Posted on 12/22/2006 6:11:07 AM PST by mandingo republican
Below is the letter I got from Target regarding thier CHE cd case - I told them that I would start a boycott of the stores if they continued to sell this communistic item.
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Dear xxx:
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and feelings about the Che Guevara CD case. We have made the decision to remove this item from our shelves. It is never our intent to offend any of our guests through the merchandise we carry and we sincerely apologize for any discomfort this situation may have caused our guests. We appreciate the time you’ve taken to write us and will pass your comments along to our buyers.
We always welcome your feedback, so if there’s ever any question you have about our products or service, please call our Target Guest Relations team at 800-440-0680. We also invite you to share your comments whenever you visit a Target store or on the Internet at www.Target.com.
I hope we’ll see you again soon at Target.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Hanson
Target Executive Offices
Kudos to your activism success!
Didn't even know they had them. But good for you.
Great news. Thank You!
Che CD? You lost me, what was on it?
Nice work, yet I am sure there are a lot of unhappy high school and college students.
Why did you feel it was necessary to have this item pulled from store shelves?
Good for you. Activism works. Now if I could just get my local Whole Foods to stop running Al Gore's little global warming manifesto 24/7....
The sad part is that a lot of these kids don't know of Guevara's past.
Even as brainwashed as some high school and college kids are, I think even many of them would be hard-pressed to find anything decent about Guevara...once they heard about him.
I suspect Target's marketing department didn't know much about Guevara either and once people started complaining, they realized that they had stepped in a pile of doo-doo.
Oh, it's a carrying case for CD's. That makes more sense. I was having trouble wrapping my mind around Guevara belting out tunes from My Fair Lady.
Whole Foods while they have some good things is a joke - you ever see most of the people that shop there - libs with a lot of money - because whole foods ain't cheap - so much for organics for poor folk.
Most of these type of stores have "buyers" in their stores and they are the ones that bring in products that they think their local populations want and desire. So, the decision to bring this item in was probably a local buyer, a leftist on an agenda, or pandering to some lefties who wanted such crap for their buying pleasure.
I for one regret that they have stopped carrying the item. While many may think that you actions were good, and our intent may well have been, I am against censorship, and your action reinforces the Lefts view of what "Conservitives" stand for, and I do not stand for censorship, but let the market decide.
Tis type of action actually motivates people to buy or read something just becaussomeone is saying they shouldn't.
I am not saying this to offend you, WHO cares if people are offended? I don't.
So when someone on the right comes out with smething the left doesn't approve of you are okay with them having it removed from the shelves too correct?
I see "kids" all the time wearing that Che shirt and it makes my skin crawl. One day I finally asked one of them why they were wearing a shirt with the picture of a child killer on it. The kid had no idea what I was talking about.
His "Greatest "Hits"".........
I'm amazed that Target folded.
Since rock is dead (apologies to Roger Daltry), the kids have to idolize some longhair.
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