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your statement is easily proven to be total BS by a single press release: https://corporate.target.com/press/statement/2023/09/target-closes-select-stores-to-p

your statement is easily proven to be total BS by a single press release: https://corporate.target.com/press/statement/2023/09/target-closes-select-stores-to-prioritize-team-member-and-guest-safety https://corporate.target.com/press/statement/2023/09/target-...

jquery 3y ago
Umm, I'm familiar with one of those locations that closed. It had very little parking, was extremely understaffed (1 active cashier working slowly...), and didn't have much foot traffic. There weren't any bags to put my stuff in when I checked out. It was such a poor experience I never went back there, despite it being the Target nearest to me. I was zero percent surprised when I heard it closed for good. Businesses and business franchises fail all the time in cities, Target is no exception. In other words the press release is just dodging responsibility.
- waihtis 3y ago
  I'm also familiar with one of the locations that closed. While I was shopping, it was raided by 80 people who also acted violently towards the patrons. It was such a poor experience I never went back there, despite it being the Target nearest to me. I was zero percent surprised when I heard it closed for good.
  - jquery 3y ago
    Aping the style of my comment and being vague on any details makes it sound like you're just lying. :-/
    - waihtis 3y ago
      Guilty as charged.
greedo 3y ago
You do realize that this has been shown to be absolutely false? That losses due to shoplifting were used as BS justifications to shut down stores? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli... https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-lobbyists-retract-key-claim-organized-retail-crime-2023-12-06/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-l...
- waihtis 3y ago
  Neither of your articles says what you are claiming. Have you yourself read the articles you're linking?
  - greedo 3y ago
    So Target claiming their closing stores across the nation due to their lies about shoplifting etc doesn't connect in your mind to this? https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-store-closures/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-... "Target is closing nine stores in major cities across four states, claiming theft and organized retail crime have made the environment unsafe for staff and customers – and unsustainable for business." Yet the NYT article says: "Target’s chief financial officer, Michael Fiddelke, said shrinkage had reduced the company’s profit margin by more than $400 million in 2022," as justification for closing stores. Yet their data was BS as shown in the NYT article.
digging 3y ago
...which also "proves" that cops aren't doing jack shit about organized looting, so that's no longer a useful argument.
- waihtis 3y ago
  Of course they aren't, when apprehending a violent suspect in the "wrong way" may land you jobless and in jail. The looters and other criminals are operating under a protection racket run by the so-called democrats, see for example: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-dean-preston-socialist-capitalism-sf-crime-drug-18549549.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-dean-preston-socia...
  - autoexec 3y ago
    > Of course they aren't, when apprehending a violent suspect in the "wrong way" may land you jobless and in jail. If the "wrong way" means beating them while handcuffed or choking them to death then I don't see what the problem is. Any police officer who is too scared to do their job because they don't think they can even stop a shoplifter without violating that person's rights isn't cut out to be a cop and shouldn't have the job in the first place.

jquery 3y ago

Umm, I'm familiar with one of those locations that closed. It had very little parking, was extremely understaffed (1 active cashier working slowly...), and didn't have much foot traffic. There weren't any bags to put my stuff in when I checked out. It was such a poor experience I never went back there, despite it being the Target nearest to me. I was zero percent surprised when I heard it closed for good. Businesses and business franchises fail all the time in cities, Target is no exception. In other words the press release is just dodging responsibility.

waihtis 3y ago
I'm also familiar with one of the locations that closed. While I was shopping, it was raided by 80 people who also acted violently towards the patrons. It was such a poor experience I never went back there, despite it being the Target nearest to me. I was zero percent surprised when I heard it closed for good.
- jquery 3y ago
  Aping the style of my comment and being vague on any details makes it sound like you're just lying. :-/
  - waihtis 3y ago
    Guilty as charged.

greedo 3y ago

You do realize that this has been shown to be absolutely false? That losses due to shoplifting were used as BS justifications to shut down stores? https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shoplifting.html https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli... https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-lobbyists-retract-key-claim-organized-retail-crime-2023-12-06/ https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/us-retail-l...

waihtis 3y ago
Neither of your articles says what you are claiming. Have you yourself read the articles you're linking?
- greedo 3y ago
  So Target claiming their closing stores across the nation due to their lies about shoplifting etc doesn't connect in your mind to this? https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-store-closures/index.html https://www.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-... "Target is closing nine stores in major cities across four states, claiming theft and organized retail crime have made the environment unsafe for staff and customers – and unsustainable for business." Yet the NYT article says: "Target’s chief financial officer, Michael Fiddelke, said shrinkage had reduced the company’s profit margin by more than $400 million in 2022," as justification for closing stores. Yet their data was BS as shown in the NYT article.

digging 3y ago

...which also "proves" that cops aren't doing jack shit about organized looting, so that's no longer a useful argument.

waihtis 3y ago
Of course they aren't, when apprehending a violent suspect in the "wrong way" may land you jobless and in jail. The looters and other criminals are operating under a protection racket run by the so-called democrats, see for example: https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-dean-preston-socialist-capitalism-sf-crime-drug-18549549.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/sf-dean-preston-socia...
- autoexec 3y ago
  > Of course they aren't, when apprehending a violent suspect in the "wrong way" may land you jobless and in jail. If the "wrong way" means beating them while handcuffed or choking them to death then I don't see what the problem is. Any police officer who is too scared to do their job because they don't think they can even stop a shoplifter without violating that person's rights isn't cut out to be a cop and shouldn't have the job in the first place.