Last year, I made light of the piddling 5% discount Target sends as an annual birthday “gift”, noting the many items to which Target’s coupon would not apply. I also said “I hope I can remember to check on this next year, to see what’s hot and what’s not.”

Well, I didn’t actually remember, at least not until I stumbled across last January’s post while searching for the word “battle” during the writing of a much more recent post. After re-reading though, I decided I would indeed try to compare the new 2023 exclusions list against last year’s. Thankfully, despite my mockery, Target had once again emailed me another unexciting offer. For your edification, here are the results of a comparison of the fine prints on the 2023¹ and 2022² offers.

Newly Added Items Which Target Will Not Allow to Be Discounted a Measly 5%

• Bratz Collector and Designer Dolls

• Bullseye’s Playground

• Funko Standard Pop

• GilletteLabs Heated Razor Starter Kit by Gillette – 3ct

• Hair Appliances

• Healthy Roots Dolls

• ICU reading glasses

• Lovevery

• Motrin

• Play-Doh Ice Cream Truck Playset

• Shipt Membership

• WonderFold

Modifications to Existing Items Which Target Will Not Allow to Be Discounted a Measly 5%

• “Barbie (Camper, Dreamhouse, Dreamplane, Malibu House and Townhouse)” is now “Barbie camper and houses”

• “Facebook, Oculus and Portal” is now “Meta Oculus and Portal”

• “Hot Wheels (Ultimate Garage, Action Massive Loop Mayhem, Mario Kart Rainbow Road Trackset, Volcano Arena Playset)” is now “Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage”

• “LG OLED TV” is now “LG OLED and QNED TVs” [Editor’s Note: I don’t know what the hell a QNED TV is, but with a name that dumb, it must be good. A quick search tells me it’s an amalgamation of the word ‘Quantum’, LG’s ‘NanoCell’ LCD branding, and the ‘Emitting Diodes’ from the backlight. OK, sure.]

• “Tylenol PM pain relief” is now “Tylenol pain relief, Tylenol PM”

Items Which Target Now WILL Allow to Be Discounted a Measly 5%

• Disney Ultimate Princess Castle

• Elf on the Shelf

• Elvie

• [Editor’s Note: Inexplicably lowercase] face masks (Dolan Sanctuary & Sugar Fix brands)

• Fisher Price Little People Frozen Elsa’s Enchanted Lights Palace

• Galactic Snackin’ Grogu

• Hatch Maternity

• Honest Baby

• Hudson Baby

• Imaginext Transforming Bat-Tech Batbot

• Instant Pot

• Lamaze

• Luvable Friends

• Masters of the Universe Masterverse Ultimate Battle Cat

• Monica and Andy

• Nerf Ultra and Hyper

• Quincy Mae

• Thomas Tranes (sic) & Cranes Super Tower

• Touched by Nature

• Traeger

• Xbox consoles and accessories

• Zoe Doll

One Foot Tsunami hopes you appreciate this valuable information.

Footnotes:

1. Here’s the full 2023 list of excluded items:

   Excludes alcohol, Apple products, Barbie camper and houses, Beats Fit Pro, Beats Flex, Beats Powerbeats Pro, Beats Studio Buds, Bose, Bratz Collector and Designer Dolls, Bullseye’s Playground, Cards Against Humanity, Casper, clinic & pharmacy, Cricut, dairy milk, DockATot, Dockers, Do-a-Dot, DSLR cameras & lenses, Dyson, Fisher Price Laugh n Learn, Fitbit, Funko Standard Pop, gift cards, GilletteLabs Heated Razor Starter Kit by Gillette – 3ct, Google, Hair Appliances, HALO Baby, Hasbro Games (Classic Monopoly, Connect Four, Jenga, Sorry, Trouble), Healthy Roots Dolls, Hot Wheels Ultimate Garage, HP Inc., ICU reading glasses, Infant Optics, JBL, LEGO, Levi’s Red Label, LG OLED and QNED TVs, limited-time designer partnerships, Lovevery, Mega Bloks, Meta Oculus and Portal, mobile contracts, Motrin, Ninja, Nintendo hardware and Switch games, Polder, Peg Perego, Philips Avent, Plan B, power shave, power dental, prepaid cards, Play-Doh Ice Cream Truck Playset, PlayStation consoles and accessories, Revival, Samsung TVs, Shark, Shipt Membership, simplehuman, Sonos, Sony Electronics, Take Action, Target Optical, Tempur-Sealy, Trading Cards, Tylenol pain relief, Tylenol PM, Ulta Beauty at Target Brands, Unlocked phones, Vera Bradley handbags, Weber, What Do You Meme?, WonderFold.↩︎

2. And here’s the full 2022 list:

   Excludes alcohol, Apple products, Barbie (Camper, Dreamhouse, Dreamplane, Malibu House and Townhouse), Beats Fit Pro, Beats Flex, Beats Powerbeats Pro, Beats Studio Buds, Bose, Cards Against Humanity, Casper, clinic & pharmacy, Cricut, dairy milk, DockATot, Dockers, Disney Ultimate Princess Castle, Do-a-Dot, DSLR cameras & lenses, Dyson, Elf on the Shelf, Elvie, Facebook, Oculus and Portal, face masks (Dolan, Sanctuary & Sugar Fix brands), Fisher Price Laugh n Learn, Fisher Price Little People Frozen Elsa’s Enchanted Lights Palace, Fitbit, Galactic Snackin’ Grogu, gift cards, Google, HALO Baby, Hasbro Games (Classic Monopoly, Connect Four, Jenga, Rubik’s Cube, Sorry, Trouble), Hatch Maternity, Hot Wheels (Ultimate Garage, Action Massive Loop Mayhem, Mario Kart Rainbow Road Trackset, Volcano Arena Playset), Honest Baby, HP Inc., Hudson Baby, Imaginext Transforming Bat-Tech Batbot, Infant Optics, Instant Pot, JBL, Lamaze, LEGO, Levi’s Red Label, LG OLED TV, limited-time designer partnerships, Luvable Friends, Masters of the Universe Masterverse Ultimate Battle Cat, Mega Bloks, mobile contracts, Monica and Andy, Nerf Ultra and Hyper, Ninja, Nintendo hardware and Switch games, Polder, Peg Perego, Philips Avent, Plan B, power shave, power dental, prepaid cards, PlayStation consoles and accessories, Quincy Mae, Revival, Samsung TVs, Shark, simplehuman, Sonos, Sony Electronics, Take Action, Target Optical, Tempur-Sealy, Thomas Tranes & Cranes Super Tower, Touched by Nature, Trading Cards, Traeger, Tylenol PM pain relief, Ulta Beauty at Target Brands, Unlocked phones, Vera Bradley handbags, Weber, What Do You Meme?, Xbox consoles and accessories, and Zoe Doll.↩︎

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