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You can try to call me on it, but you'd be wrong.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1284111/posts

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"Target, which made an exception to its long standing no-solicitation policy outside its stores for the Salvation Army, decided to make the policy consistent, Brookter says.

"In the last several years we've an increasing number of requests from groups around the country to solicit guests outside our stores," Brookter says. "To be fair to all groups, we can't have any outside our stores."

Target notified the Salvation Army of its decision in January.

"No other non-profit depends on Target to make their budget or to their goal .... They have to find another way to fund-raise," Brookter says.

"Our relationship with the Salvation Army has not come to an end. What we are looking for is a different partnership," she says.

Brookter tells WTOP Target will contribute to the Salvation Army by donating merchandise it doesn't sell. Brookter also says some employees spend time volunteering for Salvation Army-related charities.

The retailer also donates $2 million to charities nationwide, including the Salvation Army. "

Target had been making an exception to its no solicitation rule for the salvation army for years, exposing it to litigation based on bad court judgements that ruled solicitors must be granted equal access to store locations.

Now they decide it's time to halt the practice, but continue making more donations than all freepers combined, and this is the thanks they get?

They would have been better off never having allowed the salvation army to begin with. That way you wouldn't see all these calls for a boycott.

Way to go, freepers - nice way to rewards years and years of generosity and opening up their company to lawsuits - by boycotting a good company that does more than you do to help the poor.

donating merchandise it doesn't sell.

Not first quality merchandise which could be used for Christmas presents for the needy, but post season, unsalable junk to save the cost of hauling it to the landfill.

Your "source" doesn't say anything about it being worth "millions and millions." In fact, if you read on down, total donations to all charities, including "national partnership" charities total only some $2 million. The retailer also donates $2 million to charities nationwide, including the Salvation Army.

I'm still waiting for you to source a legitimate basis for your comment.

Do the math. Target says it donates $2 million a year to "charities", a small portion of which goes to the SA. Last year alone, the Salvation Army kettles took in an estimated $9 million from donors outside of Target.

Target isn't doing the SA any favors, they are taking millions of dollars out of the mouths of the hungry and off the backs of the poor just to make a few lawyers happy. I won't support that.

You seem to misunderstand what Target gives to the Salvation Army.....

"The retailer also donates $2 million to charities nationwide, including the Salvation Army"

That 2 million is total...and includes the Salvation Army...not millions and millions to the Salvation Army. It costs the store nothing to allow these people to collect outside their stores. It is true that Target has a right to deny them the ability to do so....just as it is my right to take my business to another store that seems to have the spirit of the season down a little better.

I have figured up, roughly, what I would have bought at Target for my daughters and have written a check for 75% of that amount and sent it to the Salvation Army. The rest will go towards another business that allows Salvation Army ringers out front.

Oh, and I will not short change my daughters any Christmas...the donation is just above and beyond the Christmas budget.