Assets protection specialist Terrell Gipson, 21, prepares to patrol the parking lot of the Compton Target store on a Segway. When it opened the store there in 2007, the company expected a higher risk of crime and took steps to address it: beefing up security and working with the city to get a sheriff’s substation on site. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Saundra Edwards, left, a licensed marriage and family therapist, asks Target team leader Daneisha Howard if everything is all right in her home life and at work. Edwards helps employees at the Target store in Compton with their personal problems in an effort to reduce absenteeism and turnover. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Signs at the Target store in Compton use English and Spanish. The store also offers a wider range of products to appeal to the community’s largely minority population. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Compton Target employee Audra Menefee, left, says she’s grateful she could turn to social worker Saundra Edwards, right, after her husband’s car accident. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
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Team leader Andre Stewart, 33, stocks a shelf at the Target store in Compton. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
Displays at the Target store in Compton feature African American, Latino and Asian models. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
