This guy is giving advice to graduates...oh boy.
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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It’s in the nature of a left wing business to fail. They appeal to a fraction of customers and are intolerant of the rest.
I do not understand why companies pick sides in these culture wars. How can pissing off a portion of your customer base be a good thing from a business perspective? As a shareholder, I’d be furious with the fools running these companies.
This guy is giving advice to graduates...oh boy.
And every time you shop at Amazon, you're funding this.
"Come back to Target where your daughters and wives get raped for free!"
"Come back to Target: where your daughters and wives can be "discovered" as the next great voyeur port stars!"
"Come back to Target: Free transvestite and sexual deviants bathroom floor shows held daily!"
"Come back to Target: Experience the thrills and chills of being sexual stalked and potentially attacked and raped free of charge!" "Who knows; you or your daughters might like it, you never know until you try it!"
"Come back to Target: We will be watching and waiting for you with baited breath!" (Voice over done to the sound of heavy breathing/panting in the background)
That is all I could come up with at such short notice. Slogan suggestions wanted:
Imaginitive and creative Freepers please help Target come up with a winning slogan that will help put Target back on the map and get shoppers back into their stores by highlighting ALL THAT TARGET NOW HAS TO OFFER ;o)
>>> That’s what they should have done in the first place for their queer customers, install single use for them.
Said it on the first day when they announced their new policy -
keep the man/women bathrooms and have porta potty as single-occupancy ones. Much cheaper than installing/remodeling their stores.
This may say more than any poll about the election. This situation was caused by Target’s bathroom policy, maybe the straw that broke the camel’s back in how far the social envelope can be pushed. The Target non-shoppers have caused a major firm to cry “uncle”. Think these bathroom boycotters are going to voting for liberal Hillary?
Haven’t heard any news for the woman in question. So I assume she’s still thinking up new ‘inclusiveness’ policies for the company.
If ever she leaves Target for any reason, other businesses should avoid her like plaque.
On the other hand, she could be in Hillary’s admin.
Never been in a Whole Foods fitting room.
I have a friend that took the boycott seriously....BUT!....She goes there regularly just to pi$$ on the floor of what used to be the “Mens Room”....
Lol. No, this is seriously funny stuff.
I would never have come up with the idea.
“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”
What??? Not enough new LGBTQABCXYZ freaks shopping at Target to make up for the millions of regular people who fled to shopping environs consistent with the lifestyles of normal people? Hard to believe.
Come back to Target so your children can get free sex ed in all the different varieites of sexual expression!
Come to Target and get free gender identity sensitivity training - hands on!
Why did they need to involve themselves in politics?
19APR2016 they made their announcement in regards to their restrooms with the stock price being $83.98/share. Today it is $70.35.
Homos, trans this/n/thats, and hardcore SJW in positions of decision making. They planned to do this decades ago. One gets to be the head of HR, and they hire their own.
Screw Target, never going back!
The sad thing is that their sales did not drop at least 50% and put them right out of business. It’s good to see some decline, but why do so many people not care about the perversions that Target was trying to impose??
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