Target’s CEO is stepping down as sales continue to plunge

[Rollie Forbes]

Happens in football.

Black coach gets the job and he drags the team from trash to decent.....but they don't invest in a top QB or real elite offensive talent.

Get the team to competitive status and then hire a young white OC and give him all the tools he wants.

Word to Tony Dungy.

 

[Lord Beasley]

The decrease must be only in certain areas; it's business as usual here and they hire a lot of minorities. Target Corp just royally fukked up trying to garner favor with a racist admin

 

[Rasille]

They didn’t even have to say anything, there was no law saying that they had to get rid of dei. They jumped out the window on their own with that.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I got a question for y’all since the folks I ask this question irl don’t have anything beyond “they don’t hate us” but why isn’t the boycott extending to Amazon and Walmart?

Walmart rolled back or ended several DEI efforts in Nov. ‘24. Didn’t renew its 9-figure center for racial equity initiative. Moved away from using DEI specific language while also ending racial equity training and fukkin over a lot of non White suppliers because it prioritized minority suppliers.

Amazon had a memo leaked that called its DEI program “outdated” around the same time Walmart rolled back its initiative and moved towards a more “integrated” model. Took references like “Equity for Black people” off its front facing websites and out of policies and corporate reports.

So what’s so different?

 

[The ADD]

Coke will be in the same boat if they are actually crazy enough to switch all their products to cane sugar. People will love it until they see the inevitable price hike. There is a reason corn syrup is so popular in soda production.

Highly doubtful they are switching the entire line. That’s a major overhaul that would take years. I would imagine they will introduce a specific line of cane sugar soda which they basically already have.

 

[The ADD]

I got a question for y’all since the folks I ask this question irl don’t have anything beyond “they don’t hate us” but why isn’t the boycott extending to Amazon and Walmart?

Walmart rolled back or ended several DEI efforts in Nov. ‘24. Didn’t renew its 9-figure center for racial equity initiative. Moved away from using DEI specific language while also ending racial equity training and fukkin over a lot of non White suppliers because it prioritized minority suppliers.

Amazon had a memo leaked that called its DEI program “outdated” around the same time Walmart rolled back its initiative and moved towards a more “integrated” model. Took references like “Equity for Black people” off its front facing websites and out of policies and corporate reports.

So what’s so different?

I think it’s perception. None of these companies are different. Target was so visible leveraging DEI that when they pulled back in a visbile way it caused the backlash. Also they are perceived in many ways as non-essential. You aren’t wrong but perfect storm for them to shoulder most of the scorn.

I’m guilty as well to be transparent. I still use Walmart and Amazon but it’s more for essentials and virtually nothing discretionary.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I think it’s perception. None of these companies are different. Target was so visible leveraging DEI that when they pulled back in a visbile way it caused the backlash. Also they are perceived in many ways as non-essential. You aren’t wrong but perfect storm for them to shoulder most of the scorn.

I’m guilty as well to be transparent. I still use Walmart and Amazon but it’s more for essentials and virtually nothing discretionary.

Gotcha. I still go to Target (guilty ) I’m on board for a boycott but let’s not do this “alright, we are boycotting X this week, then X next week.” shyt got to be confusing.

When the Trayvon verdict and all that occurred, I said I’d never step foot in FL again. But I had to due to some job obligations + I would go in for FSU games. But I did my best to not contribute to the FL economy as much as possible. Stayed on military bases, got my gas on base, stayed in Thomasville or Valdosta the night prior to games or with fam. Still holding true to it. And that’s my thing. If we’re going to do this, let’s not half ass it. Let’s go 100%.

 

[Negro Caesar]

Target has decent men’s clothes for cheap. fukk that CEO replace him with a black one as chefs kiss.

Those Target Joggers are my go to

 

[The ADD]

Gotcha. I still go to Target (guilty ) I’m on board for a boycott but let’s not do this “alright, we are boycotting X this week, then X next week.” shyt got to be confusing.

When the Trayvon verdict and all that occurred, I said I’d never step foot in FL again. But I had to due to some job obligations + I would go in for FSU games. But I did my best to not contribute to the FL economy as much as possible. Stayed on military bases, got my gas on base, stayed in Thomasville or Valdosta the night prior to games or with fam. Still holding true to it. And that’s my thing. If we’re going to do this, let’s not half ass it. Let’s go 100%.

I think part of the Target thing is that it’s being characterized as a boycott but it really started with a lot of people choosing not to shop there before there was a larger call to action. Target had a certain culture that people embraced shopping there as a hobby in a way. I think it became easy for them (myself included) to not visit. A more wider ranging boycott takes more commitment and Infeel that’s tough in these current times.

 

[Rekkapryde]

Target was in trouble pre-DEI, but the DEI was the backbreaker. People expected Target to be mature adults, and have a left-leaning view. By rolling back the DEI, that sent a signal that Target was willing to bend the knee to a Authoritarian instead of being defiant.

It's why COSTCO is making a ton of money now.

Optics matter, and even if Target did re-enable DEI, the genie is out of the bottle.

This.

They made it a black issue by explicitly saying their eliminating black services/products. Couldn't just leave it at DEI like the other companies who pussied out to Trump. They went the extra mile.

 

[Rekkapryde]

fukk that CEO replace him with a black one as chefs kiss.

Hire the Red Lobster breh. Clean house with everyone who supported that anti DEI/black shyt on the board

 

[TEH]

There are consequences to being a racist piece of shyt company.

fukk Target and anyone shopping there.

 

[Rollie Forbes]

 

[Mrhateeverything]

I got a question for y’all since the folks I ask this question irl don’t have anything beyond “they don’t hate us” but why isn’t the boycott extending to Amazon and Walmart?

Walmart rolled back or ended several DEI efforts in Nov. ‘24. Didn’t renew its 9-figure center for racial equity initiative. Moved away from using DEI specific language while also ending racial equity training and fukkin over a lot of non White suppliers because it prioritized minority suppliers.

Amazon had a memo leaked that called its DEI program “outdated” around the same time Walmart rolled back its initiative and moved towards a more “integrated” model. Took references like “Equity for Black people” off its front facing websites and out of policies and corporate reports.

So what’s so different?

I stopped shopping at Walmart .
Went once this year .
Went to target twice for something I needed really fast .
I used to shop there every other week spending a few hundred dollars every time .



Walmart and Amazon never pretended to care , target did .
People would call targets moves to help minorities performative and them doing this proved that .
Conservatives complained about target for years but they weren’t shopping there either way .
Target turned its back on a lot of its customers . Which is why they are losing money .
know your consumer base and don’t piss them off is all I have to say

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

There is no money in politics. I repeat, there is no money in politics. Stay out of it as a business.