The health and safety of our guests and team members have been Target’s top priorities throughout the pandemic. As COVID-19 cases have declined, Target does not require our U.S. team members or guests to wear masks, as local regulations allow. We’ll follow all state and local COVID-19 safety regulations and encourage our team members and guests to consult the latest public health guidance, get vaccinated and make decisions to keep themselves and their families safe. 

More than 1,700 Target stores currently have a CVS pharmacy inside, and vaccine appointments are available at nearly all these locations. 

As we have been throughout the pandemic, Target is focused on getting our guests the essentials they need at an everyday low price. Our teams will remain flexible to changing consumer behavior and ensure Target remains an easy and safe place for guests to shop.

Throughout the pandemic, we have invested significantly in the safety of our guests and team members. We’ll continue to follow CDC guidance to inform our approach.  

We’ll continue to provide team members with face masks and keep measures in place aimed at providing guests with an easy and safe shopping experience.  

• Disinfecting and cleaning our stores, focusing on high-touch areas like checklanes, and providing hand sanitizer and masks for our guests.  

• We’ve consistently increased ways guests can check out quickly to avoid waiting in line during busy times, like adding more MyCheckout devices at stores across the country. 

• Guests can also use Wallet, the mobile payment option in the Target app, for a contactless self-checkout experience regardless of where they choose to checkout in stores. 

Target offers a variety of fulfilment options, and a number of updates are helping us accommodate increased demand, while keeping the safety of our guests and team members in mind. 

• We’ve staffed up in-demand, same-day services like Drive Up and Order Pickup and made the confirmation process contactless. Team members place Drive Up orders in trunks or back seats of cars whenever possible. 

• We’ve dedicated more spaces in our parking lots for Drive Up, making it easier for guests to access this popular service. 

• We update Target.com regularly with estimated fulfillment and shipping times, as well as Shipt delivery windows, so guests can plan accordingly. 

• Shipt shoppers complete deliveries by leaving items at guests’ doors. 

• We’ve expanded the items available through same-day fulfillment options, offering fresh and frozen groceries through Order Pickup and Drive Up and kids’ and adult apparel through same-day delivery with Shipt. 

We have an assortment of owned brand face masks for the whole family from Universal Thread, Cat & Jack and Goodfellow & Co available on Target.com and in Target stores. Our internal design team developed these masks, which adhere to CDC guidelines.  

As COVID-19 cases have declined, Target does not require our U.S. team members or guests to wear masks, as local regulations allow. We’ll follow all state and local COVID-19 safety regulations and encourage our team members and guests to consult the latest public health guidance, get vaccinated and make decisions to keep themselves and their families safe. 

Our teams are stepping up in an incredible way to support families across the country, and we’re committed to providing them with the resources they need to take care of themselves and their families. This includes: 

• Ongoing investments in the well-being, health and safety of team members, including increased wages, paid leaves and personal protective equipment. We also previously provided bonus payouts and a donation to the Target Team Member Giving Fund. 

• Extending COVID-19-related benefits to help all of our team members and their families navigate the continued impact of COVID-19. 

• Offering free backup care for all U.S. team members, including discounts on tutoring and education resources, as well as help with finding a nanny, childcare center or caregiver. 

• Offering access to health care for all team members via virtual doctor visits and mental health counseling, as well as online resources to support mental, emotional and physical well-being. 

• Keeping work environments safe and regularly communicating updates on guidance from public health experts to our team so they can stay informed and safe. 

• Providing team members with reusable and disposable face masks and encouraging healthy hygiene habits. 

• Vaccines currently continue to be available free of charge, regardless of where team members get a vaccine.

The safety of our team is our top priority, and we've implemented many measures throughout the pandemic to ensure a clean and safe working environment. We’ll continue to follow guidance from the CDC and other health experts. Providing team members with reusable and disposable face masks and COVID-19 tests and encouraging healthy hygiene habits. 

Enhancing our building cleaning and disinfecting processes, including increasing the frequency, focusing on high-touch areas like entryways, tools and stations, and providing more sanitation stations throughout our supply chain facilities. 

We start by offering additional hours to existing team members who have interest and availability, then maintain our current approach to hiring and filling jobs across the network as needed.

Jobseekers can visit Target.com/Careers to learn more about open roles available in their area. Shipt is also adding shoppers in many areas of the country — visit Shipt.com for more information and to apply.
 

We’ve designed the future of HQ work at Target to be hybrid — blending onsite and virtual work to give our team flexibility in how they collaborate and do their best work. While we won’t ask team members to be in the office with a set schedule or percentage of time, we know our physical offices will play an important role in how we work moving forward. Throughout the spring, our teams will continue testing new ways of working and will start to develop more regular hybrid work routines. Read more about the details of our hybrid work approach here. 

As we are welcoming team members back to headquarters, specifically at our U.S. HQ offices, the safety and well-being of the team is our top priority. We’ve developed our plans in close partnership with a broad network of medical experts, industry peers and authorities in the U.S., India and other global locations in ways that are right for each of our headquarters' offices. We continue to provide team members with hand sanitizer and face masks to wear at work and encourage healthy hygiene habits, as well as employ enhanced cleaning routines of all high-touch points. 

Target’s Team Member Life Resources (TMLR) is available 24/7 to all team members, dependents and any member of the household to help with a variety of issues. All team members and their entire household can receive five free counseling sessions per issue, per year. TMLR also provides resources for a wide variety of topics like legal, financial and caregiving resources.    

Additionally, to support our team through this unprecedented time, Target offers all team members free access to additional online resources that support their mental, emotional and physical health. This well-being support includes:  

• Access to Daylight, a personalized web-based and mobile app designed to help individuals learn and practice proven strategies to navigate stress and worry (available to U.S. team members and spouses/domestic partners enrolled in a Target medical plan, and all Target in India team members)  

• Sleep support through Sleepio, a web-based and mobile app that provides self-help tools to improve sleep (available to U.S. team members and spouses/domestic partners enrolled in a Target medical plan, and all Target in India team members)  

• Access to Grokker, a fitness and well-being platform providing support for fitness, nutrition, meditation and financial well-being (available to all team members and up to three of their family members) 

We treat every positive case of COVID-19 with care and work hard to protect our team and guests. We follow guidance from the CDC and other public health experts, and we are transparent with our team and share the steps we take after learning about a positive case. 

• We communicate with team members who have a positive case of COVID-19 and share information.  

• We swiftly inform team members who work at a location where a case of COVID-19 is confirmed. 

• We encourage our team to come to us with any questions or concerns, so that we can quickly support and address them. 

Target’s Coronavirus Task Force, made up of members of our Leadership Team and additional leaders, is guiding our company’s planning, preparedness and response actions. They’re taking guidance from public health experts and government officials, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the U.S. Department of State and the World Health Organization, and also have a variety of medical experts providing direct counsel and advice.

Early in 2020, Target committed $10 million to expand relief and assistance to team members and organizations helping respond to COVID-19. The $10 million donation supported four areas: team members, local communities, national organizations and global response organizations. This donation supported: 

• Team Members: $1 million was donated to the Target Team Member Giving Fund to help with the impact of this crisis on team members.  

• Local Communities: $5 million was donated to local and state community foundations supporting organizations addressing the greatest needs in their area, such as helping vulnerable and underrepresented populations. Recipients included partners coast to coast, including the Seattle Foundation’s COVID-19 Response Fund, which supports local organizations deploying emergency resources like financial support and childcare; the Greater New Orleans Foundation Disaster Response and Restoration Fund and its network of community organizations taking care of the elderly and the homeless, and many more. 

• National Organizations: $3 million was donated to support national partners assisting with response and recovery for affected communities. Recipients included the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, which supports nonprofits working directly with the most vulnerable populations in order to help build response capabilities; and Feeding America, the nation’s largest domestic hunger-relief organization with a network of more than 200 food banks and 60,000 food pantries. 

• Global Response: $1 million was donated to support organizations that are helping provide critical medical equipment and supplies to regions around the world. Recipients included Project ECHO, an organization bringing tele-medicine capabilities to remote locations and vulnerable populations in India and throughout the world; and UNICEF, which is delivering life-saving health supplies, building water and hygiene facilities, and keeping kids connected to education while working to stop the spread of COVID-19. Target also supported the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund in support of the World Health Organization (WHO). 

• Click here to see the list of grant recipients. 

Target also invested $5 million to help underserved communities, at home and across the globe, have access to a COVID-19 vaccine and to support vaccine education efforts. These donations included: 

• $1 million to local and national nonprofits in the U.S. offering access to free and discounted rides to vaccination appointments through Lyft’s Universal Vaccine Access campaign, which is mobilizing a coalition of partners to provide underserved communities access to rides to and from vaccination sites. 

• $2.5 million to local community organizations across the country to better support vaccination efforts directly in the neighborhoods they serve, including the Minnesota Council on Foundations to coordinate philanthropic support with the Minnesota Department of Health’s vaccine equity effort to reach communities of color, people with disabilities and other vulnerable populations in our hometown of Minneapolis. It also includes supporting Latinos Progresando in Chicago to increase vaccinations in the Latino community. 

• $1 million toward the Ad Council and COVID Collaborative’s effort to educate the public and build confidence around the vaccines, particularly within communities of color hit particularly hard by the pandemic. 

• $500,000 to support UNICEF USA’s global work alongside the World Health Organization and partners to ensure fair, equitable access to vaccines, including countries with limited vaccine access. 

To support the communities where our team members in India live and work, we donated $500,000 to UNICEF. The funds will help increase access to life-saving oxygen treatments in hospitals across the country and bring faster, more accurate testing resources to the hardest-hit communities. We’re also donating to local nonprofits providing additional aid throughout the country. 

In the U.S., on top of previous donations of anti-viral and N95 respirator masks to first responders and healthcare professionals at more than 50 organizations across the country, Target donated an additional 2 million KN95 respirator masks to the medical community. 

When Target Circle members shop, they earn votes to help direct Target’s giving to nonprofits across the country. Our guests directed additional Target Circle giving to the United Nations Foundation’s COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund in support of the World Health Organization and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy — in addition to local community organizations. Learn more here.

As we have throughout the pandemic, we will continue to monitor and use the advice of public health experts to adjust and react as appropriate to the spread of COVID-19, including new variants that arise.