Posted on 02/03/2025 8:25:53 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Target was one of corporate America’s most forceful supporters of diversity and inclusion initiatives and vowed to support Black Americans in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder by police in Target’s home city of Minneapolis in 2020. But less than five years later, Target has dialed back its high-profile DEI program.
In 2020, Target CEO Brian Cornell said Floyd’s murder, which took place just 10 minutes from Target’s headquarters, had a personal impact on him and Target employees, and Cornell vowed to reopen one of Target’s stores damaged in protests against police violence.
George Floyd “could have been one of my Target team members,” Cornell later said.
Months after the murder, Target pledged to increase its Black workforce by 20% throughout the company over three years and take other steps to “advance racial equity,” including establishing an executive Racial Equity Action and Change committee to “focus specifically on how we can drive lasting impact” for Black employees and customers.
The following year, Target pledged to spend more than $2 billion with Black-owned businesses by the end of 2025, including adding more products from 500 Black-owned vendors to stores, and pledging $100 million to support Black-led nonprofits and provide scholarships to students attending HBCUs.
Target was honored for its “outstanding commitment to achieving Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)” in 2022 by the Executive Leadership Council, a prominent organization of global Black CEOs. Cornell accepted the award for Target at a star-studded gala.
“That focus on diversity and inclusion and equity has fueled much of our growth,” he said. “The things we’ve done from a DE&I standpoint — it’s adding value, it’s helping us drive sales, it’s building greater engagement with both our teams and our guests. And those are just the right things for our business today.”
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Maybe that's why Target changed its tune. It hired too many George Floyds as a result of its DEI program.
“George Floyd ‘could have been one of my Target team members,’ Cornell later said.”
ROFLMAO!
With DEI, he could have been. Target probably has many employees who were hired on because of DEI. They look like President Camacho’s cabinet on Idiocracy.
One of “his” “Team members”
So Target makes a habit of hiring drug addicts who rob pregnant women?
Get Woke
Go Broke
Brokeback Mountain 🏔️
It’s hard to survive in brick and mortar retail in any age.
In a decade or less Target will be placed on the ash heap of American retail.
Just a memory like Montgomery Ward or as it was known in my family, Monkey Ward.
Just because a company does this for a few years doesn’t mean it has to be a lifelong commitment.
Don’t forget Target being ahead (or is it behind?) the curve on the trans madness too.
The merchandising may have changed, but Target corporate philosophy hasn’t. BTW, is restroom choice at Target still allowed by gender “selection”?
How much merch have these dei employee stolen from target and sold drugs out of there.
Wasn’t Target one of the stores, which had swimsuits which helped a man’s body squeeze in , so his body resembled the contours of a woman’s body? It was targeted at so called trans people, who had not had certain surgical procedures?
gotta wonder...were they hiring George Floyd types to boost sales through in-store intimidation practices? heard a few target shopping horror stories that were downright frightening. the worst one was a middle-aged grandma being confronted by a nappy headed...well you get the picture.
They still have a gender neutral bathroom available.
Now whether we’ll see “tucking” underwear for toddlers this June is still an open question.
George Floyd “could have been one of my Target team members,” Cornell later said.
His team consists of drug crazed felons? Good to know!
I am sticking with Walmart. That outfit does not make a BIG deal about DEI. No Amazon for me either. I am 100% for meritocracy. It is the best way towards prosperity.
they lie, it’ll go underground. When white males (not gay) start showing up in there advertisements I might go back.....probably not. F them
The black hucksters have called for a boycott of Target now. The left hates any ally that moderates even an inch more than anything else you can name.
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