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Target Removes Tiny Carts From Stores After Parents Complain
Minneapolis CBS ^ | 9/22/16

Posted on 09/26/2016 6:52:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

After a slew of complaints online from parents who shop at target, Target is making a change.

According to several tweets from an official Twitter account, Target is removing the recently added “tiny carts” from 72 of its stores this week where they were being tested. The change comes after a slew of complaints from parents....

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; retail; shopping; target
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To: Mr. Douglas

Target is following Sears into oblivion...


21 posted on 09/26/2016 7:17:56 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I thought Target had gone out of business...


22 posted on 09/26/2016 7:19:34 AM PDT by Savage Beast (Trump is the Resistance! Vive la résistance!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Tiny people everywhere are upset!


23 posted on 09/26/2016 7:22:10 AM PDT by ThomasThomas (Fools find no pleasure in understanding but delight in airing their own opinions.)
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To: JudyinCanada
I guess they’re scrambling for any gimmick they think is going to bring people back into their store

The last 2-3 months, my location has been carpet bombed with Target ads. You can't turn the TV on without seeing them, on most channels.

Interestingly, they're visibly geared towards women and children. Shows you what demographic they're trying to draw into the store, and its the demographic most likely to be affected by management's poor decisions.

Other than one time to use up a short handful of gift cards (I saw no point in *donating* money to them...) I've not set foot in a Target since all of this foolishness came out.

24 posted on 09/26/2016 7:23:08 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Drew68

As far as I know, neither Dollar General nor Aldi have publicly declared any bathroom policy. Haven’t heard anything about Walmart, either. Ordering from Jet is nice as well.

I loved Target, but I can’t in good conscience give money to a company that actively promotes deviant behavior. It’s one thing to quietly ignore the issue, it’s quite another to broadcast that sexual deviants are welcome here.


25 posted on 09/26/2016 7:24:23 AM PDT by NorthstarMom (God says debt is a curse and children are a blessing, yet we apply for loans and prevent pregnancy.)
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To: wbill

Spending millions on advertising will not bring back customers like they hope it will.

So, they’ve got three negatives going now:

- making a major offensive move to their customer base, resulting in plummeting sales

- having to lower prices to try and get customers back

- having to spend millions on advertising

I don’t see this ending well for Target.


26 posted on 09/26/2016 7:26:02 AM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Original Lurker

Same here. Target put a new store right next to a house I was fixing up to sell, so I ventured in a few times for small items. I really couldn’t understand the appeal. The prices, selection, sizes of items available...none of it appealed to me.

I think the biggest selling point is they are newer and cleaner than a KMart or WalMart, and probably in a better neighborhood. But all of those aspects are temporary.


27 posted on 09/26/2016 7:27:01 AM PDT by lacrew
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To: wbill
The last 2-3 months, my location has been carpet bombed with Target ads.

Probably back-to-school marketing.

-PJ

28 posted on 09/26/2016 7:27:23 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: Mr. Douglas
Stock is off 20% since all this happened. Am I wrong for enjoying it?

Especially since WalMart is up about 5% over the same period.....

29 posted on 09/26/2016 7:28:03 AM PDT by wbill
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To: Original Lurker
Tiny carts would probably annoy me as much as toddlers with their own carry-on luggage on a crowded flight.

I'm far more patient with young children who are pushing tiny carts than I am with adults who are oblivious to the world because they have a cell phone pressed to their ears. It seems every time I go to Walmart that some fat person is slowly ambling down the middle of the aisle mindlessly blathering on in a cell phone, totally unaware that there are 4-5 carts backed up behind trying to get by.

30 posted on 09/26/2016 7:34:01 AM PDT by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of incompetence and corruption.)
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To: Political Junkie Too

I just received two coupons for $5 off $10 purchase. Usable dates were two weeks apart. Desperate to drive traffic into store. Coupons just drove me to the shredder.


31 posted on 09/26/2016 7:35:02 AM PDT by Josa
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To: lacrew

“I think the biggest selling point is they are newer and cleaner than a KMart or WalMart”

I’ve heard it described as KMart with paint and pervs


32 posted on 09/26/2016 7:35:30 AM PDT by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Why would any conservative shop at Target? Typical of libs to argue pros and cons of a shopping cart. That’s a real issue that us conservatives are blind to.


33 posted on 09/26/2016 7:35:48 AM PDT by Wneighbor (I'm deplorable.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

What could go wrong? Aren’t children just small adults? Shouldn’t they be expected to handle their carts as responsibly as mommy?

The university-indoctrinated MBAs managing American businesses today are poisoning them.


34 posted on 09/26/2016 7:42:19 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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To: wbill

Re: Stock is off 20% since all this happened. Am I wrong for enjoying it?
Especially since WalMart is up about 5% over the same period.....

I’m enjoying it! But I really hate shopping at Walmart. I know that the Walmart owners have some big Leftist Hillary fans who are donating big bucks to get her elected. In the past the other family members supported Republicans but I haven’t found anything about their support this election. So, I’m boycotting Walmart as well.


35 posted on 09/26/2016 7:42:46 AM PDT by Nevadan
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To: 9YearLurker
Yes, it's all about parents saying no and setting limits. What are they going to ask for next, to ban the candy at the check-out aisles?

I raised two children to adulthood and never once did I allow anything to be added to the cart by my children unless I asked them to go fetch it. We also never, not even once, bought an impulse item at the check out aisle.

36 posted on 09/26/2016 7:46:13 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (It is a wise man who rules by the polls but it is a fool who is ruled by them)
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To: Reno89519

I interviewed Target shoppers for an MBA paper. They were upper income people who viewed themselves as the cream of society. They drive mid to high end cars. They appear successful. According to Targets published research their income averaged $75k. By looking at bumper stickers they are extremely liberal.


37 posted on 09/26/2016 7:46:32 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (`)
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To: CommerceComet

yes!!!
i like the people that bend over in the middle of the aisle, making sure their foot stool sized rear end blocks everything around it.
I will take little kids and their carts over this anyday.


38 posted on 09/26/2016 7:48:50 AM PDT by ronniesgal ( Go Trump!!! Kick ass and take names!!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

I should think it would be the people tripping over them complaining, not the purrents.


39 posted on 09/26/2016 7:49:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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To: NorthstarMom

I don’t like using the restroom at department stores anyway. It’s always slightly creepy somehow, like at the mall.


40 posted on 09/26/2016 7:51:20 AM PDT by ichabod1 (Make America Normal Again)
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