Weekday Visits Are Driving Sales at Walmart, Target -- Market Talk

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1241 ET - At both Walmart and Target, weekday visits rose sharply during 1Q, Placer.ai data shows. "Weekday traffic growth across both brands highlights the growing importance of routine, need-based shopping trips in driving visits," a recent report from the location-analytics firm reads. "This pattern signals that essential retail demand is currently outweighing discretionary behavior, shaping near-term performance." While weekday visits rose sharply in 1Q, weekend visits remained essentially flat year-over-year. For Target, this stabilization in weekend visits is notable, as prior declines had weighed on overall performance. "This matters because weekends tend to capture more discretionary browsing and higher-margin categories that are central to Target's model," Placer.ai says in the report.(connor.hart@wsj.com)

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