Posted on 05/16/2016 6:43:06 PM PDT by Morgana
In an attempt to calm the anger of the more than 1.2 million consumers who have pledged to boycott the store, the CEO announced the store’s plans to implement family bathrooms in all of its stores for people who may not feel comfortable in the traditional stall-by-stall bathrooms.
“We’re committed over the next few months to make sure every one of our stores has that option, because we want to make sure that our guests be welcomed in our stores,” he explained. “But if there’s a question of safety, I can tell you and others, our focus on safety is unwavering, and we want to make sure we provide a welcoming environment for all our guests, one that’s safe, one that’s comfortable.”
However, Cornell did not mention any plans to return to single-sex changing rooms, which is one of the major reasons families have strayed away from the company.
No one wants to send their 13-year-old daughter in to try on clothes in a changing room where a man who claims he is a woman is waiting to take advantage of the situation.
But Target can’t easily add family changing rooms, as it would take up valuable space in their stores, and it can’t go back to single-sex changing rooms without angering the progressives who pushed for this new policy in the first place.
Cornell said the company has faced “tough feedback” — which may be the understatement of the year so far.
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The stockholders are going to skin him alive.How many billions has the stock lost since this whole circus started?
Still won’t go there, didn’t sign any petition, but Target is off my list of places here I will shop. They don’t sell a single thing I can’t get elsewhere.
-—The stockholders are going to skin him alive.How many billions has the stock lost since this whole circus started?-—
They will give him a nice bonus...
They all will short selling their stocks and make a killing...
They have lost $4.5 billion in stock market value. They are a bomb waiting to explode. ONE -— just ONE child or women Rape and they will be wiped out.Adios.
Everyone on the right is chicken-s—t. A Republican can easily make a statement and nuke this issue to bed. Just simply state that transgendered people have no rights beyond what they already have as individuals, they need clinical and spiritual health, and that Democrats and leftist groups support jeopardizing the safety of little girls and boys. And DON’T apologize.
I haven’t stepped foot in one since the whole kicking the Salvation Army Bell Ringers off the property.
I thought that boycott was supposed to end them ? What happened to us ?
Did we get drawn back in ? This company and it’s policies should affect us as much as store policy of Benettons in Paris.
This comes not long after their venture into Canada, where they failed miserably.
I went in once - horrible store. I had a hard time finding anything suitable for a gift - awful stock. Awful feeling store - sterile, no character. I wasn’t surprised when they closed.
Okay, there is an obvious question of safety. Any idiot can see it.
After the comments from the PA “Governor” today, I hope it’s in PA.
Put it in Philly where America isn’t allowed.
Ok - so who is allowed in the family bathroom? How does that work? Is it a single bathroom with one toilet? If that’s the case, there’s going to be one heck of a lineup.
You and I can see it. Liberals can’t. To liberals making their political statement is more important than anything else.
Either target goes back to single sex bathrooms and changing rooms or they will be out of business. I used to like their stores but they are going to find out that social engineering and profits do not always go together.
using progressive cliches for cheap marketing cover has been a Target scam for years now.
Its actually an extremely risk proposition, as you never know when the silent majority will put their foot down on such nonsense.
Now their is push back - let’s hope this blows up in Target’s face, and it will teach all such phony crony-capitalists a lesson for the future.
Target is totally finished. They blew our credit card privacy and now they want our 10 year old daughters to see some pedophile in the TARGET bathroom!! CLOSE THEM DOWN!! Transgender crap is an illness!!
you....stupid......bastard!
Judy I posted that story the other day!!! All stores GONE in just months. I can’t freaking believe it. Don’t tell me it can’t be done, Wal Mart is kicking ass in Canada so they should have been able to do it too. This was very bad management and the buck stops with the CEO! They should have got rid of him after that.
-—They have lost $4.5 billion in stock market value. They are a bomb waiting to explode. ONE -— just ONE child or women Rape and they will be wiped out.Adios.-—
You sure have a talent for hyperbolic statements...
Push come to shove, if that does happen, highly unlikely, Target can deal with it...
It will hurt him, but they will survive...
You assume it will be just one rape. No. There will be more than one.
I called it here, remember that!
This is what happens when companies’ leaders think they need to weigh in on social issues. To my knowledge, no one was waiting with baited breath to see what Target’s store policy was going to be in the wake of the passage of NC HB2. Yet the CEO couldn’t wait to get to the front of the parade. But to what end?
Did he want to be the hero of the media? Hollywood? The LGBT community? Or maybe just get some free PR?
Whatever, he totally has misread popular opinion - especially among his core customer base. The shareholders are going to filet him - and deservedly so. He’s on the wrong side of the issue - both basic moral principals and safety, but also among those that line the company’s coffers.
A totally un-forced error that will lead to his removal. But you just know he’ll land a cushy job with another retail company, no doubt a darling of the left. The media will make a martyr of him, for sure.
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