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Target in a panic over LGBTQ merchandise outraging customers -reports
American Thinker ^ | 05/24/2023 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 05/24/2023 7:44:14 AM PDT by 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.


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: boycott; gowokegobroke; lgbtq; merchandise; target
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1 posted on 05/24/2023 7:44:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Awwwwwww. Don’t affect us any. We dumped them years ago.


2 posted on 05/24/2023 7:45:03 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉)
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Target CEO says woke capitalism ‘great’ for their brand and ‘the right thing for society’
Fox News ^ | May 23, 2023 | Yael Halon
Posted on 5/23/2023, 3:25:24 PM by McGruff

Target’s CEO said in a recent interview that “woke” capitalism is “great” for their brand and “the right thing for society,” but with the corporation’s image and bottom line at stake, the retail chain seems to have changed its tune.

Target CEO Brian Cornell made the comment during an interview on Fortune’s “Leadership Next” podcast on May 17, days before the retail chain became the target of outrage from customers and online backlash over its June Pride month collection this year, which includes “tuck friendly” women’s bathing suits for transgender people, “gender fluid” mugs, and LGBTQ rainbow-themed clothing for children.

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The reaction seemingly worried Target management, who took “emergency” action Friday directing some managers and district senior directors to tamp down the Pride sections in their stores over fears of re-creating a “Bud Light situation,” Fox News Digital first reported Tuesday, citing a Target insider.

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https://www.foxnews.com/media/target-ceo-woke-capitalism-great-brand-right-thing-society

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Gavin Newsom warns of nationwide ‘systematic attack’ on LGBTQ groups after Target limits ‘Pride’ collection:

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/gavin-newsom-warns-nationwide-systematic-attack-lgbtq-groups-target-limits-pride-collection

Target removed some products designed by a Satanist LGBT fashion group!


3 posted on 05/24/2023 7:45:04 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (We have no shortage of experts, who state things as fact, but really have no idea!)
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Now they're pulling merchandise, according to Reuters:

NEW YORK, May 23 (Reuters) - Target, which rolled out its Pride Collection at the start of May, is pulling some products from its stores after facing customer backlash, saying it was acting to protect employee safety, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.

Target Corp (TGT.N) is offering more than 2,000 products, including clothing, books, music and home furnishings as part of its Pride Collection. The items include "gender fluid" mugs, "queer all year" calendars and books for children aged 2-8 titled "Bye Bye, Binary," "Pride 1,2,3" and "I'm not a girl."

"Since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members' sense of safety and wellbeing while at work," Target said in a statement.

"Given these volatile circumstances, we are making adjustments to our plans, including removing items that have been at the center of the most significant confrontational behavior," the Minneapolis-based retailer said.

Fact is, not everyone wants woke merchandise and many don't want what they perceive as the gay agenda constantly pushed in their faces, as if the group merits special treatment. While gay-themed merchandise has been around for years and is eminently recognizable as a result, (with no problems, actually), there seems to be a reaction against continuously putting it front and center, seemingly all the time. Meanwhile, other customers are against the transgender agenda, given the recent mass shooting in Tennessee, the issues surrounding women's right to privacy, and the end of women's competitive sports. 

Now that customers have learned the power of their boycott, in the case of Bud Light, which featured an ad by a transgender activist whose schtick is mocking women as flimsy 1950s-style ditzes, customers very well may be ready to act again to send the same message to Target, and Target now knows it.

4 posted on 05/24/2023 7:45:55 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

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

That didn’t take long.


5 posted on 05/24/2023 7:46:04 AM PDT by Engedi
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I hope those reports are accurate.


6 posted on 05/24/2023 7:47:39 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: SeekAndFind

target needs to hire dylan to model their bulge bikini

if they dont

they are transphobes

hrc is not going to be happy

that target is moving the queer stuff to the back of the store

their esg will tank


7 posted on 05/24/2023 7:48:11 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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To: SeekAndFind

Used to be products touting a sex fetish were found only in the sleaziest of stores.


8 posted on 05/24/2023 7:48:17 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: SeekAndFind

They just had a grand opening of a store at the OBX Nc. Don’t think it will go over well down here imo


9 posted on 05/24/2023 7:49:22 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Since our Target is way across town,, I don’t go there anyways, beside their store sucks....................


10 posted on 05/24/2023 7:49:32 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: SeekAndFind

People are fed up with this LBTQ+ whatever bullshit being shoved in their face every day.


11 posted on 05/24/2023 7:49:56 AM PDT by wjcsux (On 3/14/1883 Karl Marx gave humanity his best gift, he died. )
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To: SeekAndFind

target is going after the children

big mistake

yuge


12 posted on 05/24/2023 7:50:02 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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--- "target needs to hire dylan to model their bulge bikini"

Batteries are not included.

13 posted on 05/24/2023 7:50:38 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: SeekAndFind

Stopped going to Target when they started letting men use their women dressing room and bathrooms. Target are made with a bunch of idiots.


14 posted on 05/24/2023 7:50:42 AM PDT by Halls (Christian, Conservative, Proud Texan, Patriot, 100% Pro Life!)
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When it comes to brand suicide, Target and the Dodgers are saying “Here, hold my Bud Light”.


15 posted on 05/24/2023 7:51:18 AM PDT by Right Brother
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To: SeekAndFind

Not going in the store.


16 posted on 05/24/2023 7:51:50 AM PDT by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: BenLurkin

I’m old enough to remember Spencer’s gifts was about the only place around that carried anything even remotely racy.


17 posted on 05/24/2023 7:53:51 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: rktman

The left never learns though.


18 posted on 05/24/2023 7:55:14 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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To: SeekAndFind

after facing customer backlash, saying it was acting to protect employee safety,


There is the reason they are pulling the product. Note it.


19 posted on 05/24/2023 7:55:17 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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"Since introducing this year's collection, we've experienced threats impacting our team members' sense of safety and wellbeing while at work," Target said in a statement.

Probably from the left themselves to try to smear the right.

20 posted on 05/24/2023 7:56:24 AM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith….)
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