Posted on 02/14/2025 6:55:05 PM PST by Libloather
Two daughters of the man who helped build Target into a national retail powerhouse criticized the company’s decision to do away with its diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies in the wake of the election of President Donald Trump.
Anne and Lucy Dayton, whose father Bruce Dayton and his four brothers expanded their family-owned Minneapolis-based department store and turned it into what is today known as Target, penned a letter to the editor of both the Los Angeles Times and Financial Times on Thursday decrying the change.
“As members of the Dayton family, we are shocked and dismayed by Target’s rollback of its Racial Equity Action and Change and Supplier Diversity programs,” the Dayton daughters wrote.
The Daytons, who have zero influence in how the company is run, wrote that their father and uncles “transformed a family department store into the national retailer it is today” with work that was “based on a clear set of principles.”
“They were excellence, a ‘customer is always right’ mantra and a commitment to the well-being of their community,” they wrote.
The two sisters wrote that they were “alarmed how quickly the business community has given in to the current administration’s retaliatory threats.”
“It is not ‘illegal’ for a company to create a business model based on what it believes to be important ethical and business standards,” they wrote.
Accusing the company of “cowering,” the Daytons wrote that Target was “undermining the very principles that have made their companies a success.”
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I’m also through with Target. I don’t miss it.
Oh, well.
Nor do I.
I’m also saying sayonara to Target.
Virtue Signaling is hard for rich white girls.
For some Libs being uber WOKE is more than a feeling, it’s close to a religion. A fundamental religious faith, that does not allow any half measures. These still deluded rich girls will never get why that attitude is being flushed down and out of most polite society. You just know they voted for Kamala, Word Salad and all.
Dudes still okay in girls bath room?
The horror, the horror.
I wrote the CFO a letter stating will never shop shop there again. You are correct, I will never miss it.
Nobody cares. A corporations duty is to its shareholders. Get woke, go broke.
It is too late for target in any case. Too many people have stopped shopping there.
Well, b*tches, I’m just as alarmed that Target and so many others went along with the DEI bs in the first place. They all should’ve told Biden to stuff it.
Daughters? Or “daughters”? Either way, Target will be fine. Yuppies gotta eat.
It’s no mistake that the state bird of Minnesota is a loon
Forced to go in with the wife a couple times.
All the huge pictures up on the walls are jarring. All negros.
Asked my wife if white people were even allowed to shop here?
Over the past 4 years Walmart has basically doubled and Target has halved. If these two idiots had any say the company would be bankrupt.
They are merely virtue signaling unless they give their inherited fortunes to people of color.
Which I plan on never darkening the door of.
Just wait till target wa,es up and realizes thst no, people do NOT want men in women’s bathrooms and reverses their asinine immoral policy in an effort to save the failing company
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