Remember when Target was the darling of the Left for carrying "gender affirming" toys and clothing for children? Yeah, well that was then... and this is now. Target recently decided to drop its DEI policies and now they are suddenly being vilified by the very same people who once thought Target was on their side. This is what happens when a business loses sight of its main function (retailing clothing at an affordable price) and starts dabbling in the dark arts of DEI and wokeism.
From https://eatgrueldog.wordpress.com/2025/03/06/leftards-begin-target-boycott/
Leftards begin Target boycott Posted on March 6, 2025 | Leave a comment A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company
By Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN
Updated: 9:13 PM EST, Wed March 5, 2025
Source: CNN
Target is facing a 40-day consumer boycott starting Wednesday over the company’s shift away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies.
“We’re asking people to divest from Target because they have turned their back on our community,” Rev. Jamal Bryant, a prominent Atlanta-area megachurch pastor who started the boycott, said in an interview with CNN.
The boycott, which begins during the start of Lent, comes more than a month after Target made changes to its DEI programs and at a difficult period for the company as it faces an onslaught of tariffs in the middle of a challenging economy.
On January 24, days into Donald Trump’s presidency, Target announced it was eliminating hiring goals for minority employees, ending an executive committee focused on racial justice and making other changes to its diversity initiatives. Target said it had a new strategy called “Belonging at the Bullseye,” which it first introduced last year, and the company remained committed to “creating a sense of belonging for our team, guests and communities.” Target also stressed the need for “staying in step with the evolving external landscape.”
https://lite.cnn.com/2025/03/05/business/target-boycott-jamal-bryant/index.html This will be the most traffic CNN gets all day…
Can't wait 'til the left become the targets....
anything "woke" turns to shit!! DEI is a death sentence for any company, either on the way in or on the way out! now Target gets it both ways!! i hope the upper management lubed up for this reaming!
Serves them right for forgetting their primary clientele: families with children and grandchildren. Used to be my favorite store. I haven't shopped there since I walked in and was confronted with a "rainbow" display.
what got me is when they allowed men in womens bathrooms.......
Finally, me and leftists agree. I have been boycotting Target for years since they first went woke. Welcome aboard.
What's funny is how many people still refuse to shop there because they implemented their pedophile support sections.
Once upon a time, a big corporation could make a business error, correct it, and the public would forget and forgive over time. Like when Coca-Cola introduced "New Coke" back in the 60s or 70s, can't recall when. But it tasted awful, or at least so different from standard Coke that people lodged their displeasure with the new product. Coke went back to producing their traditional product and people came back.
But messing with peoples' kids and cultural and religious norms is not as easily forgivable. Maybe that's something corporate America doesn't understand, but I'm sure they're learning it now. I really won't be surprised to see Target close a bunch of non-performing stores, go to an online order business, and struggle for the next several years. They might go the way of K-Mart, or they might survive this... I don't know, don't care, and whatever happens to them, I'll just say, "Hmm," and move on.
40 days? I remember I was a little kid the last time I went to Target and then my parents decided to boycott it forever
"starts dabbling in the dark arts of DEI and wokeism." I like that line!
I will never shop at target, regardless. Once a business loses me, they don't get me back by trying to play both sides or by shifting with the cultural winds.
[they] chose Lent to do this? That's as demonic and Luciferian as it gets.
it's a Rev at a Megachurch that started this boycott.
i hope that church goes the way Target his heading.
Same with Starbucks too
Corporate activism started in the early 2000's Starbuck lead the way. They wanted to make people 'feel' good about their purchase at MEGA corp. It was an easy way to win, donate a nominal amount of money to a cause and then advertise that cause.
All in a Madmen style plot to get people to pay $35 for a bag of sugar in a cup.
Something that most people don't think about is that now, in the year 2025, many of the corporate executives of these large corporations are graduates of the same business schools (to get their MBA), and they all learned the woke garbage and stupid way of thinking in those schools.
So now, there is an army of twisted thinkers running the big corporations. That's why there is no customer service anymore. There is no real focus on the customer. There are all these other dumb ideas because they have been indoctrinated in that direction.
I've often come to the same conclusion.
I think the pendulum is eventually going to swing the other way as these companies are bound to fail over time. But I probably will be out of the workforce by then, if I don't get ejected sooner.
I'll be rooting for the rest of you pedes still in the trenches though. I suspect it will be a great time to be in the workforce once competence is king again.
Just learned about this in a twitch DJ Stream Chat honoring the life of Roy Ayers (RIP). Ruined the vibe for me. Left the chat and unfollowed the DJ.
These people are unable to have anything they experience in life be about something other than themselves.
These people are painfully stupid. These people have no ability to remember that just a year ago or so, that Target was their beacon of shining American Subversion. Morons.
Fighting this ideology is like fighting a sand dune - it's unaffected by anything outside itself and the wind.
I'm glad I pretty much gave up and gave God. :)
Guess that means I have to go and drop a bundle at Target.
I missed Target, now, can't wait " shop until I drop" Let's send the anti-God wokers a message!