[rjcj2017]

It's possible that they change it now with more people shopping online for pick-up and delivery service.

But when I worked for Target a few years ago the online business was pretty pathetic, so they brought these third-party vendors in fill the out-of-stock gaps, boost the number of available online products and they get to charge those vendors for using their platform.

I'm not sure how things are set up now, but at that time Target and Target.com were actually separate businesses. They were under the same umbrella, but they were considered separate entities, which is why the ability to pick up online orders in store and return online purchases in store was such a big push for them. (And why it didn't happen until recently, relatively speaking, of course.)

Got it ... now that the online thing has blown up with the pandemic, it would be nice to see the doosh bags go away.