You know that target donates millions and millions of dollars worth of merchandise to the salvation army every year, don't you? I'll call on that one.
Do you have a legitimate source for that claim? They list "national partners" as United Way, Red Cross, St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, United Negro College Fund, Hispanic Scholarship Fund, No Child Left Behind, and Reach out and Read. No Salvation Army listed here:
http://target.com/target_group/community_giving/partnerships.jhtml;jsessionid=KKCGRKDM524JJLARAAVGW4FMCEACW1IX
The also have a foundation giving only to local groups in the Twin Cities area.
Finally, local giving is limited to early childhood reading groups, family violence groups, and arts groups.
http://target.com/target_group/community_giving/local_giving.jhtml;jsessionid=KKCGRKDM524JJLARAAVGW4FMCEACW1IX
You can try to call me on it, but you'd be wrong.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1284111/posts
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"Target, which made an exception to its long standing no-solicitation policy outside its stores for the Salvation Army, decided to make the policy consistent, Brookter says.
"In the last several years we've an increasing number of requests from groups around the country to solicit guests outside our stores," Brookter says. "To be fair to all groups, we can't have any outside our stores."
Target notified the Salvation Army of its decision in January.
"No other non-profit depends on Target to make their budget or to their goal .... They have to find another way to fund-raise," Brookter says.
"Our relationship with the Salvation Army has not come to an end. What we are looking for is a different partnership," she says.
Brookter tells WTOP Target will contribute to the Salvation Army by donating merchandise it doesn't sell. Brookter also says some employees spend time volunteering for Salvation Army-related charities.
The retailer also donates $2 million to charities nationwide, including the Salvation Army. "
Target had been making an exception to its no solicitation rule for the salvation army for years, exposing it to litigation based on bad court judgements that ruled solicitors must be granted equal access to store locations.
Now they decide it's time to halt the practice, but continue making more donations than all freepers combined, and this is the thanks they get?
They would have been better off never having allowed the salvation army to begin with. That way you wouldn't see all these calls for a boycott.
Way to go, freepers - nice way to rewards years and years of generosity and opening up their company to lawsuits - by boycotting a good company that does more than you do to help the poor.