Yes, Boycotts Work

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I also haven’t shopped at Target for months and see no reason to go back. I’ve also quit Amazon, using bookshop.org for books and looking at who’s selling what I need on Amazon and then buying directly from the company instead of Amazon. I’m willing to pay more to avoid Amazon. There are lots of us out here.

I think we get an Amazon box every day. We get free shipping where delivery is never more than 12 hours from purchase. The convenience factor is off the charts.

You willing to pay for convenience by living in a fascist country?

Not me.

DCUMVSA

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

They build their company on inclusivity. Your job is to serve your client base. Look at Costco. Doing great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

It didn't hurt Target either until it did, correct?

You can't control all aspects of the landscape.

DEI is inherently racist and bigoted. It's just racist against an "approved" race.

Everyone knows exactly what it is, but is afraid to call it what it is. Approved racism and theft in the name of social justice to a minority.

It should be treated as the pariah it is and it should be systematically attacked and dismantled.

+1000

BS. DEI is not racist and it's not illegal. An approved race? What in the nazi talk is that? Wanting an inclusive workforce is not racist. Being open to finding the best people for the job (meaning that you look for a broader workforce than white men) is not racist.

Diversity is not racist. Discrimination against anyone is already illegal. Broadening your scope of potential workers is not.

Read a book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

This. It's not hard to stay morally consistent with the stances you've taken and the customer base you've cultivated. The mistake is trying to have it both ways. They want liberal money (because MAGA is broke) but they also want Trumpism. Can't have both.

The "stances" are not moral.

Don't put DEI on one side of the equation and Trump on the other. There's a whole lot of people against it, not just Trump and MAGA.

When people know what it is, they are uncomfortable with the reverse racism.

No, it's definitely a moral issue. I support the uplift of people of color because I understand that we live in a white supremacist society that will not do so without specific effort to combat its natural tendency toward white supremacy. If you think reverse racism is real, you do not understand racism, or likely do not care to. And I very much find your stance as immoral as I do ignorant.

All BS. You see white supremacy under the bed.

And you play on it to extract monetary concessions from others.

You can't measure racism, and according to you, it will never end. The grift is all about the $$$ to you.

You are the ignorant one.

Hostile much? Playing the victim are you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boycotts have minimal long-term impact.

If anything, companies mention them in regulatory filings as a convenient scapegoat to explain weaker than expected earnings or to signal to activists that they’re “listening.”

Black people are never going back to Targe en masse. That ship has sailed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

NP: 7% net increase in sales. That’s a lot for a company as big as Costco. And massive membership renewals at 90%.
Sounds good by most standards — and definitely indicative of continuing improvements. Costco has done well — and now they’re doing even better.


https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/05/22/costco-doubles-down-on-dei-and-benefits

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

NP: 7% net increase in sales. That’s a lot for a company as big as Costco. And massive membership renewals at 90%.
Sounds good by most standards — and definitely indicative of continuing improvements. Costco has done well — and now they’re doing even better.


https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/05/22/costco-doubles-down-on-dei-and-benefits

This is from 2022. 92.6% of people renewed then too. The retention rate for members has always been very high. Costco provides a great value to customers. It’s no wonder they are doing well. I’m just not so sure it can be teased out how much DEI has to do with this. My Costco (the one is Sterling, VA) is one of the highest volume Costos in the country. It is always bustling. But that has been true forever.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/costco-puts-off-membership-fee-increase-renewals-hit-all-time-highs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eventually, you will pay for your "convenience" with a loss of your constitutional rights.

Which of my constitutional rights are you protecting by letting your Amazon Prime membership lapse?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

No, their stock is up SIGNIFICANTLY since January.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

NP: 7% net increase in sales. That’s a lot for a company as big as Costco. And massive membership renewals at 90%.
Sounds good by most standards — and definitely indicative of continuing improvements. Costco has done well — and now they’re doing even better.


https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/05/22/costco-doubles-down-on-dei-and-benefits

This is from 2022. 92.6% of people renewed then too. The retention rate for members has always been very high. Costco provides a great value to customers. It’s no wonder they are doing well. I’m just not so sure it can be teased out how much DEI has to do with this. My Costco (the one is Sterling, VA) is one of the highest volume Costos in the country. It is always bustling. But that has been true forever.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/costco-puts-off-membership-fee-increase-renewals-hit-all-time-highs

What are you talking about. The first article is from May 22, 2025.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

They build their company on inclusivity. Your job is to serve your client base. Look at Costco. Doing great.

I stopped shopping at Target in January; as a woman DEI also includes me.

Now my weekly habit of shopping at Target, an picking up things I don't need as well as those that we do, has been broken and I am not going back.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

NP: 7% net increase in sales. That’s a lot for a company as big as Costco. And massive membership renewals at 90%.
Sounds good by most standards — and definitely indicative of continuing improvements. Costco has done well — and now they’re doing even better.


https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/05/22/costco-doubles-down-on-dei-and-benefits

This is from 2022. 92.6% of people renewed then too. The retention rate for members has always been very high. Costco provides a great value to customers. It’s no wonder they are doing well. I’m just not so sure it can be teased out how much DEI has to do with this. My Costco (the one is Sterling, VA) is one of the highest volume Costos in the country. It is always bustling. But that has been true forever.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/costco-puts-off-membership-fee-increase-renewals-hit-all-time-highs

What are you talking about. The first article is from May 22, 2025.

The article I posted is from 2022 when the renewal rate was just as high as now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

No, their stock is up SIGNIFICANTLY since January.

Stock prices go up when…more people buy that stock.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Target's mistake was ever pushing DEI in the first place.

Let that be a lesson. Don't venture in to that territory.

If a bisexual wants to buy a t shirt, it's on the shelf. If they don't, it's on the shelf.

It’s certainly not hurting Costco.

YES! Every time I shop at Costco, it's packed!! People are voting with their feet.

Costco has been packed for 20+ years. Are you new?

NP: 7% net increase in sales. That’s a lot for a company as big as Costco. And massive membership renewals at 90%.
Sounds good by most standards — and definitely indicative of continuing improvements. Costco has done well — and now they’re doing even better.


https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/05/22/costco-doubles-down-on-dei-and-benefits

This is from 2022. 92.6% of people renewed then too. The retention rate for members has always been very high. Costco provides a great value to customers. It’s no wonder they are doing well. I’m just not so sure it can be teased out how much DEI has to do with this. My Costco (the one is Sterling, VA) is one of the highest volume Costos in the country. It is always bustling. But that has been true forever.


https://www.foxbusiness.com/lifestyle/costco-puts-off-membership-fee-increase-renewals-hit-all-time-highs

Fair point. Anecdotally, though, I know a LOT of people who have stepped back from shopping at Target — who have also made a point of increasing their purchases at Costco. I’m not up for doing a path analysis to tease out the variables, so I’ll simply say that it’s nice to see the good guys with good business practices and good values continue to prosper. I think that’s worth celebrating.