THE MORNING RANT: Mega-Woke Retailer Target “Unexpectedly” Has Another Disappointing Quarter with Declining Top-Line Revenue

Since May 2023, when Target precipitated a ferocious backlash with its collection of “Pride Month” merchandise targeted at children, I’ve been monitoring Target’s quarterly financial performance. Target’s wokeness goes far beyond its vulgar, inappropriate children’s merchandise, of course. As I documented a few months ago, Target has also welcomed men into its women’s restrooms and prohibited police from arresting shoplifters in its stores.

Target’s embrace of degeneracy has repelled customers, caused a decrease in store traffic, hurt its earnings, and most importantly, it has caused a top line reduction in revenue. Sales are lower. No matter what clever metric is being touted (margins, adjusted earnings, etc), nothing can change the fact that the top line revenue number started going down after Pride Month (June) 2023 and Target can’t reverse the trend, because those lost customers aren’t coming back. Coincidentally enough, while Target is seeing decreasing same-store sales, Walmart is seeing increasing same-store sales. Walmart is also gaining new customers while Target is losing customers.

Wall Street “experts” and analysts keep being surprised by Target’s revenue and earnings problems, and they must then try to explain why the company keeps falling short of Wall Street estimates. Yet none of the analyses I’ve read has acknowledged that there is significant anti-woke boycott that persists against Target. The business press strangely blames “inflation battered” households for not spending money at Target, while simultaneously reporting elsewhere that inflation has been defeated and that consumers are doing great, causing the stock market to reach record highs due to consumers’ joyful and abundant spending.

Well, Target just released its earnings report for the quarter ended 3/31/2024 and it was another “unexpectedly” bad quarter, falling short of “expert” predictions, with same-store sales continuing to show a year-over-year decline.

“Target earnings miss the mark as inflation-battered shoppers avoid buying things they don't really need” [Yahoo Finance – 5/22/2024]

Target (TGT) missed the earnings mark in the first quarter. Blame inflation-battered US households, its execs say. The "biggest challenges" Target is hearing about from its shoppers are "inflation in food and household essentials," chairman and CEO Brian Cornell said on a call with reporters detailing first quarter results.

By contrast, just a few days earlier Wal Mart reported exceptional results for the same quarter, with its CFO stating, “We’ve got customers that are coming to us more frequently than they have before and newer customers that we haven’t traditionally had.”

“…customers that we haven’t traditionally had.” In other words, customers who used to shop at Target are now shopping at Walmart.

This Forbes Business piece lists some of the lowlights of Target’s disastrous quarter. Here is a comparison of Target’s quarterly results to Wal Mart’s:

Total Quarterly Revenue compared to prior-year Quarter
• Wal Mart: Up 6.0%
• Target: Down 3.1%

Same-store Quarterly Revenue compared to prior-year Quarter
• Wal Mart: Up 3.8%
• Target: Down 3.7%

Total Quarterly Operating Income compared to prior-year Quarter
• Wal Mart: Up 9.6%
• Target: Down 2.4%

The CNBC piece I linked above regarding Wal Mart’s success comically points out that inflation is low again, which benefits Wal Mart.

This week brought promising news for Walmart and other retailers: Inflation eased in April, according to the Labor Department data released Wednesday. The consumer price index was up 3.4% year over year.

So if I’ve got this right, Target is suffering from high inflation – not an anti-woke boycott – yet that same high inflation somehow doesn’t hurt Wal Mart, but it’s all good, because inflation is not actually high, just 3.4% per year. Thank God I’m not a “legitimate” business journalist trying to contort myself into promoting this self-contradictory propaganda.

Related, despite Target’s decreasing revenue and disappointing earnings, its stock price has been soaring. It exceeded $170 per share just last month, which was higher than before the Pride Month debacle started for Target a year ago. If investors are still recklessly driving up the stock price of a fading retailer with declining sales – a retailer which is also despised by much of its potential customer base - there is clearly some irrational exuberance in the market.

Don’t let up. The boycott is hurting Target, which is much more likely to follow the path of Sears and K-Mart than it is to ever regain sales lost to Walmart.

*****

My latest piece at The Pipeline, Just Stop ‘Just Stop Oil’, has been published.

In it I take a dive into Just Stop Oil, the crime wave funded by its parent organization (Climate Emergency Fund), and the prominent, old-money benefactors who are funding it all. Incredibly, it’s all tax deductible for those rich leftists, because Climate Emergency Fund is a tax exempt 501(c)(3) organization.

Do the wealthy benefactors of CEF and Just Stop Oil openly support those organizations’ activities? Yes and no. The illegal yet “peaceful” civil disobedience is celebrated, while the actual violence has a degree of separation allowing the benefactors to claim “no direct control.”

Per Climate Emergency Fund’s own website, it also provides funding to Germany’s “Letzte Generation” (Last Generation), an organization so radical and violent that even the German Green Party has disavowed it, as several of its members were arrested last year for plotting to sabotage an oil pipeline.

What to do? For starters. the Climate Emergency Fund should be stripped of its 501(c)(3) status, and the prosecution of crimes committed under its umbrella can no longer just target the street “activists” committing the crimes.

My latest at The Pipeline, “Just Stop ‘Just Stop Oil’” looks at the crimes - some violent - funded by its parent, the Climate Emergency Fund, and who its benefactors are. These include heiresses named Getty, Disney, and Kennedy. https://t.co/GOVST0Bu27
— Buck Throckmorton (@BuckThrockmort) May 23, 2024

I’d be honored if you’d give it a read.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Hola

Posted by: Thanatopsis at May 24, 2024 11:00 AM (8RNuU)

2 last

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 11:01 AM (T4tVD)

4 Chicken strip side trip got me
Two Tagets near me and don't go to either

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 11:01 AM (CTREE)

5 FOIST!

Posted by: Inogame at May 24, 2024 11:01 AM (53oGX)

6 Also: stuff's getting more expensive, and Walmart is cheaper.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 11:02 AM (cCVOS)

7 Is it quarterly reports time again? Seems like just last week when they were admitting *that* quarter hadn't gone as hoped.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 11:02 AM (XjtdB)

8 Top ten, unless I start monologuing like a Bond villain and use up precious time that allows other commenters to sneak in and snatch the accomplishment away from me. That would be kind of pathetic, though, so I hope it doesn't happen.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 11:03 AM (KLo17)

9 Probably flirting with rules but at Pipeline at home I wore out my welcome, but when away can get it on my phone.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 11:03 AM (CTREE)

10 You can sell only so much ghey-themed crap.

Posted by: Eromero at May 24, 2024 11:04 AM (o2ZRX)

11 willard...from end of art thread

Chechens at Ft Bragg (Liberty now)....anyone hear any more about this?

https://tinyurl.com/4yd5fmma

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 11:04 AM (AwYPR)

12 “…customers that we haven’t traditionally had.” In other words, customers who used to shop at Target are now shopping at Walmart.
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Possibly. Or customers who used to shop at Belk or Macy's, but were on the bubble and fell to the downside. There is probably more of that.

The wokeness is not helping Target, but I am not at all convinced that it is a major downside factor the company. Target went turbo-powered ultra-woke almost a decade ago. This isn't new, and the shake-out from it is likely more or less complete. Target survived it. Many companies do.

What's probably hurting Target much more is what they said - inflation, and market shifts - but also where Target operates. Wal-Mart is everywhere. They're city, suburb, rural and everywhere in between. It has a broad base. Target does not. Target is urban and suburban. And what's going in urban - and increasingly, suburban - areas? Danger. Physical danger. Danger to inventory, danger to customers. This requires extremely expensive response- more security, more locked-down cases (and therefore more staff to retrieve merchandise for customers), etc. None of that is free, and Target is *completely* vulnerable to it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 11:06 AM (d04cU)

13 One thing Target has to look forward to is that they are almost a full year from when sales started dropping, so that the year to year numbers should be leveling out in the next quarter's financial comparisons.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 11:07 AM (KLo17)

14 Seems like the trolls don't bother to gloat about Target's increased stock prices any more.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 11:07 AM (XjtdB)

15 Some of the most satisfying videos are pissed off motorists dragging the JSO soys by their faggy backpacks off the road.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 11:07 AM (VXRhG)

16 The ICC has ordered, ORDERED, Israel to stop the Rafah operation and allow the UN in.
This after Israel just recovered three more dead hostage bodies in a tunnel under an UNWRA building.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2024 11:07 AM (t/2Uw)

17 Also: stuff's getting more expensive, and Walmart is cheaper.
Posted by: Lizzy

The biggest reason Walmart is seeing more customers.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at May 24, 2024 11:08 AM (2QA3G)

18 And I can attest that their clothing lines have gone woke, ugly and cheap

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 24, 2024 11:08 AM (Kf6nb)

19 I stopped shopping at Target in 2015 and Walmart not long thereafter. But guess what, I shop on Amazon. There is practically no avoiding the behemoth, just choosing who to punish and when.

I love the scant people that lecture around here about who supports sportsball or any of these big companies or whatever.

It's like sorry you're on the internet bro, what do you think Verizon, Time Warner Spectrum, ATT and Comcast are? You think you can avoid The Beast with your magic wishing powers? Not if you're posting on the internet, dumbshit. No one told you you need to be on the internet.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 11:08 AM (U6Usv)

20 If investors are still recklessly driving up the stock price of a fading retailer with declining sales – a retailer which is also despised by much of its potential customer base - there is clearly some irrational exuberance in the market.

It'd be a real shame if all those investors lost their money. OTOH, I imagine quite a few of us have Target stock and don't know it, because of mutual fund sector investments. I also imagine some of the people controlling those funds have interests other than mine when choosing where to put my money.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

21 Per Climate Emergency Fund’s own website, it also provides funding to Germany’s “Letzte Generation” (Last Generation), an organization so radical and violent that even the German Green Party has disavowed it, as several of its members were arrested last year for plotting to sabotage an oil pipeline.
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But the German state only goes after the slightly right of center anti-'migrant' AfD party.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 11:09 AM (VXRhG)

22 I used to what Wall Street Week on PBS for years in the 90s. Loved Louis Rukizer even though he may have been lefty as hell but he seemed to keep his politics hidden on TV.

Reason I bring it up is that I eventually realized there was no rhyme nor reason to stock market movements. Target having a bad quarter could mean the stock goes down but OTOH, its “basic fundamentals” could be great according to some analysts and the stock could go up.

Then John Stossel had a monkey throw darts at the stock section of the newspaper and was just as good or better than the stock index returns and I concluded it’s all BS.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:10 AM (sEYaD)

23 Re: Chechen story -
The Sheriff's Office said the Federal Bureau of Investigations was called in to provide a translator to assist with interviews of other reported Utilities One employees.

They're sending people out to work in neighborhoods with no English proficiency or ID? What did they expect to happen?

An online Change.org petition purportedly created by Daraev's family claims Daraev was taking photographs on the property to show work he'd completed. "For an unknown reason, this man fired several shots and brutally took the life of Ramzan ...

He was trespassing - did he even have the language skills to request permission? Was he even told he needed to?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 11:10 AM (cCVOS)

24 If investors are still recklessly driving up the stock price of a fading retailer with declining sales – a retailer which is also despised by much of its potential customer base - there is clearly some irrational exuberance in the market.
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The market is soaring on two things: inflation, and hope. Valuations are generally pretty high and reality-denial is helping keep it there. This can go on for a long time before people more or less simultaneously decide that the party is over.

My guess - which nobody should listen to - is that when the AI bubble cracks up, the rest of the market will go with it. The last great hope blowing up will be the first charge that sets off the rest.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 11:11 AM (d04cU)

25 And I can attest that their clothing lines have gone woke, ugly and cheap
Posted by: Gonzotx at May 24, 2024 11:08 AM (Kf6nb)

Definitely. I stopped shopping when they banned the Salvation Army bell ringers, but their color and style selection were already going downhill then.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 11:11 AM (XjtdB)

26 >>Possibly. Or customers who used to shop at Belk or Macy's, but were on the bubble and fell to the downside. There is probably more of that.

And immigrants.
A Walmart I used to shop at has become unrecognizable - even the workers wear hijabs.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 11:13 AM (cCVOS)

27 He was trespassing - did he even have the language skills to request permission? Was he even told he needed to?

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 11:10 AM (cCVOS)

How did they get in the country? My wife can't travel to Russia to see her kids/gkids.

Posted by: BignJames at May 24, 2024 11:14 AM (AwYPR)

28 I stopped shopping when they banned the Salvation Army bell ringers

And then the Salvation Army went woke. No end to this crap.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

29 OTOH, I imagine quite a few of us have Target stock and don't know it, because of mutual fund sector investments. I also imagine some of the people controlling those funds have interests other than mine when choosing where to put my money.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 11:09 AM (CsUN+)

Agreed. I *know* I've got Blackrock at the very least. Not sure what to do about it, or where to put the money if I tell the money guy to move it.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 11:14 AM (XjtdB)

30 Then John Stossel had a monkey throw darts at the stock section of the newspaper and was just as good or better than the stock index returns and I concluded it’s all BS.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:10 AM (sEYaD)

Dart-Throwing Monkey would be a good show to follow Jim Cramer.

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at May 24, 2024 11:14 AM (PiwSw)

31 Wal Mart...“We’ve got customers that are coming to us more frequently than they have before and newer customers that we haven’t traditionally had.”

A receding tide lowers all boats.

Posted by: t-bird at May 24, 2024 11:15 AM (AGNk7)

32 >Possibly. Or customers who used to shop at Belk or Macy's, but were on the bubble and fell to the downside. There is probably more of that.

And immigrants.
A Walmart I used to shop at has become unrecognizable - even the workers wear hijabs.

Oh dear God yes,
In Austin area and suburbs it’s Muslim time and Central Americans , no one speaks English

Posted by: Gonzotx at May 24, 2024 11:15 AM (Kf6nb)

33 Could it be that former Target shoppers are switching to Walmart because of their lower prices?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2024 11:15 AM (63Dwl)

34 33 Could it be that former Target shoppers are switching to Walmart because of their lower prices?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 24, 2024 11:15 AM (63Dwl)

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Target just had a thing where they announced they were lowering prices on thousands of items specifically to counter Wal-Mart.

So...there are probably a bunch of reasons why Target is flailing.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

35 At least CostCo hasn't gone woke, yet, as far as I can tell.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:16 AM (v6JzV)

36 Just remembered I have a $50 gift card from one of my bosses that he gave me for Christmas.

Better get in there and blow it before POOF! - Target's gone.

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 24, 2024 11:16 AM (JCLJi)

37

Fuck Target.

Dry.

With a barbed wire wrapped cactus, soaked in lighter fluid and set on fire.

Posted by: Elderly Git at May 24, 2024 11:16 AM (HLIHG)

38
Been boycotting Target since the weirdos in the bathroom shit. I shop Amazon. Sure, the Washington Post. Everyone knows it's a leftist rag and my purchasing or not purchasing from Amazon is not going to change a word they write.

Two minutes clicking away and I saved myself wear and tear on my auto, some gasoline, and a lot of time. The next day the trips to three different stores are sitting outside my garage.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 11:17 AM (RKVpM)

39 Top ten, unless I start monologuing like a Bond villain and use up precious time that allows other commenters to sneak in and snatch the accomplishment away from me. That would be kind of pathetic, though, so I hope it doesn't happen.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024

***
You had that all typed out and ready in a Notepad document, didn't you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 11:18 AM (J2vNu)

40 Not saying the SJW stuff Target boosted didn’t hurt them, but WalMart, especially in rural/small towns, are truly a one stop shop. Everything from tires and oil changes to garden plants and food to inappropriate knickers for your gal pal. Target can’t and doesn’t compete with that.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at May 24, 2024 11:18 AM (LolQL)

41 Some businesses are hard to boycott. (Stop drinking Bud Light, and it is a 50% chance you've started drinking another product from the conglomerate that owns them.)

There isn't a thing at Target you can't get elsewhere. Target is a store to wander around in for a few hours and walk out maybe 50$ poorer.

Even people who want to go to Target can't really afford to do that now because they walk out 150$ poorer.

Posted by: Oschisms at May 24, 2024 11:18 AM (JQiMb)

42 My guess - which nobody should listen to - is that when the AI bubble cracks up, the rest of the market will go with it. The last great hope blowing up will be the first charge that sets off the rest.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 11:11 AM (d04cU)

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My guess is things will start to go sideways when Gen X retirees start pulling money out of their 401ks. That money will mostly come from selling the mutual funds they have in the 401k’s which will depress stock prices. This will in turn have a feedback effect of scaring retirees into taking more out of the 401ks.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:19 AM (sEYaD)

43 At least CostCo hasn't gone woke, yet, as far as I can tell.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:16 AM (v6JzV)

No but I noticed their receipt checkers at least locally are mostly androgynous blobs of shit. I was hoping it was a coincidence. This tranny movement is so gross and creepy.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 11:19 AM (U6Usv)

44 >>How did they get in the country? My wife can't travel to Russia to see her kids/gkids.

Good question.

I was just taking the story at face value. Even if it happened as described, it was a set-up for the homeowner.

But really, who is this Utilities One subcontractor, why are they employing immigrants w/no English skills (or green cards?), and why was a Chechen employee trespassing and taking pictures of a Special Forces soldier's home?

There is so much more going on here than simply "trigger-happy American shoots immigrant for no reason."

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 11:20 AM (cCVOS)

45 Posted by: Elderly Git at May 24, 2024 11:16 AM (HLIHG)

Don't forget the pork. Just in case.

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 11:20 AM (U6Usv)

46 There is a tiny Target across the street from my condo. They have excellent prices and choices in children's clothes and household goods. I can also order stuff online and pick it up at the store. So, when my coffeemaker broke unexpectedly, I had a new one 2 hours later.
On the other hand, I never go tot he mall anymore where I used to shop at Macy's and places like BestBuy. I even order some odds and ends from Amazon that I would normally store shop for. I think the Pandemic completely changed people's shopping habits. Amazon and other internet stores are the ones stealing those profits.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2024 11:20 AM (t/2Uw)

47 The ICC has ordered, ORDERED, Israel to stop the Rafah operation and allow the UN in.
This after Israel just recovered three more dead hostage bodies in a tunnel under an UNWRA building.
Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2024 11:07 AM (t/2Uw)

I assume that next the ICC will order "law-abiding" nations to attack Israel and Biden will send in US troops. He doesn't WANT to, you understand, but an illegitimate transnational "court" required it and, unlike SCOTUS, he has to do as they command.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 11:20 AM (IUd0M)

48 And then the Salvation Army went woke. No end to this crap.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:14 AM (v6JzV)

Yeah. It's so very frustrating. I suspect the SA army woke is to distract people from noticing that the new leaders gave themselves a *huge* raise.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at May 24, 2024 11:20 AM (XjtdB)

49 In other economic news . . .

MEDIA MATTERS hit with sweeping layoffs after defamation suit by Musk, federal probes...

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

50 No but I noticed their receipt checkers at least locally are mostly androgynous blobs of shit. I was hoping it was a coincidence. This tranny movement is so gross and creepy.
Posted by: ...

I've not seen that, but our local CostCo has la ot of folks from the Subcontinent. So more traditional gender roles. A lot of East Asians, too.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:21 AM (v6JzV)

51 Target just had a thing where they announced they were lowering prices on thousands of items specifically to counter Wal-Mart.

I'm reminded of McDonald's new campaign to lower prices on many items. Seemed like a good idea, until they heard from the franchisees who said they would lose money on those items and they couldn't sustain such losses. Other than that, it's a brilliant plan.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 11:21 AM (CsUN+)

52 Walmart has its bad points like any other retailer. Having said that, around here I would give them a good to very good rating (1.5 hours away from the home office), and the delivery contractor can't be beat. For most folks, it's simply price. Walmart buys in such a huge quantity and seems to actually pass down savings. Example. There's a sandwich dressing I like, Ohio made, enjoyed it since youth. Any grocery around here sells it for $4, Wally sells it for $2.79. Walmart did go nuts during the Covid hoax, and it probably moved a lot of people like me from in store shopping to on line with delivery.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 11:22 AM (V5eKu)

53 49 In other economic news . . .

MEDIA MATTERS hit with sweeping layoffs after defamation suit by Musk, federal probes...
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:21 AM (L/fGl)

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Is Sid going to go bye bye?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:22 AM (sEYaD)

54 Years ago I kind of had an epilhany at seeing a lot of micro & macro trends. Whether at the nation state level or down to the individual level and everything in between, self-defense against an aggressor is basically outlawed whereever practicable.

I think this starts in Kindergarten. Get attacked by the school bully? Well prepare to get “suspended” right along with the miscreant. Even in the 1980s getting a student expelled was next to impossible.

But we see this same BS in all the laws and regulations and use of force and “proportionate response” and all this red tape in the ROE’s.

“Just die quietly, don’t ask too many questions”. I always avoided certain easy jobs (Pizza delivery, say) because the corporate folks don’t want drivers defending their lives.

Store clerks in prison.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2024 11:22 AM (PXj64)

55 I shop at Walmart for a couple of reasons.

1. It's a decent "one-stop" shop for my grocery and various sundries I need on a weekly basis.
2. There aren't too many alternatives in my small town.
3. They don't shove the wokeness in my face. They've toned it down A LOT in recent years, probably because of the conservative community in which I live.

Yeah, it's gotten more expensive over the past couple of years, but so has everything else.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 11:23 AM (si1C0)

56 I've not seen that, but our local CostCo has la ot of folks from the Subcontinent. So more traditional gender roles. A lot of East Asians, too.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:21 AM (v6JzV)

Do the West Asians wear cowboy hats ?

Posted by: JT at May 24, 2024 11:23 AM (T4tVD)

57 My guess is things will start to go sideways when Gen X retirees start pulling money out of their 401ks. That money will mostly come from selling the mutual funds they have in the 401k’s which will depress stock prices. This will in turn have a feedback effect of scaring retirees into taking more out of the 401ks.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:19 AM (sEYaD)
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That would be a secular move, not a cyclical one.

But I also kind of doubt it. Gen-X is relatively small, and the Millennials are a mega-generation. They're still paying into the system. If the Boomers didn't cause it to fall apart when they started liquidating, Gen-X is in't going to.

But the Zoomers won't have to worry about what will happen when they are the new Gen X - a small generation buttressing a mega-generation - because Alphas (such as they exist, which they don't and the Zoomers barely exist, because the model has played out now) are another small generation. There is no bookending mega-generation to support the Millennials like they can support the Boomer draw-down.

But they don't have to worry anyway, because it's academic. The system won't last that long.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 11:23 AM (d04cU)

58 On the other hand, I never go tot he mall anymore where I used to shop at Macy's and places like BestBuy. I even order some odds and ends from Amazon that I would normally store shop for. I think the Pandemic completely changed people's shopping habits. Amazon and other internet stores are the ones stealing those profits.

Walmart seems to have figured out online shopping a lot better than many outfits, including Target.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 24, 2024 11:23 AM (CsUN+)

59 Actual headline from NYT: America Is Still Having a ‘Vibecession’

Hear that peasants? The fact it costs $100 to fill up a small grocery basket at the supermarket is just bad vibes.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 11:23 AM (tpjlM)

60 Good post, thx Buck. Target and Dick's are the last two big stores in the Hudson Valley Mall. Sears, Macy's, Best Buy, JCPENNEY, old Navy were all there previously and left . Now we have the two woke stores and a couple of small stores, with the rest being converted to a medical pavilion

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2024 11:24 AM (SaBu/)

61 It dated well before 2023. I just asked my wife, and she said we stopped shopping there about 2016. It was because of men in the women's room.

I'm conscious of this because when we lived in Richmond, they were by far the most convenient such store to where we lived. Anyway, it was coming for longer than that.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 11:24 AM (1bNHn)

62 This is Moron-esque.

We'd Like to Buy an Egads: Wheel of Fortune Contestant's Wrong Answer Is Hilariously Cringe

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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

63 62 This is Moron-esque.

We'd Like to Buy an Egads: Wheel of Fortune Contestant's Wrong Answer Is Hilariously Cringe

https://shorturl.at/vbf0Y
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

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Naggers?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:25 AM (GBKbO)

64 Morgan Spurlock dead at 53 of cancer. His Super Size Me was the equivalent of a Michael Moore doc. Allegedly he was also a raging alcoholic.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2024 11:25 AM (SaBu/)

65 Stopped supporting Target way back when the whole bathroom issue arose....they were going to allow little girls to share the same bathroom with grown "men" = you lose my business forget.

Posted by: Grateful at May 24, 2024 11:26 AM (IQ6Gq)

66 you lose my business forever....

Posted by: Grateful at May 24, 2024 11:26 AM (IQ6Gq)

67 I can'y see the Target logo without thinking of Lyme disease.

https://tinyurl.com/lyme-no-coconut

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 11:27 AM (991eG)

68 Tell 50% of consumer to fuck off in order to placate 3%. That’s a bold strategy Cotton.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 11:27 AM (tpjlM)

69 That’s a bold strategy Cotton.
Posted by: Montec

Is that from King of the Hill?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:28 AM (v6JzV)

70 My local WallyWorld has excellent produce and baked goods. I don't do all my grocery shopping there, but for basic items, I don't mind it at all. Generally, the shoppers are very nice too.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:28 AM (blmVn)

71 I get really tired of dealing with relatives who are conservative, but say stuff like, "well our Target isn't like that" to justify their continued patronage. They just don't get it.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (NwuoC)

72 In defense of the guy the category was weirdest place to make whoopie

Posted by: Bob Eubanks at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (OiAR7)

73 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
France's Macron: If Americans re-elect Trump & leave the Paris Accord again, "it would be a big mistake for the planet, a big mistake for the U.S."

-
Je m'en fous!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

74 So...there are probably a bunch of reasons why Target is flailing.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
‐‐-------

People are figuring that Target is just Wal-Mart in drag.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (hH1S0)

75 Godspeed, JJ Seffton, and happy birthday.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (i24o9)

76 I hate my local target. They got the tranny shit right next to the kids clothes.
Hate 'em.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 24, 2024 11:30 AM (L14eD)

77 Meijer in the Midwest is also a one-stop shopping place. Don't know what their wokenesss quotient is.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:30 AM (v6JzV)

78 The question is: Will Target go out of business soon, later, or not for decades? Who can tell?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 11:30 AM (J2vNu)

79
Frankly if a store is making a big deal about who they allow in the bathrooms (overwhelmingly men in the ladies room), I really don't wanna walk into a store with weirdo like that looking for acceptance.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 11:30 AM (RKVpM)

80 That’s a bold strategy Cotton.
Posted by: Montec

Is that from King of the Hill?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:28 AM (v6JzV)

Dodgeball

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 11:30 AM (IUd0M)

81 80 That’s a bold strategy Cotton.
Posted by: Montec

Is that from King of the Hill?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:28 AM (v6JzV)

Dodgeball
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 11:30 AM (IUd0M)

=======

I can dodge traffic.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

82 I get really tired of dealing with relatives who are conservative, but say stuff like, "well our Target isn't like that" to justify their continued patronage. They just don't get it.
Posted by: somedood

And they never will. Which is why the right never wins the long term battles.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 11:31 AM (tpjlM)

83 We used to laff at Tarzhey shoppers pretensions.
Now they push groomer gear I'll never go again.

Posted by: Sold cloak bot sword at May 24, 2024 11:31 AM (YJ6fz)

84 This is Moron-esque.

We'd Like to Buy an Egads: Wheel of Fortune Contestant's Wrong Answer Is Hilariously Cringe

https://shorturl.at/vbf0Y
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks

Oh my!!

Posted by: George Takei at May 24, 2024 11:31 AM (blmVn)

85

Middle class white kiddies in changing rooms and toilets are tight!

Posted by: Juanista Tranista at May 24, 2024 11:32 AM (HLIHG)

86 71 I get really tired of dealing with relatives who are conservative, but say stuff like, "well our Target isn't like that" to justify their continued patronage. They just don't get it.
Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (NwuoC)

Weak Sisters must be disowned and abandoned to their fate at the hands of the Commies.

Posted by: XTC at May 24, 2024 11:32 AM (UnA8+)

87 One nationwide chain that never obviously went woke is Dollar General. I always admired them for putting up stores where people actually need them, like small rural communities. Their prices have been creeping up like most. Still, a handy place to get a few odds and ends, especially if a bit crippled up. If you've been in one DolGen, you've been in them all. You pretty much know where things are. Walmart abandoned a couple Neighborhood Markets around here, in small towns. DolGen took them over and they are thriving. Suddenly a small burg has full service grocery with other incidentals.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 11:33 AM (V5eKu)

88 I can dodge traffic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

I used to be able to dodge wrenches but then I turned 29.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 11:33 AM (IUd0M)

89 88 I can dodge traffic.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:31 AM (GBKbO)

I used to be able to dodge wrenches but then I turned 29.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 11:33 AM (IUd0M)

Gar!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 24, 2024 11:34 AM (T+Iwg)

90 All big businesses have the same marketing message: "your sons need to go gay. For justice. And so we and our wealthy friends have access to hot and cold running catamites on tap in their fancy mansions. Love is love is love, especially at billionaire sex dungeon parties. Plus justice, bigots. Don't forget the justice. Now - take off Junior's britches and go back to your trailer park."

It's not a great pitch..

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:34 AM (0FoWg)

91 "22 I used to what Wall Street Week on PBS for years in the 90s. Loved Louis Rukizer even though he may have been lefty as hell but he seemed to keep his politics hidden on TV.

Reason I bring it up is that I eventually realized there was no rhyme nor reason to stock market movements. Target having a bad quarter could mean the stock goes down but OTOH, its “basic fundamentals” could be great according to some analysts and the stock could go up.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:10 AM (sEYaD)"

Even setting aside the links between performance and market movements, retail investing started being besieged by a lot of novel structural trading scams in the late 90's, which absolutely EXPLODED by the mid-2000's. There has been some really amazing work showing the influence of automated trading bots manipulating prices. Just before/after 2008 more than half the volume of the major exchanges was robots trying to out-fuck each other and the retail suckers.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:34 AM (NwuoC)

92 I'm not convinced the Get Woke/Go Broke narrative fits these various situations.

There seems to be a bigger picture thing going on, where businesses that used to be almost avaricious in their pursuit of profits, suddenly embraced the Woke. As revenues fall, and even if stores close, I do wonder if it's serving some other purpose that isn't yet revealed (entirely).

Not unlike the embrace of illegals in the last couple decades. As this became a thing, it was sometime mystifying hearing people say this was a good thing, without explaining how.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (dGCAG)

93
We'd Like to Buy an Egads: Wheel of Fortune Contestant's Wrong Answer Is Hilariously Cringe

The first word is four letters long and Morris says 'Right'.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (RKVpM)

94 Weak Sisters must be disowned and abandoned to their fate at the hands of the Commies.
Posted by: XTC

One of my sisters, "That's Dr. Sister to you!!", recently posted that my hometown is switching the type of trees they use in the landscape projects due to the warming of the climate.

Ummm, No Dipshittius. It's because Bradford Pears are a blight upon the universe.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (blmVn)

95 The trajectory of AI reminds me of "Flowers For Algernon".

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (991eG)

96 Is that from King of the Hill?
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus

If King of the Hill were a '50s sitcom.

https://shorturl.at/pU1gB

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (L/fGl)

97 >>>>>Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
France's Macron: If Americans re-elect Trump & leave the Paris Accord again, "it would be a big mistake for the planet, a big mistake for the U.S."
Je m'en fous!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (L/fGl)
***********
I wonder if Franks mother….errrr…wife is on the Fonda p@ssy boycott. She appears to be the right demographic.

Posted by: Ragland (Rags) T. Tiger at May 24, 2024 11:36 AM (LolQL)

98 It's because Bradford Pears are a blight upon the universe.
Posted by: Tonypete

Agreed.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 24, 2024 11:36 AM (v6JzV)

99 I used to be able to dodge wrenches but then I turned 29.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I don't dodge them but I do deny them my essence.

Oh, 'wrenches'.

nvm

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:36 AM (blmVn)

100 I used to be able to dodge wrenches but then I turned 29.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at May 24, 2024 11:33 AM (IUd0M)

You just reminded me of a sticker my husband had on his toolbox at work, it was a little stick figure guy throwing a wrench and it said something like: "Go away."

Posted by: Lady Who Always Has a Burning Question at May 24, 2024 11:37 AM (JCLJi)

101 All big businesses have the same marketing message: "your sons need to go gay. For justice. And so we and our wealthy friends have access to hot and cold running catamites on tap in their fancy mansions. Love is love is love, especially at billionaire sex dungeon parties. Plus justice, bigots. Don't forget the justice. Now - take off Junior's britches and go back to your trailer park."

It's not a great pitch..
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:34 AM (0FoWg)

Heh. That might sorta be it.

De-masculinization (if that's a word) might be the goal.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:37 AM (dGCAG)

102 switching the type of trees they use in the landscape projects due to the warming of the climate.

—

But aren’t all trees racist? If we want true equity we need to cut them all down.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 11:37 AM (tpjlM)

103 Target's new slogan: Right In The Butt!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

104 "87 One nationwide chain that never obviously went woke is Dollar General. I always admired them for putting up stores where people actually need them, like small rural communities. Their prices have been creeping up like most.
Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 11:33 AM (V5eKu)"

They're not creeping. They've doubled and tripled like everyone else's since 2020 - the part you are missing is the much of the difference is coming out of shrinkflation, reduced quality, and not just cutting corners on overhead (stocking, headcount, etc) because so much of their market is extremely price sensitive.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:38 AM (NwuoC)

105 I have always thought terrorist organizations should be prevented from getting tax deductible donations, but then I look at the hamas who are getting the most donations....

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 11:39 AM (lTGtQ)

106
Oh, 'wrenches'.

nvm
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:36 AM (blmVn)

Either way, I haven't picked one up in a while.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:39 AM (dGCAG)

107 39 You had that all typed out and ready in a Notepad document, didn't you?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 24, 2024 11:18 AM (J2vNu)

No. I typed it out after comments opened.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (KLo17)

108 That would be a secular move, not a cyclical one.

But I also kind of doubt it. Gen-X is relatively small, and the Millennials are a mega-generation. They're still paying into the system…

But they don't have to worry anyway, because it's academic. The system won't last that long.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 11:23 AM (d04cU)

———

There are only about 10% more millennials than Gen X. The average worker only puts in a couple of thousand dollars a year into retirement. Gen Xers will be pulling out $30k to $100k per year.

If anything the situation will be much worse than Social Security.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (sEYaD)

109 "De-masculinization (if that's a word) might be the goal.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:37 AM (dGCAG)"

The first step to replacing the native peasantry with imports is to have the natives to stop reproducing.

Lots of ways to do that. Brainwash them into freaks, sterilize them, make having kids expensive (child seat mandates into teenage years is a thing now), etc.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (NwuoC)

110 Either way, I haven't picked one up in a while.
Posted by: BurtTC

Particularly a 10mm one.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (blmVn)

111 54
‘ self-defense against an aggressor is basically outlawed whereever practicable. ’

I know they’re mainly a faceless leftist mass but I’d like to see some individuals doing the outlawing get bloodied for it.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (jbnUc)

112 I occasionally go to Trader Joe's just to see their bizarre check out people, and the scotch.

Posted by: javems at May 24, 2024 11:41 AM (8I4hW)

113 The Israel news hasn't even hit the major news aggregators.
Ho hum.
Nothing to see here.

Posted by: sharon(willow's apprentice) at May 24, 2024 11:42 AM (t/2Uw)

114 What was the name of the big “Chicano” labor leader in the 1960s? He fucking hated illegal migration. Why? Because wages are based on supply and demand like everything else.

Fast forward to 2020 - and the fucking president of the AFL-CIO said he thought millions of illegal aliens were no problem. Tell me somebody is being paid off without telling me somebody is being paid off. Unreal.

Then, all these 20 somethings bitching about “We need $30 an hour!” while simultaneously wanting “open borders”. It never even enters their mind. Cause and effect. How do it work?

They have de facto lobotomized a huge portion of the country. Have to have a grudging admiration on their mad skillz to program people with relentless propaganda and trauma based conditioning, etc.

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2024 11:42 AM (PXj64)

115 The business press strangely blames “inflation battered” households for not spending money at Target ...

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"But, but, I've been assured it's because of Trump and the Covid virus he engineered! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 11:42 AM (VXJx/)

116 If I am not mistaken, the US has a terrorist from ELF as a director of the bureau of land management. As long as the CIA is ok with terrorism, I guess everybody should be.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 11:42 AM (lTGtQ)

117 What was the name of the big “Chicano” labor leader in the 1960s?

—

Cesar Chavez

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 11:43 AM (tpjlM)

118 "95 The trajectory of AI reminds me of "Flowers For Algernon".
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (991eG)"

Don't worry about it. One of the common internal gripes in the big corporate AI efforts is that they're spending so much time lobotomizing them when open source models can't be controlled and can run on consumer hardware.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:43 AM (NwuoC)

119 What was the name of the big “Chicano” labor leader in the 1960s?

-
Caesar Chavez

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:43 AM (L/fGl)

120 What was the name of the big “Chicano” labor leader in the 1960s?

—

Cesar Chavez
Posted by: Montec

He was just expressing sour grapes.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:44 AM (blmVn)

121 business press strangely blames “inflation battered” households for not spending money at Target ...

—

The same inflation that no longer exists due to the incredible Biden economy?

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 11:44 AM (tpjlM)

122 Even setting aside the links between performance and market movements, retail investing started being besieged by a lot of novel structural trading scams in the late 90's, which absolutely EXPLODED by the mid-2000's. There has been some really amazing work showing the influence of automated trading bots manipulating prices. Just before/after 2008 more than half the volume of the major exchanges was robots trying to out-fuck each other and the retail suckers.
Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:34 AM (NwuoC)

———

Anytime you hear we need to do XYZ to “increase liquidity” you know a scam is brewing.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:44 AM (sEYaD)

123 Either way, I haven't picked one up in a while.
Posted by: BurtTC

Particularly a 10mm one.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (blmVn)

What's that in American? I know when the ladies are having babies they measure the opening in centimeters. Otherwise, I don't know what any of that means.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:44 AM (dGCAG)

124 If I were in charge of Israel, I'd bump off an ICC judge and deny any involvement in a very wink-and-a-nod manner. There are 18 of them, so that little mishap could mishappen again and again until morale improves.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:44 AM (0FoWg)

125 119 They named a ship after him too, USNS, not a ship of the line. Sails proudly alongside USNS Harvey Milk.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 11:45 AM (V5eKu)

126 There are only about 10% more millennials than Gen X. The average worker only puts in a couple of thousand dollars a year into retirement. Gen Xers will be pulling out $30k to $100k per year.
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:40 AM (sEYaD)

You're modeling as if we were born in batches, but we weren't; it's a continuum.

Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 24, 2024 11:45 AM (VGRuw)

127 What's that in American? I know when the ladies are having babies they measure the opening in centimeters. Otherwise, I don't know what any of that means.
Posted by: BurtTC

It's funny - I'm been present at over a dozen births and for most of them watched from the business end of the proceedings.

Birth is a miracle - it should kill both the mother and the child every. single. time. And yet, here we all are.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:46 AM (blmVn)

128 Cesar Chavez has been disowned by the NPCs for being against illegal immigration.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:47 AM (0FoWg)

129 124 If I were in charge of Israel, I'd bump off an ICC judge and deny any involvement in a very wink-and-a-nod manner. There are 18 of them, so that little mishap could mishappen again and again until morale improves.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:44 AM (0FoWg)

Needs more cruelty.

Posted by: XTC at May 24, 2024 11:48 AM (UnA8+)

130 128 Cesar Chavez has been disowned by the NPCs for being against illegal immigration.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:47 AM (0FoWg)

========

He's a racist! Well, the wrong kind of racist.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

131 Metric conversion in gun thread talk. 5mm is .20". You had a Sheridan air rifle. 7.92mm is .318" or .323" depending on the Mauser. Close enough.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 11:49 AM (V5eKu)

132 One of the few times in my life I was ahead of the curve. When Target was one of the first retail chains to welcome fake men into the ladies rooms my initial feeling was 'meh'. But then I read Target's snide response to people who raised valid concerns. I can take a bit of stupidity from a company; they all get fooled sometimes by some dumb new thing. But I refuse to tolerate when they respond to pushback with oh so smug deluded snide condescension.

Posted by: PaleRider at May 24, 2024 11:49 AM (wTs+0)

133 "92 I'm not convinced the Get Woke/Go Broke narrative fits these various situations.
There seems to be a bigger picture thing going on, t May 24, 2024 11:35 AM (dGCAG)"

My employer went ultra woke. In this case, it was a parent on the board losing their marbles after their kid turned.

The primary driver of corporate wokeness in the boardroom though is a combination of "buying indulgences" and "accessing get out of jail free cards", depending on the magnitude of the woke. If you play along, you are in the club and can get away with shit, more often than not. For example, our board and another got away with cancelling someone who was axing their business relationship and forming one with a primary competitor instead... even though it meant glossing over the admission that we (the board, I mean) sat on knowledge of years of misconduct against women (some minors). Woke industry media totally covered for them and memory-holed that part, and carried water for the cancellation hit-pieces.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:50 AM (NwuoC)

134 What was the name of the big “Chicano” labor leader in the 1960s?

-------------

Chico Rodriguez (AKA Freddie Prinze, Sr.)

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 11:50 AM (VXJx/)

135 72 In defense of the guy the category was weirdest place to make whoopie
Posted by: Bob Eubanks at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (OiAR7)

You have a great memory and a gift for connecting dots.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 11:51 AM (KLo17)

136 You're modeling as if we were born in batches, but we weren't; it's a continuum.
Posted by: Bacon Jeff at May 24, 2024 11:45 AM (VGRuw)

———-

It’s more about whether more money is being saved versus withdrawn. Millennials will not be pulling money out to retire soon, Gen Xers will.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 11:51 AM (sEYaD)

137 It's funny - I'm been present at over a dozen births and for most of them watched from the business end of the proceedings.

Birth is a miracle - it should kill both the mother and the child every. single. time. And yet, here we all are.
Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:46 AM (blmVn)

I've only witnessed two, but both times the docs did a Sharon Tate on my wife, and that was interesting to see.

What I learned: the anesthesia only works on the surface parts, and when they go poking around in among the fruits and berries (internal organs), it's painful when they push and prod those various parts. I could hear them talking about what they were doing, checking out this and that part, and all the while the wife is going "oww, oww" over and over again.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

138 73 Tom Elliott
@tomselliott
France's Macron: If Americans re-elect Trump & leave the Paris Accord again, "it would be a big mistake for the planet, a big mistake for the U.S."

-
Je m'en fous!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:29 AM (L/fGl)

Considering that no nation has met the stated goals of the Paris Accords as of yet....

And that technically the USA is not part of the Paris Accords as no treaty was ever ratified - just given lip service a la Monica Lewinsky.

So all the whiny enviro-bitches can cry all they want.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2024 11:52 AM (N39Ws)

139 Sierra Club was against illegal migration too.

Millions and millions of “new arrivals” means lots more energy needs, sanitation, roads, water depletion, logging, you name it. If you truly want to protect the air, the water ….

What happened? Well their donor class didn’t like that idea. Sierra Club doesn’t talk about it any longer.

Everything is a scam

Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2024 11:52 AM (PXj64)

140 Cesar Chavez has been disowned by the NPCs for being against illegal immigration.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:47 AM (0FoWg)

========

He's a racist! Well, the wrong kind of racist.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:48 AM (GBKbO)

------------

The Hispanic Face of White Supremacy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 11:52 AM (VXJx/)

141 What was the name of the big “Chicano” labor leader in the 1960s?

-------------

Chico Rodriguez (AKA Freddie Prinze, Sr.)
Posted by: ShainS -

No. It was Feliz Navidad.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 11:52 AM (blmVn)

142 139 Sierra Club was against illegal migration too.

Millions and millions of “new arrivals” means lots more energy needs, sanitation, roads, water depletion, logging, you name it. If you truly want to protect the air, the water ….

What happened? Well their donor class didn’t like that idea. Sierra Club doesn’t talk about it any longer.

Everything is a scam
Posted by: Common Tater at May 24, 2024 11:52 AM (PXj64)

=======

That organization that's been funded by Russia since its inception?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

143 Chavez didn't play around either. He sent UFW spies into Latino neighborhoods to identify illegals and turn them over to INS. His philosophy was "If you ain't payin' taxes, you ain't payin' dues either. And if you ain't payin' dues to the UFW, then we got no use for your kind. GTFO."

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:53 AM (0FoWg)

144 Cesar Chavez has been disowned by the NPCs for being against illegal immigration.

I wonder if Austin will rename 1st Street back to 1st Street.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 11:53 AM (/y8xj)

145 smug deluded snide condescension

Proudly AOS!

Posted by: Juanista Tranista at May 24, 2024 11:53 AM (HLIHG)

146 Target attracts Karen's and Karen has less money to spend today. She'd rather spend it on Bota Boxes and daycare.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 24, 2024 11:53 AM (aFNOf)

147 Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,”

Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 24, 2024 11:54 AM (aFNOf)

148 My employer went ultra woke. In this case, it was a parent on the board losing their marbles after their kid turned.

The primary driver of corporate wokeness in the boardroom though is a combination of "buying indulgences" and "accessing get out of jail free cards", depending on the magnitude of the woke. If you play along, you are in the club and can get away with shit, more often than not. For example, our board and another got away with cancelling someone who was axing their business relationship and forming one with a primary competitor instead... even though it meant glossing over the admission that we (the board, I mean) sat on knowledge of years of misconduct against women (some minors). Woke industry media totally covered for them and memory-holed that part, and carried water for the cancellation hit-pieces.
Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 11:50 AM (NwuoC)

I wonder if there's a different cause/focus, with smaller companies. The bigger ones though, they have all been taken over by the Woke/DEI, and it's not like every one of them suddenly had board members who decided penis sipping and dudes in dresses was the thing they care most about.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (dGCAG)

149 Considering that no nation has met the stated goals of the Paris Accords as of yet....

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Not even China and India?

[insert shocked face here]

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (VXJx/)

150 >"Super Size Me" filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died from cancer at age 53.
He was vexxed and boosted, to answer the question you might ask.

The man who's health plummeted by eating only McDs for 30 days and alcoholism ...

(spoiler alert)

... but mostly alcoholism.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (cf/0E)

151 147 Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,”

Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years.
Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 24, 2024 11:54 AM (aFNOf)

========

So, that could be Secretary of State or janitor.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

152 123
‘ What's that in American?’
For some reason, 10 mm seems to be by far the most common fastener size in automobiles.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2024 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

153 151 Tour guide at the Smithsonian.

Posted by: bill in arkansas, not gonna comply with nuttin, waiting for the 0300 knock on the door at May 24, 2024 11:56 AM (V5eKu)

154 In "Man of the People" News -

From The Western Journal
Catholic Group Sues Biden Administration Over 'Blatant Violation of the First Amendment'

The Knights of Columbus are fighting the Biden administration so a Catholic Mass can be said over the honored dead on Memorial Day at Poplar Grove National Cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia.

Although the tradition of a Memorial Day Mass at the cemetery dates back to the 1960s, the National Park Service under President Joe Biden is now saying religion is against the rules, prompting a lawsuit filed by First Liberty Institute and McGuireWoods LLP to allow the service on Monday, according to a news release from First Liberty

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 11:57 AM (VXRhG)

155
Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,”

Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 24, 2024 11:54 AM

Maybe he has and wants the backstabbers right out in the open instead of being surprised.

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 11:57 AM (RKVpM)

156 I thought Feliz Navidad was Oscar Madison's roommate in The Odd Couple.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:57 AM (L/fGl)

157 Lower top line revenue in a hyper inflation economic environment. That is twice as bad.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 24, 2024 11:57 AM (17s+e)

158 Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,”

Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years.

Posted by: Maj. Healey at May 24, 2024 11:54 AM (aFNOf)

---------------

Ambassador to Greenland?

Maybe he'll invite her to the White House and give her the Pierre Delecto treatment ... "Hey, Nikki, I've got your cabinet position right here!"

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 11:57 AM (VXJx/)

159 Every time I shopped at target, I would see a few yoga-pants thigh gaps.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 11:58 AM (cf/0E)

160 155 Maybe he has and wants the backstabbers right out in the open instead of being surprised.
Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 11:57 AM (RKVpM)

========

Promising an unnamed position to the most well-funded challenger is boilerplate politics.

If he gives her a position of real power like a cabinet post, it's a problem. If he lets her talk on CNN as an employee of the RNC, that's less of a problem. If he sends her to Norway to be our ambassador, that's not a problem.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 11:58 AM (GBKbO)

161 Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,”

Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years.

Trump says a lot of things.

Posted by: SoS Mitt Romney at May 24, 2024 11:58 AM (CsUN+)

162 159 Every time I shopped at target, I would see a few yoga-pants thigh gaps.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 11:58 AM (cf/0E)

Whale-tails at Walmart has you beat.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2024 11:59 AM (N39Ws)

163 Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years

—

No, he has not.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 12:00 PM (tpjlM)

164 Target's new slogan: Right In The Butt!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:37 AM (L/fGl)

The second video is even better. LOL.

https://x.com/SkaMike/status/1793830291729170838

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 24, 2024 12:00 PM (iODuv)

165 143
‘ Chavez didn't play around either’

Mister, we could use a man like Cesar Chavez again!

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2024 12:01 PM (jbnUc)

166 Interesting team photo.

https://shorturl.at/4q77m

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 12:02 PM (L/fGl)

167 What about non Catholic dead soldiers?

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 12:02 PM (tpjlM)

168 Nevermind -

PETERSBURG, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) — The Biden administration’s National Park Service (NPS) announced on Thursday that it is granting the Knights of Columbus a permit to hold a Memorial Day Mass at a national cemetery in Petersburg, Virginia, after the Knights filed a lawsuit over its initial denial of their request. The lawsuit has now been dropped.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 12:02 PM (VXRhG)

169 >> Cesar Chavez has been disowned by the NPCs for being against illegal immigration.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 11:47 AM

They could re-name it after Juan Corona. He killed white, male migrant farmworkers so he wouldn't have to pay them.

Posted by: huerfano at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (VGOMa)

170 ... but mostly alcoholism.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (cf/0E)

Depends on the definition of alcoholism...smashed by 10 am after drinking a fifth of whiskey you've kept under your bed...sure, I get it.

My wife's definition? Having a cold beer after a 10 hour work day....and then having the temerity to ask for a second...alcoholic!

Posted by: Boswell at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (K+UlC)

171 What did Trump do now?

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (sEYaD)

172 "I wonder if there's a different cause/focus, with smaller companies. The bigger ones though, they have all been taken over by the Woke/DEI, and it's not like every one of them suddenly had board members who decided penis sipping and dudes in dresses was the thing they care most about.
Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (dGCAG)

If it's a smaller single-owner business they may just be woke retards. Medium-sized ones are often cases of clumps of moonbats. In both cases they either keep their moonbattery out of the actual money decisions, or they have a captive moonbat customer base, geographically, that will hold up as long as their blue enclave keeps it together.

I am seeing a lot of businesses waving (literal) freak flags shutter. It's not because because wokeness alienated their customers; it's because they and their customers voted for stupid bullshit that is destroying their little blue tumor of a town/city/state.

Posted by: somedood at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (NwuoC)

173 The Great Pretending continues.

Walmart in Pittsburg CA, shitshow.

Walmart in NC, damn pleasant really.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (Z8Yh2)

174 Former President Donald Trump told News 12 New Jersey’s Tara Rosenblum that neoconservative primary opponent Nikki Haley will “absolutely” be “on our team in some form,”

Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years.

Posted by: Maj. Healey

Cashier at the white house gift shop.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 12:04 PM (lTGtQ)

175 What did Trump do now?
Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (sEYaD)

Snuggled up to Nikki.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 12:04 PM (tpjlM)

176 Whale-tails at Walmart has you beat.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 24, 2024 11:59 AM (N39Ws)

Worn by whales.

The target women typically have nice figures.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 12:05 PM (cf/0E)

177 Trump has learned absolutely nothing in the last four years

Keep your friends close; keep your enemies closer.

Posted by: Sun Tzu at May 24, 2024 12:06 PM (MDua2)

178 Trump might just be trying to appease the sceptical members of Team Nikki that it's alright to vote for him in November.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 12:07 PM (KLo17)

179 Most Trump critics have zero self awareness, and can read minds.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 12:08 PM (Z8Yh2)

180 178 Trump might just be trying to appease the sceptical members of Team Nikki that it's alright to vote for him in November.
Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 12:07 PM (KLo17)

=======

It's very standard language after a primary ends to try and bring the party together.

She'll get some unimportant ambassador post. It will bring down the Trump administration, or something.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

181 What about non Catholic dead soldiers?

What about them? How are they harmed? I would have no objections to other groups holding religious commemoration services for Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Zoroastrians, etc. That such other groups may not exist is no reason to prohibit the Catholic ones from having their service.

Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 12:09 PM (/y8xj)

182 150 ... but mostly alcoholism.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 11:55 AM (cf/0E)

And now everybody is trying to whitewash over his alcoholism, saying "NO HE WASN'T! THAT'S JUST THAT EVIL PHELIM MCALEER TRYING TO RUIN HIS REPUTATION!!!"

Never mind that Spurlock admitted to it.

Posted by: XTC at May 24, 2024 12:10 PM (UnA8+)

183 It's very standard language after a primary ends to try and bring the party together.

She'll get some unimportant ambassador post. It will bring down the Trump administration, or something.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 12:09 PM (GBKbO)

———-

Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, maybe Bhutan.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at May 24, 2024 12:10 PM (sEYaD)

184 178
‘ sceptical members of Team Nikki that it's alright to vote for him in November.’
And then drop her like a hot potato like he did Romney.
I’d do it for the LOLs of watching her grovel. Wouldn’t you?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2024 12:11 PM (jbnUc)

185 Nood.

Posted by: NoodGPT at May 24, 2024 12:12 PM (PiwSw)

186 What about them? How are they harmed? I would have no objections to other groups holding religious commemoration services for Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Zoroastrians, etc. That such other groups may not exist is no reason to prohibit the Catholic ones from having their service.
Posted by: Oddbob at May 24, 2024 12:09 PM (/y8xj)

Or you know, just keep religion out of it altogether? Wacky idea, I know.

Posted by: Montec at May 24, 2024 12:12 PM (tpjlM)

187
Revenge is a dish best served cold.

-- The Godfather (maybe)

Posted by: Divide by Zero at May 24, 2024 12:13 PM (RKVpM)

188 Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, maybe Bhutan.
____

We really should have a diplomatic post in Antarctica.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 12:13 PM (VXRhG)

189 The ICC has ordered, ORDERED, Israel to stop the Rafah operation and allow the UN in.
This after Israel just recovered three more dead hostage bodies in a tunnel under an UNWRA building.
Posted by: sharon

That's meaningless. Now, if the Paducah, KY ladies sewing guild makes a similar announcement, then it's game on.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 12:13 PM (lTGtQ)

190 We'd Like to Buy an Egads: Wheel of Fortune Contestant's Wrong Answer Is Hilariously Cringe

https://shorturl.at/vbf0Y
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, I've Been Through the Desert On a Horse With No Shame at May 24, 2024 11:25 AM (L/fGl)

Typical. The slack-ass potlickers at Twitchy can't be assed to provide a transcript of what was said; want to me to watch a video clip. Twitchy gargles syphilitic donkey balls.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2024 12:14 PM (lFzYm)

191 Hey, corgis, ace opened up a new field to frolic in.

Posted by: tankdemon at May 24, 2024 12:14 PM (KLo17)

192 Sentinel Island. Slather her in BBQ sauce and boot her out of a C-130 with a parachute emblazoned with a photo of Biden's uncle.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 12:14 PM (0FoWg)

193 I used to reflexively buy nearly all of our consumable home goods at the Target one mile up the road. A few thousand dollars a year. I thought of it as our "warehouse." Now I hardly ever go in there, and only as a last resort, and it actually kind of gives me the creeps to be in there. I spend maybe $100-200 a year there now. There are plenty of other options around town and nearby, including Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, and the supermarket, not to mention the internet. And this change is permanent.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 24, 2024 12:15 PM (qUkBO)

194 Depends on the definition of alcoholism...smashed by 10 am after drinking a fifth of whiskey you've kept under your bed...sure, I get it.

My wife's definition? Having a cold beer after a 10 hour work day....and then having the temerity to ask for a second...alcoholic!
Posted by: Boswell at May 24, 2024 12:03 PM (K+UlC)

Sounds like my ex-wife

Posted by: free tibet with purchase of equal or greater value tibet at May 24, 2024 12:16 PM (iNp3L)

195 Typical. The slack-ass potlickers at Twitchy can't be assed to provide a transcript of what was said; want to me to watch a video clip. Twitchy gargles syphilitic donkey balls.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2024 12:14 PM (lFzYm)

Uhhh, a problem with watching a 15 second video clip?? The video is hilarious. A transcript is not. Geez. WTF??

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 24, 2024 12:18 PM (iODuv)

196 ‘ What's that in American?’
For some reason, 10 mm seems to be by far the most common fastener size in automobiles.
Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 24, 2024 11:56 AM (jbnUc)

Curiously enough, 18 mm bolt heads were never found in the wild until General Motors went metric. Metric wrench and socket sets made before about 1995 never included that size. Now, they are everywhere.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2024 12:25 PM (lFzYm)

197 Uhhh, a problem with watching a 15 second video clip?? The video is hilarious. A transcript is not. Geez. WTF??
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy now with twice the crazy at May 24, 2024 12:18 PM (iODuv)

1. I hate video, unless it is something I truly want to see.

2. How am I supposed to know how long the video is unless I click on it?

3. Twitchy is clickbait. It's evil. Even if it pretends to be on our side.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 24, 2024 12:31 PM (lFzYm)

198 I've noticed that Amazon products are increasingly significantly more expensive than the same products at big box and even local stores.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at May 24, 2024 12:43 PM (wBaIH)

199 I seriously doubt that these eco-freaks walked or biked to the locations where they do their thing: making the average person hate them. It would be an awesome thing if some folks followed them back to their cars and let them know of their displeasure.

Posted by: TimothyJ at May 24, 2024 12:59 PM (jsqVJ)

200 Two metrics they missed:

1) Number of sales
2) Amount per ticket

Target Point is: Is Target pulling in the same number or more customer than last year, and are those customers spending the same or each visit? (No and no.)

If you adjust for inflation, are there fewer sales, but customer spends more because what they're buying costs more?

Posted by: Livia Drusilla at May 24, 2024 01:40 PM (zbGp6)

201 Hey, you horde members (early in thread) that expressed anxiety over seeing Islamic headgear in Walmarts. You must not have ever flown through Washington / Dulles airport!

Posted by: Fenderbender at May 24, 2024 01:47 PM (r72iY)

202 Their losing their Customers over their Liberal policies

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 24, 2024 04:57 PM (wGqjj)

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