Will you still shop at Target?

[Peloso]

I'll bet they were expensive. You have to pay extra for the pride.

 

[Kahaih]

I’ve priced checked everything that I buy frequently. IE toiletries, soaps, cat food and litter. It’s the same price as Walmart.

Target is on my way home so I’ll continue to buy from them. They had pride cat toys out right on the pet supply end shelf when I was there Saturday. I didn’t really pay attention to anything else.

Yeah, a quick glance at headlines shows that they only pulled some items, not all pride items from their shelves.

 

[Vannie]

We buy once in a while from Target online. I do remember them during the pandemic being one of the sources that would deliver some necessities. Bath tissue, disinfectant sprays and evaporated milk for my coffee. That's right! I like evaporated milk in my coffee! Someone got a problem with that?

 

[gsdx]

What's the difference between the American and Canadian markets then? I always think of Canada as America-lite!

It's not so much that we're different, it's that Canadians have different expectations. For years, Canadians had been crossing the border to shop in Target Stores in the States, so Target knew that they already had a market for their stores. However, they went about it the wrong way.

For decades, Canada had a retail store chain called 'Zellers', the competition to Woolworths. Zellers was bought out by The Bay (Hudson's Bay Company), which gradually phased out Zellers and put all the stores on the market. Target jumped in and bought them. We were all excited about having Target move into Canada, but here is where things went horribly wrong. Instead of concentrating on major cities to start, Target spent millions on huge changes to the stores, making them over into the familiar Target shops. They opened 133 stores across Canada at the same time.

Unfortunately for Target, they had spent so much money on renovations and promotions that there was very little money to *buy merchandise and, on opening day, eager shoppers were met with poor and untrained staff and a lot of empty shelves. They had not solved the merchandise problem. A year later, with annoyed and dwindling shoppers still looking at empty shelves, Target closed up shop and went home.

Ironically, The Bay has been buying back the stores at bargain basement prices and has been reopening Zellers stores again.

Target, apparently, misjudged the easy-going Canadian market and thought that we would just get used to it.

We didn't.

 

[rareboy]

It's not so much that we're different, it's that Canadians have different expectations. For years, Canadians had been crossing the border to shop in Target Stores in the States, so Target knew that they already had a market for their stores. However, they went about it the wrong way.

For decades, Canada had a retail store chain called 'Zellers', the competition to Woolworths. Zellers was bought out by The Bay (Hudson's Bay Company), which gradually phased out Zellers and put all the stores on the market. Target jumped in and bought them. We were all excited about having Target move into Canada, but here is where things went horribly wrong. Instead of concentrating on major cities to start, Target spent millions on huge changes to the stores, making them over into the familiar Target shops. They opened 133 stores across Canada at the same time.

Unfortunately for Target, they had spent so much money on renovations and promotions that there was very little money to *buy merchandise and, on opening day, eager shoppers were met with poor and untrained staff and a lot of empty shelves. They had not solved the merchandise problem. A year later, with annoyed and dwindling shoppers still looking at empty shelves, Target closed up shop and went home.

Ironically, The Bay has been buying back the stores at bargain basement prices and has been reopening Zellers stores again.

Target, apparently, misjudged the easy-going Canadian market and thought that we would just get used to it.

We didn't.

Yup this.

We didn't need a supposedly 'upscale' Zellers with no merchandise on the shelves.

It was like Target thought that Canadians would be so wowed at walking into a 'Tarjhay' store that we wouldn't notice there was nothing to buy.

We don't have time for that shit.

Target wrote off a fortune with this disaster and more or less showed the retail market here that they had a soft underbelly.

 

[pat grimshaw]

I figure it's either virtue signaling and/or hucksterism and is best ignored.

They're the same thing nowdays.

 

[Kahaih]

BTW;

Many of us, not all of you, I'm sure, but many of us have very supportive friends and family who will make an effort to do business where they know that their loved ones are welcome and supported.

Many businesses have gay employees, and/or straight employees who are friends and family members of gay people, as well,

Pride is celebrated and supported by many straight people who care. It's not exclusively a gay thing.

 

[72-Jay]

Target used to be better... I'm not sure what exactly what they've changed in the past few years, but its just not as good as it used to be.
I used to shop there sorta regularly, but now its only on occasion.

I have no idea if the stores here are some of the ones that stopped selling pride items or not... but either way that won't make a diff whether or not I shop there.

 

[ShadowCat]

Pride cat toys? Maple and I haven't had that talk yet.

Your cat knows! It knew when you were sucking off that guy from the bar. It knew when you were riding your dildo til you came hands free. And it knows now!

 

[rareboy]

 

[NotHardUp1]

We buy once in a while from Target online. I do remember them during the pandemic being one of the sources that would deliver some necessities. Bath tissue, disinfectant sprays and evaporated milk for my coffee. That's right! I like evaporated milk in my coffee! Someone got a problem with that?

We know "evaporated" is just a euphemism for outgassed.

You have a serious problem with food-related emissions.

Get some help. We're all behind you.

 

[rareboy]

 

[Alistair]

 

[rareboy]

In related news...the snowflakes are melting down this week over Chick-fil-A. What to do? What to do?

The sky is falling! The Sky is falling!

 

[gsdx]

and evaporated milk for my coffee. That's right! I like evaporated milk in my coffee! Someone got a problem with that?

If it's evaporated, how do you know when you've poured enough in? And how do you know when the can is empty?

I could never figure that out.

 

[Vannie]

We're all behind you.

Perfect. All of you in one place!

 

[smokeshadow]

In related news...the snowflakes are melting down this week over Chick-fil-A. What to do? What to do?

The sky is falling! The Sky is falling!

It's even worse than that tweet

'No Longer the Lord’s Chicken': 'Christian Woman' Says She's 'Grieving' Over 'Woke' Chick-fil-A Hiring a Diversity Officer

A self-described “Christian woman” who is a contributor to the far-right wing students organization Turning Point USA, is being widely mocked for posting a video attacking Chick-fil-A over claims the conservative, privately-owned, faith-based fast food restaurant chain recently hired a diversity...

www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com

 

[rareboy]

Her pain makes me happy.

 

[eddielee]

I do not normally go to Target. If they had something that I needed and could not easily get it some other place, I would go.

 

[Alistair]

I was just there. The pride display was still up in the front of the store.

I’ve talked about it before, the Target I go to has to be managed by a gay guy. The only employees there are twinks