arm the fuck up
This should go without saying, but DO YOUR HOMEWORK FIRST!!
There are a lot of do’s and don’ts with things like concealed carry, and if you overlook one you could easily kill/injure yourself or others on accident.
Also know the living fuck out of the local laws in your region.
It’s not the backlash that hurt their sales, it was them being cowards and removing displays that tanked their sales because everyone saw them being cowards and kneeling down to psycho conservatives.
Stand by your principles or you’ll just anger everyone
Exactly. They pissed off bigots by putting up the pride displays, and pissed off progressives by taking them down. They couldn’t pick one side, so they angered both.
They couldn’t pick one side
Classic Target, really
“While I firmly believe that a business climate conducive to growth is critical to our future, I realize our decision affected many of you in a way I did not anticipate, and for that I am genuinely sorry,” Steinhafel wrote.
He added, “The diversity of our team is an important aspect of our unique culture and our success as a company, and we did not mean to disappoint you, our team or our valued guests.”
Gay rights activists and loyal Target shoppers were furious with the company after it contributed $150,000 to MN Forward , a political group that has endorsed and is paying for ads for the Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Emmer.
Emmer, who will face the winner of the Democratic gubernatorial primary and an independent candidate in the general election this November.
I’m gonna skip over Emmer’s endorsement of a Christian rock band that basically called for gay people to be executed because this quote has already gotten kind of long, but there’s one other bit that jumped out at me here,
Large corporations have only recently been legally allowed to contribute to campaign advertising, after the Supreme Court in January reversed a century of campaign finance reform that had limited the money that could be spent by private companies and unions.
The more I think about this, the more it seems like Citizens United and the floodgates of campaign and general politicking cash that it dumped on all of us and the way it basically forced corporations into these donations as a way to maintain the kind of political access their competitors get (no corp wants to be the only one not donating when they need a favor) really explains so much of the political and cultural insanity we’ve seen since 2010
Isn’t sales in general down across most sectors? This is them placing blame somewhere it really doesn’t belong. Did some bigots decide not to shop there? Maybe. But most of those people didn’t shop there anyways. Walmarts dominate the areas and is the go to for those people.
Not everywhere, on August 2 2023 it was reported that “North Face sales grew 12% year-over-year to $538.2 million in the first quarter”
(Quick aside, when I went looking for their second quarter 2023 report I ended up getting something with a date in October 2022, so I think they’re using a different calendar than Target)
The reason why that’s significant is
Just before the official start to Pride Month, The North Face announced it had teamed up with drag performer Pattie Gonia for its second annual Summer of Pride tour.
“Hi, it’s me, Pattie Gonia, a real-life homosexual,” the performer introduced herself in a video promoting the outdoor clothing and gear company’s campaign.
Criticism from conservatives came quickly, among them U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who took to Twitter to criticize the company and call for a boycott.
But The North Face didn’t back down, and Pattie Gonia will kick off the campaign in Salt Lake City in July as scheduled at the sold-out event.
The North Face has always believed the outdoors should be a “welcoming, equitable and safe place for all,” the company said in a statement to NPR.
[Bolding added]
Looks like apeasing fascists is bad for business
e; forgot to mention the bolding wasn’t in the original article
All of these companies half ass and they simultaneously put off the bigots, the allies and the targeted communities in the middle.
Had target just planted it’s pride flag and held to it, headline is, “Hateful bigots who would have gone to target drove 5 more minutes to get to Wal-Mart this month”.
But jittery like bud light, they started to backpedal for profit midway through and pissed off everyone else.
That just means fewer conservatives inside the store. Which makes it more likely normal people will actually feel comfortable in there again. Fewer red hats and less exposed back fat rolling around on hover-rounds will make for a nicer shopping experience for the actual human customers.
At least some of the bomb threats, allegedly, came from upset LGBTQ/left after removal of Gay Pride displays.
…I say allegedly because I won’t discount the use of false flag tactics by either side to make the other look bad. But the threat was basically, “I placed bombs in your stores, put the Gay Pride displays back up or they’re going off”.
Thanks for the downvote, so good to know people here care about the truth & accuracy in reporting. 🙄
