Food for Thought
WEEK 53 – Cordova Super Target Final Day, Set VI
Well, folks, we’re back outside – our interior tour of the Cordova, TN, Super Target on its final day in business is officially over :( Before we go, here we’re taking one last close-up look at the central portion of its exterior façade, which bore the early 2000s Super Target logo. In more recent years, the logo was modernized to where the underline was removed and the “Super” text was made to look more like the main Target wordmark – that is, all caps, red in color, and no longer italicized. Even more recently, some of the remaining Super Target stores have dropped the Super name on the exterior altogether, in favor of the new lowercase “target” wordmark (which I am not a fan of).
Target has extensively remodeled what is likely a majority of the remaining Super Target stores, but as I’ve mentioned before, the chain has also “de-Supered” quite a few others, and has even closed a few more (such as Cordova here). I don’t think the concept is on its way out by any means, but considering that a new one hasn’t been opened in a very long time, I have to wonder whether or not eventually, the Super Target concept might meet a similar fate as did competitor Super Kmart Center: basically, just skating along without much investment, until it silently fizzles into oblivion. What do y’all think?
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Food for Thought
WEEK 53 – Cordova Super Target Final Day, Set VI
Well, folks, we’re back outside – our interior tour of the Cordova, TN, Super Target on its final day in business is officially over :( Before we go, here we’re taking one last close-up look at the central portion of its exterior façade, which bore the early 2000s Super Target logo. In more recent years, the logo was modernized to where the underline was removed and the “Super” text was made to look more like the main Target wordmark – that is, all caps, red in color, and no longer italicized. Even more recently, some of the remaining Super Target stores have dropped the Super name on the exterior altogether, in favor of the new lowercase “target” wordmark (which I am not a fan of).
Target has extensively remodeled what is likely a majority of the remaining Super Target stores, but as I’ve mentioned before, the chain has also “de-Supered” quite a few others, and has even closed a few more (such as Cordova here). I don’t think the concept is on its way out by any means, but considering that a new one hasn’t been opened in a very long time, I have to wonder whether or not eventually, the Super Target concept might meet a similar fate as did competitor Super Kmart Center: basically, just skating along without much investment, until it silently fizzles into oblivion. What do y’all think?
(c) 2020 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)