Posted on 09/26/2023 1:00:29 PM PDT by NohSpinZone
Target said Tuesday that it will close nine stores in major cities across the country, citing violence, theft and organized retail crime.
The company will close one store in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, two locations in Seattle, three stores in the San Francisco-Oakland area and three more in Portland, Oregon. The discounter said it will shutter the stores for good on Oct. 21.
“We cannot continue operating these stores because theft and organized retail crime are threatening the safety of our team and guests, and contributing to unsustainable business performance,” Target said in a news release.
“We know that our stores serve an important role in their communities, but we can only be successful if the working and shopping environment is safe for all.”
Target, which has nearly 2,000 stores in the U.S., has been outspoken about organized retail crime at its stores. It has said theft has driven higher levels of shrink, an industry term used to describe losses from goods that were damaged, misplaced or stolen.
With its announcement Tuesday, Target also stands apart in its decision to both shutter stores and to explicitly blame that decision on retail crime.
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no doubt part of it...another part of it is their “tuck friendly” kids displays.
indeed. Excellent reference.
Sure. That'll work out as well as it did in the Soviet Union. It's like Milton Friedman once said...
If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.
Target are thugs as well. Good riddance. Doesn’t bother (or affect) me a bit.
Great news. The stockholders are gonna be very angry. Probably fire all of the woke cowards running the company into the ground. When a company has rigid ideologues running the show this is what you get.
But wait-Bidenomics is in epic fail mode and the mass exodus out of third world America has been well chronicled but the lawlessness known as shrinkage engineering is to blame!
I wish target had as much consideration for the helpless children coerced by their caregivers into transgender delusionary thinking as they did for “other” victims of misguied culture.
That’s pretty darn quick to close a huge store like a Target...Oct 21.
No, I really think this all goes back to 2016, when Trump entered the political arena and it threw the Washington elite into a rage. It wasn't that they hated his policies-they'd been through Republican administrations before. No, Trump threatened the entire elitist establishment that had been running things for decades. He would have exposed everything. What's gone on since Trump was elected has been shocking.
I believe the Covid pandemic was a plot to destroy Trump and everything he had achieved as president, in spite of persistent interference from within the government. The choice of Biden and the stolen election was the culmination of a plan that had been developed since 2017, and implemented under the cover of a pandemic that got more out of hand than they ever expected. Obama and the DNC are firmly in control of events, but they have utterly failed at the one thing that would have made the 2024 election a easy one for them- they have made the economy worse, and our society is less safe.
The one thing that will create the most discontent in a society is instability, and there is plenty of that in America today. They are making massive efforts in social media and corporate media to try and spin the message that all is well, but only a few die-hard believers are willing to disbelieve the reality that it hitting them in the face each day.
President Trump’s fight is our fight.
As I see it we’ve got one chance in 2024 to regain control of this out-of-control nation and bring down truly severe punishment on all those who have brought this country to its knees.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Target go straight down the toilet, right along with all their tranny psycho buddies.
Man, you have named five of my “Not goin’ there again,” list
Five for five= batting 1,000!
Indeed.
All rat party run cities.
Anybody know the store locations?
Yes, one does not speak ill of the the chosen lest ye be labeled a racist or banned from a website....
Here is the Target press release with the locations:
As of 26 Sep 2023, there is no information available on how much Target has given to Black Lives Matter (BLM). However, in June 2020, Target committed $10 million and ongoing resources for rebuilding efforts and advancing social justice.0 In October 2021, Target committed $100 million through 2025 for Black communities as part of its Racial Equity Action and Change strategy. The initiative will support Black-led local nonprofits, programs that elevate Black narratives and voices, and historically Black colleges and universities.
It’s looking like they’d have been just as well off, possibly better off to give the $10M to Joe and Hunter.
I can’t believe the Legislature here in California is allowing this, they should be sending legislation to Gov Dipstick Mandating they stay open FOREVER
But aren’t Seattle and Portland very white? Esp. Portland?
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