Target CEO Didn’t Know His Company Was About To Implode Over Transgender Bathrooms

The Daily Caller ^ | 04/07/2017 | Jim Treacher

[FredZarguna]

... correlation is not causation

Had you stopped there, we would have no argument, but the rest of what you're claiming is mostly false.

Target has not "been in decline for years." In fact, Target began a nice little run that began in mid-2014, reached its peak in July of 2015, and remained mostly in a trading range until the last year or so. If you bought Target in April of 2014 and sold it in April 2015, you went from about $55 to $85/share. If you think that's a decline, please sell me some.

Certainly one can say that the record from April 2016 to April 2017 is somewhat mixed, but what one cannot say is that Target's stock has "been in a state of decline for years." Nor can one deny that the sharpest decline in Target's stock over the last five years occurred during this controversial period.

Correlate the data to what you will. My opinion is that the article is more accurate than your statement, and based on his facile rationalizations, I would venture that the Target CEO agrees.

[SaveFerris]

Ha-Ha!!!!

Target apparently is run by idiots in a lot of ways.

I purposely avoid them.

[SaveFerris]

Tell them:

1) Put on your seat-belt.

2) I wanna try something.

3) I saw it in a cartoon once.

4) I think I can do it, too.

(j/k - old joke from a comedian I saw on TV)

[taxcontrol]

I believe that he is now well past CYA and now into SMP mode (save my parachute). His behavior tells me he is on the way out, knows it, and is just trying to land as softly as possible.

[freedomjusticeruleoflaw]

The politically correct thing to do was bow to bathroom justice warriors. This guy is 180 degrees out of phase-lock.

[Southern Magnolia]

Reversed the BB and GenX--makes more sense to me putting "social conscience" with all the gee dee libs in the hippie gen and moving the tech uptick closer to the turn of the century. (I'm a Gen X, btw.)

The Greatest Generation - remembered for freeing the world from tyrants

Baby Boomers -Remembered for social conscience and changing the way we communicate

Generation X - Remembered for changing the world with technology and innovation.

Millenials - Remembered for trying to figure out which bathroom to use

[alexander_busek]

I’ve been around people like that. If one is cordial to them and can carry on an intelligent conversation, they automatically assume your politics are identical.

How very true... Sad, but true.

Regards,

[bytesmith]

Target is the first store we pass on the way to town. Very convenient but I will not ever be seen in one again. Not much further is Walmart and there is always Amazon (first choice).

[fr_freak]

The Greatest Generation - remembered for freeing the world from tyrants, and then allowing, supporting or even demanding socialism in their own country, the result of which was the massive brainwashing of their children in the socialist-controlled university and elsewhere.

Baby Boomers - remembered for changing the world with technology and innovation and creating the hippy movement, with its "burn it all down" mentality, which included burning down all of the values and morals that previous generations of Americans had lived and died by, such that their children, Gen X, were increasingly latch-key kids with divorced parents who were ripe for brainwashing by now fully communist Hollywood and the communist university system

Generation X - Remembered for social conscience and changing the way we communicate and allowing and even supporting the absolute corruption of the moral fabric of the culture to the point where homosexuality and other perversions saturate almost every aspect of society, creating a situation where a child is just as likely to be exposed to gay porn as the Bible, and, of course, being such wimpy parents that their children have invented the notion of adult "safe spaces"

Millenials - Remembered for trying to figure out which bathroom to use


The rot is deep and longstanding. No generation is without sin. The millenials are merely a product of their upbringing by Gen X, who are merely a product of their upbringing by Boomers, who are merely a product of their upbringing by the "Greatest". This long, slow, downfall of a once-great nation is a textbook demonstration of what happens when people become complacent, even just a little, in defending what is right, and how that complacency propagates over time.

[NTHockey]

Money quote:

“Target CEO Brian Cornell never approved the post and found out about it only after it was published, according to The Wall Street Journal…”

If he didn’t approve it, who did? Are they still employed?

[Chickensoup]

I go to Safeway, Amazon and the local AM/PM shop at Arco.

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Yeah, because Bezos and Amazon are really such good moral citizens...not!

Leftist totalitarian who promotes his agenda and treats employees like garbage in his warehouse factories

[cgbg]

You can buy one share of each of these social justice warrior’s stock and that makes you a shareholder.

Then you can heckle them at a stockholder meeting at your convenience.

Hint: kooky old people are considered normal. :-)

[Gaffer]

He probably understood cronyism and ‘business’ but lacked the one thing it takes to be truly successful in one’s area - real knowledge of the customer and/or product. If you can’t do that, you can’t do ‘business’ successfully IMO.

[PGalt]

Arrogant elites/social totalitarians disconnected from Americans ALERT!

[ReaganGeneration2]

Good analysis.

The whole decline stems from Proto-Marxist Frankfurt School drivel, which continues unabated.

[nonsporting]

Allowing men in women’s restrooms tells shoppers to “stay away.”

[TalBlack]

The CEO didn’t know? Then why didn’t he explode when it broke...?

[TalBlack]

The CEO didn’t know? Then why didn’t he explode when it broke...?

[Rider on the Rain]

Hijacking a bathroom discussion for an anti war rant?

[DAC21]

“Target CEO Brian Cornell never approved the post and found out about it only after it was published, according to The Wall Street Journal…”

Not sure if it’s mentioned in this article, but the one I read yesterday on the same issue said he didn’t approve the memo but he agreed with the policy. Fluck him.