Currently the Target Stores stock price is $46.55.  The Target stock performance over the past 5 years has been relatively unimpressive, coming up mostly flat.  Now there was a decent amount of dividends coming from the stock, but hardly enough to even keep up with inflation.  If you look at the Target stock price today, you’ll see some struggles in 2011.  The employment situation in the US certainly is having a direct impact on the bottom line of Target and it’s competitors.