perhaps a reason why they're doing this:
the dayton family owns target.
mark dayton was elected to the u.s. senate in 2000.
he's one of the most liberal members of the u.s. senate.
Lets clear this up finally about Target and their ownership.
Target is a publicly traded company on the NYSE. Trade Symbol is TGT. Yes, the Dayton family originally started Target. The current CEO of Target is Bob Ulrich. The Dayton family has no members on the Board of Directors. I own a couple hundred shares of Target through my 401k that I still have when worked there.
When I worked at Target a number of years ago, there were times when the Girl Scouts were selling their cookies on Target property. I had to tell them that they could not sell the Girl Scout Cookies on Target property. Target has had a no soliciting policy for years. The unions are one big reason for the no soliciting policy.
One quick thing about the United Way, The Salvation Army also receives money from The United Way. You can ask in your United Way contribution to have your money go to a specific organization that receives United Way money, such as The Salvation Army, etc.
Dayton no longer owns Target or is affiliated . he's not even on their board of directors...
Here's one location, banned from Target but not Walmart:
http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2575555&nav=0nqxTD2Z
Here's another reporting kettles at Walmart:
http://web.theparisnews.com/story.lasso?wcd=16771
Zapped at Target, still at Walmart:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNNews/News/041119a.asp
Here are some reasons Target won't give you, but may be
the real reasons why...
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--Salvation Army mission statement
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http://speakout.com/activism/apstories/9932-1.html
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http://archive.datalounge.com/datalounge/news/record.html?record=15751