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This is what people voted for. I hope they are happy with what they got.
I want Target to collapse…is that wrong?
Absolutely. I like people being employed, store fronts filled and products moving all over the country. It’s why we are able to live the way we do.
I'd prefer they just sell items without the political/social posturing.I want Target to collapse…is that wrong?
You’re right. Will110 stated what I believe succinctly. I mean if they are speaking out against child trafficking, or abuse or bullying, stuff we can all get behind, great. But attacking Christians with satanic symbols and sayings under the guise of enlightenment is sick. I hope you did your research and know what I am talking about.
If they collapse, it will be an outcome management created with poor business decisions. Customers make their own choices on where, when, and what to buy and businesses must cater to the overall market required to make them a viable business. Logic tells you that you can't afford to lose a majority portion of your market by catering to a minority market without significant impact or even collapse. Customers withdraw their financial support from one business and move to another on a daily basis based on the customer experience and how they are respected as a customer. If Target is making decisions based strictly on business and want to stay in business, they know what to do!
For Bud Light I can see it - so much of their base definitely hates gay people. I don’t know what they were trying to accomplish with that dude because it’s not like gay people would start drinking Bud Light. Most people have tried it (it’s a gateway beer) and they either drink it or they don’t (price usually a determining factor). But it’s not like they were going to open up a new market of potential customers (again, because most have already tried it).
Target isn’t as cut and dry as Bud Light - mostly because they tend to serve different clientele and have hundreds of thousands of products people need (not just one, cheap beer that can be easily replaced). Upwards of 70% of Americans support gay marriage, and thus aren’t going to boycott because of the mere mention or presence of a gay person in advertising. And really, Target markets more toward those 70% anyway.
Target is a mass marketer of general merchandise with many competitors. The mass market does not want their children exploited with Satanic and LGBTQ merchandise marketing while they shop for everyday products they need and they certainly can get elsewhere, and they will go elsewhere if this continues at Target. Target is attempting to do specialty merchandising/marketing in a general merchandising environment and it will not work because they are insulting and disrespecting the majority of customers which they want to shop in their stores for general/everyday merchandise. If they are smart and want to continue the specialty marketing, Target will need to find a way to separate it from their general merchandising or suffer the consequences. Any connection of the specialty operation to the Target Brand could still have an impact.
And there is a clear differential in Walmart and Target shoppers. As a whole That is - I shop at both (my wife never even considers Walmart). But there’s a reason that people will generally go to one and not the other - different clientele.
So just seeing a rainbow “pride” shirt is exploiting children?
I think trigger warnings are one of the silliest things ever (and am glad they seem to be dying out). It was one of the dumbest things that the extreme left ever tried to push on the country, because they were basically saying that it’s the world’s job to protect their feelings from the world itself. But now the far right seems to need them to warn that they might see a rainbow on a shirt? Or a gay person using a product?
It's a simple matter of personal choice. Dollars have feet and customers take them to the places they choose to financially support.
Didn't you know, Target shoppers are smarter and more upscale. lol
I've noticed that it's darker inside Target. Not as well lit as Walmart for some reason. Plus higher prices.
Just less than two years ago, the crazy woman was telling us we could spend another $1,000,000,000 on stuff we didn't need, and it would not cost us (the American taxpayer) $.01 (one cent)!
To pay for this folly, the Fed decided it could monitize the debt, rather than pay down debt. In other words, the Fed would print more money to pay for the spree. Even when prices were rising, the Fed was still juicing the economy! Meanwhile, I went all investing in natural resource stocks and doubled my money, except I did not really double my money because of that danged inflation!
The inflation reduction act, full of green new deal stuff, became the inflation production act! So, this is why we have inflation, and those $4 orders of fries! Don't eat those fries, my friends; they are not at all healthy.
If you think I am blaming one party, I am not. Both political parties were in on it.
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You may be offended, but it is true, and that is not just an opinion.
Both cater to a broad ,but a distinct difference in clientele. .
Neither model is bad, just different.
2 items.
1) I noticed you did not dispute the difference in clientele between the two.
2) As a rule I don't frequent either store on a regular basis, so no, you are not right.
Dispute the fact that some people obnoxiously look down at the hoi polloi? Can't dispute that. But you noticed, huh?
I'm addressing the fact that there is a difference in the type of clientele that the two brands focus on, and nothing more.
However, you are apparently focused on the psychology of one versus the other, for reasons only you could explain.
Attacking the belief system of 1/2 of your customer base, is at best a dubious business model.
My wife and I eat probably 95% of our meals at home. On a recent trip to the river front restaurant area in Georgetown, we went to a sports type bar. My wife ordered "you peel your own shrimp" (normally a pretty low ticket item). There were probably about 8 shrimp & some cocktail sauce. I ordered a fish sandwich. We each had 2 beers. Mine were IPAs that of course were jacked up in price. Total cost was $78 including a tip. Our eat at home percentage is likely to go up to about 98%
Yes, I was "focused" on the obnoxiousness of an earlier comment. I grew up a rich kid from a rich family but was always taught to treat everyone with love and respect. My parents taught this by example.
You had good teachers (parents).
You get what you cater to, so it should be no surprise or an "I can't believe this is happening" attitude when half the "clientele" shifts to another supplier.
Used to be straight forward appeals by merchandisers with a "We sell what you want, come buy from us" to the mass market approach and then it shifted to an "in your face" segmented marketing approach slanted towards politics, race, lifestyle, religion, etc. which is not mass market oriented and divides the potential market by disrespecting some customers. Marketers have to live in the environment they create and except the outcomes they get based on those decisions.
In today's environment, It's doubtful a "Buy American" approach would appeal to a mass market!
Target has lost $10 billion in market valuation over the last 10 days as the popular retailer continues to face backlash over its Pride-themed clothing line for children and Satanic themed merchandise offerings.
Target CEO Brian Cornell has defended the LBGTQ-friendly merchandise, saying selling them was “the right thing for society.”
What a SMART businessman, thinking strictly of his stockholders investment!
A rapper who made a song supporting the ongoing boycott of Target says it is being censored online.
"This is the MOST censorship on a song that I've ever witnessed in my life," Levy wrote.
Target CEO Brian Cornell has defended the LBGTQ-friendly merchandise, saying selling them was “the right thing for society.”
What a SMART businessman, thinking strictly of his stockholders investment!
A rapper who made a song supporting the ongoing boycott of Target says it is being censored online.
"This is the MOST censorship on a song that I've ever witnessed in my life," Levy wrote.