Posted on 08/26/2016 9:43:09 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot
Sin in haste, repent at leisure:
Target is launching a first-of-its-kind one-day sale to try and boost back-to-school shopper traffic amid a boycott over its bathroom policy. The retailer is offering a 10% discount on everything in its stores and online on Sunday. Target is calling the event #TargetRunDay.
It marks the first time Target has ever offered a 10% discount both in stores and on its website. The sale comes after Target last week reported its first quarterly traffic decline in more than two years.
This is what happens when you blindly hop on the social-justice bandwagon without consulting your customers, understanding their mores, or giving a damn about what they think. .....
Target's same-store transactions, which is how traffic is measured, fell 2.2% in the second quarter. Overall, sales fell 7.2% to $16.2 billion. "In the second quarter, our No. 1 challenge was traffic, which affected sales in all of our merchandise categories," Target CEO Brian Cornell said last week on a call with analysts.
Shopper traffic is falling amid a boycott over Target's new policy, announced earlier this year, that welcomes customers to use any bathroom or fitting room that matches their gender identity. The announcement triggered an immediate backlash. Critics said the policy opened the door for sexual predators to victimize women and children inside the retailer's bathrooms, and more than 1.4 million people signed a pledge to stop shopping at Target unless it reversed the policy.
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I to the OH
to the NO NO NO.
Too late... they are dead already to me.
CEOs who don’t live among us rabble often adopt the agendas and beliefs of their tony liberal friends at cocktail parties.
Perhaps the immediate and uncoordinated response by just ordinary folks to the elites determination to make us obey their dictates will sink in when Target goes belly up.
“The LGBTwhatever is a small minority. Why risk your customer base to accommodate the minority?”
No rational reason; it’s just what “Progressive” fool CEOs do: risk destroying their multi-billion dollar company and billions of stock-holder equity based on their personal vanity and ego.
“but why do so many people not care about the perversions that Target was trying to impose”
Uh, because most people are oblivious. Don’t forget that the majority of voters voted for obama TWICE!
they waited too long.. customers have already changed their habits and it will take years to rebound..
I did notice that. But it appears that Walmart’s improvement was the exception and Tar-gay isn’t the only competition hurting.
Ah well, though we may never know for certain unless their sales continue to suffer significantly more that the others, perception is reality. If Tar-gay and the anal-ysts perceive the issue to be a factor, then it is.
Personally I’d like to see the company crash and burn so dramatically that it seriously frightens other corporations.
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