Posted on 08/13/2014 7:00:18 AM PDT by PeteePie
The shareholders should take the new CEO behind closed doors, explain the facts of life to the news CEO, and send him back out to the world to say,
“Um, we sell stuff. We sell stuff to everybody. What people do behind closed doors isn’t our concern, and we are very, very sorry we attached our name to this.”
“Please don’t have sex, homosexual or heterosexual, in our stores. That’s our position on human sexuality. Thank you.”
That is why locally owned businesses are the first on my shopping list.
I am willing to pay more from a locally owned store whose owner I know that I would pay to Walmart or Amazon. It is not just a matter of supporting local businesses (who also buy from me). Service still means a lot.
You generally get much better service from someone who owns his own business than you will ever get from a sales clerk working for minimum wage at Walmart or from telephone customer service for a national business that has been outsourced to India.
I always opted for the local Target over the local Wal-Mart because it seemed a bit more clean and less chaotic, more akin to old-fashioned department stores, in terms of displays and atmosphere. Wal-Mart’s junky “warehouse” look always turned me off.
I won’t be setting foot in Target again. That’s a vow. And I keep my vows.
Why would any business think this in the Internet age? I am willing to bet that every single product that Target sells I can find online for less (sometimes without having to pay sales tax or shipping charges) and have it delivered to my door.
If a store wants my business they have to give me a reason to shop there, and I can almost guarantee that they will not be able to compete based on price or convenience. A locally owned business with good customer service makes it to the top of my list. A national chain that supports left wing causes drops all the way to the bottom.
Until they go the way of JC Penney. I’ll take my money to Walmart.
Why do the people who run large corporations do such stupid crap in the name of the company?
Directly involving a company in such divisive political issues serves only to alienate large numbers of potential customers.
Yes...and they will let you write a check when you forget your credit cards & ID. I spend 100s at local fred meyer...but won't after the way I was treated this week.
100s s/b thousands!
That puts him in the running for “Smartest democrat in the country”.
Target is on the way out. Their stores look more like Walmart every year. Their immoral pronouncements don’t merit our financial support.
I wonder what percent of Targets food sales are on SNAP/EBT cards. Target is getting politically correct in order to keep cashing in on the government dole.
There was a food stamp related thread, on FR the other day, that mentioned Walmart as the biggest retail beneficiary of SNAP/EBT $$ (something like 18% of the “pie”).
Not sure what Target’s % is.
They know that outside of the couponers, the online shoppers, you have the low-information shoppers who would only be willing to go with some given store, kind of like you have low-information or stubbornly partisan voters who will only go for candidates of a given party.
Christians and others who are still repulsed by homosexual perversion should boycott Target and other stores that promote homosexuality. Pass the word along. There are far more than 2 percent of us out here.
I don’t know, target dealt me the blows for some time. First for supporting abortion a la Planned Parenthood, then there’s this issue. I don’t have any issues with people, I just don’t like businesses that flaunt their politics all over the place.
Why do they support homosexual marriage?
I will tell you why.
The Boy Scouts of America is why.
CEO’s everywhere most likely took notice after the BSA spent YEARS trying to avoid homosexual infiltration into their organization, only to see homosexual-financed lawyer after homosexual-financed lawyer bully, intimidate, sue and otherwise harass ANYONE who supported the BSA. They tried to keep them out, but the queers just hired more and more lawyers to attack any corporate sponsor who helped the BSA. They accused the corporate sponsors like UPS, FEDEX and so forth of “supporting bigotry” and other nonsense. CEO’s at businesses like FEDEX got fed up with the homosexual harassment, and dropped sponsorship of the BSA.
The ultimate result? The BSA caved to the power of the homosexual mafia’s lawyer machine that was systematically destroying the organization’s financial support structures. This is why homosexuals and their lawyers are like termites. They are literally DESTROYING anything they come into contact with through the bully tactics. The homosexual and his powerful lawyer bring only death and destruction wherever this sordid pair goes.
The average, normal man out there eventually gets married and spends his entire life paying for a household with a wife, children and their shared futures. Homosexuals have no such vision, and instead often have their life savings all to themselves. They are then free to use their money to hire powerful lawyers who then use any means necessary to harass NORMAL PEOPLE EVERYWHERE into kowtowing to their mental illness.
They intimidated the APA in the 1970s into removing homosexuality as a diagnosable mental disorder, and they continue to use their lawyers to sew the seeds of mayhem and backwards thinking to this moment in time.
That’s the same question I asked (rhetorically of course) in my parting email to Target. Eff them.
How about be balanced and reasonable. I’ve known plenty of businesses like Supervalu™ Acme, that do have benefits, but they don’t flaunt it around.
It’s not 3 percent. It’s less than 2 percent.
Target supported Planned Parenthood for a long time before this. It isn’t all forced on them. Their leadership is Blue-blooded liberalism that brags about it.
Yep, agreed. I don’t know how the economics work but I’m convinced that this “bottom dollar” mentality is nothing but economic quicksand.
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