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  • Targeting Che

    12/13/2006 4:48:21 PM PST · by Kitten Festival · 44 replies · 4,542+ views
    Investor's Business Daily ^ | 13 Dec 2006 | Editorial staff
    Business Ethics: Target, the retailer that distinguished itself last year by banning Salvation Army bell-ringers, has topped itself this yuletide by selling Che Guevara CD cases for a little tyrant-chic right under your tree. The big box retailer has jumped onto the Guevara bandwagon, selling the murderous revolutionary's image as if it had just turned its stores into Marxist rally stalls. What next? Hitler backpacks? Pol Pot cookware? Pinochet pantyhose? Target gives this monster a pass, while using common sense on almost everything else it sells. We can only guess it's because Alberto Korda took one glamorous snapshot of Guevara...
  • Target threatens to leave city (Chicago) if 'big-box' wage rule passes

    07/14/2006 4:02:49 AM PDT · by Chi-townChief · 201 replies · 4,993+ views
    Chicago Sun-Times ^ | July 14, 2006 | FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter
    Target is putting plans to build three South Side stores "on hold" -- and making veiled threats to close existing Chicago stores -- if the City Council mandates wage and benefit standards for "big-box" retailers, African-American aldermen warned Thursday. The saber-rattling is intensifying as the clock winds down toward a July 26 showdown vote on plans to make Chicago the nation's first major city to establish a "living wage" for stores with at least 90,000 square feet of space operated by retailers with $1 billion in sales. Minneapolis-based Target becomes the second retailing giant to threaten to pull out of...