Posted on 05/19/2016 4:58:56 PM PDT by sparklite2
A number of conservative groups started an anti-Target protest in the wake of the chain’s April 19 statement that transgender customers in its North Carolina stores could use restrooms and fitting rooms of the gender they identify with.
“We observed a noticeable fall off in traffic at Target during the last week in April and a meaningful pickup at Walmart during that same time,” said Richard Chmiel, chief executive of RS Metrics, which uses satellites to monitor thousands of retail parking lots across the country in order to identify changing business trends.
“We suspect the bathroom boycott which was gaining momentum at that time contributed to the shift,” Chmiel said.
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I am demonstrating. I’m not putting up with it.
I don’t shop there any more.
Waving a sign for an hour doesn’t do much.
I’ve got better things to do than wave a sign.
Depriving them of thousands of $$$ per year, times many like me, will make a far bigger impact.
Nothing prevents you from making a sign, and protesting a Target store. Please post pictures
The local Target is five minutes away, but I will drive the 12 miles to get my 4K TV elsewhere.
I’ve had several people say it is just the bathroom. I reminded them it is also the changing rooms, the school showers, the girls’ dorms.
We went “big city” shopping last weekend. Walmart and Sam’s Club cleaned up. Target took it in the shorts from me. Didn’t even drive by the joint. Too many tootie fruities. Picked me up some good new books at Sam’s and Walmart.
“We observed a noticeable fall off in traffic at Target during the last week in April and a meaningful pickup at Walmart during that same time,” said Richard Chmiel, chief executive of RS Metrics, which uses satellites to monitor thousands of retail parking lots across the country in order to identify changing business trends.
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That’s a cool way to get beyond the lies told by management.
Our entire extended family has dropped target. We’ve just got a few gift cards to use up though.
no woman (or girl) is safe there now
and
a lot of men and families are therefore also choosing to shop elsewhere
it doesn’t take rocket science to understand why Target’s patronage is heading DOWN DOWN DOWN
1 1/2 miles to TArget, 2 miles to a brand new Super Walmart. To Walmart I go.
frankly, Walmart is overall a better store for everyday items and certainly much better in their new grocery departments than the sub-standard food department at Target..........and Walmart has mostly lower prices, too
not perfect, true.....but a very good store and people who shop at Walmart know it (and yes, some like to complain a lot of make jokes about it...like Costco...ha...but both WM and Costco are really outstanding for the many good values they afford shoppers ....just saying)
NO!! YOU!!
In my area the “good values” offered by Wal-Mart were probably the reason why whites avoided it and opted for the slightly more expensive Target. Completely different clientele...
I buy groceries at a supermarket that fills up with Newark residents searching for food outside their “food desert”; I never have a problem because I go early. Any Newark residents there when I am are probably just like me anyway (working taxpayers); never had a problem.
I’ve never thought of any racial divides in shopping (aside from the obvious like Soul Food diners)
I do not like crowds and so avoid shopping big stores when they are full of people (of any persuasion).
so maybe I’ve never had any reason to think of any racial aspects. Walmart has many good prices... and definitely keeps other stores’ prices down, too!!! Target prices tend not to be as low as WalMart, and while they have some good merchandise it is just not worth paying more for a lot of it, anyway. You usually come out a lot better at WM, imho.
Costco is another great store (if you can deal with very large size bundles or crates of things, ha!). And best quick food in town, their hot dogs are premium quality (all beef too) and they still have saurkraut only now you have to ask at counter for it. $1.50 for a FAR better quality and much better tasting dog at Costco than the $6 or $7 restaurant cheapo Mystery-Meat hot dogs, ha!!!!!
I hear people bad-mouthing both WM and Costco all the time.
I just disagree. A lot. These are magnificant merchants... providing us with so many (mostly) good things at (mostly) very low prices.... a person would have to be a fool not to shop at Costco and WM (or some similar locally-owned store perhaps). And I doubt there is anything either store could do to quiet down all the bitching....people just love to bitch nowadays is all.
The only thing I have against Costco is that it wasn’t around in the 60s and 70s when I was raising my family. :-)
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Since their homo ads of a year or more ago, I quit Target entirely. Being in the hugely liberal n Francisco the nearest Walmart is like an hour away! But they got my business anyway. I just do an Internet order every month or so. I do not bother Target with my business as they clearly don’t want it
I used to go to Starbuscks 3-4 times a week but quit when they did the homo promo in Congress I go to Peets now. I don’t know that Starbucks misses me but whatever, it was not a hard change to make
What else? Campbell’s soup. They did the homo promo. I switched to Progresso And i do all the grocery shopping for my household
Ben and Jerry’s will never be in my home. I’d go without ice cream for life if I had to
Chase bank had been a good bank for me for years but now every June they run homo month ads on their electronic billboard right there in the bank where I have to stand there and look. I complained, twice.
I had 7 different accounts there but am down to two. Hard to extricate from everything without cooperation from a few others but have whittled down well. Have switched to Wells Fargo.
Well that’s all I can think of offhand. But I do my little part.
I guess the officers of this company don’t think they have a fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to maximimize profits?
Or is that core guiding principle out the window when leftist ideology is at stake. Rhetorical question I guess...
Wonder if there will be a shareholder rebellion down the road?
The racial divides in shopping are certainly present in NJ (and apparently in malls across the country as I read stories of “youths acting up” elsewhere). The Wal-Mart in my town is situated in a non-residential area (basically a swamp) between Newark and Jersey City, and draws customers (and no shortage of shoplifters) from both. I don’t knock Wal-Mart in general; it is simply part of the “new normal” designed to help people maximize the value of their devalued dollars.
The nearest Target is in a nicer area, less accessible to the shoplifting crowd; the people going there consider the slightly higher prices the cost of shopping safely.
My town has a Shop-Rite fairly close to a bridge to Newark (which has few supermarkets, possibly only one chain store); I’m surprised at how many residents here use another Shop-Rite a couple of towns to the north to avoid the “1st of the month” crowd. To me, any store is an option as long as I go early; I have no interest in shopping in a crowded store anyway, and when the crowd is a low-info inconsiderate bunch I’ll pass altogether.
I see. Thanks for the info. (Sounds like A tough situation.). Best,
Thankfully the Wal-Mart is in a non-residential area (one of the keys to their profitability - they rarely build on choice real estate). We just modify our behavior (shop early or shop elsewhere).
FRegards!
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