A 40-day Target boycott starts today. It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company

Why do we hate Target again? No really I'm out of the loop and I'm not reading an article written by a company owned by the Far Right

Shut Target down! NEVER shopping there again!

well that's easy, I haven't shopped there in years. They're inconvenient, overpriced, low quality, rarely have what I'm looking for. Why would I shop there?

Dear capitalist media... Target is being boycotted for being racist. And no, Target is not the victim.

These headlines ffs...

Good. Fuck em.

Remember there are bots even on Lemmy to push the narrative that we have no power. Billionaires aren't scared of a couple less dollars, but they are TERRIFIED of us figuring out we can organize. Let's not fight each other let's fight the oligarchy!

I don't shop at Target because their stores smell weird and it's a sensory issue.

I used to do nearly all my shopping there because of the policies they got rid of. Cancelled my 360 membership, getting used to buying flour 25# at a time from Costco ...

I wish I was working for target so I can take a nap at work.

My wife told me we are boycotting, so lets do this!

I have 3 trans friends and as a super straight middle aged privileged all to hell white dad, fuck these corporate assholes.

boycotts dont work, guys. keep trying, though! maybe try something a bit more proactive?

just an idea, maybe you could try recording a video of minecraft gameplay where a 1:1 scale recreation of the white house is destroyed in a fire?

edit: please read my other comment replies before replying, thanks!

I work at the Target warehouse that supplies the northwest, should be interesting to see if this actually noticeably changes our daily product volume. Gonna hazard a guess at no probably not. I should have some idea within 24 hours thanks to just in time logistics but seasonal product could fuzz the numbers a bit.

Works for me though, I'm mostly here for the tuition benefit and I don't lose benefits eligibility unless I dip below 20/hr/week average which I can't imagine happening.

Putting a time limit on a boycott undermines the boycott.

Saw this with the Loblaw’s boycott here in Canada, it was very ineffective because they can just wait it out.

Instead if 40 days, let's try 40 months.

I used to pretty regularly shop at target. When they rolled back DEI proactively for trump, I stopped.

Using gift cards is OK if you're boycotting a place, right? I mean, Target already has the money and you'd just be helping them out if you didn't buy anything with them.

I'm a school bus driver and I always get a lot of tips (Christmas and end of year) in the form of Target gift cards. BTW yes, I agree that tipping school bus drivers is fucking weird. We already get paid and it's not like we're going to drive the kids into a tree if we don't get tipped.

It couldn’t come at a worse time for the company

Neither could their capitulation to Trumps bigoted rhetoric.

I got a lot of flak and eye rolls from my liberal friends a few years ago when I, as a queer woman, would criticize their Rainbow Capitalism. But Target is not an ally, they never were. They are simply a corporation that got some easy publicity in liberal spaces by showing the bare minimum decency.

Fair weather allies, aren't.

Why are people boycotting a company that tried and took a step back due to backlash instead of supporting them when they tried?

Can we add bigger offenders like Wal-Mart and Amazon?

Every time I've gone into a target in the last 5 years, they legit looked like they were closing down. Idk why people are boycotting them in particular when Walmart and Amazon are way worse.

There's a boycott? I just don't shop there because it's the same crap as everywhere else for more money and a worse experience.

Already been boycotting target

Damn and here I am participating in this boycott for so long without even trying.

Target sucks.

I've been boycotting Target for months now

Every one of these idiot companies pivoting to cowboy capitalism from rainbow capitalism are clueless about who actually has money in this country.

Been part of a boycott for decades and didn't even know

Been boycotting them since my local one let ICE use their back parking lot to stage up and detain folks

I had no idea either. But I also haven't been to target in about 6 months and I've been boycotting pretty much everywhere else since last year. I haven't even done online shopping since October and it's been kinda nice going to actual stores again. Was gonna get a Costco membership next so I don't have to use Kroger. Unfortunately, the nearest Costco to me is about an hour away. Fortunately, I like driving.

Oh good I’ll continue to not shop there

Boycotting Target and Walmart.

Boycotting them since Jan. 1. 😎

don't know why, don't care, let's do it

Easy, I’ve not gone there in months anyway