Target feels like a relatively new store but it’s actually way older than you think. It started as goodfellow’s dry good’s store all the way back in 1902, so you are probably wondering when did it become target? Well over the years it went through several name changes becoming the dayton dry goods company, then the dayton company then the dayton corporation then the dayton hudson corporation… imagine if instead of saying you are going to target you said you were going to dayton’s eww. Anyway, they started calling their stores target in the 60s but it wasn’t until 2000 that they changed the company name to target.