Posted on 04/29/2016 6:54:42 PM PDT by Morgana
Target’s stock price and its favorability among shoppers are crashing as the public rebukes the retail giant for ignoring their vigorous protest against mixed-sex changing rooms and bathrooms.
The company’s stock was two cents shy of $84 on August 19, when it revealed it would not allow shoppers to use single-sex bathrooms or changing rooms. Instead, all rooms were opened up to anyone claiming to be of either sex. As of 4.00 p.m. Friday, the stock had dropped almost $4.50, down to $79.50.
That’s a huge loss of 5 percent in stock value, costing shareholders roughly $2.5 billion in company value.
In between those two dates, more than one million people had signed a boycott petition sponsored by the American Family Association. Public opinion also shifted strongly in favor of single-sex bathrooms.
The damage to Target’s favorability is also being tracked by YouGov’s BrandIndex service.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
My first ban was Post Cereal back around 1995 and that was over a toy prize missing in the box which customer service promised to send but didn’t. There hasn’t been a box of their cereal in this house since. If I can hold a grudge over a silly toy, well, this restroom stuff...
Sometime grudges are good things. Verizon jerked me around for years on a DSL problem so I left. Got a smaller commercial ISP who was 10 times better CS and within a short time found and fixed the problem that Verizon refused to do.
Then Verizon kept calling to get me back. I said never. And I meant it.
Target’s wrong on this issue. They should be protecting women and children NOT mentally unstable 50 year old men.
Yeah it didn’t have anything at all to do with Ron ahoy son trying to come into JCP and completely remake the retail model..... Nope. Must be the gay thing....
SMDH
Don’t ever become a securities analyst.
We changed to DISH the next day and I truly love to confront DirecTV salespeople who prowl the Wal-Mart drumming up business.
It is interesting that most American corporations have not figured out that is cheaper to retain customers than to go out and get new ones to replace the lost ones that they have driven away with substandard service. And insulting your longstanding customers by charging them more is one way to do that.
Let me pass on a caveat regarding Dish Network. Their parent company is one of if not the largest collection agency in the country. They have a rather bad reputation for going after people for their mistakes in terms of billing.
I recommend keeping a paper trail of all my doings with them and keeping it for years after you stop dealing with him. Because you can get turned over to collection a long time after you’re no longer doing business with them.
I still have my original agreement with DISH, along with all of my bills and hard copy/email payment confirmations. I have scanned all of these as they come in and have kept the digital record ... not only for this but for everything else that I make payments on ... car loan, electrical bills, water bills, etc. I’m not going to let them be the only one with a paper trail in the event of a disagreement.
Target has a history of having bad policies an bunch of A..Holes running this company. That’s why I stopped shopping at Target Stores. Remember this……
ATLANTA — For more than 100 years the sound of Christmas in America has been from an army of bell ringers raising money for the Salvation Army.
For Willie Pickett in Atlanta, it’s also about spreading Christmas cheer.
“I just love making people smile,” says Pickett, a frequent bell ringer.
But even if Pickett’s kettle brings in record donations this year, the Salvation Army, as a whole, expects to fall far short of its goal because this year Target has banned Salvation Army kettles from all its 1,300 stores.
The company says it’s simply enforcing existing rules against solicitation, but it’s a move the Christian-based charity says will cost it $9 million.
“That’s a major part of our fund-raising throughout the year,” says Maj. George Hoosier, the Salvation Army’s general secretary in Georgia. “So we’re gonna take a hit ... not only at Christmas ... but with the rest of our services throughout the year.”
And it may cost Target as well — some other big chains are now publicly welcoming Salvation Army bell ringers. And 5,000 clergy members, like Sarasota pastor David Anderson, are urging churchgoers to boycott Target “I don’t plan to buy another thing at Target until they change their policy toward the Salvation Army,” says Anderson. “It’s an attack against American tradition. The Salvation Army is a part of Americana.”
And supporters say it is critical in efforts to feed the hungry, lift up the poor and respond to natural disasters.
The retail model using gay men as fathers and a lesbian as spokesperson led to a complete rejection of Penny’s by the American consumer.
I’m not willing to believe this effect of a boycott just yet. Conservatives are incorrigibly lazy, and though they may sign onto a boycott initially, will get lazy about it and creep back into the habit of shopping their again when the battle gets monotonous.
We only have ourselves to blame.
LOL yeah not even close. But you keep hanging on to your delusion. Ignorance is convenient for you.
Dude, you seem a little hostile.
Here, read some recent press about Target.
Yes.
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