Posted on 09/26/2016 6:52:52 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Target is following Sears into oblivion...
I thought Target had gone out of business...
Tiny people everywhere are upset!
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.
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.
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.
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.
Probably back-to-school marketing.
-PJ
Especially since WalMart is up about 5% over the same period.....
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.
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.
“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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I should think it would be the people tripping over them complaining, not the purrents.
I don’t like using the restroom at department stores anyway. It’s always slightly creepy somehow, like at the mall.
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