Toys "R" Us also made the mistake of crawling into bed with Amazon rather than build out their own website for a couple years and let Amazon harvest all the toy sales data and then decided not to renew the contract between the two.
In my region, Target is dead last in maintaining inventory and their supply chain. I have given up on them completely for paper products, as they never had any for months and months and...I'm not even sure if they've ever gotten any by this point.
It's been a real eye-opener about the Goliaths among us, that however Target is organized, operationally, there's something about them that has absolutely failed over the past 9 months. The bigger they are, the harder they fall, but Walmart is their main competition and they've become, regrettably, my go-to for household supplies. Because they have some.
Apologies if this is irrelevant, I've been champing to spell out this rant for a long time.
> Prior to the announcement, Target and Amazon had extended their partnership until 2011.[41] In January 2010, Target announced their vendor partners for the re-platforming project. These partners include Sapient, IBM, Oracle, Endeca, Autonomy, Sterling Commerce and Huge, among others.