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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: ctdonath2

They have family bathrooms, I assume for people who don’t like sending their little boys into bathrooms alone (and for trannys). I guess they don’t care about females.


61 posted on 08/17/2016 3:00:48 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775; SoFloFreeper

I saw how Target, personally, treated their customers who made large purchases. It was pretty much “Thanks! suckers”.

Never, ever again.


62 posted on 08/17/2016 3:03:10 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
What is less money
Printing a Unisex sign
Or flushing millions?
63 posted on 08/17/2016 3:03:14 PM PDT by MomwithHope (Missing you /johnny (JRandomFreeper).)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales.

I just read a report that Target reported a 10 percent decline in customers in it's stores. So glad she cleared up the notion that there isn't an impact from customer discontent!

64 posted on 08/17/2016 3:11:36 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I have not shopped in Target since they intentionally and systematically exposed children to predators, neither in their stores nor online. I won’t be going back until they have new management, if ever.


65 posted on 08/17/2016 3:31:03 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Somebody who agrees with me 80% of the time is a friend and ally, not a 20% traitor. - Ronald Reagan)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sorry Target. This is not the same as repentance. You lose.


66 posted on 08/17/2016 3:36:52 PM PDT by SisterK (its a spiritual war)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales.

But they're spending $20 million to respond to discontent that hasn't impacted sales.

Riiiiight.

67 posted on 08/17/2016 3:40:15 PM PDT by M. Thatcher
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To: Oldeconomybuyer


68 posted on 08/17/2016 3:50:58 PM PDT by JoeProBono (SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
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To: lexington minuteman 1775

Exactly ! I haven’t stepped foot in a target since they banned the bell ringers .


69 posted on 08/17/2016 3:52:46 PM PDT by katykelly
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a “material impact” on sales”

Therefore we will spend 20 million dollars to fix a non issue.

Buuuuwaaaahahahaha, Did Odunga write this Press release himself, cough, choke Buuuuuwaaahahahah!


70 posted on 08/17/2016 3:53:00 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
and when that doesn't work, then what...
71 posted on 08/17/2016 3:53:49 PM PDT by Chode (You Owe Them Nothing - Not Respect, Not Loyalty, Not Obedience, NOTHING!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The transgenders and pedophiles and assorted perverts like Bill Clinton will sue Target and demand to be able to use those bathrooms too.


72 posted on 08/17/2016 3:54:18 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

TOO LATE, STUPID!!!! EMBRACE THE SUCK!!!


73 posted on 08/17/2016 4:04:58 PM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Too late, they went full perv.


74 posted on 08/17/2016 4:35:52 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

the idiocy continues because they cant offend the .1% of the mentally ill who obsessively wish they were the opposite gender.


75 posted on 08/17/2016 6:16:59 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: jsanders2001

I am tired of both sides feeling they have a right to use the others’ restrooms. for any litany of rationalizations.


76 posted on 08/17/2016 6:21:15 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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