Target CEO Cornell to meet with Sharpton to discuss DEI rollback as civil rights leader considers boycott

CNBC ^ | April 17, 2025 | by Gabrielle Fonrouge

[Oldeconomybuyer]

KEY POINTS

* Target CEO Brian Cornell will meet with civil rights leader the Rev. Al Sharpton to discuss the company’s decision to roll back DEI programs.

* The discussion comes as the big box retailer faces calls for a boycott and a slump in foot traffic that began soon after it announced plans to walk away from some DEI initiatives.

* Sharpton has not called for a boycott of Target, but said he’ll consider it if the company doesn’t reaffirm its commitment to Black businesses, employees and consumers.

[No name given]

As usual for that con artist.

[woweeitsme]

I would cancel this meeting and WELCOME the boycott if I were the Target CEO!

[antidemoncrat]

If DEI was completely banned in the US would Al Sharptongue be out of a job?

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

Sharpton - Civil Right Leader

Yea, right.

What is next?

Jeffrey Dahmer - Culinary Expert

[ronnie raygun]

First mistake giving this lyin, racist scumbag, tax evader extortionist power over your decision as CEO, hell all Americans against DEI should be shopping elsewhere, screw target

[Delta 21]

[albie]

And Target has a very loyal women’s market to boot. Why the CEO is meeting with such a non player in anything is beyond me

[ridesthemiles]

TARGET & PENNY’S ARE IN A RACE “TO THE BOTTOM”.

[ridesthemiles]

SAME WITH JESSE JACKSON

NEVER HAD A CHURCH

NEVER HAD A CONGREGATION

[packrat35]

This is what you get when you pander to these types of people. The minute you stop they turn on you...

[packrat35]

I used to love Target. Clean, wide aisles and they actually open registers unlike Wal Mart.

Also they were never a freakshow and ghetto magnet, again like Walmart...

Why they ever pandered to the DEI is a mystery cause they are not Target shoppers...

[Libloather]