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Dorm Room Rush

Will Target or Walmart grow customers faster this week?

College classes started across the country today. Target's traffic is up 3.6% but spend per trip is flat, and Walmart says its shoppers are stretched thin. The dorm run is a fight over the same careful dollar.

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Target
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Walmart

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Market opens soon

Activity begins when trading opens.

MARKET WINDOW

August 24 to 30, compared against the August 17 to 23 prior week.

DEFINITIONS & SCOPE

Unique purchasers are distinct cardholders with at least one verified purchase transaction under each merchant's descriptor during the window, all channels. Growth is the percentage change in each merchant's unique purchaser count versus the prior week.

RESOLUTION METHOD

The merchant with the higher week-over-week unique purchaser growth rate wins. Resolution requires a minimum of 10,000 qualifying transactions per side. In the event of a tie, all positions are refunded in full.

DATA SOURCE

Powered by verified transaction data from American Spend's oracle. Anonymized, aggregated, and secured. Real, objective, verified proof of spend sourced from a representative sample of consumer spending.

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