Target expanding next-day delivery service to Denver and Dallas

Target is expanding the coverage of its “Restock” next-day home delivery service to Dallas-Fort Worth and Denver. The Restock service, which is currently still in “test” mode, allows customers to choose from more than 15,000 “household essential” items. Orders placed before 2pm Monday to Friday will be delivered next day to customers’ doors for $4.99.

Customers can build up a shopping list of goods weighing up to 45 pounds – which Target says is “about the size of a shopping cart”.

The expansion of Target Restock to Dallas and Denver comes after an initial test kicked off earlier this summer in the Minneapolis area.

Target has been putting some major investment into ramping up its home delivery services. On Monday, the company announced that it is planning to buy the transport technology company,  Grand Junction.

Grand Junction has created a software platform that “allows retailers to determine the fastest, most efficient method for local deliveries” and it has also built up a network of more than 700 carriers who connect to the platform.

Grand Junction and Target have been working together on the retailer’s same-day delivery pilot at its store in New York’s Tribeca neighbourhood which started in June.