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Target's $20 million answer to transgender bathroom boycott
CNN Money ^ | August 17, 2016 | Chris Isidore

Posted on 08/17/2016 8:10:55 PM PDT by aquila48

Target, facing a boycott over its policy of allowing transgender customers and employees to use the bathroom of their choice, says it will spend $20 million to expand bathroom options at all of its U.S. stores.

Target (TGT) CFO Cathy Smith said Wednesday that the company has heard objections to the transgender bathroom policy from some customers, though she said other customers had voiced support. In response, Target has decided to expand its use of a third, single-toilet bathroom at all of its stores, which can be locked by users.

That bathroom can be used by any customer who needs some privacy, including parents with small children of a different gender or those who are uncomfortable with a public bathroom in which a transgender person is allowed.

(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...


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To: joshua c
Now that K-Mart is going the way of the dodo, maybe Target can rebrand itself as...

GayMart

41 posted on 08/17/2016 10:58:14 PM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: aquila48

What pressure?
I just will NEVER go in to another target.
Hell with em.


42 posted on 08/18/2016 2:44:50 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Go Trump, Give em hell BABY.)
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To: aquila48

TOO LATE, DUMBASS!!


43 posted on 08/18/2016 2:53:09 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: aquila48

Th obvious answer is that we stop labeling these rooms Men and Women. Let’s just call them Penis and Vagina so it doesn’t matter how you dress. All that matters is what’s in your pants (or skirt or kilt or gourd).


44 posted on 08/18/2016 3:21:17 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (If we had some ham, we could have ham and eggs, if we had some eggs.)
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To: aquila48
I was in Target recently and saw no trannies.

There may have been some lurking in the ladies' room or ladies' fitting room where I didn't go (being normal male), but more likely there really weren't any around.

Something about it being in a largely Mexican neighborhood perhaps?

45 posted on 08/18/2016 4:14:00 AM PDT by Salman
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To: Grams A

That’s nuts. I spent most of my adult life buying generic. But I always had some underlying suspicion that they weren’t all up to par (even though we’re promised that). Now I have less money concerns, so what the heck, I’ll buy Bayer Aspirin at Sams in a 500 tablet bottle - I can afford the extra penny or two a day it costs to take my one daily tablet.

“people will get over it” Target is learning that people who still have choices don’t need to “get over it” - they have OPTIONS.

A few years ago they had an ad for Hunchback Mountain playing and called it a “Love Story”. Since then, I’ve barely entered the store. Once they told opened up their ladies’ rooms to pervs, I was done. I have 4 Walmarts...plenty of options, and Walmart sells oil filters.


46 posted on 08/18/2016 4:26:34 AM PDT by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - AMNESTY)
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To: aquila48

Perverted store. Never again.


47 posted on 08/18/2016 4:26:56 AM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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To: pepsi_junkie

“Won’t work. For trannies it’s not about having privacy when you need to use the bathroom. It’s about forcing others to validate them.”

DEAD ON! In fact, it’s probably the safest and cleanest bathroom to use, simply because the cross-dressers won’t get near it, given that Target hasn’t changed their policies yet.


48 posted on 08/18/2016 4:28:17 AM PDT by BobL (If Hillary wins, there WILL NOT be another contested election, for decades - AMNESTY)
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To: aquila48

Here’s a wacky idea...

Why don’t the people in the 0.02% segment of the population use the small bathroom, and the 98.98% segment of the population can use the big bathrooms?


49 posted on 08/18/2016 4:33:15 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (The 2nd Amendment immediately follows the 1st because some people are hard of hearing...)
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To: aquila48

$20 mil for single stall hookup bathrooms.

Wow.


50 posted on 08/18/2016 4:48:38 AM PDT by moovova
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To: aquila48
CFO Cathy Smith said Wednesday that the company has heard objections to the transgender bathroom policy from some customers, though she said other customers had voiced support.

Dog whistle plea to the Left: We have to do this because those evil Christian bigots are hurting out bottom line. Please don't punish us further. We're still with you. Progress takes time.

51 posted on 08/18/2016 5:13:51 AM PDT by Hardastarboard (This is the legacy of Hillary Clinton: Death, destruction, terrorism and weakness.)
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To: aquila48

“Smith said there is no evidence the boycott has had any significant effect on sales, despite the 7% drop in sales compared to a year ago...”

Then why are you spending the $20 million?


52 posted on 08/18/2016 5:35:38 AM PDT by ops33 (Senior Master Sergeant, USAF (Retired))
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To: aquila48

neither I nor my family have darkened the doors of a Targay store since they turned their companu over to deviates!


53 posted on 08/18/2016 5:40:34 AM PDT by 2nd Amendment (Proud member of the 48% . . giver not a taker)
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To: aquila48

Maybe CNN Money should be talking about their ratings and how the Network came in 3rd Place for a 2nd straight week.

http://www.thewrap.com/ratings-cnn-loses-to-msnbc-fox-news/


54 posted on 08/18/2016 5:50:29 AM PDT by eaglestar
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To: aquila48
expand bathroom options at all of its U.S. stores.

Is taking a dump in a Target bag and having it Fed-Exed to the CEO's desk one of them?


55 posted on 08/18/2016 6:33:29 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: ssfromla

I’ve not set foot in a Target in close to a decade, prices are to high for the cheap crap they sell and I won’t drive 2 hrs round trip to one. Step daughter wanted Target gift cards for our 2 grands for BD or Christmas, I Won’t even buy gift cards for Target as presents. Just Amazon cards, they are 17 and 19 years old, they are capable of shopping Amazon with a gift card.


56 posted on 08/18/2016 6:39:45 AM PDT by GailA (If politicians won't keep their promises to the Military, they won't keep them to you!)
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To: aquila48
Target's Executive Vice President and Chief Corporate Social Responsibility Officer

1) That office should not exist.

2) That office was created to give a job to a black woman.

57 posted on 08/18/2016 6:43:08 AM PDT by NorthMountain (Hillary Clinton: corrupt unreliable negligent traitor)
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To: bigbob

Yes BUT, they are capitulating and will end up in less sales. heh heh And there is this: AFA.net - Target sales drop, stock loses $10B since boycott started...


58 posted on 08/18/2016 7:47:08 AM PDT by hawg-farmer - FR..October 1998 (VMFA 235 '69-72)
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To: aquila48

I still won’t shop at Target.


59 posted on 08/18/2016 7:55:56 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: aquila48

And the left said the boycott/opposition to the “use what bathroom you feel matches your gender” wasn’t real. If so why build single occupancy restrooms?


60 posted on 08/18/2016 10:35:51 AM PDT by matt04
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