Someone at the big red retailer has leaked a circulation ad that reveals future prices for the Xbox 360 Pro and the Xbox Elite. The Xbox 360 60GB Pro system will cost $250 starting later this week and the 120GB price will drop to about $300. These prices cuts are not surprising because last week, Sony released the PS3 Slim and cut the price of the original PS3.
Target Corporation and Amazon.com, Inc. have a great relationship with each other. Amazon.com provides the front and back end of the Target.com website and Target delivers the orders. This has been the relationship that both retail companies have had over the past 10 years. However Target will be ending the deal starting in 2011.
Target plans to start running their own website around the same time and will replace Amazon.com from handling the customer care, technology, and order fulfillment. Through the partnership, Amazon.com helped Target save money and improve customer service.
“We’ve had a very positive, productive relationship with Amazon,” stated Target spokeswoman Kelly Basgen. “We just thought it was in our best interest to grow and manage our own platform.” Target made the announcement this past Friday.
Disclosure: I was a former employee of Target Corporation as a Supply Chain Executive-in-Training from 2007-2008.
Target Corporation (NYSE:TGT) and News Corporation (NYSE:NWS.A) subsidiary, Photobucket have officially partnered with each other for photo printing services. For those that have photos uploaded on Photobucket, they can go into Target stores and order prints. So far the service is available in a majority select Target stores.
The Photobucket prints will cost $0.20 for 4″ x 6″ prints. Pictures that are 5″ x 7″ cost $1.49 and 8″ x 10″ are $2.89 each. The photos will be printed on glossy paper.
Target has similar partnerships with Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) and Shutterfly, Inc. (NASDAQ:SFLY). A lot of Photobucket’s traffic was driven by the embeddable widgets that MySpace users spread. News Corp. acquired Photobucket in May 2007.
Disclosure: Amit Chowdhry was formerly employed in Target as a Supply Chain Executive in Training. Amit does not own any shares in the company.
