I don't care how many CEO changes you do. I won't shop there until DEI and LGBT products are back.
Turns out go woke, go broke wasn't a thing.
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Where do you shop instead? Like it seems their main competitors are Walmart and Amazon who are both also really bad. I personally have been getting more stuff at Costco as they didn’t roll back DEI and by retail standards treat their employees really well
Costco is another one. Home Goods, Marshalls, Kohls works too. Grocery shopping is Aldi, Price Rite, and Wegmans. I'll do Walmart also as last resort. I know they're bad but they are kinda the villain you expect. Target was that good guy that went evil that you know they could be better so the hope is a boycott shocks them back to the light side. I'm lucky enough to live in a medium city so I have a lot of options.
There are no "good" corporations. Just less bad ones.
It’s like voting for Democrats: yeah sure they suck, but not as much as the other options
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They're all evil, but Target REALLY leaned into the Pride Month for sales, then made a hard backtrack once fascists were in power.
Well they did get sued for DEI lowering their stock price… by the government. That just seems like a sentence nobody should ever have to say because it would be comical if it wasn’t so sad
They did more than that, their bathroom got blown up by a religious nut over their inclusive bathroom policy, and they re-opened without changing their policy.
They advocated internally for LGBTQ people especially trans people.
That's why this absolute cave, spinning about-face so fast they could start a fire without matches... this is so fucking dumb.
And the people who see it are justifiably disgusted.
The real answer is locally owned grocery stores, which are mostly dead except for some Asian supermarkets.
Walmart destroyed the idea that a grocery store was owned by someone who lived in your community.
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Costco yup
Wish I had a Costco
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until DEI and LGBT products are back
I don't care what they bring back, I'm never shopping there again. When someone shows you who they really are, believe them the first time.
Go Fash, lose cash.
Get woke or go broke
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CEO makes stupid and unpopular moves because Trumpism appears to be gaining steam. CEO takes it further once Trump is confirmed in election. CEO finds out that voter apathy is not the same thing as support: most Americans aren't hateful bigots, they just aren't politically active enough to stop the hate mongers. Profits drop. CEO gets golden parachute for fucking up.
Isn't corporate america great?
In America, you get rewarded for fucking up so badly.
Only if you're rich
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"Cornell will stay on as executive chairman."
In other words, he will run the board that the next CEO answers to. This is failing upwards
he already was (chair & ceo).
It's wild just how out of touch target's leadership is with their own customer demographics. I'd have to assume the CEO hasn't even stepped foot in one of his own stores to fail as hard as target has.
They bent over for trolls and snowflake conservatives.
And guess what? Theyre not buying shit from Target either.
You done fucked up both sides of the aisle.
Activists and customers on the right attacked Target on social media for its LGBTQ-themed merchandise during Pride Month. Target employees faced threats. Misinformation spread on social media that the swimsuits designed for transgender people were marketed to children, which they were not. The company removed them from stores.
There was a “strong reaction” to Pride merchandise and the response was a “signal for us to pause, adapt and learn,” Target said.
But Target’s response frustrated supporters of gay and transgender rights, who said the company caved to bigoted pressure.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/20/business/timeline-target-ceo
Target fled my country in fear of our mighty geese
I also remember when Target came to, and then left, Canada.
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Last time I was in a Target they literally had nothing for me to buy. Just aisles of useless merch. Ended up getting a drink because I was thirsty and that was it.
No Xbox games, old PS5/Switch games, horrible book section, no movies to speak of, no decent olive oil... Just a bad scene.
It's like they aren't competing with Walmart or Kroger anymore and are just trying to be a super sized 7-11.
It's worse than TEMU in there. Just a ton of cheap imports at enormous markups.
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Turns out the citizens are mostly on board with DEI...
But... but... I kept the fat and paraplegic models!
Haven't been in a Target in over a year. I used to stop in once a while... but they suck as a company.
I found boycotting Target to be quite easy, since I never shop there because they're overpriced and the specialization of their selection is so incoherent that they're largely useless.
I went in for the first time in years recently, I needed supplies for a new place, they didn't have showerheads or other bathroom staples that anyone might need. A whole ass aisle of shower curtains, but no showerheads or towel racks, things that the walmart across the street has huge selections of.
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Well that took long enough. This guy has been running Target into the ground for years. Will the next CEO be any better, or just more of the same?
Edit: Nevermind, the idiot is staying on as chairman. Nothing has really changed.
I kind of agree with the general sentiment that maybe they should have selected an outsider. The DEI bullshit wasn't just a "whoopsie" and Target has been declining for years, even if there was a lag in the official numbers.
It's been a long time since I looked at Target and saw a strategy other than "let's wait and see what Walmart's doing and then just do that". Generally speaking, people who shop at Walmart expect (and in some perverse way demand) an ever shittier experience and drop in quality. I just don't foresee a continuation of Target's strategy from the past decade or so being a realistic long term strategy. Walmart, Amazon, and Dollar General will be the way of retail at this pace.
Granted, I'm not Target's target audience. I used to buy a lot of clothes there, then the quality on that dropped while prices shot up, so I just stopped. And I used to use their e-commerce site more often when they didn't have third party sellers, but once they added those, there was no longer any differentiating or compelling reason to go there other than to buy something I could get $2 cheaper at Walmart, $4 cheaper on Amazon, or $8 cheaper on Temu.
Shopping at Target used to be a culture. It was seen as the upscale version of Walmart. Guests bragged about finding things at target and joked about getting lost in it for hours while browsing.
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Outsider won’t do much. Probably bring on the same MBA asshole like the Starbucks CEO that "super commutes"
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