Is the Target Boycott Really Effective?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the Target boycott was working this weekend. My Target was packed for the Kate Spade drop and also for Easter & spring break shopping.

First time I've been there in 2025 where the store was actually busy and there were long lines at the checkouts. The store also had both sides of self-checkouts open, which I haven't seen since Christmastime.

And yes, I am boycotting Target, but my elderly parents don't care, which is who I take weekly. Target is the cheapest place for them to get a few healthcare items with the Red Card.

Well, Target is laying people off due to low sales. So it's working somewhere even if your one store was full that time you visited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the Target boycott was working this weekend. My Target was packed for the Kate Spade drop and also for Easter & spring break shopping.

First time I've been there in 2025 where the store was actually busy and there were long lines at the checkouts. The store also had both sides of self-checkouts open, which I haven't seen since Christmastime.

And yes, I am boycotting Target, but my elderly parents don't care, which is who I take weekly. Target is the cheapest place for them to get a few healthcare items with the Red Card.

Well, Target is laying people off due to low sales. So it's working somewhere even if your one store was full that time you visited.

Nah don't let facts get in the way of anecdotes!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the Target boycott was working this weekend. My Target was packed for the Kate Spade drop and also for Easter & spring break shopping.

First time I've been there in 2025 where the store was actually busy and there were long lines at the checkouts. The store also had both sides of self-checkouts open, which I haven't seen since Christmastime.

And yes, I am boycotting Target, but my elderly parents don't care, which is who I take weekly. Target is the cheapest place for them to get a few healthcare items with the Red Card.

Wow, three talking points in one post. Kate Spade is a zombie brand. The earnings call also hyped Easter merchandise, but really the boycott breaks exactly now? And, name checking Red Card. The elderly who can't drive, always a key demographic, too bad the layoffs started before they arrived.

[Anonymous]

Boycotting target has opened my eyes to other stores. Like I used to be addicted to the cheap toys near the self checkout lines (use them for a prize box for my special needs kid), but it turns out Five Below is way better for this.

[Anonymous]

I question all these viral boycotts. Especially when a public company is involved, I assume there are huge hedge funds manipulating this sort of stuff who make billions shorting the stock.

[Anonymous]

I’m going strong since January. Have convinced a few friends too. If Target wants its customers back, it knows what to do…and is refusing. I would hate to see it go out of business because I like it, but I will not purchase a single thing there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I question all these viral boycotts. Especially when a public company is involved, I assume there are huge hedge funds manipulating this sort of stuff who make billions shorting the stock.

Hmm, huge hedge funds might manipulate public opinion, yet public opinion doesn’t really exist organically? Target stock has been declining steadily for years, not the hallmark of manipulation. Flailing leadership is the sufficient explanation. You believe in masters of the universe, but haven’t heard of incompetence?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I question all these viral boycotts. Especially when a public company is involved, I assume there are huge hedge funds manipulating this sort of stuff who make billions shorting the stock.

Hmm, huge hedge funds might manipulate public opinion, yet public opinion doesn’t really exist organically? Target stock has been declining steadily for years, not the hallmark of manipulation. Flailing leadership is the sufficient explanation. You believe in masters of the universe, but haven’t heard of incompetence?

Speaking of flailing leadership, have you noticed the garbage occupying The White House since January 2017? Perhaps we should boycott elderly presidents.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't think the Target boycott was working this weekend. My Target was packed for the Kate Spade drop and also for Easter & spring break shopping.

First time I've been there in 2025 where the store was actually busy and there were long lines at the checkouts. The store also had both sides of self-checkouts open, which I haven't seen since Christmastime.

And yes, I am boycotting Target, but my elderly parents don't care, which is who I take weekly. Target is the cheapest place for them to get a few healthcare items with the Red Card.

Mine had a fair number of cars this weekend but nothing near what it has been in year's past the week before Easter. So I see your anecdote, and raise you mine.

[Anonymous]

Lots of Target layoffs are happening. My niece was let go. She's been working at Target since 2020. She was one of 28 at her store.

She knows of similar layoffs at their nearby stores.

Target corporate has reduced payroll for her store every week since January. One week she only had 14 hours. The store she worked at also cut overnight stockers. Stocking is now mostly being done during the day by day associates.

She's sad she was let go but also relieved because she said it's been so stressful the past few months. Payroll was cut but corporate's expectations weren't cut. Stores were still being dinged for pick-up orders taking too long in both the associate picking the items and also the associates delivering them to the cars upon arrival. My niece said at one point she and the other pickers were picking 2-3 orders at one time as ordered by the manager so that the orders didn't get flagged for being stale (or whatever it is she called it that Target calls it).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lots of Target layoffs are happening. My niece was let go. She's been working at Target since 2020. She was one of 28 at her store.

She knows of similar layoffs at their nearby stores.

Target corporate has reduced payroll for her store every week since January. One week she only had 14 hours. The store she worked at also cut overnight stockers. Stocking is now mostly being done during the day by day associates.

She's sad she was let go but also relieved because she said it's been so stressful the past few months. Payroll was cut but corporate's expectations weren't cut. Stores were still being dinged for pick-up orders taking too long in both the associate picking the items and also the associates delivering them to the cars upon arrival. My niece said at one point she and the other pickers were picking 2-3 orders at one time as ordered by the manager so that the orders didn't get flagged for being stale (or whatever it is she called it that Target calls it).

God, it’s just crazy. This is of their own making. Just like Trump is willfully crashing the economy. If they are stupid, they need to fail. I really thought businesses like Target were going to save us. That businesses would do the right thing because consumers demanded it.

Let them be a warning to others.

Honestly, I should start a thread about boycotting Schwab. Insider trading while their customers lost $$. I’ll be leaving them this summer. They deserve to go to jail.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I question all these viral boycotts. Especially when a public company is involved, I assume there are huge hedge funds manipulating this sort of stuff who make billions shorting the stock.

Hmm, huge hedge funds might manipulate public opinion, yet public opinion doesn’t really exist organically? Target stock has been declining steadily for years, not the hallmark of manipulation. Flailing leadership is the sufficient explanation. You believe in masters of the universe, but haven’t heard of incompetence?

Seriously. They don't even know who their customers are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I question all these viral boycotts. Especially when a public company is involved, I assume there are huge hedge funds manipulating this sort of stuff who make billions shorting the stock.

Hmm, huge hedge funds might manipulate public opinion, yet public opinion doesn’t really exist organically? Target stock has been declining steadily for years, not the hallmark of manipulation. Flailing leadership is the sufficient explanation. You believe in masters of the universe, but haven’t heard of incompetence?

Speaking of flailing leadership, have you noticed the garbage occupying The White House since January 2017? Perhaps we should boycott elderly presidents.

He can't drive either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I question all these viral boycotts. Especially when a public company is involved, I assume there are huge hedge funds manipulating this sort of stuff who make billions shorting the stock.

I’m going to guess the old white dudes who run hedge funds do not have a pulse on what would make women boycott Target. These people are in their own echo chamber and think everyone hates DEI.

Also, I’m not boycotting because it’s viral. I’m boycotting because I heard the news and don’t want to go there anymore, it feels like a betrayal. I don’t think anything would be that different for me even if it wasn’t a thing I saw a video about on TikTok every now and then.

[Anonymous]

There’s a target boycott? Where?