“At Target, the safety and security of our guests is critically important to us,” Target spokesperson Danielle Schumann told Chicago NBC affiliate WMAQ. Target said the man was drunk when he pushed the girl out of the stall, went to the bathroom and left. He pushed his way into a stall where the child was and exposed himself before fleeing the scene. The Chicago Tribune reported March 31 that police said a woman was watching her child in a restroom at Target when a man entered insisting that he needed to use the restroom. Toys R Us, the toy superstore that closed in March, said it simply “could not compete” with deep discounts offered by Amazon, Walmart and Target when the ailing chain was at its weakest point. Target “looked to be on the brink of disaster just a year ago,” the financial news site reported April 9, “but over the past few months, Target stock has been making significant upward progress.”ĬNBC reported that Target has advanced 10 percent so far this year and has risen 34 percent over the past 12 months.
Penney, Sears and Kmart all announced major store closures in 2017. They only care about the tiny, tiny minority.”Ĭonservatives claim the boycott led to major financial troubles for the company, but doubters point to other factors including increased competition from online sellers like Amazon. “Target has decided they don’t care about the vast majority. “Everybody knows it’s wrong for men to use the same bathrooms and fitting rooms with little girls,” AFA President Tim Wildmon told Todd Starnes of Fox News in 2016. The Tupelo, Miss.,-based AFA, a fundamentalist Christian public policy organization founded in 1977 with a long history of corporate boycotts, reacted swiftly. “Most relevant for the conversations currently underway, we welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity.” “In our stores, we demonstrate our commitment to an inclusive experience in many ways,” Target said. We stand for equality and equity, and strive to make our guests and team members feel accepted, respected and welcomed in our stores and workplaces every day.” “Inclusivity is a core belief at Target,” the company said in a statement. The 1,800-store chain headquartered in Minneapolis announced a new policy during a national debate over a so-called “bathroom bill” in North Carolina in in April 2016.
The AFA says 1.5 million names are on an online boycott petition, but skeptics say the number is a misrepresentation, because the petition does not limit the number of times an individual can sign. Graham, head of both the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the charitable organization Samaritan’s Purse, urged his followers to join a boycott of Target launched in 2006 by the American Family Association. “Target prides itself in its policy that allows biological men to use women’s restrooms.” “Why is anyone shocked?” Graham said on Facebook April 4. Police in Chicago issued a warning after a man exposed himself in front of a child in a Target store March 25. Evangelist Franklin Graham is calling for a boycott of Target, blaming a recent incident in one of its stores on the retailer’s two-year-old policy allowing transgender shoppers and workers to use the restroom of their choice rather than the one corresponding to their birth sex.
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