The Shops at Target offer sizzling styles

Retailer teams up with small business owners in a pop-up concept.


TARGET LOCATIONS

Dayton-area stores

Target Beavercreek No.1128

2490 N. Fairfield Road, Beavercreek, OH 45431

Phone: (937) 431-866

Target Dayton South No. 1252

2300 Miamisburg-Centerville Road, Miami Twp., OH 45459

Phone: (937) 435-3817

Target Sugarcreek Twp. No.1940

4341 Feedwire Road, Sugarcreek Twp., OH 45440

Phone: (937) 439-9301

Target Huber Heights No. 129

5700 Executive Blvd., Huber Heights, OH 45424

Phone: (937) 233-0108

Target Trotwood No. 1130

2800 Shiloh Springs Road, Trotwood, OH 45426

Phone: (937) 837-1600

Springfield:

1885 W. First St., Springfield, OH 45504

Phone: (937) 324-2584

Hamilton:

Target Fairfield Township No. 1946

3369 Princeton Road, Hamilton, OH 45011

Phone: (513) 714-0016

Middletown:

Target Middletown No. 0991

6775 Roosevelt Ave., Middletown, OH 45044

Phone: (513) 422-0013

Cincinnati -area stores

Target Beechmont Area No. 1092

8680 Beechmont Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45255

Phone: (513) 474-6006

Target Cincinnati Central No.1447

4825A Marburg Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45209

Phone: (513) 631-5690

Target Colerain No.1545

9040 Colerain Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45251

Phone: (513) 719-0037

Target Fields Ertel No.1091

9841 Waterstone Blvd., Cincinnati, OH 45249

Phone: (513) 677-1888

Target Western Hills No. 2488

6150 Glenway Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45211

Phone: (513) 719-1076

It’s all about fresh, delightful and innovative concepts this summer at the new Target stores.

You might already have noticed that change was afoot in the mega-retailer’s stores earlier this year in southwest Ohio.

I, for one, am thrilled, as I have always been a Target devotee. I buy almost everything now and then at the stores. I used the pharmacy at the Sugarcreek Twp. location, for instance, to fill an antibiotic prescription when I suffered miserably from bronchitis last winter.

And just last week, I checked out the Shops at Target in both the Miami Twp. and Beavercreek locations.

Target has teamed up with small-business owners to create an upscale, yet affordable, line of goods for Target.

The Shops at Target basically put products from boutiques and specialty shops around the country in stores for six-week runs. (This is very similar to the pop-up shops in downtown Dayton I reported about last winter.)

The first round of shops at Target include San Francisco’s The Candy Store, Aspen’s Cos Bar; Boston’s Polka Dog Bakery; Connecticut’s Privet House; and Miami’s The Webster — a hot line of fashion-forward women’s and men’s attire.

The second wave of pop-up Shops at Target starts Sept. 9 and will include New York’s Odin — which Fashionista.com describes as a “one-stop shop for cool, stylish-yet-masculine men’s clothing” — and The Curiosity Shoppe, a San Francisco home interiors store.

Beckham’s a smoothie

On an unrelated note: Burger King has launched a new celebrity-driven ad campaign. Yes ... David Beckham can indeed sell fruit smoothies. My friend tells me they are quite good.

Other finds

And winter clothes, I have noticed, are still being offered at 75 percent off or more. I found a sweet hot-pink dress with a nipped-in waist and flirty skirt on sale recently at Banana Republic at the Greene Town Center in Beavercreek. This cocktail dress was from the winter “Mad Men”-inspired line at the store. I did not have time to try the frock on, so I passed.

I did, however, purchase a turquoise Ponte knit pencil skirt at Express for about 80 percent off its original price of $89. That will suffice for a “Mad Men”-inspired cocktail party.

Contributing writer Robin McMacken offers a weekly guide to bargain hunting

Robin McMacken is a writer, designer and National Academy of Sports Medicine and Aerobics and Fitness Association of America-certified personal trainer. Follow her on Twitter at Robin_McMacken.

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