Posted on 05/03/2017 6:34:22 AM PDT by xzins
Why deliver signatures to them? Just announced the boycott and let Target stew in their own feces. Don’t give them publicity.
Now is the time when they need their customers the most and a large percentage of them have left.
Great! Then Target should just ignore those 1.5 million customers and the many others.
All is well.
They went form being outrageously over compensated to just being highly overpaid.
Target is a liberal organization from its board members to corporate offices to store managers.
Boycotts by Trump’s 62 million voters have had an incredible impact on Target, ESPN and other left wing organizations.
Sears and K-mart are withering in many locations; our local K-mart failed without so much as a wisper in the local news - they were just gone one day all closed up. EBT Shoppers moved to WalMart down the road.
I think boycott's hurt. The Hurt (Pain) is the difference in Target's earnings reports - they got hurt along with the rest, but they have been TARGETED.
It is the boycott. Target’s down significantly more than others.
I bet you also have a problem with Hussein Obama letting in hundreds of thousands of peaceful Muslims.
Just because the sundress did NOT cover HER hairy legs is no reason to discriminate against her. And just because the Muslims' KORAN demands they kill/intimidate/harass/rape/enslave infidels is no reason to discriminate against them.
I think there are way too many Homophobes and Islamaphobes on FREEREPUBLIC. We need to have more mandatory indoctrination classes as a prerequisite for voting. Can't we all just get along? (/sarc)
Did they call an all staff meeting in the Ladies’ room and tell them this?
I used to spend $4-5,000 there a year. All mygroceries, kids clothes, electronics.
Glad my boycott is working.
Also boycotted the NFL last year.
1.5 million signatures equal average family of 4 = 6 million people, young and old. It also equals many of their family members and church friends who just don’t get around to signing that petition. So, make it 12 to 24 million.
If the average person gets 100 spent on them at Christmas alone, then that is potentially 1 billion 200 million to 2 billion 400 million in lost sales at Christmas time alone.
That is not an insignificant number.
:>)
“AFA has been on a year-long effort to urge Target to drop its controversial store policy that’s meant to please homosexual activists and transgender customers.”
Target is screwed either way. If they drop the policy, the left will boycott them...and the right will still not go back.
Adios, TarChez.
“Not only was Cornell out of the office, says Wildmon, “he also disagreed with the way they went about it.”
If this is true, why didn’t Cornell fire the executive(s) responsible and correct the mistake?
The Target Board of Directors, legally responsible for the hiring of the CEO and oversight of the company, has 12 members other than Cornell. Management’s choice to engage in social advocacy, instead of operating its stores to maximize profits for the shareholders, has resulted in a significant drop in performance and loss of shareholder value. If the CEO chooses not to take corrective action, it is the responsibility and legal obligation of the board of directors to take action on behalf of the stockholders they represent. Target pays them over $200,000 each per year to represent the stockholder. However, the board has done nothing. Cornell is still in place despite the destruction of shareholder value and loss of customers.
Target is a prime example of crony capitalism which is killing free market capitalism. Look at the list of Target board members:
http://investors.target.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=65828&p=irol-govboard
These people are members of the elite 1% and are socially, politically and economically interconnected. Read the bios — they are engaged in progressive causes and organizations, are liberal politicians, or associated with companies such as Yahoo which like Target are engaged in social advocacy. They have nothing in common with the free market capitalists who built the US economy. Instead they are members of the liberal elites heading big corporations allied with big government. The fact this board has taken no action indicates it is fully complicit with management and even though its actions have harmed stockholders the board knows it is immune from legal action due to political correctness.
Consider Target destroying its relationship with millions of customers in order to cater to the transgender community, a group representing less than 1/2 of 1% of the US population. Instead of actively working to promote the economic well being of its customers and the American economy, it chooses to destroy shareholder value in order to be lauded by the media and benefit a minute minority of potential customers. The company ignores much larger populations of customers such as the 95 million working age Americans who are unemployed. Consider the favorable publicity a company such a Target could realize if it aggressively worked with American industry to source products domestically that are currently made overseas. Consider that such an initiative would directly benefit many of its customers as well as improve the US economy (GDP) which in turn would have long term benefits for Target and its stockholders.
The aggregation of economic power in large companies is destroying free markets and the economy. Target is a member of the retail oligopoly, a cartel of a few giant corporations that control most retail sales in this country. Its management views its responsibility to the governments that regulate it, the banks that fund it, and the liberal elite class to which its executives belong.
The only way to recreate the free market is to downsize big government and bust up the oligopolies. Free markets work when there are many competitors. When free markets are working, businesses serve individual customers and stockholders, not interest groups and causes.
Concur. Multiple members in my family. We have not signed the petition. We avoid Target.
Well stated.
`As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his foolishness.’
After the JC Penny flustercuck, if I were a Target shareholder I would want them horsewhipped.
Correct. Targets problems started a year or more before the boycott.
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