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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think what companies are learning is to never try to appease the left. Target wouldn't be in this position if they'd stayed neutral. [/quote]

Stores have a target audience(s). (Pun intended.) People who fall outside of that may still shop there. Target betrayed its primary audience. What’s so difficult to understand? [/quote]

It's target audience is people looking to spend money. It's not a political organization. Liberals are not its target audience. Thanks for listening to my talk on capitalism. [/quote]

Except…yes they were. Target positioned itself to be popular with liberals— contrasting itself to WalMart, paying marginally better, being overtly progressive, positioning itself in city centers.

If the people who care about those things stop shopping in your stores, well, it’s a long drive from the places people who don’t care about those things live and they don’t tend to have the same disposable income…[/quote]

I'm telling you that this is a dumb business strategy, as Target has no doubt learned. They could have just continued to position themselves as a more upscale and fashionable Walmart and they would not have had this issue. Costco never did a fraction of the things that Target did to support the progressive movement, and which one of them is coming out on top? The moment you declare a business to have a political affiliation, you alienate half the population and then become entirely beholden to the other half, who will now have you by the balls. The left has Target by the balls and is hurting for it. The right hates it, the left finds its leftism insufficiently "authentic" and it's distracted from its central mission of supplying food and textiles. [/quote]

Costco has long had the reputation that it treats its workers well, which is a core progressive value.[/quote]

Treating workers well isn't politically controversial. Target never celebrated pride month. Not once. They do not sell products primarily targeted at trans people or at one minority race. They sell products with broad appeal and do not participate publicly in any identity months. Target was basically the epicenter of pride month and its advertising was overtly identity-politics based to appeal to progressives.

Any way you cut it, Target deciding to lean so far to the left has been disastrous. Other companies are now seeing the truth of "go woke, go broke."  Once the progressives have a company in their vice grip, they will squeeze them til they break. [/quote]

If treating workers well isn’t controversial, why do we let the Walmarts and Amazons of the world treat their workers like crap?[/quote]

Because we like cheap stuff. But if you ask any American, "hey should workers be treated well?" they will all say yes. Hence, it's not controversial.  What's controversial is the higher prices that result. [/quote]

Please,  be serious.

The right is laying veterans off, mass-firing/rehiring, went through this whole DOGE insanity, had Elon Musk spreading lies about workers standing in the Oval Office. Meanwhile, Tesla famously treats its workers like garbage. And the MAGA crowd frothed at the mouth and ate it up until they started getting fired too.

So no, it’s no longer the case that treating workers well isn’t politically controversial. [/quote]

This is not relevant to consumer behavior. There's no group of consumers refusing to patronize a store because their PTO is too generous. You need to differentiate between politics and business in order to understand consumer behavior. [/quote]

It’s extremely relevant if you have any knowledge of the labor movement in the U.S.

Are you old enough to remember “look for the union label?” That was a political statement about not buying from people who exploited workers. Right to work laws were passed specifically for the purpose of letting people attack generous benefits and decent salaries.

When people started being outraged at wal marts poverty wages and the taxpayer subsidy they received, who touted their great employee benefits? Target. [/quote]

Ok. I'll play your game. What businesses are conservatives boycotting for being too kind to their employees? [/quote]

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