{"id":33554,"date":"2025-03-18T15:12:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/?p=33554"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:17:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T19:17:12","slug":"rob-handfield-offers-insight-on-targets-1-5t-grocery-market-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/article\/rob-handfield-offers-insight-on-targets-1-5t-grocery-market-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Rob Handfield Offers Insight on Target&#8217;s $1.5T Grocery Market Move"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Target&nbsp;is looking to take a bigger bite of the $1.5 trillion U.S. grocery market, in part by bringing its supply chain for fresh and frozen food in house. <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> turned to Poole professor <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Rob Handfield<\/a> for his insights on this move. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Consumers\u2019 tastes are constantly changing, and once they get something they really like, they\u2019re going to go back and buy it,&#8221; he said. Target appears to be planning its network &#8220;to be on top of those trends and be more agile to replenish.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/target-beefs-up-grocery-supply-chain-as-consumer-spending-shifts-e3c516c3?st=geeeUP&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"raw":"<!-- wp:ncst\/dynamic-header {\"block\":\"ncst\/default-post-header\"} -->\n<!-- wp:ncst\/default-post-header {\"displayCategoryID\":170} \/-->\n<!-- \/wp:ncst\/dynamic-header -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Target&nbsp;is looking to take a bigger bite of the $1.5 trillion U.S. grocery market, in part by bringing its supply chain for fresh and frozen food in house. <em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em> turned to Poole professor <a href=\"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/people\/rbhandfi\/\">Rob Handfield<\/a> for his insights on this move. <\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>\"Consumers\u2019 tastes are constantly changing, and once they get something they really like, they\u2019re going to go back and buy it,\" he said. Target appears to be planning its network \"to be on top of those trends and be more agile to replenish.\"<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->\n\n<!-- wp:paragraph -->\n<p>Read from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/target-beefs-up-grocery-supply-chain-as-consumer-spending-shifts-e3c516c3?st=geeeUP&amp;reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink\"><em>The Wall Street Journal<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- \/wp:paragraph -->"},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poole professor Rob Handfield discusses Target&#8217;s strategy to capture a larger share of the $1.5 trillion U.S. grocery market with an in-house supply chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":16351,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"source":"","ncst_custom_author":"","ncst_show_custom_author":false,"ncst_dynamicHeaderBlockName":"ncst\/default-post-header","ncst_dynamicHeaderData":"{\"showAuthor\":true,\"showDate\":true,\"showFeaturedVideo\":false,\"displayCategoryID\":170}","ncst_content_audit_freq":"","ncst_content_audit_date":"","ncst_content_audit_display":false,"ncst_backToTopFlag":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[170,77,81],"tags":[278,327,173,188,137],"_ncst_magazine_issue":[],"series":[],"class_list":["post-33554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-newswire","category-supply-chain-management","tag-handfield","tag-in-the-news","tag-newswire","tag-supply-chain","tag-supply-chain-management"],"displayCategory":{"term_id":170,"name":"In the News","slug":"in-the-news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":170,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":389,"filter":"raw"},"acf":{"ncst_posts_meta_modified_date":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33556,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33554\/revisions\/33556"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"_ncst_magazine_issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/_ncst_magazine_issue?post=33554"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poole.ncsu.edu\/thought-leadership\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=33554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}