Target expanding next-day delivery
Target Corp. continues spreading the availability of next-day delivery for online orders.
The discount giant said that by the end of spring 2026, 60% of the U.S. population will have access to next-day delivery of online Target orders. Customers in more than 50 top U.S. metro areas will be able to get their purchases delivered next day.
Most items eligible for shipping at Target are eligible for next-day delivery, including hundreds of thousands of items and 85% of products sold in Target stores. Customers can heck an item’s product detail page, or the cart and checkout page for next-day delivery eligibility and order-by time.
Next-day delivery is free for orders over $35 or with no minimum order amount for members of the Target 360 paid membership program or for purchases made with the Target Circle credit card. According to Target, it already reaches 80% of the U.S. population with same-day delivery, often within as little as two or three hours, and 99% of the population with two-day shipping.
Target is following up on a previous expansion of next-day delivery to consumers across 35 top U.S. metro areas — over half of the U.S. population — in October 2025. At the time, Target said more than 20 additional cities would be coming in 2026, including Orlando; San Diego; St. Louis; and Charlotte, N.C.
The retailer has also been making adjustments in its supply chain to better support next-day delivery. In November 2025, Target opened a sortation center that enables next-day delivery of online orders in the Cleveland metro area. The facility is a three-year trial of a sortation center model in which last-mile delivery is only activated by the Shipt delivery platform, a wholly-owned Target subsidiary.
Target piloted the concept of sortation centers — which streamline the process of fulfilling and delivering online orders, removing the sorting process from the backroom of stores — in April 2021 with a pilot in its Minneapolis hometown.
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More recently, in April 2026 Target opened its first-ever "receive center," located in Houston. The $265 million facility intakes products directly from its global vendors and holds the product until it’s needed elsewhere, replenishing inventory more quickly and at lower cost in response to store and customer demand.
As Target bolsters its next-day delivery capability, two of its chief rivals are ramping up efforts to deliver online purchases to customers in 30 minutes or less.
Amazon Now, which delivers thousands of items including household essentials, personal consumer electronics and groceries to customers’ doorsteps in about 30 minutes or less, is available in dozens of U.S. cities and will be rolled out to millions of customers across the country by year’s end.
Meanwhile, Walmart is supporting delivery in 30 minutes or less with a rapidly expanding drone delivery program. The discounter expects to have a network of more than 270 drone delivery locations operational by 2027, stretching from Los Angeles to Miami and service about 40 million U.S. consumers.
Minneapolis-based Target Corp. operates more than 2,000 U.S. stores and online.
