Posted on 08/26/2016 9:43:09 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Sin in haste, repent at leisure:
Target is launching a first-of-its-kind one-day sale to try and boost back-to-school shopper traffic amid a boycott over its bathroom policy. The retailer is offering a 10% discount on everything in its stores and online on Sunday. Target is calling the event #TargetRunDay.
It marks the first time Target has ever offered a 10% discount both in stores and on its website. The sale comes after Target last week reported its first quarterly traffic decline in more than two years.
This is what happens when you blindly hop on the social-justice bandwagon without consulting your customers, understanding their mores, or giving a damn about what they think. .....
Target's same-store transactions, which is how traffic is measured, fell 2.2% in the second quarter. Overall, sales fell 7.2% to $16.2 billion. "In the second quarter, our No. 1 challenge was traffic, which affected sales in all of our merchandise categories," Target CEO Brian Cornell said last week on a call with analysts.
Shopper traffic is falling amid a boycott over Target's new policy, announced earlier this year, that welcomes customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matches their gender identity. The announcement triggered an immediate backlash. Critics said the policy opened the door for sexual predators to victimize women and children inside the retailer's bathrooms, and more than 1.4 million people signed a pledge to stop shopping at Target unless it reversed the policy.
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Of course Target CEO Brian Cornell would not admit his wrongheadedness, so instead the chain will spend $$$ money to install single-occupancy bathrooms, as if that solves their PR problem. Talk about not understanding the customers' ire in the first place, this move will only hurt the company, its employees and the shareholders themselves.
Maybe they should offer chaperones for little girls going into the wild-west bathrooms.
Tough luck Target. NO sale
How about starting by firing the arrogant woman who implemented this massive outrage in the first place - along with the CEO who backed her up?
Target can pound sand.
Just die, Target.
It occurs to me that their customer base is the fundamental "problem" for their SJW CEO. Affluent Overeducated Progressive Bobos don't shop at Target.
Maybe Whole Foods could implement this policy, but not Target or Walmart.
Bullseye.
Until then, POUND SAND.
I stopped going there when this started. No need to go back. I've already gotten used to the alternatives.
I have crossed Target off my store list. I would not go there if everything was free. What were they thinking???
Great.
I’ll shop Sunday instead of tonight!
10%
Piffle.
Amazon is still way cheaper.
40% and I *might* consider going in there.
Maybe.
:D
I do not normally shop at Target but on occasions will if it is convenient and near. Today I will not shop at Target under any circumstances.
I am male, but what should I do if I am feeling female while in Target but with lesbian feelings also. The logic of such is that as a male I could go into the females bathroom and hit on females because I am feeling lesbian that afternoon. At least they could not accuse me of sexism as I was a female at that moment. They could probably get me on depravity but that is a protected class of liberalism so not to worry.
In reality when I take my beloved grand daughter out shopping and she needs the restroom I am immediately outside the door. She has instructions to come back outside if she sees anything odd in the restroom. If someone looks like a guy wants to go inside, he will not pass. Do not mess with a grand dads grand daughter. We have no sense of humor and many of us are armed and our sense of humor is rather limited.
Political correctness is not insane, it is evil by design!
The leftists.
Theirs don't.
When a fraction of a <1% self identified grievance group boycotts who can tell???
Keep up the pressure. They still haven’t learned their lesson.
10% for one day is nothing. My wife went to Target multiple times a week. When this started we stopped. Period.
Eventually leftist business will be as successful as liberal talk radio.
That’s what they should have done in the first place for their queer customers, install single use for them.
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