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Target to spend $20 million on private bathrooms after customer revolt
MarketWatch ^ | August 17, 2016

Posted on 08/17/2016 1:03:36 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Target Corp. said it will spend $20 million to add a private bathroom to each of its stores by next year, following customer protests over its policy allowing transgender individuals to use whichever restroom corresponds with their gender identity.

Target’s finance chief Cathy Smith said the move is a response to feedback from customers voicing displeasure over the company’s bathroom policy. She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales. CEO Brian Cornell had promised to roll out family restrooms earlier this year and defended the company’s stance on diversity.

Protests started at Target stores after the retailer announced in April that it welcomed transgender employees and guests to use the restroom or fitting room that corresponded with their gender identity. “Everyone deserves to feel they belong,” the company wrote on its website.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: boycott; homosexualagenda; retail; target; unisex
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To: TomServo

I agree with you. They shot themselves in the foot. Why else would they be trying to correct it by adding a 3rd bathroom. That ought to be a shitte show!


41 posted on 08/17/2016 1:49:49 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Like the old song says: “too much, too little, too late to ever try again.”


42 posted on 08/17/2016 1:56:25 PM PDT by pinkandgreenmom
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Alot of those bell ringers are doing community service for crimes, and i frankly do not trust them.


43 posted on 08/17/2016 1:57:12 PM PDT by ronniesgal ( Go Trump!!! Kick ass and take names!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I took a look inside a Target store a month or so ago. Pretty quiet compared to a year ago.


44 posted on 08/17/2016 1:57:25 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte ("Political Correctness is communist propaganda writ small" - Theodore Dalrymple)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“...CEO Brian Cornell had promised to roll out family restrooms earlier this year and defended the company’s stance on diversity...”

Yeah, you go on and keep defending that stance, Bri-Bri... while your company goes bankrupt.

Take that stand!!! Make a Difference!!!


45 posted on 08/17/2016 1:58:21 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: TomServo

I take it that expletives are now allowed on FR. I’m seeing it everyday now.


46 posted on 08/17/2016 2:00:45 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Private dressing rooms as well?


47 posted on 08/17/2016 2:08:48 PM PDT by rbbeachkid (Get out of its way and small business can fix the economy.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The private bathrooms will be nothing but a continuing symbol of their love of the gay community. A reminder never to shop there again.


48 posted on 08/17/2016 2:09:18 PM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
I recently went to my local Target to return something. While in Target, I asked a male employee if they had any more of the coffee on sale in the stockroom (at an unbelievable price), because the shelf was empty. He grumbled something unintelligible but nasty (from the tone of his voice) and went back to putting cans on a shelf. Wow. Another employee went out of his way to help me. He didn't find the coffee, so he recommended I go to Customer Service and get a raincheck, which I did. The young man behind the counter was fooling with his cell phone and didn't even see me walk up at first. Then while listening to me explain I wanted a rain check for the coffee, he was STILL looking down at his phone. I let him have it about a time and place to fool with his phone, and that while talking to me WASN'T the time. He reluctantly put it away to print out my raincheck. I have never had that sort of experience before at Target. I guess their ill fortunes have prompted them to lower their standards in hiring new personnel. If it were up to me, these 2 winners would be EX-personnel.

As for their restrooms, I personally have never had any weirdo-in-the-bathroom problem---yet. In the event that it should happen, I would drop kick the weirdo across the room. I do not hold with people "confused about their gender" nonsense. If you are confused, just look down.

49 posted on 08/17/2016 2:16:05 PM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Verbosus

I won’t shop in Target!! Bye Bye


50 posted on 08/17/2016 2:17:37 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Have you ever been assaulted by the homo class? They lock the men’s room door and have at you. You or your son, may fight for your life, but you’ll never be the same. Obama knows, believe me.


51 posted on 08/17/2016 2:23:04 PM PDT by Rapscallion (America can restore itself. It is our nature to do so.)
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To: Rapscallion

The above is not hate speech.


52 posted on 08/17/2016 2:23:59 PM PDT by Rapscallion (America can restore itself. It is our nature to do so.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Target is dying before our eyes. Who’d have thought that Target would be the next Sears or JCPenney. That’s what terrible management decisions do to an otherwise viable company. I for one haven’t been back and won’t go back.


53 posted on 08/17/2016 2:25:49 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales.

Of course not. That is why you are going to the expense of putting new bathrooms in every store.

54 posted on 08/17/2016 2:28:08 PM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: EinNYC

... If you are confused, just look down....

Yep.


55 posted on 08/17/2016 2:32:17 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too little, too late.


56 posted on 08/17/2016 2:32:43 PM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Men, Woman, It


57 posted on 08/17/2016 2:42:06 PM PDT by woodenickel
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Why, they are in the process of going out of business just like K-Mart. They have cancelled their sponsorship of Ganassi Racing, which is a big deal!


58 posted on 08/17/2016 2:43:06 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

First of all, if I were a stockholder, I would be ticked off that this CEO is wasting $20 million of what should be stockholder earnings in an attempt to quell the revolt of Target’s customers.

That being said, if we were still shopping at Target, I would be boycotting them due to their outrageous rest room decision. However, we cannot boycott Target because over one year ago, as I was sitting down in my favorite chair watching TV and in the process of eating an ice cream cone purchased at our local Target, I noticed that the ice cream did not look right and tasted “funny”. I pulled the packaging box out, looked at the date only to discover that the expiration date was one year ago.

My wife wrote to Target customer service advising of our experience and dissatisfaction. Guess what? She never got a reply. That was the end of Target for us.


59 posted on 08/17/2016 2:49:40 PM PDT by CdMGuy
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To: Verbosus

They’re avoiding that question.


60 posted on 08/17/2016 2:54:14 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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