans and Weis.” 10-K for 2026
Read from Target’s annual reports (10-K for 2026, 10-K for 2025, 10-K for 2024, 10-K for 2023) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2026-03-11. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.