Over the past couple of years, Target (TGT) has lost an amazing 56% of its value. That’s perfectly fine if they were a wildly-overvalued biotech startup, but this is one of the oldest, largest retail chains on the planet, so that kind of performance is pretty damned embarrassing.
This occurred to me, because I was required to go to Target this morning to pick up a variety of items. This was my second time in all of 2023 to do so. The prior instance, I wrote with amazement at the dreadful subjects they used for their photo models.
I was wondering if anything had changed since I was there last. On the contrary, it was worse. I took these photos in the store just minutes ago………
Now, look. Let me just ask: what is the POINT of this? What is the POINT?
Is it to promote inclusion? Sensitivity? Kindness? Perhaps.
But this is a business. And I thought the purpose of a business was to promote sales for the ultimate benefit of the shareholders. The individuals pictured above are being featured on HUGE posters ostensibly for the purpose of driving product sales.
Is it working? Is management in possession of data which objectively illustrates that these images actually compel people to buy more product? Maybe. But I really, really doubt it.
Look, people have all kinds of problems, both physical and mental. Some people have dripping wounds that won’t heal. Others are quadruple amputees. Still others have horrifying gum disease. These people exist. But do I want 20-foot tall posters shoved into my face featuring them? At the risk of seeming unkind, NO, I do not. Sorry!
And I wasn’t so bad-looking in my younger days. Where was my modeling gig??? I’m still available, Target!
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Why?
99% of the time “WHY?” is the most important factor. “How” comes in as a secondary question, but the “WHY?” tells you the motivation. It lets you know if the actions flow from a friend or from an enemy.
I lobby everyone I know not to shop at Target and I know I succeed more than I fail. Target needs to die.
Took photos at Walmart of the same type crap.
Not a white family in a single image.
No white males.
White females with black males…
The store itself?..hardly any customers.
I was looking for a polo shirt with a pocket in a normal color…..nope…all pastel fruitloops colors fit for a male queen.
Macy’s is 100% “metrosexual” in their colors, etc.
I pretty much get all my clothes at Cabela’s or Fleet Farm now. Don’t like the gang prison look, the flaming gay look or the kooky metro sexual look. Farm and outdoors man look suits me best.
At 72,i occasionally wear a decent shirt to please my wife. Otherwise it’s a black T-shirt with my jeans. I have a lifetime supply of black T-shirts.
I told my wife and daughter to bury me in my jeans and a t-shirt. Also to play Bob Seger’s ‘Roll Me Away’ as they roll my casket out of the church.
The miracle of mercan capitalism !
very opposite from northern Idaho stores…..all packed, no negro/mullato crap……..just normal chink junk with very little advertising.
The correct word order, as usual, is ‘to not’. Killing a legal fiction is not winning a war. *smh*
No. Split infinitive is incorrect.
Herd animals follow instructions. Humans are capable of logically correct expression. My ideas are more important to me than your grammar rules.
“When you’re in doubt, avoiding the split can’t hurt, but don’t ruin a perfectly clear and natural-sounding sentence just to adhere to an arbitrary anti-splitting rule.”
Source:
If the idea was effectively exchanged, the communication was sufficient.
Bought 4 inexpensive (sorta plastic) Adirondack chairs w/ a cup & cell phone holder earlier this year, 1st time in a Target in 10+ years. It was disgusting. And the shoppers resembled those pix. Afro-America appears literally to be their target market. Pun intended.
“Afro-America appears literally to be their target market. “
You may have already seen this bit going around:
Why so many Africans, Lesbians, Gays, and Left-handed Albanian Monotremes in the ads? I can see three possible reasons:
1) That really is the demographic that the vendors want to reach.
2) The people creating the advertisements really believe that they are appealing to the masses, i.e., they believe that half the marriages in the US are inter-racial, etc.
3) Ding ding ding! The real reason! There is a coordinated and thoughtful program in place to destroy Western culture and White people in general.
They are creating the market to sell to via endless repetition.
The old bend and snap or bait and switch….”works every time”
TTN-
Sweetie retired from the C-Suite at ING Americas 10 yrs. ago (spun off as VOYA). ING was owned by the Dutch PO, and their execs that came to ATL from Holland were convinced beforehand that the US was 50/50 B/W.
Anyone would just naturally think it was 50/50, maybe even 60/40 Black.
Well, they would think that if they were reading mostly crime reports and police blotters. Or unwed mother statistics. Or High School illiteracy rates.
Its all readily available online if you are not to lazy to look for it. While lib sites might tell you the truth, they will always try to spin it to make the minorities look greater than they really are in numbers.
Bollocks 1% are transgender (whatever that is). More like 0,01%, or less, I’d guess.
“Afro-America appears literally to be their target market.”
afro-america gets the 100% off sale.
Inducing thief’s to patronize you retail business makes little sense, especially where the government has made retail theft legal up to $1000 dollars a day.
As far as I know only in California.
Return it or get AIDS .
ZL-
It absorbed our wonderful Lowcountry sunshine and killed all HIV. OOPS, HIV doesn’t cause AIDS, sorry.
Fauci & AZT do, and neither have been on our property.
vitiligo isn’t going to bring in the blacks. It’s for people who stand (figuratively) for the differently-abled ungendered otherkin.
The point is to turn everything ugly.
I think you are on to something, GNL. What I think they want is Western and secondarily other not-them psychological impotence. No sense of self. No sense of other. No sense of beauty. No sense of ugliness. War is peace. Ignorance is strength. Slavery is freedom. The extinction of perception of distinction is the death of sentience and personal will. They want us to not know who ‘we’ are. An utter kill without directly spilling one drop of blood.
What a perverse people to specialize for this militant way of life and nothing else. The Books of Esther, Ezra, and Nehemiah were written no later than 200 BCE, and the Book of Daniel was written circa 164 BCE, before the Khazars and the Cabala existed. These people are the product of evolution within ancient empires, and they can do nothing else: Neo-Babylonian Empire, Achaemenian Persian Empire, Seleucid Empire, Roman Empire, Germany of Martin Luther that became Third Reich, Russian Empire, Spanish Empire, Dutch Empire, British Empire, U.S. Empire. Cultural and psychological degeneracy everywhere they go for more than two millennia. They have literally put stumbling stones in our path.
“What I think they want is Western and secondarily not-them psychological impotence. No sense of self. No sense of other. No sense of beauty. No sense of ugliness. War is peace. Ignorance is Strength. Slavery is freedom. The extinction of perception of distinction is the death of sentience and personal will. “
Yes, well said. One of the best paragraphs I have read today. I am reminded of the related idea quoted below:
“In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One’s standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.” – Theodore Dalrymple
Nolan, you got principles. I respect you for that. I wish we could agree more, but that is my problem times virtually everyone.
P.S. You read and replied whilst I was editing. Damn quick. I added ‘other’ because Western is part of the other for them.
“Diversity is our strength”, The economy is coming back… Employ is up”, etc. for some examples.
Exactly- nothing happens by accident. And “Joe Biden” isn’t dumb or demented. He is a replacement actor playing a part. Ever notice how every President since Clinton has been an obvious fake and more sadsack than the previous iteration. They are just fucking with you. Kamala Harris as VP.. come on. They don’t even try to hide their contempt for you. Please vote harder next time.
All Presidents are selected and puppets- it’s just that they not only don’t hide it any more, they purposely make it obvious.
I enjoy your comments doug very much but you can’t ever know thyself because you can’t know all thought which we are born from. What they want is to kill the ability to persue the knowing of thyself which leads to empathy
Thanks, Maty. If I understand your comment correctly, you believe humans are not self-contained in design or purpose or some other fundamental way. I strongly believe in individualism in the context of earthly meritocracy. Context is not self-contained, that’s true. I don’t leap from there to theology. Most here do, as we know. I attribute such convictions to herd shibboleth. If you mean cultural transmission as an accumulation of value, certainly for high culture people, then yes, that is fundamental. Reinventing that wheel would take millennia and it would not be the same. Maybe I don’t know what you mean.
BINGO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I don’t know any racist Targets.
Lol
Weimar Germany had degenerate art. American now has degenerate advertising. I wonder what the common denominator is? Hmm, can’t seem to put my finger on it…
They are literally debasing whites on all fronts.
It’s the jews.
No shit Surlock. Tell us something we don’t know.
……….and educated White wimmen.
If only there was some sort of struggle book to guide us.
Mein Kampf?
Ugly is beautiful. Just look at modern art. They want to demonize anything pretty or normal or natural. The people behind this are very unhappy beings.
You should have posted the pictures of the ghettopotamuses they are using for models. They are a lot more gross than those with skin pigmentation problems.
What they are telling blacks with those photos is that they will be ugly if they mix with whites.
Of course this implies that they were ugly without any white input already.
Besides blaring unbearable girlie automaton ‘songs’ that sound computer generated, I found it mask nazified and the entrance so unbreathably chemically stunkified during my one attempted visit early in the scamdemic that I refused to enter and will never go back this lifetime.
I didnt know “SPECKLED NIGGERS” was a thing.
Oh yeah, using my Aggie as a shooter, I won two tigers, three cats eyes, and a bumblebee at the playground..
Childhood diabetes – happens to YT also
I can’t think of another company that has stepped in it as frequently and without ever learning a lesson the way Target has. The data breech in 2013 (the largest in history), the transexual bathroom push in 2016, to dumping their My Pillow because of TDS in 2020, to making sure everyone entering the store can now have their eyes scorched with their gigantic posters of obese monsters in slave made underwear glowering down at the impoverished customer base.
It would be hard to imagine a company doing more to destroy their brand.
Frowning? Scowling or grimacing at customers would be more like it. Anything to increase the humiliation and mockery factor of the presentation because they hate you, me and everything else not Woke (Communist .)
Fuck Target and FJB.
I glare at people in public………….most keep their distance…………I like that !
If that doesn’t work,start vigorously scratching. As a young college student in Columbia,SC; i always got my own seat on the bus.
I recall their disastrous venture into Canuckistan. It was their fist foray into international expansion and it was an absolute disaster. Starting in 2013, they took over the bankrupt Zellers locations. They opened up 113 stores in 10 months but they failed to understand the “America’s poor cousin” marketplace and the operational and logistical problems of operating in a protected, monopolistic commercial/political environment with costly, poorly operated and limited supply chains. $4.1 Billion in after tax losses in just one year. All stores closed by 2015.
The main lesson being – this company is run by idiots.
Only 10% of the people in the world are white. And they are coming for us!
Less than 10% of a giant redwood tree is needles. But that is the part that feeds the whole tree.
And guess what happens when you cut all those needles off?
That’s what the Board of Directors is for, to hold the CEO and the company accountable. The BOD is failing a their fiduciary responsibilities.
Of course institutional investors won’t sue!
No, the BOD is not failing their true masters- and it ain’t the chump mom and pop investors. As long as everyone does what Blackrock wants they all keep their fat jobs and stock options. Buck the narrative and you are out on the street. Same same with all the medical personel that pushed the poison. They all sell their souls for a few shekels.
The system sucks them all in then springs the trap- same for all of us to some extent. We all have our sins to atone for – just some are much larger then others.
Engineered destruction.
The masters don’t care about profits- they already own everything of value. More important to push the narrative. So if you don’t buy from Target, Walmart, Amazon etc. They don’t care because soon you will own nothing and be happy- or dead. I’m sure they prefer dead.
With a little due diligence, the American people could bankrupt every corporation in the US and return the power back to the people. That should be the goal of every American.
First thing to do is to speak out loudly, both in public and online. Lots of good people stay quiet because think they are alone, and that they will be kicked out of the herd. Let them know that they ARE the herd. Don’t hesitate to be the fart in the liberal elevator. Why should you care what the f**king genocidal communist traitors think about you?
Target is based in Minnesota
That is all you need to know.
I live in Minnesota. Target is a perfect representation of us.
I have NEVER shopped at Target, ever. The closest one is about thirty miles give or take a bit. Between here and there I have two Wal Mart stores, three Dollar General / Family Dollar stores, a Tractor Supply and an Atwood’s, plus countless Grocery stores and smaller shops of all kinds. Target just ain’t on my list of places to go.
Only three Dollar Generals in 30 miles?
Haven’t set foot in a Target for years. Is there a world’s ugliest contest in progress?
Oh come on Americanism is fascinated by its freaks always has been. Crikey that black guys face looks like my dunny bowl after the splats from a gut bug. Yuk.
I think there is an unspoken condemnation in ads like these.
As if to say, “we never promoted mulattos before because of your prejudice”. If they promote amputees, it will be same implicit condemnation. Shame on us it seems to say, for all those years we endured looking at beautiful people.
What they don’t know is, many of us have always ignored their ads.
I was done with Wallymart a decade back, and Target even further back. I go to Tractor Supply, Cabelas, Bass Pro Shops and any sporting goods store that doesn’t have DICK in its name. I changed the dress code at my business to jeans/khakis cuz everything on the rack was made in far away places and too expensive.
Now we got wokeism, ESG, DEI…etc and none of those have in any way, shape or form been good for business. I sincerely hope the copoarations embracing this nonsense do go broke – give someone else room in the marketplace. I’m tired of things actually turning out like the Disney movie WALL-E…
Kick ’em in the nuts on their way down folks – they earned it.
Wall-E was an under appreciated masterpiece.So was Idiocracy. P.S. Dicks pissed off enough gun owners that the store in my town closed.
https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TSCO/holders/
vanguard, blackrock, state street, etc.
cabelas is bass pro
Don’t forget that Target’s uhh,target audience is female. You can sell cat shyte to women if you can convince them the supply is limited,and other women want it.
I haven’t set foot in Target since the tuck swimsuit fiasco. Never did care for their merchandise anyway, usually only went into the store to get a prescription at CVS. CVS has plenty of stand alone stores by me too, the one in Target was just the closest.