Posted on 06/23/2016 2:53:59 PM PDT by Morgana
For the past three weeks, Target’s purchase consideration levels have been moving around the three-year low mark, coinciding with its April 19th announcement regarding transgender use of bathrooms and fitting rooms. This may indicate rough sales waters ahead for the retailer.
The drop in purchase consideration is not as steep as the one Target took after its late 2013 data breach. The retailer’s new low was likely made easier that according to YouGov BrandIndex’s consumer metrics, it never fully recovered to pre-breach levels in the first place.
Looking back to the first month after the late 2013 data breach, Target went from 49% of consumers considering purchasing from the brand the next time they went shopping down to 36%. Still quite strong numbers, but well down from normal levels.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.yougov.com ...
Nonsense. They’ve been crippled. Fools.
Just wonder....when does the bottom fall out?
The worst thing in the world any company can do is spark a boycott by normal people.
Target may learn but it will be a painful lesson.
Idiots.
(btw: my silent boycott continues).
Put em outta business.
After target said I can’t defend myself in their store, I stopped going there.
Let ‘em tank.
The Minnesota Twins paly at Target Field.
The Twins are easy to boycott.
The difference between a data breech and this is that a data breech can be fixed, and that many other retailers have had the same problem. So you could get those customers back. Not so with this issue.
Screw you, Target! You’ve got plenty of competition.
There is a Target in my neighborhood and I refuse to shop there.
Target hasn’t gotten a thin dime from me. Not one.
I’d think after 2008, the 2013 breach and now this.
We are nearing bye bye time for Target.
hey Target employees, if ya come with the right attitude and ethics and morals, I hear Chick-fil-A is always hiring.
“Put em outta business.”
Make an unmistakable example out of them!
I’m sorry, I may be old fashion, but you remember the rainbow wrapped BK sandwich? I ran into BK one day to get my order and I’m not sure if it was a male or female, it had large hands and a somewhat male composure but was dressed as a female.
I’ll tell ya I’m cheap, like real cheap. I almost threw the food in the dumpster on the way out. Even though the person didn’t physically touch but the wrapper on the sandwiches, fill the fries and drink. The mannerisms just made me physically sick to my stomach.
I do not go there no more. SORRY
Great news.
They haven’t gotten a dime from me since the bathroom debacle, and won’t get another. Period.
About once a month, my wife decides to try a new semi complicated recipe. Often, finding the products recommended require using Google search to find the products.
The product, I won’t mention it here, was basically carried only by Target. I could order it on line and pick it up at the store later that day.
I ordered it last Friday, and I went to the store about 2 pm that afternoon. The parking lot was full and the other stores in the shopping center had a high level of shoppers getting stuff for the weekend.
I went into that Target to pick up my order, and they had only 2 cash registers open and a couple of customers @ the checkout counter.
No one was waiting at the customer service desk, and I walked and got my order, paid for it in about a minute.
I asked the young lady how the boycott was going, she said that she and other clerks were putting in apps to other stores. She said it was very bad and depressing to work there.
Then, I walked up to the grocery store about 100 yards away, to get fresh produce for our dinner. The store was packed, and I used the self checkout.
Then, I drove to Walmart for my final stop. It was like the grocery store with every cash register open and doing business. I asked the checkout lady how long they had been busy. She said since about 11:30 am. I told her about Target, and she said that Walmart had hired some Target people and was considering hiring other Target people.
She said, the newly hired, former Target people, were helping that Walmart to add products to their store inventory.
Just one old man’s observations and not a scientific Ivy League study.
ML/NJ
I show my liberal commitment to diversity by drinking Negra beer these days. Two affirmative action points for every 6 pack of Negra Modelo.
No, no, it’s global warming.
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