Article: Target to Hit the East Coast with 28 Stores.(Originated from Saint Paul Pioneer Press, Minn.)

Mar. 9--Target Stores confirmed Friday that it is finally invading the East Coast, the last major region of the country in which it doesn't have a presence.

The discount subsidiary of Minneapolis-based Dayton Hudson Corp. will open two stores in Virginia on Sunday -- in Potomac Mills and Fredericksburg. Target plans to open 28 stores in the East Coast market this year, entering the Washington, D.C., and the Buffalo, N.Y., metropolitan areas.

"It's a highly competitive market, but they continue to differentiate themselves with upscale discount department stores, and so they will be set apart from the others," said John Hughes, a securities analyst at Piper ...

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