Target in a panic over LGBTQ merchandise outraging customers -reports

American Thinker ^ | 05/24/2023 | Monica Showalter

[SeekAndFind]

You'd think Target would have learned its lesson.

Back in 2006, I wrote an editorial at Investor's Business Daily criticizing its wokester Che Guevara merchandise selection, prompting the company to pull the merchandise nationally.

The Reuters photo of what happened is here. 

If that wasn't enough for them, and the old corporate memory is gone, there are numerous cases of "go woke, go broke" among other corporations that tried to foist woke merchandise on the public, culminating in the Bud Light fiasco, which could have reminded them. 

Or, they could have checked out what was left on the Target clearance shelves of Christmas merchandise marked down 90% and still not selling -- as my photo of the leftover gift wrap on Target Kearny Mesa in San Diego's store shelves shows:

Image: Monica Showalter

But noooo. They've learned nothing.

Now they're in a panic.

According to Fox News:

A Target insider said there were "emergency" calls on Friday and that some managers and district senior directors were told to tamp down the Pride sections immediately.

"We were given 36 hours, told to take all of our Pride stuff, the entire section, and move it into a section that’s a third the size. From the front of the store to the back of the store, you can’t have anything on mannequins and no large signage," the Target insider said.

"We call our customers ‘guests,’ there is outrage on their part. This year, it is just exponentially more than any other year," the Target insider continued. "I think given the current situation with Bud Light, the company is terrified of a Bud Light situation."

The insider, who has worked at the retailer for almost two decades, said Target rarely makes such hasty decisions.

[metmom]

Just read on Daily Mail, Target is pulling Pride Products in face of Bud Light boycott.

Too little, too late.

[Rennes Templar]

I was looking at new update app features on my Apple iPhone. The latest one has “New Pride Celebration wallpaper for the lock screen to honor the LGBTQ community and culture.”

[Eagles6]

Accepting and tolerating any of this trans / homosexual agenda is opening your heart to Satan.

It will not end well.

[madison10]

Same here. We left over their Salvation Army rejection.

[Labyrinthos]

and books for children aged 2-8 titled "Bye Bye, Binary," "Pride 1,2,3" and "I'm not a girl."

This is nothing less than grooming.

[BigFreakinToad]

Stand outside and protest

[posterchild]

A better ‘advertisement’ from a simpler time though it features shoplifting and minor inventory entropy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcMh6GZoFC8

[SaveFerris]

Come on, Target.

We’re counting on you to double-down in June.

[JesusIsLord]

"We were given 36 hours, told to take all of our Pride stuff, the entire section, and move it into a section that’s a third the size. From the front of the store to the back of the store, you can’t have anything on mannequins and no large signage," the Target insider said.

So Target's answer to customer outrage is to rearrange the deck chairs. That no work!

There's an old capitalist adage that's equally true today, "The customer is always right!"

I would tweak this a bit and say, "Customers who represent the majority of buyers are always right!"

[dsrtsage]

When I was young in the 80s, there were two and only two jobs that I hated from the start and didn’t stay long at. One was telemarketing. I quit that in three days because I just did not have the stomach to read a script to the elderly to bilk them. The other was the toy/sporting goods department at Target…I despised that job and lasted about a month and haven’t been able to step foot in a Target since

[JoJo354]

I never cared...

I believe more and more people are starting to feel the way I do.

I never cared if you were “gay” or whatever acronym you chose to call yourself until you started wanting special privileges.

I never cared what color your skin was until you started blaming me for your problems I didn’t create.

I never cared about your political affiliations until you started to condemn me for mine.

I never cared where you were from in this great republic until you began condemning people based on where they were born and the history that makes them who they are.

I have never cared if you were well off or poor because I’ve been both until you started calling me names for working hard to make a better life for myself.

I’ve never cared if your beliefs are different than mine until you said my beliefs are wrong.

I’ve never cared if you didn’t like guns until you tried to take my guns away.

Now, I care.

I’ve given all the tolerance I have to give. This is no longer my problem, it’s your problem. You can still fix it, it’s not too late, but it needs to be soon.

I’m a very patient person. But I’m running out of patience. There are literally tens of millions of people just like me that are sick of all the Anti-American crap!

I’ve always cared about life and all lives, but now you try to force the notion on me and other fellow citizens and patriots that certain lives matter more than others.

You protest, riot, attack, burn, and loot.

Your so-called “movement” has become a radical out-of-control bunch of thugs, criminals, and anarchists who are intent on destroying our country.

The masses have had enough! America is the greatest country of liberties on Earth, and if you don’t like America, then we invite you to leave. We are done caring about your misguided “feelings.”

You don’t have the right to enjoy American freedoms when you are trying to take that right away from other Americans.

By Anonymous

[Antoninus]

If they just pull merch without firing those responsible for bringing in the merch, they’re not actually solving the problem.

[Tench_Coxe]

Bkmrk

You can almost feel it nowadays.

[T.B. Yoits]

Posters are showing the merchandise online and some of it is clearly for grooming children for Gender Dysphoria and Autogynephilia.

Imagine a retailer promoting merchandise for children to push a mental illness where they would have a distorted body image such as Bulemia or Anorexia.

[JoJo354]

Very true. It will get worse before it gets better...maybe.

[Paraclete]

Target epitomizes the self-delusion of Godlessness. Unfortunately, our culture for the most part does, too.

[Vaduz]

When you play with woke it will bite you in the ass.

[Vinnie]

We left over their Salvation Army rejection.

Same here. We didn't care for the store anyway but that was the zinger.

[DrewsMum]

Can we do Walmart and Amazon next?
Or are those ok because most people use them?

[Jonny7797]

I think Target was one of the first to allow men in the ladies room IIRC.

Time for Target to go broke.