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Minding Your Business: Floating Target Features 92 Items
Aired November 15, 2002 - 09:48 ET
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PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: The Big Apple is a new target of a major retailer, Target stores. Docking on the Hudson, Andy Serwer is there to tell us what the heck is going on.
Good morning, Andy.
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE; Ahoy, Paula.
I'm here with John Remington of the Target company, who has come in from Minneapolis, along with this ship.
John, I got to ask you, why are you bringing a shopping ship to Manhattan?
JOHN REMINGTON, VP OF MARKETING, TARGET: Well, right now, Manhattan, as of yet, doesn't have a store, a Target store, and it's an island surrounding by water. Why not bring in the USS Target, so New Yorkers can have that shopping experience?
SERWER: How do sales look for you this season?
REMINGTON: In general, we are very optimistic. Target really stands behind this, expect more and pay less. That will hopefully get people encouraged to come in and shop.
SERWER: I'm liking that pay less.
Listen you guys, we went shopping around here, 92 items on this ship, we kind of found some things, picked out a couple of things for you guys for the holidays. This one here might be good for Jonathan Karl to bring back to Washington D.C.
John, tell us.
REMINGTON: Item number 18 is a Deskmate minifridge, just big enough for two bottles of water.
SERWER: Or beer, Jonathan. Bring that back to D.C.
REMINGTON: We'll put that on there.
SERWER: Let's walk around. What else do we have here, Jonathan?
REMINGTON: Over here, we have Marona, which is our own label of suede coat, which is really nice.
SERWER: And I'm thinking this would be look good for Paula, you know, kind of stylish.
REMINGTON: What in size 54, Andy?
SERWER: We can find a smaller size.
REMINGTON: What about over here? Something for you?
SERWER: Something for me. They picked out something for me. You've got to mark this down. You can get this for me. What is it?
REMINGTON: It's a Michael Graves designed waffle maker for $29.99, you can't go wrong.
SERWER: You guys can afford that?
REMINGTON: I've got Number 33.
SERWER: And let's get to my favorite.
REMINGTON: It's the thermos turkey fryer.
SERWER: This is for Jack Cafferty. Jack, this is what I'm going to get you for this holiday, a deep frying turkey thing. What do you think?
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: I think that's great. I will put you in and fire it up. What do you think of that?
SERWER: I couldn't fit in that. Come on, Jack. It's beautiful.
CAFFERTY: Put you right in there. Baste you every couple of hours and feed you to the chickens.
SERWER: We will play shuffle board on the other deck. We'll see you guys later.
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Aired November 15, 2002 - 09:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: The Big Apple is a new target of a major retailer, Target stores. Docking on the Hudson, Andy Serwer is there to tell us what the heck is going on.
Good morning, Andy.
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE; Ahoy, Paula.
I'm here with John Remington of the Target company, who has come in from Minneapolis, along with this ship.
John, I got to ask you, why are you bringing a shopping ship to Manhattan?
JOHN REMINGTON, VP OF MARKETING, TARGET: Well, right now, Manhattan, as of yet, doesn't have a store, a Target store, and it's an island surrounding by water. Why not bring in the USS Target, so New Yorkers can have that shopping experience?
SERWER: How do sales look for you this season?
REMINGTON: In general, we are very optimistic. Target really stands behind this, expect more and pay less. That will hopefully get people encouraged to come in and shop.
SERWER: I'm liking that pay less.
Listen you guys, we went shopping around here, 92 items on this ship, we kind of found some things, picked out a couple of things for you guys for the holidays. This one here might be good for Jonathan Karl to bring back to Washington D.C.
John, tell us.
REMINGTON: Item number 18 is a Deskmate minifridge, just big enough for two bottles of water.
SERWER: Or beer, Jonathan. Bring that back to D.C.
REMINGTON: We'll put that on there.
SERWER: Let's walk around. What else do we have here, Jonathan?
REMINGTON: Over here, we have Marona, which is our own label of suede coat, which is really nice.
SERWER: And I'm thinking this would be look good for Paula, you know, kind of stylish.
REMINGTON: What in size 54, Andy?
SERWER: We can find a smaller size.
REMINGTON: What about over here? Something for you?
SERWER: Something for me. They picked out something for me. You've got to mark this down. You can get this for me. What is it?
REMINGTON: It's a Michael Graves designed waffle maker for $29.99, you can't go wrong.
SERWER: You guys can afford that?
REMINGTON: I've got Number 33.
SERWER: And let's get to my favorite.
REMINGTON: It's the thermos turkey fryer.
SERWER: This is for Jack Cafferty. Jack, this is what I'm going to get you for this holiday, a deep frying turkey thing. What do you think?
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: I think that's great. I will put you in and fire it up. What do you think of that?
SERWER: I couldn't fit in that. Come on, Jack. It's beautiful.
CAFFERTY: Put you right in there. Baste you every couple of hours and feed you to the chickens.
SERWER: We will play shuffle board on the other deck. We'll see you guys later.
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