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Target Just Dumped Its Pride Merchandise -- Here's Where It All May Go
The Street ^ | 5/30/23 | Thomas Lee

Posted on 05/31/2023 4:09:27 AM PDT by cotton1706

Target Corporation (TGT) - Get Free Report has decided to remove merchandise from its upcoming LGBQT Pride collection because of objections from right wing critics.

Fortunately, retailers have lots of experience getting rid of unsold apparel, whether by selling to off-price retailers like T.J. Maxx or Marshalls, both owned by TJX Companies Inc. (TJX) - Get Free Report, or just relegating clothing to landfills, which is not really good for the environment.

In Target’s case, the retailer will most likely -- and very quietly -- donate the merchandise to charities or foundations, possibly aligned with LGBTQ+ causes.

“I'm guessing that (the clothing will) end up being donated,” said Jane Singer, managing director of Inside Fashion and JDT Research in Hong Kong, which tracks the international apparel supply chain. “They can't sit in a warehouse because warehousing costs are very high. Also Target needs to get that inventory off of their books to free up 'open to buy' dollars so that they can buy new merchandise.”

“There are a lot of lessons in these recently failed collections for the industry,” she said.

(Excerpt) Read more at thestreet.com ...


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To: cotton1706

Meanwhile, they still ban the Salvation Army’s Kettle Drive at Christmas in front of their stores.


21 posted on 05/31/2023 4:35:59 AM PDT by rochester
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To: central_va
burn it

BURN it...and them!!! They're witches, BURN them!!! (Monty Python). No really, just burn the stuff.

22 posted on 05/31/2023 4:39:58 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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To: cotton1706
objections from right wing critics.

What bullsh*t! Typical of The Crap on the Street..

23 posted on 05/31/2023 4:43:04 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Guns don't kill people, LIBERALS DO!! Support the Second Amendment...)
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To: cotton1706

This is like before any super bowl when licensees (and brand pirates) will crank out two runs of champion t-shirts, one for each team so they’re ready to sell the second after the final whistle. The t-shirts for the losing team end up on some 12 year old mining lithium in sub-Saharan Africa or a rice farmer on some remote Indonesian island who never heard of American football.


24 posted on 05/31/2023 4:43:50 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack
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To: rdcbn1
As a tax deducible charitable donation. In other words, we will be paying for it.

Yup. And they'll be laughing their a$$es off at taxpayers while they do it.

25 posted on 05/31/2023 4:45:29 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: rdcbn1

To your point and from last year...

https://www.cpapracticeadvisor.com/2022/11/15/retailers-and-manufacturers-can-get-tax-deduction-with-product-philanthropy/73331/

Wow.


26 posted on 05/31/2023 4:48:19 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: Keyhopper

Ha! “Family Friendly” Target style. I still won’t go there.


27 posted on 05/31/2023 4:49:15 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

I’ll never set foot in a Target store.


28 posted on 05/31/2023 4:50:22 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Keyhopper; ViLaLuz

I saw no gender signs outside a Target dressing room a few months ago here in Florida. It was empty but seemed to be unisex. I didn’t ask for clarification. LOL.


29 posted on 05/31/2023 4:52:04 AM PDT by lodi90
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To: cotton1706

The goal is the complete destruction of this company.
Stay the course...
Shut it down


30 posted on 05/31/2023 4:56:28 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: rochester

Screw the salvation army....


31 posted on 05/31/2023 4:57:51 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: cotton1706

I doubt the Salvation Army will take it.


32 posted on 05/31/2023 5:03:05 AM PDT by glorgau
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To: rochester
Meanwhile, they still ban the Salvation Army’s Kettle Drive at Christmas in front of their stores.

That might have been a bad thing at one time but since the Salvation Army showed their woke, racist, and Leftist colors in 2021, let them be banned from everywhere.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/salvation-armys-woke-racism-guide-tells-white-americans-racism-is-systemic-and-colorblindness-is-harmful

33 posted on 05/31/2023 5:04:03 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: ViLaLuz
Are confused mentally ill men still allowed in the women’s dressing rooms and restrooms?

And will they still be selling children’s books that blatantly push the gay agenda?

34 posted on 05/31/2023 5:08:25 AM PDT by Allegra (Stop the Zeepers from Censoring FReepers)
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To: ViLaLuz

[living in America under judgment.]

Seems to be the logical conclusion. Unfortunately.


35 posted on 05/31/2023 5:08:31 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: glorgau

Don’t think they’ll take it?

You might want to check this out...

https://www.salvationarmyusa.org/usn/the-lgbtq-community-and-the-salvation-army/


36 posted on 05/31/2023 5:10:45 AM PDT by mewzilla (We will never restore the republic if we don't first secure the ballot box.)
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To: lodi90

A unisex dressing room. What could go wrong?


37 posted on 05/31/2023 5:11:01 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: Allegra

And will they still be selling children’s books that blatantly push the gay agenda?
.........................................

Hadn’t thought of that. My bet is yes.


38 posted on 05/31/2023 5:12:20 AM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)
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To: cotton1706

Virtue Grandstanding can be expensive.


39 posted on 05/31/2023 5:18:07 AM PDT by bray (Dr Fauxi killed millions)
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To: SMARTY

I think there’s only one lesson.

Get woke... go broke


many companies have been doing pride events/merch for years with little to no pushback

this was different

the message is:

LEAVE THE KIDS ALONE!


40 posted on 05/31/2023 5:20:20 AM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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