HAHAHAHAHHAHHAHAHHAH!!
Target people, “and the like” (pbs/npr/NYT/CNN), voted for decay. Downtown MPLS was a ghost in 1978 - 1980, except the bank where a friend worked.
Another friend bought HEAD skis. The company existed on paper. The factory was shut down - nothing happening.
The area was in its first large scale economic crisis - Detroit’s rust belt.
The leftist-liberal “enlightened” having no wish to be turned away in liberal social circles, by saying something practical.
At a gathering, at the home of the inventor of Soft Soap, nothing practical - except the swimming pool and evening weather were pleasant.
My tennis partner on occasion, was the wife of the Honeywell VP. She was wonderfully smart and practical. Great gal.
A couple guys a Cargill - smart fellows. A friend at 3M - smart.
But the Hubert Humphrey, Democrat Farm Labor, Kennedy family phalanx for “managable socialism” - with “organizers” and elite liberals gainful “returns” thanks to their being exclusive managers - was the pyramid scheme that ruled.
Interesting. I like my local Target, which carries a nice selection of everything. Huge store, a mile around. During lockdowns when the gym was closed, I met a friend of mine there and we walked around the perimeter on the INSIDE where it was warm and dry. We had fun and of ccourse bought stuff while exercising.
That was a few years ago.. New neighbor in my neighborhood worked there, she said, and some kind of heavy metal rack fell on her shoulder, broke bones, she couldn’t drive. Target paid her $40,000 even without a lawyer.
She’s reasonably OK looking, had affairs with two single men who live in my complex. One said he broke up with her when she wanted him to pay her rent, the other said she hated his sweet big black dog and gave him a “me or the dog” ultimatum. He chose the dog.
Here comes the WOKE. One of her three kids is a trannie. And that’s absolutely fine with her.
Sounds just like Portland (OR).
Well, cool!
Maybe Walz, Frey and the Somalis can turn that million square feet of office space into a giant Learing Center!!!!
I was banning Target due to their wokeness. May - and I mean may - rethink that.
Years ago, I had a dream job offer, but it was in Minneapolis.
I passed.
I am glad since.
The Target corporate employees no doubt voted for the wokism.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4368420/posts
Sounds like a good investment!
Downtown Minneapolis is in its death throes. Restaurants and bars are closing and the office towers are losing tenants. The only steady attractions in downtown are the Minnesota Twins and Minnesota Vikings and if crime continues to increase fewer fans will be attending home games.
Mogadishu North don’t need no huge stinkin’ Target Center.
The Somalia party line would say it needs more smaller “Learing Centers”.
Redistribution of grift from large woke corporate grifters to small fry undocumented grifters of color.
They will be happy when it looks like Mogadishu.
I guarantee you, Target will lose NONE of its wokeness.
They will just continue to be AWFUL woke libtards, just now from the safety of a nice white suburb somewhere.
Its just the hypocritical nature of 21st century American corporate liberals.
“costs to escape its downtown Minneapolis headquarters”
Sears tower Chicago to far NW suburb Hoffman Estates all over again.
“Biden appointed federal district judge orders companies to return to Minneapolis.”