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I said nothing about your donations being bad. Try reading it again.

The point is, in case you didn't get it before, is that target donates both merchandise and money to the salvation army.

They get no credit for that.

But tossing a few bucks into the kettles of the SA a year gives you enough gravitas to let you criticize target as harming the salvation army. Even though they gave them a full year to find alternate locations...and they have been giving the SA the sole exemption to their 'no solicitation' policy for years.

The only thing the calls for boycott will accomplish is to discourage companies from getting involved with charities like the salvation army in the first place. Because they will see that no matter how much they contribute or how many years they help out, the minute they don't do exactly what some people want, they will cry for a boycott.

Way to shoot yourself in the foot.

Yes they donate to these charities. I work for a trucking company and guess what? What they donate are items that are unsellable, wrong items or damaged. Ok cool so they give to these charities, but what you may not know is this: they take their tax writes off on this. So they are only giving because they can gain finacialy not because they want too. Money, thats their point to giving. has nothing to do with REAL charity. How do I know this. I am the one who trucks the stuff into them and haul out to the charities, the stuff they don't accept. You would be amazed at how much merchandise is refused by target, walmart, home depot and others every day. Millions and millions of dollars worth of merchandise, Just because a box may have a corner dented (nothing wrong with the product inside) or maybe a small scratch. And lets not start on Food products. If you knew how much food is just thrown away, probably enough to feed the homeless in detroit for a year.

So Target giving to charities just has the Government giving something back to them.