Target is not the target anymore for customers, I’ll see myself out now…
Target fled my country in fear of our mighty geese
I also remember when Target came to, and then left, Canada.
Support trump? Enjoy your slump!
Go Fash, lose Cash.
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.
I mean, these places are just grocery stores at this point. That’s all Target is for me.
If I bought games, I would just buy them digitally or order a physical copy if for whatever reason that’s what I want.
Books? Free downloads at anna’s archive.
Movies? Free streaming sites and 1337.
Olive oil…? Decent? Isn’t it all kind of the same thing? Lol. But yeah, that’s just a grocery item you can get anywhere else.
They are competing with Walmart and Kroger, as a grocery store. That said, it’s not much of a competition because you can buy the same damn groceries at Walmart for cheaper than Target, always.
Not sure what you like consuming, but no, olive oil is not all the same. I’ve produced it several times.
It’s worse than TEMU in there. Just a ton of cheap imports at enormous markups.
I found more to get at a Japanese dollar store that opened recently:
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.
Go Fash, lose cash.
Get woke or go broke
Go to sleep, futures bleak bro!
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
Throwing in the hat for Trader Joe’s
Trader Joe’s is anti-union and often rips off small companies that pitch products to them without compensation 😕
https://traderjoesunited.org/protect-the-nlrb
https://www.kcrw.com/news/shows/press-play-with-madeleine-brand/gaza-tj-labor-hbo-nba/trader-joes
I don’t live in a place with many options besides Aldi and Walmart.
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
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.
I miss the days when Fred Meyer was alive. No, seriously, the dude Fred Meyer was a real person.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_G._Meyer
“He is credited for inventing the modern hypermarket.[6]”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Meyer
“Fred Meyer was acquired by Kroger in 1998, but the stores retained the Fred Meyer name.”
😢
I will often still look for things on Amazon, but I try to find reasonable alternatives from Shopify. It’s not perfect, and shipping tends to be slower and more expensive, but I like the idea of not making Bezos more money when I can.
Wish I had a Costco
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.
No but the impact of buying because of personal beliefs is definitely a thing in this day and pre-fascist age
LGBT products? Does any non specialty stores sell LGBT products? Or do you mean Pride month?
Yeah I was talking about their pride collection. They used to be loud and proud about that and then they placated terrorists on the right. This is coming from someone who is not LGBT but has friends in that community.
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.
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.
Shareholders should be demanding his head.
Only if you’re rich
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.
“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).
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.
I never understood this phenomena myself. Even during its prime. The entire b&m model was so outdated to me. I used to prefer shopping online via Amazon.
Then they enshittified the platform, quality of goods dropped tremendously. Then the stories of poor treatment of warehouse workers and last mile delivery workers was the last straw to me.
Now my retail shopping consists of preferring local groceries and trying to buy direct from brands that I like. I don’t even care about the free shipping anymore. It’s all a farce these days and it’s just an added cost to items now (even if you don’t return the item).
I love a physical store. Get some exercise. Walk around. Browse new products. Hold them. Try things on. Online will never replace shopping for me.
Outsider won’t do much. Probably bring on the same MBA asshole like the Starbucks CEO that “super commutes”
Turns out the citizens are mostly on board with DEI…
But… but… I kept the fat and paraplegic models!
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.
When in Florida I can buy groceries at Publix, Walmart, Target, or ALDI. I avoid Publix for many reasons but I end up getting most groceries from ALDI and Walmart because Target simply doesn’t have shit. Their stores are not small, but the grocery segment are always an embarrassment.
Recently I had to choose between Walmart and Target for a couple of needed items. I would have preferred a choice of stores with actual values more closely aligned with my own, but alas, caparilism. I chose Walmart, because it was maybe a few pennies less and a half-mile closer to where I already was.
Saying no 80% is still change. I struggle with feeling like I am not doing enough to change tides. But you are at least doing something and that’s better than nothing.
Thank you for supporting me. I feel like we have an illusion of choice but no real choice.
We do. Even if it’s small it’s a line in the sand.
Making an effort is good. I do realize that it is unavoidable to completely boycott a place. But the point is to send a message. If they get $15 from me in 2 months instead of the usual $60 a week I’m doing right.
Thank you. I do think it counts, even if ourselves are the ones getting the message.
Target does lean weirdly heavy into clothes and home goods now days. Their target customers must be a strange niche.
They actually didn’t expand into produce until the 2010s. Until then it was just pantry items. I remember the remodel when I worked there.
I could swear I remember freezers in the 00’s but I can’t remember fresh produce thinking back.
Could very location dependent and if the store is Target, Target Greatland or whatever their supercenter is called.
They definitely had refrigerated goods well before 2010.
What? That’s what they’ve always done. They’ve been a combo department store and small grocer for decades. Their demographic is middle-class white women too snooty for Walmart but not so wealthy for luxury brands.
For clothes, they used to compete with Old Navy and not Walmart.
Neil Saunders, an analyst at GlobalData Retail, said in a note to clients Wednesday. “Target, which used to be very attuned to consumer demand, has lost its grip on delivering for the American shopper.”
They could have a very niche demographic or maybe their just out of touch.
Yes, so strange that a place that is not a grocery store has so few groceries …
Read the article
The one that only mentions groceries to say “Around half of Walmart’s business, for example, comes from groceries.”?
I mean, the fact is that Target is not a grocery store so why would you expect to find a comparable selection to Aldi or Publix?
They have auto parts too but they’re not an auto parts store. They have furniture but are not a furniture store. On and on, they’re just not a specialty store. How is that an “embarrassment”?
Let’s focus on comparing a Walmart Supercenter to a Super Target, which is what I have in my vicinity in Florida. They are supposed to be an apples to apples comparison in terms of business models. These include a full pharmacy and a full grocery store. Walmart Supercenter definitely delivers there while Super Target fails miserably.
The fact that you say that Target is not a supermarket makes it clear that you are thinking of a standard Target. If that is what you have in mind then you need to compare that to a Neighborhood Walmart.
The other problem that Target seems to have is that WalMart has made it a point to reorganize the majority of their stores into Supercenters, while Target has decided to maintain their large footprint store in the stock Target model that you have in mind. This is a major disconnect with the consumer, as the article states.
I digress. The Target I was talking about is absolutely supposed to be a supermarket, and they suck at it.
Ah yeah that makes sense. I was absolutely not thinking of a Super Target.
Go woke, suck Trump, go broke.
We need a better tagline. I hate to say it but go woke, go broke rolls off the tongue. Even though it’s clearly wrong. Go trump, fall into a slump.
Go fash, run out of cash.
Go fash and crash
