Ron Johnson

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Banking Transformed with Jim Marous · What the Apple Store Can Teach Retail Bankers · 30 Jun 2026 podcast

There's a third category target could do that's really incoming and that would be design.

Yep.

And design products would have

The the markup of fashion because they're unique to you, they're designed and no one else carries them.

But in a perfect world they never have to be marked on because well designed products can last for a decade or more.

But when I brought that up at Target to my teams and others, they thought I was crazy.

І дезайні спеси.

And who's gonna understand design?

And who's gonna wanna design products for a low price retailer like Target?

There were a lot of skeptics, but you have to push through.

You know, and we did design a Target with a partnership with Michael Graves and it truly changed Target.

And Target became this young hip thing, it attracted a new customer.

And that was a big part of Target's career.

And and twenty five year years later, they've had hundreds of designers, you know, and that became a big part of their strategy.

But it all started with the first one and you face skepticism.

When I went to Apple, uh, even the board was skeptical about opening stores.

You know, Steve wanted to do it because he believed after having come back to Apple and launched the iMac, which was a really well-received product, a great product.

It's sold to the Mac faithful to nobody else.

Right.

And unless he could control the customer experience, he didn't believe he could

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