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Target to spend $20 million on private bathrooms after customer revolt
MarketWatch ^ | August 17, 2016

Posted on 08/17/2016 1:03:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Target Corp. said it will spend $20 million to add a private bathroom to each of its stores by next year, following customer protests over its policy allowing transgender individuals to use whichever restroom corresponds with their gender identity.

Target’s finance chief Cathy Smith said the move is a response to feedback from customers voicing displeasure over the company’s bathroom policy. She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales. CEO Brian Cornell had promised to roll out family restrooms earlier this year and defended the company’s stance on diversity.

Protests started at Target stores after the retailer announced in April that it welcomed transgender employees and guests to use the restroom or fitting room that corresponded with their gender identity. “Everyone deserves to feel they belong,” the company wrote on its website.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: boycott; homosexualagenda; retail; target; unisex
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1 posted on 08/17/2016 1:03:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales.

I call bullshit.

2 posted on 08/17/2016 1:05:42 PM PDT by TomServo
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To: TomServo

Their stock has dropped like a rock since they went pro-transgender.
Now, what about the dressing rooms?


3 posted on 08/17/2016 1:06:51 PM PDT by Verbosus (/* No Comment */)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales.”

Bull.

I’m sure they haven’t had thousands of dollars of “transgender” dollars come in to replace what my family isn’t spending there anymore.


4 posted on 08/17/2016 1:06:59 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I will never set foot in a Target no matter what they do. My beef with this is they would not allow Salvation Army Bell ringers a holiday staple outside the stores. IF you can’t recognize that the salvation army does not make money but gives all this to the poor...then poor me does not shop in your stores....Walmart on the other hand has Salvation army bell ringers outside of each entrance!


5 posted on 08/17/2016 1:07:03 PM PDT by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Put them out of business.


6 posted on 08/17/2016 1:07:23 PM PDT by Ray76 (Americanism, not globalism, will be our credo!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It is much simpler than a $20 million dollar problem. You just make these freaks with d!cks use a male bathroom. Screw Obama, screw Democrats and screw PC.

You either want to remain a viable business or you want to sacrifice your shareholders’ investments on the altar of horsesh!t. Take you pick you over prices cretins.


7 posted on 08/17/2016 1:07:27 PM PDT by Gaffer (fg)
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Didn’t they already have separate bathrooms?


8 posted on 08/17/2016 1:08:30 PM PDT by funfan
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Their sales must really be tanking. That’s what happens when you side with the pedophiles. Fire your CEO and we’ll know you’re serious. Anything else wont do.


10 posted on 08/17/2016 1:09:21 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Good. Let ‘em spend it. I still won’t darken the doors of Target.

They’re dead to me.


11 posted on 08/17/2016 1:09:53 PM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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“CEO Brian Cornell had promised to roll out family restrooms earlier this year”

Seems he’s still seriously missing the point.

Don’t treat your main customer base as a special case.


12 posted on 08/17/2016 1:10:09 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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bump


13 posted on 08/17/2016 1:10:22 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("She has destroyed more emails than I have ever written. But then, I donÂ’t do yoga." --Rudy Giulian)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Wow, keep digging. As if a separate ‘private’ bathroom will solve their PR nightmare.

I hope ‘diversity’ pay for their bottom line.


14 posted on 08/17/2016 1:10:46 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = USSR; Journ0List + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3460360/posts

Target cuts outlook, says market ‘difficult’

spokesperson lies


15 posted on 08/17/2016 1:11:06 PM PDT by UB355 (Slower traffic keep right)
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Too late. No do overs once you go subversive.


16 posted on 08/17/2016 1:14:08 PM PDT by Kudsman (Hillary has perfected the politics of personal profit and theft. DJTrump 6/22/16)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I will still not step one foot into their stores until they publicly reverse their policy and acknowledge that one’s sex (gender) is a biological fact and not the product of one’s imagination.


17 posted on 08/17/2016 1:14:51 PM PDT by Petrosius
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“Didn’t they already have separate bathrooms?”

Usually just 1 - enough to cater to the tiny minority of those confused about what’s between their legs. Now they’re going to build a couple more, as if that’s going to supply the demand for gender-segregated-for-a-reason-throughout-history egestion facilities.

Instead of “dicks go in the men’s room, no-dicks go in the women’s room, confused go in the single-occupant room”, Target is now saying “go where you want, but if you think objective genitalia matters then stand in line for the single-occupant room - don’t worry, we’ll build another 1-2 to shorten the line.”


18 posted on 08/17/2016 1:15:45 PM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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To: TomServo

Beat me to the call! Material impact? No, more like a loss that couldn’t be ignored. Why else would they spend $20 million? None of my money will go toward the $20 million!

Revolts will always get attention when the depress that bottom line.


19 posted on 08/17/2016 1:16:39 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

My target is VERY new with a transgender bathroom in it I STILL will not darken their door EVER!!!!! These DAMNED businesses NEED to keep their pie holes shut and just do business!!!


20 posted on 08/17/2016 1:17:27 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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