Target April Comparable Store Sales up1.1%

Target Corporation

today reported that its first quarter 2012 comparable-store sales increased 5.3 percent compared with first quarter 2011. Target's net retail sales for the four weeks ended April 28, 2012 were $4,978 million, an increase of 2.1 percent from $4,874 million for the four weeks ended April 30, 2011. On this same basis, April comparable-store sales increased 1.1 percent.