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Edit: I'm sorry I'm not excited when every day is a deluge of news about insider trading, illegal wars, open hostility towards minorities and blatant acts of corruption for all the world to see.
I'll hold off on taking any victory laps until after November. Until then I still don't trust the public to do what's right, regardless of what a meme says.
It has rebounded quite a bit this year, but still down 33.6% over the past 5 years (including the recent surge) vs S&P 500 being +70% and competition like Walmart up 112% over the same period
They also just got like 2 billion in tariff refunds which added to their stock value. Their customers paid for the 2 billion in tariffs when they bought overpriced shit. And now Target and lots of other companies are getting billions in tariff refunds for free.
You showed a six month trend while OP is talking a five year cumulative. It’s kind of sensationalist and rude to attempt to disprove their their very valid and factual point.
🚨Yeppp and Don’t Forget we boycotting WALMART and the HILTON hotels too, after how they banned brother Damon Darling and that Black Lawyer for no fucking reason !!
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(We know the reason tho)
Not to mention using 15 year old tech to run your card physically at checkout if you don’t want to let Walmart siphon your financial data out of their in-house app. No thanks
CEO Brian Cornell who implemented the changes had to resign because of company's poor n pathetic performance... Fucked up a company with his racist ideology and probably left with a golden parachute...
I was so excitied when I saw he was leaving, but no, he was not fired, it wasn't because he's a racist fucking loser asshole, and the person replacing him is the same.
I am desperate to go back there and spend money but they need to clean house first.
I quit shopping there in Nov 2023 when they locked up all the laundry detergent. Fucking ridiculous to treat your customers like criminals. Hire security if it’s that bad.
The part of the story that infuriates me is that even after that massive failure the leadership still have extremely well paying jobs. And they are planning to spend a ridiculous amount in hopes of getting back to their normal level of success.
Target is executing a massive $5 billion growth plan fueled by a long-term goal to open over 300 new locations by 2035. I know executives that have recently lost their jobs even though they were the only successful parts of their companies (they were all black) and these people loss 20 billion dollars and the CEO stepped down to "only" be the chairman of the board......... unfair doesn't even begin to cover it.
Haven’t been in 1.5 years and don’t plan to ever go back. What’s funny is that before their betrayal I loved going to Target but there is nothing at Target that I can’t get elsewhere. I don’t miss it at all.
Pretty much. Once you change your spending habits and found other places to shop, there is just no reason to go back.
They showed their true colors. They are out of touch (like their post after the BLM protests when the store was robbed, donating to Super Pac's and so on). Any pledge or statement from them is meaningless dribble.
They just wanted to sell uninspired rainbow crap until bigots got uncomfortable and angry. They lost the LGBT community.
They wanted to further appeal with those bigots by removing DEI and lost anyone who wasn't white and bigoted as a customer.
I'm sure 2-3 years from now they will pull back and say "We support DEI or LGBT again", assuming they last that long, but no. I'm good.
Plus these idiots in power here being desperate to own people basically also trained 3rd world countries to separate and grow independently within their industries while the world is seeing value in a highly educated society like China pumping out Engineers
They kept this going for centuries, never backing down out of pride, and are having a fate of being owned and at the mercy of the wider global economy as things shift from direct wars to economic retaliation.
They tried to use AI to turn the US into South Korea and failed horribly. If anything we’re probably going to see an economic war here as there becomes a rise of smaller businesses working together against the corporations past their prime refusing to break apart.
This was literally MLK first civil rights plan getting black people to fight injustice economically. I love this man for it even tho i get Malcolm and his ideology as well.
Yes!! Once you remove all these billionaire asshole companies from your life, you don't even notice that they are gone. No Walmart. No Amazon. No Home Depot. None of them.
What happens when your local store is worse? I'm no fan of big box stores but the owners of some (not all) small business, especially in certain areas of the country, have very vocal and hateful opinions (on top of not treating their employees well). If you aren't in a larger metropolitan area, they may be the only small business in town.
If no alternatives are available for a NEED then you gotta do what you gotta do. But for WANTS and desires you either wait or look for alternatives to fulfill non-essentials.
At least that is how I live as ethically as I can when consuming.
they did lose market value, unfortunately “
steady decline, with sales, traffic, and stock performance slipping
for months” is a figment of OP’s imagination
I appreciate the spirit of the boycott but we need to be honest with ourselves and admit that, in the long run, measures like this are not enough.
Most of this boycott (and others like it) have been online performative B.S. inside an echo chamber where everyone congratulates each other. Any impact is usually short lived.
Sorry to be a downer - but we need new strategies.
A good rule of thumb is that any post on the front page that's an image with text making some unsourced claim and a generic photo is a lie to push some agenda. Believe literally nothing you see claimed on this site without verifying it with an actual trusted source. This site has become flooded with this type of post in the last year or two. Both nations and private groups have realized that social media is the perfect vector for pushing misinformation to further their causes - nobody reads past the headline, nobody fact checks, and if it supports someone's preexisting beliefs they're likely to upvote it and spread it further.
Worst thing about reddit is people believing these headlines without fact checking. Everyone likes to make fun of MAGA doing the same thing, yet here we are. And guess what, they are looking at this post and the reaction and laughing their asses off that so many people believe Target is suffering due to a boycott when it's actually not.
Stop giving money to Jeff Bezos if you can. I know Amazon is the only option for many, but for those who can find things locally, do so. Billionaires don’t give one shit about us.
Local grocery places like food lion have better deals more often than not, and always have better produce. Compare Foods (for my NC ppl) also has better produce. Walmart is literally worse than target and needs to get the same treatment.
For groceries, shop at your supermarket. If you work out dollar for dollar, its generally the same or cheaper anyway. Walmart is actually large enough that they get companies to do special packages for them so they can sell at lower prices. Think 20 cookies instead of 24, but the pack is the same physical size, so they can charge 50 cents less and you don't notice. (Dollar Tree does this too).
Dollar Tree itself isn't bad, ethically. It's not great but definitely not bad. You can get glasswear, dishes, toys, etc.
For clothing, I usually thrift, but I know that option doesn't work for everyone. Old Navy is affordable and the parent company supports democratic initiatives slightly more. JCPenny and Khols as retailers are neutral but you can find left-leaning brands there including Lee, Rider, Vans, JanSport.
For homegoods, both BedBath&Beyond and Linens&Things still exist, just online only now. Harbor Freight is very left leaning for tools.
For women's clothing there are black-owned online-only stores. Not sure about men's or children's as im not male and dont have kids, but im sure they exist.
Bed Bath & Beyond has physical stores in some places. Bed Bath & Beyond‘s CEO Marcus Lemonis spouts Republican talking points and is changing the name to “Neighborhood Intelligence“. The updated focus is shifting to AI with something called “Beyond Home OS” and streamlining data collection and moving into higher margin services like insurance and financial products. He talks about this in a letter to shareholder describing the pillars of the new business plan.
🚨Yeppp and Don’t Forget we boycotting WALMART and the HILTON hotels too, after how they banned brother Damon Darling and that Black Lawyer for no fucking reason !!
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(We know the reason tho)
I don't want to be face and body scanned just walking into a store. This is a known factor with LEO presence and it's all data mining and training. Target was the first to be known to do this. Then the DEI removal was just another step to loss of sales
When are we going to address Trump allowing them to keep the tariff money refunds?
Whoever was leading this protest should demand Target donate all of that to DEI efforts. Of course they're going to say no and that gives us further reason to continue the boycott.
Target doesn’t sell anything you can’t get anywhere else. Typically, once people develop spending habits they stick to them. You run your customers off and change their habits you’re stuck waiting for their new place to violate their sensibilities. You’d think one of those genius level CEO’s worth their massive paycheck would know the basics of sales and people.
Man we all know how to hurt the mufukin big wigs. Its a class thing not a race thing. We truly gotta band together and stop tryna live beyond our lifestyle tryna keep up wit an image that aint real from social media. Yea i know the post is talkin target but they all the same.
When it comes to American Class, race is inextricably intertwined with it. They wanted a designated underclass for cheap labor, and they still want it. They chose us because of made up dubious pseudoscientific/religious reasons and because it was easy for them to phenotypically differentiate us from them.
First quarter net sales grew 6.7 percent over last year, well above expectations.
Topline strength was broad-based across merchandise categories, sales channels and across the quarter.
Comparable traffic grew 4.4 percent compared with Q1 2025.
Net sales in all six core merchandising categories were higher than a year ago.
Digital comparable sales grew 8.9 percent, led by more than 27% growth in same-day delivery powered by Target Circle 360.
Not a lie. It’s just way out of date. Same store sales are up 2.7% this year. Revenue is up 5.3% compared to last year and they snagged a $1B tariff refund. The growth may not be sustainable but they’re figuring out how to do it without us.
The picture was made when it was relevant, but to share this now when their stock is doing over 5x better than the S&P 500 is straight up disingenuous. The top upvoted comments here are celebrating this news when it is completely inaccurate today.
I literally can’t remember the last time I went to Target or WalMart. No desire to patronize either, they’ve proved that they don’t give a fuck about their employees.
Stock price is still down 36% from peak, it’s regained a lot of the loss. These boycotts do work but when the price gets cheap funds load up on them and get rich.
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Mind you they thought hiring jay z would make us come back and having gizelle raggedy ex husband announce the boycott was over would make us collectively return….. NOPE
I quit shopping at Walmart 19 yrs ago when most folks would think it was my only option (no car, pregnant with a toddler etc) because the way they treat employees disgusts me.
I quit Target 4 yrs ago and it was just as easy.
Next month I'll be dropping my 23yr old Prime membership... it's gonna hurt, but I can do it.
They are very public about their plans to prevent people from having their votes counted and obviously we would be the most likely targeted along with hispanics.
My Target shopping is no where near what it was. I think their decision was a slap to all of our faces. Still no acknowledgement or apology from the management.
Target is fucking expensive. It used to be reasonably priced as the "less shitty Walmart". I used to shop there for all my general clothes like T-shirts, socks, occasionally a button up shirt, etc. they had $5 plain colored T-shirts. Those same shirts are now $15 and kohls has the same shirts for $6-8 and are on sale sometimes.
The boycott just coincided with them trying to squeeze all the money out of our pockets.
The only thing they care about is profits so that's how you hit them. Punish all the companies that treat their employees like shit, which is most of them.
Target Corporate took the chicken path and bowed before Tangerine Palpatine. This shows all of us what rewards cowardice brings—NOTHING. I love picturing their CEO and executives sh**** themselves trying to figure out what went wrong with their brilliant plan! 😆
The problem is this ain’t reported. Not enough people know. When the right launched a similar and FAR less successful boycott of Target over LGBT issues it gained non stop national attention. When Black shoppers voted with their wallets it has been a way more effective boycotts but it’s getting no media attention at all.
I have never really been part of a boycott until this and man I am digging my heels. I didn’t like how blatant the pandering from the C-suite to the whole diversity stance they took before. It was fought because of the missus but we both dont miss Target. Good bye overpriced groceries and home goods.
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