TUPELO – It took six weeks and three dozen trailer loads of merchandise and groceries to fill Mississippi's largest Target store.
And it took only six minutes for the first 250 shopping carts to be snapped up by eager shoppers who got an early taste of Tupelo's long-awaited Target to finally open.
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