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Shares in Target (TGT) fell nearly 3% Thursday after the nation's second biggest discount retailer said same-store sales -- a key retail metric -- missed Wall Street's average estimate. But Target's short-term pain could be a patient investor's long-term gain -- if the stock is indeed as cheap as...

Last month, I walked into a Wal-Mart store for the first time in my life. I'm from San Francisco, a place proud for its efforts to keep big-box stores out of city limits (Target is acceptable, although the nearest one is in South San Francisco, officially a different city). I have always tried to...