Target Corporations Position on Solicitation at Stores
Target Corporation has a long-standing no solicitation policy at all of our stores. Like many nationwide retailers, Target Corporation implemented this policy in order to be consistent with all the groups that request access to our stores and to provide our guests with a comfortable, distraction-free shopping environment. Therefore, Target Corporation restricts the use of its parking lots and facilities to only business use. Target does not permit individuals (including political candidates and/or their campaign organizations) or nonprofit organizations to solicit donations, distribute literature, sell merchandise or hold events on our premises.
Life is tough, the rest of make value-judgments every day. It's called living. We don't throw up our hands and say "Horrors. Different people are advocating different things. We can't support all values so we'd better not support any." But that's exactly the logic of the Target decision. We can't allow SA to solicit because then we'll have to let in the PETA people, the satanists, etc. Wal-mart has gone out on a limb and decided that Salvation Army provides valuable community services and is run with scrupulous honesty. Because of that, they allow the SA bell-ringers while saying no to lots of other groups who would like access to the same Wal-mart customers. Bully for Wal-mart!