As Always, New Targets A Big Draw.(opening new stores)(Brief Article)

FAIRFIELD, N.J. -- On the second Sunday in October, four days after a soft opening, Target Corp. opened 40 stores around the country, 13 of them in Northeast communities new to the company. Two of those were in the New York City bedroom communities of Edgewater, N.J., and Fairfield.

(Other Northeast locations included Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.)

Some 8,000 consumers jammed into Fairfield's 147,000-square-foot Target Greatland. Many lined up before the 8 a.m. opening, drawn by the curiosity surrounding Target's first store in the area and by