Posted on 05/16/2016 9:27:17 AM PDT by Morgana
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Hayley Peterson writes at the Business Insider:
Target is facing a nationwide backlash for its support of transgender rights.
More than 1.2 million people have signed a pledge to boycott the retailer after it announced last month that it would welcome transgender customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matches their gender identity.
Critics have been holding protests and demonstrations at stores across the country, and they are showing no signs of dying down.
Many are demanding access to bathrooms of the opposite sex to support claims that “perverts” can now prey on children and women as a result of the policy.
The boycotters’ goal is to force Target to reverse its policy, or at least make the retailer suffer for it by spending their money elsewhere.
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I like it. Now we need one of a child with a Target superimposed over it saying “Don’t let your child be a Target”.
I’m looking forward to seeing their most recent financial results.
Local retail already mostly can't compete with online shopping. Target's branding depends on folks wandering around and discovering high-quality interesting merchandise. Is stupidity a requirement for execs who make these decisions?
Target opened at $73-ish and is up to $75 today...
You still don't get it, Hayley.
Well, clearly the boycott and demonstrations haven’t reached critical mass yet. The local biker gang needs to start going to target and publicly entering the female restroom. Demonstrators need to picket outside the main entrance, shoppers could load up carts and leave them outside the restrooms, etc. The left seems to be so good at demonstrations; conservatives need to fight fire with fire.
UNLESS SHE'S IN A TARGET DRESSING ROOM...
Proof that the folks want one bathroom for those with a weewee, and one for those without.
Last time I,knew it was down 2 billion. Now its 4 billion.
They better change course.
They will have to fire the ceo, hes made his stand. Ceo Custer, and his last stand.
Hope it was worth it. Personally it isnt the sword I would fall on.
No they do. They are not going to spin it any other way than this.
Besides even if Hayley did write it different, there are several layers of editors that can and do easily alter stories the way they want them.
The stock was lower than this 3 months ago. A notable dip of late, but hardly “lynch the CEO” performance.
I really think there is a new opportunity for an entrepreneur - a guy joins the local gym. Signs up as a female. Hangs out in the ladies locker room. Volunteers to cancel his membership for $5,000. Or sue 'Curves' when they deny him membership.
The board needs to act soon. And invite the Salvation Army back for Christmas. I used to love Target, but haven't been in years.
That’s true (see left side of this 3 month chart), investors like consistency and $10 per share “downs” are not viewed the same was a “ups” are. Looks like they will report misses on both revenue and earnings this week, and the stock price is reflecting that more than the impact of customer frustration over the bathroom policy. But it doesn’t help, especially as more people put into the news cycle at a time when the CEO wants to focus on other things.
Turn your back on your customers, they turn their backs to you.
They have the right to run their businesses the way they want, we have the right to tell them to go ...
http://www.retailingtoday.com/article/jcpenneys-chief-marketing-officer-resigns
Proverbs 26:11 As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly.
These CEOs make too much money to keep shooting themselves in the foot with their shareholders and customers.
That probably comes to $40,000,000 per transgender who has ever shopped there.
How’s that working out for ya, Target?
I think Target is a great place for the .03 percenters. They have plenty of money, and they should all shop there, though it does mean inventory expansion into all things “Binary Neutral” and kinky for Target.
“Target opened at $73-ish and is up to $75 today...”
Just a temporary uptick in a stock that is trending down.
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