Why do people boycott target

Subscriber Account active since. The blog post, published in April , publicized a policy that said transgender customers were welcome to use the bathroom or fitting room that matched their gender identity. He later told colleagues that he wouldn't have approved the decision to "flaunt" the policy and that the backlash was "self-inflicted," The Journal reported.

The boycott cost the company millions in lost sales and added expenses. Critics of the policy said it opened the door for sexual predators to victimize women and children inside the retailer's bathrooms, and more than 1. Cornell didn't approve the post, according to The Journal, but he supported the policy in interviews after it was published.

In the past, even the most widespread calls for company boycotts have tended to blow over within a matter of weeks or months. Truett Cathy, set off a fury among supporters of equal rights for gay people when he told Baptist Press that the company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of the family unit. In April and May, shortly after the corporation announced that it would adhere to a transgender-friendly restroom policy, street preachers began invading Target stores around the country and ranting in the aisles about hellfire and brimstone.

Police later declared that he was unarmed. Even before the Target boycotts began, people in the transgender community attempted to point out how anti-transgender bathroom policies would backfire for the people they intend to shield. Minnesota's SF would put me here. NBC OUT emailed 2nd Vote to ask how many signatures the petition had gathered by Wednesday and whether Target had responded to the group, but did not receive an immediate response.

Target did not issue a press release or public response to the 2nd Vote boycott, but did announce on its website that stores would open to Black Friday shoppers at 6 p.

IE 11 is not supported. Well, evidently there are consumers who want to make a point, too. But there is a larger issue at stake here. If we are going to allow individuals to define reality according to their feelings, then Target should allow a year-old to get a senior discount if he self-identifies as a year-old. Would Target accept that self-identity? If not, why not, based on their logic? Facebook Twitter Email.