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[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Neat we are gonna be stuck with Walmart.... That's better?

This shit is dumb

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 weeks ago

Costco works well to replace Target so far.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago

I didn’t realize they were being boycotted again. Oh well, back to job hunting.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

I used to like Target, but they suck these days. Even without the DEI stuff.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 4 weeks ago (7 children)

I've not stepped inside a Walmart in over 10 years, I had shopped almost exclusively at Target, but that stopped after they bent the knee.

I still haven't gone inside Walmart, but, they have curbside pickup. Do all my shopping through the app and they bring it out to my car. I don't like that I'm supporting Walmart, but fuck, I've gotta get my shit from somewhere and it's either Amazon, Walmart, Kroger or Target.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

Kroger has better produce.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago

Walmart thanks you for ignoring the many 10,000 times worse horrifying business practices they perfected. Good for you though, the cause du jour stands.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

You could try smaller, local businesses if Walmart and Target have not pushed them out in your area.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks for doing what you can. Unfortunately we live in a world of compromise, too many of us on the left let perfect ideals defeat good practices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

It's not "not perfect" to pick Walmart over target. It's like picking Hitler over some dude who killed two people.

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[–] [email protected] 82 points 4 weeks ago (6 children)

I’d still say Walmart is objectively worse. Target may have dropped DEI, but Walmart has too and they have multiple known practices to push out small companies, predatory practices and tricks to force their workers to live near poverty levels by denying them insurance and decent pay.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 weeks ago

A dramatic downturn of profits at Target immediately after they dropped their DEI policies sends a message. A downturn in Wal-Mart's profits as they conduct business as usual does not.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 weeks ago

The Walton Family has heavily put money into The Heritage Foundation.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 weeks ago

Have to agree. The Waltons are scum of the Earth.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Haven't set foot in a Target in so many years I can't remember...

Like a slightly less horrible and much more red Walmart. Blech!!

Fuck Target. Hope their corporation dies.

🤡 🖕

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 weeks ago

Target USA is heading for the same place Target Canada ended up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

40 days should be indefinitely until management changes. As in, those who "kissed the ring" must leave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 weeks ago

The "Target experience" for me has always been "find product, wait 30 minutes for a cashier". Couldn't pay me to shop there anymore. Such a hostile environment.

[–] [email protected] 145 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (8 children)

Just goes to show how bending the knee to the bigot brigade doesn't work. Are more of the fat orange traitorous fuck's cult shopping there?

No.

Target did exactly what they wanted- first by hiding their Pride merch last June, and then by eliminating their diversity programs- and the only result is the people who didn't shop at Target still aren't, but the people who did shop there are taking their business elsewhere.

Soon Target's going to have to either try to reverse course to save face with their former clientele, or they're gonna have to double down in an effort to attract more MAGAts to their rotting corporate corpse. And as InBev learned with Dylan Mulvaney, that's not a decision you want to fuck up.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago) (2 children)

Haven’t bought from Target since Feb 9. They used to be a store I bought from multiple times per week. I bought from them specifically because I didn’t agree with Walmart or their ethics, and Target — allegedly, I guess — was the opposite. A supporter of the community and social causes. Until it was convenient for Target to not do so anymore.

I have moved to other stores that have a backbone and stand up for their whole community and all of their employees.

Fuck that company. I hope they burn.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

I was just at a Costco over this and tbh, I fucking hate all these stores and it's a shame because at least Target around here was the most tolerable of the big box options, at least before they put everything behind glass with no personnel to open it.

What was it like in the before times, before the Walmarts and Targets of the world took over?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

I remember when department stores ruled, and had actual pull. The "right" store could anchor your plaza/mall and they could demand aot. One of the oldest, but fun ones, was Service Merchandise. Even within the store you found what you wanted and filled out a ticket and brought it to a counter, your item would then come out of the warehouse on a conveyor belt which as a kid was like magic lol. Also going to a Kmart or similar store and putting that "must have" item on layaway was also cool.

This place was the cats pajamas!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 weeks ago

When a Ma and a Pa fell in love, they coupled in a steamy limited liability relationship. Then they made love—back then we called it “making love”—and three fiscal quarters later, they would welcome a newborn shoppe into the world. Then everyone watched PBS and went to bed without locking their doors.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Is it the boycott or just Trumpflation?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)
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