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Target is re-opening its looted Minneapolis store, adding a wider variety of spices and remodeling changes to improve its reputation with Black shoppers (TGT)

Published Nov 11 2020 at 5:28 PM GMT

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Target's Minneapolis store will offer more spices to appeal to Black residents nearby.
The store, damaged during the summer's nationwide unrest over police brutality, reopened on November 10.
Ahead of reopening, Target executives met with Black residents, employees, and community organizers to "ask what they wanted to see in the reconstructed store," Bloomberg reported.
Community-suggested updates include adding more spice varieties, bringing the pharmacy to the front of the store to aid elderly customers, and putting lighting at a nearby rail station to increase safety, according to Bloomberg.
Looters emptied shelves and smashed windows on the Minneapolis Target store in May.