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A million and counting - Is Target paying attention?

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A million and counting - Is Target paying attention?
Thursday, April 28, 2016
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Jody Brown (OneNewsNow.com)

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An online petition urging people to boycott one of America's largest retailers has reached the million-signature milestone one week after being launched.

Last week the American Family Association announced its boycott of Target in the wake of the company's reiteration of a controversial bathroom policy. "We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity," Target announced. "... Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."

Responding via a press release, AFA said it was clear to them that the policy "poses a danger to wives and daughters." Believing that many of its supporters – as well as many in the general population – agreed with that assessment, the Mississippi-based group asked people to pledge to boycott Target stores until it makes protecting women and children a priority.

The petition documenting those individual pledges – launched on Thursday, April 21 – topped the one-million mark the next Thursday evening. The first half-million were logged in over the weekend and had grown steadily since. The boycott also gained the support of Concerned Women of America this week – and was the subject of a video released by a Tennessee pastor that has gone viral.

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Boycott has "resonated with Americans"

AFA president Tim Wildmon describes the Target campaign as one of his organization's most successful – and by virtue of garnering more signatures more quickly than any other effort, one of the most powerful in AFA history. "Everybody knows who Target is, and it's an easy-to-understand issue," he adds, attributing the protest's viral nature to those facts.
 
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A million and counting - Is Target paying attention?
Thursday, April 28, 2016
|
Jody Brown (OneNewsNow.com)

target-restroom_350x219.jpg


An online petition urging people to boycott one of America's largest retailers has reached the million-signature milestone one week after being launched.

Last week the American Family Association announced its boycott of Target in the wake of the company's reiteration of a controversial bathroom policy. "We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity," Target announced. "... Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."

Responding via a press release, AFA said it was clear to them that the policy "poses a danger to wives and daughters." Believing that many of its supporters – as well as many in the general population – agreed with that assessment, the Mississippi-based group asked people to pledge to boycott Target stores until it makes protecting women and children a priority.

The petition documenting those individual pledges – launched on Thursday, April 21 – topped the one-million mark the next Thursday evening. The first half-million were logged in over the weekend and had grown steadily since. The boycott also gained the support of Concerned Women of America this week – and was the subject of a video released by a Tennessee pastor that has gone viral.

tim_mug_mug.jpg

Wildmon

Boycott has "resonated with Americans"

AFA president Tim Wildmon describes the Target campaign as one of his organization's most successful – and by virtue of garnering more signatures more quickly than any other effort, one of the most powerful in AFA history. "Everybody knows who Target is, and it's an easy-to-understand issue," he adds, attributing the protest's viral nature to those facts.

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Undercover Video Proves That Men — Not Transgendered People, but MEN — Can Use the Women’s Restroom at Target Now
April 29, 2016 | Piper McGowin |


When a man decided to hide a camera in his shirt pocket and go to Target to test out the store’s new bathroom policy, he got affirmation of a lot more than just the fact that this has nothing to do with transgendered people “feeling comfortable” using the bathroom of their choice.

When he, a man dressed as a man, asked a Target security guard if he could use the women’s restroom, the guard almost enthusiastically answered, “Yep!”

So there you go. Target is straight up allowing men — that’s right, men, not transgendered men who live their lives as women, but MEN — to use the women’s bathroom ‘if it makes them feel more comfortable’.

Has anyone asked Target if they care whether or not the little girls in there feel more comfortable with a strange man in the bathroom?


As of writing this, the American Family Association boycott Target pledge has now garnered over a million signatures (and counting), mostly because of exactly what is described above.

It isn’t that people are upset about transgendered people using “their” bathroom… people are concerned that sexual predators and perverts will be able to seek out potential victims much more easily this way. And as previously reported, this exact scenario has happened a lot more often than the people behind this agenda would have everyone believe.
 
I went to target this weekend. It was really crowded. So was chicfila. Looks like both teams are ineffective at boycotts...
 
The Target boycott is costing more than anyone expected

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Now shopper traffic is declining for the first time in years, and the company is installing single-occupancy bathrooms in all of its stores to give critics of the policy more privacy. The new bathrooms, which already exist in a majority of Target stores, are costing Target $20 million to install, Fortune reports.

The company revealed its traffic declines last week when it reported second-quarter earnings.

Target's same-store transactions, which is how traffic is measured, fell 2.2% in the second quarter. Overall, sales fell 7.2% to $16.2 billion.

In the past, even the most widespread calls for company boycotts have tended to blow over within a matter of weeks to months.

Chick-fil-A, for example, faced a nationwide boycott in 2012 after Dan Cathy, the son of Chick-fil-A's founder, S. Truett Cathy, set off a fury among gay-rights supporters when he told Baptist Press that the company was "guilty as charged" for backing "the biblical definition of a family."

Following Cathy's remarks, reports emerged detailing Chick-fil-A's many charitable donations to organizations opposed to same-sex marriage.

Despite the backlash, Chick-fil-A's sales soared 14% in 2012.

Investors seem unsure of the long-term impact of the boycott on Target's sales, however.

The retailer's stock is down 1% since the start of the year.
 
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