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Target has stunned its employees by suddenly shutting down two big innovation projects
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Posted on 02/04/2017 3:00:52 PM PST by ISTHISONETAKEN

In the wake of a holiday season that was worse than the company expected, Target has decided to cut two of its most ambitious long-term projects before either even got off the ground, according to multiple sources.

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To: Mears

That’s funny, but I just can’t stand being around so many “unsavory types”...


41 posted on 02/04/2017 3:47:47 PM PST by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: Drew68

I’m not going to Ask.

If they haven’t made a public statement like Target, chance are they don’t have an insane policy. I NEVER have used a bathroom in a store.

If other companies had done it, we would have heard about it, believe me.

Unless you can list them.


42 posted on 02/04/2017 3:48:28 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: HarleyLady27

I shopped Target on occasion in the past. I boycotted them when they started their crazy crap.

The occasion has never arrived but if in the future I and my grandaughter are in a place that allows transgendered to go into the ladies room, I am going with her and managment can kiss my ass and I am straight. I love my granddaughter and “woe be to he that tries to abuse her.”


43 posted on 02/04/2017 3:48:34 PM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist, THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR.)
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To: Timpanagos1

That’s not gonna happen for me.

I boycotted Target but the fact is the Vast majority of major stores and companies lean left.

I’m going to keep using Amazon Prime and drinking Coke.

It works both ways. The lines in liberal Manhattan for Chick Fil A are blocks and blocks long.


44 posted on 02/04/2017 3:51:44 PM PST by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: ISTHISONETAKEN

Those are both terrible projects. Self showrooming is a moving backwards. And competing with Amazon Marketplace is just asking to lose. Axing them was the right move, letting them get past the proposal state was the wrong move.


45 posted on 02/04/2017 3:52:35 PM PST by discostu (Alright you primative screwheads, listen up!)
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To: faithhopecharity

Plus bunch of Chinese junk plus banned Salvation Army bell ringers. I haven’t been there in years.


46 posted on 02/04/2017 3:54:43 PM PST by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: eyedigress

Amusingly, there’s a Target in Grand Rapids (MI) right next door to a Cabela’s.


47 posted on 02/04/2017 4:04:46 PM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: TexasGator
Amazon CEO Bezos is supporting the anti-Trump lawsuits.

Boycotting Amazon actually helps them. They lose money on merchandise sales. Haven't made a profit there for 20 years. I order truly low cost/price items, one at a time, with free shipping. The more I buy, the more they lose.

48 posted on 02/04/2017 4:07:58 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: ISTHISONETAKEN

Target used to be a good business but has been gradually going the way of Sears. With their history of losing customer sensitive financial data you’d think they’d want to accept Apple Pay (the gold standard of security for the customers’ payment/personal data) but they refuse. I stopped shopping at Target some time ago.


49 posted on 02/04/2017 4:08:19 PM PST by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: rb22982

BINGO. Amazon is for browsing only for me. I want to fell and check out out stuff before I buy. Returning takes less time also. I want Mom and Pop’s stores!


50 posted on 02/04/2017 4:09:28 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda�Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: ISTHISONETAKEN

Doesn’t matter if they admit it because, guess what? It happened!!!! Winning! Conservatives need to stop going to the movies and Starbucks, too.


51 posted on 02/04/2017 4:16:10 PM PST by FrdmLvr ("A is A. A thing is what it is." Ayn Rand)
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To: ISTHISONETAKEN

Just this week I thought about stopping at Target to pick up a few things, but I didn’t because they suck.


52 posted on 02/04/2017 4:17:54 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: ASA Vet
Any boycott when you "cut off your nose to spite your face" will not work.

During my career as a wage slave,I lived 75 miles from any large brick and mortar store. Amazon was great and they kept giving us free stuff. (My Amazon Prime is good until 2019.) Now in my new career as bumloafer/bad fisherman I have brick and mortars within 7 or 8 miles and don't use Amazon at all.

Point being: Amazon's profits depend on urban areas. Here instant gratification is your friend.

53 posted on 02/04/2017 4:18:12 PM PST by SanchoP (“Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable." - JFK)
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To: FatherofFive

“Boycotting Amazon actually helps them. They lose money on merchandise sales. Haven’t made a profit there for 20 years. I order truly low cost/price items, one at a time, with free shipping. The more I buy, the more they lose. “

Actually, you don’t understand the Amazon business model.


54 posted on 02/04/2017 4:22:44 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: Drew68

Yes, but Target shoved it in our faces.


55 posted on 02/04/2017 4:24:05 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: TexasGator
Actually, you don’t understand the Amazon business model.

They lose money on every sale - They make it up in volume?

56 posted on 02/04/2017 4:25:15 PM PST by FatherofFive (Islam is EVIL and needs to be eradicated)
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To: RegulatorCountry

The latest ad on the inside cover of the February issue of Family Circle has put Ikea off my list.
(Cripes! The whole magazine was a barf alert. I just wanted to look at recipes before having my teeth cleaned.)


57 posted on 02/04/2017 4:27:07 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: smileyface

Didn’t mean to imply that IKEA was really any better on the political front, but they do have a knack for creating good-looking consumer goods for an attractive price.


58 posted on 02/04/2017 4:28:42 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Surrounded_too

Those percentages will differ based upon locale.


59 posted on 02/04/2017 4:29:12 PM PST by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA!)
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To: smileyface

Corporations love gays because they tend to have more disposable income.


60 posted on 02/04/2017 4:30:17 PM PST by dfwgator
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