Current Events > upset the majority to please the less than one percent and this is what happens

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https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/target-boycott-cost-more-anyone-141019006.html
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@theleft

COME ON DOWN
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Nobody intelligent is against Target in this. There is no real downside.

OctilIery posted...

Nobody intelligent is against Target in this. There is no real downside.

Sales fell nearly 6% in the three quarters after the post compared with the same period last year, and same-store sales have dropped every quarter since the post.

A real downside
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Medz8606 posted...

OctilIery posted...

Nobody intelligent is against Target in this. There is no real downside.

Sales fell nearly 6% in the three quarters after the post compared with the same period last year, and same-store sales have dropped every quarter since the post.

A real downside

Octillery has no use for bigots' money.
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ThePrinceFish posted...

Medz8606 posted...

OctilIery posted...

Nobody intelligent is against Target in this. There is no real downside.

Sales fell nearly 6% in the three quarters after the post compared with the same period last year, and same-store sales have dropped every quarter since the post.

A real downside

Octillery has no use for bigots' money.

Target learning this lesson the hard way
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Medz8606 posted...

OctilIery posted...

Nobody intelligent is against Target in this. There is no real downside.

Sales fell nearly 6% in the three quarters after the post compared with the same period last year, and same-store sales have dropped every quarter since the post.

A real downside

Yes, and everyone boycotting them is an idiot.

OctilIery posted...

Medz8606 posted...

OctilIery posted...

Nobody intelligent is against Target in this. There is no real downside.

Sales fell nearly 6% in the three quarters after the post compared with the same period last year, and same-store sales have dropped every quarter since the post.

A real downside

Yes, and everyone boycotting them is an idiot.

Why?
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A) Nobody cares, fuck bigots and their miserable shit existences
B) Correlation =/= causation. Retail sales always slump in election years, especially the last half of the year.
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excuse me if i get my stereotypes mixed up, but i get the feeling that the kind of people who approves of their incusivity move, aren't the kind of people who regularly shops at Target. and the people who often do shop there, are the kind of people who disapproves of that kind of stuff.
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ROBANN_88 posted...

excuse me if i get my stereotypes mixed up, but i get the feeling that the kind of people who approves of their incusivity move, aren't the kind of people who regularly shops at Target. and the people who often do shop there, are the kind of people who disapproves of that kind of stuff.

Uhh...what?

Target's clientele probably skews more liberal, young, and inclusive, compared to say Walmart.
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i see.
for some reason i must have been thinking it was similar to Walmart

nevermind me, then
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ROBANN_88 posted...

i see.
for some reason i must have been thinking it was similar to Walmart

nevermind me, then

Yeah I forgot you were Swedish. Target generally has a reputation of being the classier more respectable version of Walmart
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I actually expected a lot more than 6%.
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I bet that you can see this same slump in other retailers who have bathroom policies. I don't see any evidence that this slump is actually related to Targets bathroom policy. Nobody is even aware of it.
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Target has been facing a decline in sales long before the bathroom policy.
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Twinmold posted...

I bet that you can see this same slump in other retailers who have bathroom policies. I don't see any evidence that this slump is actually related to Targets bathroom policy. Nobody is even aware of it.

It's likely not.

DevsBro posted...

I actually expected a lot more than 6%.

Why? You think bigoted rednecks make up any significant portion of Target's clientele? Not in my experience.
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So they're hated if they do, hated if they don't. You can't win with these social issues, it's ridiculous. Sad world when ignorance is honestly the best route.
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They keep alluding to a policy, but they never actually state what it is. I'm sorry, but just what is the policy? Men and women can use the same restroom now? Or are they just stating that trans people can use the restroom of their gender rather than their birth sex?

jenningsnash313 posted...

So they're hated if they do, hated if they don't. You can't win with these social issues, it's ridiculous. Sad world when ignorance is honestly the best route.

"Hated if they don't?"

It was always their policy to let people use the bathroom of their choice. There's only one side hating here.
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It shouldn't upset the majority though.
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Dragonblade01 posted...

It shouldn't upset the majority though.

It also doesn't. A few geriatric rednecks are upset by it, not remotely the majority, or their "boycott" would've done something.
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