Untargeted
By Mitch Berg
I’m not especially big on boycotts.
Problem is, most of the stuff that conservatives are supposed to boycott these days or products, I’ve never used, or companies I’ve never really patronized.
I hadn’t used Gillette razors for years before they beclowned themselves with their anti-masculine ad campaign a few years back. not because they were work, but because they just weren’t very good razors.
I haven’t had beer in something like five years – and even then, I didn’t drink American mass-market beer. So Bud Light was irrelevant (and is only beer in the loose possible sense of the term)
Likewise, given a choice between Starbucks, Caribou, and driving home and making French press, Starbucks always comes in last. Not because of politics, but because it’s the worst value for the dollar.
But after Target’s recent bout of self immolation, I figured that’s a company I can do without.
Yeah, self-immolation:
So, starting last Friday, that’s exactly what I did; I swore off Target until they come around – however, long that takes.
It’s been three days. I’m still alive. Go figure.
May 23rd, 2023 at 6:24 am
Young woman I know, mother, previously a reliable Target shopper, did the same thing.
May 23rd, 2023 at 6:53 am
Target is chasing the Corporate Governance Index high, like most other woke corporations. CGI advocates (like Blackstone) insist that a corporation’s value actually rises if it ignores the bottom line & focuses on approved social goals, like pushing green policies & “diversifying” their workforce through race & gender quotas.
We have these things called joint stock corporations. They are run by boards & their task is to maximize shareholder value. They are not supposed to care about DEI goals & environmental policies accept as they affect the bottom line.
We have these other things called non-profits. They are constrained by their budget, but are nevertheless expected to care about things like DEI goals & green environmental policies.
When those two types of institutions get out of their lane, outputs suffer.
Full.Stop 🙂
May 23rd, 2023 at 7:15 am
I stopped shopping at Target last year when they fired my kid for absolute BS reasons. In fact, I was only shopping there because of him. Woke Capital had already taken over, and it was enough to keep me away for good.
May 23rd, 2023 at 7:39 am
DIP
working at Target as a contractor 15 yrs ago I observed that Target management routinely purged the ranks of thought diversity. As long as you looked like a sheep they left you alone, but show some independence of thought (and not just in the political domain) and they would assign you to increasingly crap details hoping you would quit and if that didn’t work then they’d fire you for disruptive behavior or insubordination. Target is a pretty face on a crap organization! I haven’t shopped there since my contract ended.
May 23rd, 2023 at 8:27 am
Ha, I’ve been boycotting Target longer than you! I quit before they went with genderless bathrooms.
It wasn’t really a boycott, just frustration. They don’t sell any of the stuff I want. You can’t buy a spark plug, a 2 by 4 or a shotgun shell. Their clothes are intended For young, hip, woke people, not working people. I am not their target demographic, if you forgive the pun.
So now I shop at Fleet Farm and am much happier.
May 23rd, 2023 at 8:35 am
It wasn’t really a boycott, just frustration. They don’t sell any of the stuff I want.
Same here.
May 23rd, 2023 at 8:41 am
I’m the kind of stubborn guy who boycotts forever. I started way back in 1992 when Levi Strauss cut off the Boy Scouts because of their opposition to homosexual leadership. Haven’t bought a single Strauss product since and I am always ready to remind others about their action. In recent years I’ve added Gillette, Coke, Target and probably a couple of others that slip the mind right now.
Fortunately, I don’t drink alcoholic beverages. I suspect Anheuser Busch is a much easier target for mass boycotting because of their greater advertising visibility coupled with the average customer’s natural revulsion to the trans mentality. It would seem so effortless to switch to the competition. It would also seem so easy to avoid any social scrutiny by simply never holding an Anheuser Busch product in your hands (Who, me?? I’ve always preferred Coors Lite!)
May 23rd, 2023 at 8:51 am
I’ve been avoiding Target for the most part for the past 20 years, ever since I realized that apart from a few products, I could get things better and cheaper at Cub, Hy-Vee, and the like. For whatever reason, Target’s “I’m a little redder, sexier, and thinner than you” attitude seems to cause people to really overspend there. It’s so cheap, I can’t afford to shop there.
May 23rd, 2023 at 9:20 am
I worked for Target for 11 years and left the company 20 years ago. Haven’t missed it.
May 23rd, 2023 at 10:08 am
Target has been PROUDLY 🏳🌈donating their profits to support degenerate causes for at least 20 years. They appreciated your cash all that time Mitch, and wonder why give up now?
May 23rd, 2023 at 12:29 pm
One of the fastest terminations I saw at Target occurred when a new hire started talking about how much easier it would be to meet project deadlines in a Union Shop. They kicked his scrawny white ass to the curb the next day. They have limits to their progressive virtue signaling.
May 23rd, 2023 at 12:53 pm
Pig;
I saw the same thing. Back in 89, I was unexpectedly between jobs and because I quit, I wasn’t eligible for unemployment. To make sure that I was available for day time interviews, I worked overnight push at the Edina store. Most of the team was made up of college students. During lunch break one Friday night, two guys were wondering out loud about union representation. Apparently, either the team leader narc’ed them out or we were monitored for speech, because on the following Monday when I arrived for work, the lead told us that they “resigned”. Unfortunately, they were both good workers. I ran into one of them a week later and he told me that they were canned for poor job performance.
May 23rd, 2023 at 6:56 pm
Target is said be in a panic about a potential “Bud Light” situation.
Targets embrace of “queering” toddlers didn’t come from nowhere. If you could get hold of the emails & meeting minutes you would see months of deliberation over the “Rainbow June” roll out, from the bottom to the top of corporate HQ. There will be c-suite executives who will deny knowing anything about it, but they accepted it, although maybe tacitly.
I don’t think the average American can understand the mind set of the modern corporate executive. They are not entrepreneurs, they are bureaucrats. Their job isn’t to determine novel ways of delivering desirable goods to market, it is to manage a bureaucracy. They socialize with their peers, and they measure their status against these peers. Some of them become very wealthy, but many do not. They are, like Google’s Eric Schmidt, highly paid employees (Larry page and Sergey Brin are supposed to have occasionally reminded Schmidt that he was an employee, not a “founder”).
May 23rd, 2023 at 9:36 pm
KSTP: Target removes some LGBTQ merchandise from stores ahead of June Pride month after threats to workers
Unless specific threats to workers are reported to the police, you can safely ignore this claim as corporate boiler plate. Target probably has a memo about the boilerplate to use when they act against the LGBTQ+ activists.
It’s all a dance, the LGBTQ whatever activists push Target into doing a thing, Target gets backlash, cancels that thing, and to try to curb criticism from the LGTQ whatever people, claims that they did this to protect employees from harm (who they really don’t care if they live or die).
Am I the only one who can look at a steaming pile of manure and say “Hey! Look at that steaming pile of manure!”
May 23rd, 2023 at 9:37 pm
FYI, “steaming pile of manure” does not trigger moderation.
May 24th, 2023 at 6:35 am
It’s funny that a couple of years ago, the LGBTQ community railed against and called for a boycott of Target, alleging that they didn’t support the movement. The typical uninformed leftists that called for it, failed to notice that Target had actually supported the pride parade. But again, in typical leftist fashion, they pressed forward and several sjws were outside of the Bloomington store. One week later, I called out three of them when I observed them waiting in line for the Cities 97 sampler to go on sale.
Last week, Target also reported a significant drop in earnings, due to theft and “other economic factors”.
May 24th, 2023 at 8:07 am
You can’t appreciate the full extent of the Target fiasco without seeing my man, Alex Stein.
Widespread propagation of videos like this one will help in the Fight Against Woke.
May 24th, 2023 at 8:14 am
Governor Walz signed new legislation to allow sales of recreational marijuana, starting August 1.
I expect Target to embrace the change with Target Liquors in all their stores, the shelves stocked exclusively with Bud Light and Acapolco Gold.
May 24th, 2023 at 9:16 am
^ I think you’re right. Makes sense. 😉
May 24th, 2023 at 10:20 am
Let me get this straight: conservative parents want something like total control over what their kids are exposed to but also want the same dictatorial role over everybody else?
May 24th, 2023 at 10:37 am
^ Yes. Why should you and your ilk be the only ones who get total control over what their kids are exposed to and also get the same dictatorial role over everybody else?
May 24th, 2023 at 12:44 pm
Tyranny of a tiny minority. Afraid of t-shirts and rainbows. Who are the snowflakes again?
If someone doesn’t like products a store sells, they don’t have to buy them, or if they feel strongly enough, they can boycott the store. But this increasing level of physical threats — almost entirely from the right — crosses the line.
May 24th, 2023 at 1:18 pm
^ What’s this tiny minority? And for bonus points, explain the tyranny, please.
Define, document those physical threats.
May 24th, 2023 at 4:56 pm
What’s the troll blather level today?
Has he explained how it is possible to be against banning books, but is in favor of banning hard core porn from elementary school libraries?
When you are a totalitarian, every problem has a simple solution: make people obey.
May 24th, 2023 at 5:57 pm
That book may be for you and your family, or maybe it isn’t, but that doesn’t mean you get to decide whether it is appropriate for other people in your community. Whether you read those books is up to you. Whether the rest of us read those books is not.
May 24th, 2023 at 7:02 pm
^ You mean like “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”? Or his buddy “Tom Sawyer”? “A Farewell to Arms”? “Clockwork Orange”? The Harry Potter series?
May 25th, 2023 at 9:39 am
Somebody is reading the Daily Mail and actually believing the right wing fever dreams in its pages…
May 25th, 2023 at 6:55 pm
Conservative journo tries to nail down sources on AP’s reporting on the claimed threats of violence against Target personnel over its “pride month” displays.
Claims vanish.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/conservative-journalist-calls-aps-bluff-on-claim-about-violent-confrontations-against-target
May 25th, 2023 at 6:59 pm
People are lied to by children and spouses, people they have known, intimately, often for decades. Everyone knows this. Yet so many of the same people will believe anything that they are told by the show biz people on CNN, ABC, NBC, and Fox because they want to believe it.
Don’t be one of those people.