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Target’s Stock Down 5 Percent, Brand Damaged, by Public Rebuke to Pro-Transgender Bathroom Rules
Breitbart.com ^ | April 29, 2016 | by Neil Munro

Posted on 04/29/2016 6:54:42 PM PDT by Morgana

Target’s stock price and its favorability among shoppers are crashing as the public rebukes the retail giant for ignoring their vigorous protest against mixed-sex changing rooms and bathrooms.

The company’s stock was two cents shy of $84 on August 19, when it revealed it would not allow shoppers to use single-sex bathrooms or changing rooms. Instead, all rooms were opened up to anyone claiming to be of either sex. As of 4.00 p.m. Friday, the stock had dropped almost $4.50, down to $79.50.

That’s a huge loss of 5 percent in stock value, costing shareholders roughly $2.5 billion in company value.

In between those two dates, more than one million people had signed a boycott petition sponsored by the American Family Association. Public opinion also shifted strongly in favor of single-sex bathrooms.

The damage to Target’s favorability is also being tracked by YouGov’s BrandIndex service.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: bathroomwars; down; homosexualagenda; moralabsolutes; retail; stock; target; targetboycott; targetstock; transsexual; transvestite
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To: nascarnation

“Cleaner, quieter, nicer looking, etc.”
Not as crowded, either...


61 posted on 04/29/2016 8:43:33 PM PDT by mozarky2 (Ya never stand so tall as when ya stoop to stomp a statist...)
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To: Sgt_Schultze

Bruce Springsteen isn’t a man. He’s a gravel throat midget that pretends to be a musician. I fart in his general direction !

Snoot ;o)
Yes, I do know how to spell his name. Wouldn’t give him the satisfaction . . . . .


62 posted on 04/29/2016 8:43:51 PM PDT by snooter55 (People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do)
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To: kaila

They don’t embarrass easy. They have a mentalroblem, and usually a sexual fetish, about dressing as women.

I mean, big ugly people like Bruce Jenner, imagining that he looks cute and girly with his size 13’s and man hands.

He looks like nothing more than a man in a dress.


63 posted on 04/29/2016 8:45:25 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
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To: xzins

Jenner has now said he would like to try men.


64 posted on 04/29/2016 8:46:12 PM PDT by Bodleian_Girl (Before Bruce Jenner there was Mike Penner)
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To: Morgana



65 posted on 04/29/2016 8:47:24 PM PDT by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: Morgana

Target announcing they were raising their minimum wage to $10/hour on 4/18 had a much bigger impact on the stock price. Investors couldn’t care less about this other issue. Sorry.


66 posted on 04/29/2016 8:49:17 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Bodleian_Girl

Apparently, not as a woman. It’s amazing the level of lying and rejection of reality.


67 posted on 04/29/2016 8:49:52 PM PDT by xzins ( Free Republic Gives YOU a voice heard around the globe. Support the Freepathon!)
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To: Attention Surplus Disorder

Don’t confuse them with facts. They have a Lynch mob to run.


68 posted on 04/29/2016 8:50:25 PM PDT by Wyatt's Torch
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To: Morgana

Don’t really favor boycotts, but Target should be boycotted and made to pay a steep price. People need to start boycotting any business that caves to the threats and demands of narrow interest groups. If a few businesses pay a really steep price, the businesses will stop caving.


69 posted on 04/29/2016 8:51:19 PM PDT by Will88
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To: ChildOfThe60s

Yep


70 posted on 04/29/2016 8:52:28 PM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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To: xzins

I don’t know man. If you can tell it’s a man what do they do in the places that don’t have this Target policy now? Someone isn’t ‘checking’ this stuff, right?

In any case the women have a right to be uncomfortable with men that are cut up who claim to be women but are still attracted to women using their bathrooms. Businesses have a right to listen to their women customers, to whatever extent their reactions affects the business. Men who are cut up still have sexual attractions like men. Lesbians don’t have things like glory holes through bathroom stalls, or wide stances. All that comes from men.

Freegards


71 posted on 04/29/2016 8:54:08 PM PDT by Ransomed
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To: WENDLE
Exactly. After the first (and virtually inevitable) sexual assault incident... A million people not shopping there will be the least of their problems. I predict sales drop 30% to 50%, a lawsuit with punitive damages approaching the half-billion dollar mark. A walk-out by female employees over safety concerns...

They have basically tee'd themselves up for a devastating year. 2016 is not going to be kind to Target.

72 posted on 04/29/2016 8:56:32 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: DuncanWaring

I am old and not very savvy. What in the hell is SJW?


73 posted on 04/29/2016 8:57:05 PM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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To: ThunderSleeps

It is so obvious. I am surprised big law firms have not started a Webpage “ TARGETRAPE.com” They will when they read this. It will make millions!! I have never seen such a corporate suicide in my life. I can’t even hink of second place. All so sex deviates can piss in front of the other sex. You really can’t make this up but, for sure, you can’t erase it.It is over now at Target.


74 posted on 04/29/2016 9:02:31 PM PDT by WENDLE (TRUMP IS THE GREATEST AMERICAN SINCE GEORGE WASHINGTON!!)
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To: Morgana

No sales data yet.

The same corporation that banned the Salvation Army.


75 posted on 04/29/2016 9:06:34 PM PDT by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: ameribbean expat
Idiots. Liberal upper income customers go to Nordstrom’s. And Target ain’t even close to competing with Nordstrom’s in merchandising or customer service.

Someone up thread tried to compare Target to Kohl's and now you're comparing Nordstrom to Target? I don't understand the comparison unless you've never been to a Target.

People shop at Target for home supplies like detergent, dog food, groceries and dish towels. I never thought of them like a high end fashion retailer because they are not.

76 posted on 04/29/2016 9:16:55 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: Morgana

Stupid is as stupid does?


77 posted on 04/29/2016 10:04:52 PM PDT by Sequoyah101 (It feels like we have exchanged our dreams for survival. We just have a few days that don't suck.)
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To: NFHale

“Because there’s SO many more of them than normal folks, after all.”

That is what always puzzles me about these idiotic business decisions.

The only thing I can figure is, when these retailers that absolutely depend on the good will of the general public - Target, JC Penney etal - go ahead and jump the shark anyway, it must be because their top management has been taken over by LGBTQWERTY. Nothing else makes sense.


78 posted on 04/29/2016 10:12:14 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Farmer Dean

The next shareholder’s meeting should be a real hoot.


I think the next board meeting should be fun too. Every one of them just lost millions of dollars. Oh, to be a fly on the wall.

I wonder if the exec vp in charge of diversity gets the boot?


79 posted on 04/29/2016 10:18:00 PM PDT by joshua c (Please dont feed the liberals)
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To: WENDLE
I just google'd it (well, duckduckgo'd it actually ;) )

Looks like Social Justice Warrior

80 posted on 04/29/2016 10:37:31 PM PDT by HeartlandOfAmerica (How can God bless a country that's BUTCHERED 53 million babies?? Almost as many as ALL killed inWWII)
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