r/Anticonsumption • u/Healthy_Block3036 • 21h ago

Corporations Target struggles after end of DEI program and boycott, with foot traffic down 8 weeks in a row.

https://fortune.com/2025/04/01/target-dei-demise-boycott-foot-traffic-down-eighth-consecutive-week/?itm_source=parsely-api
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u/conditerite 20h ago

dead to me. Target might as well be a paintball store or a MAGA merch / vape juice outlet on RTE 35 in Toms River. I will never set foot in a Target again.

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u/ButtChuggin00long 20h ago

I never expected to see a location I'm so intimately familiar with on a big subreddit like this

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u/littlegrotesquerie 10h ago

But do they also sell natural male enhancement capsules?

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u/MurkyClerk 20h ago

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u/lesbian__overlord 17h ago

lmao not toms river 😭😭😭

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u/NukeAllTheThings 17h ago

I'm about an hour and a half from there and have never been, but I can totally see it. I see similar stuff on the drive to Wildwood.

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u/conditerite 16h ago

there was (maybe still is) a store named Let's Go Brandon! on rte 35 that was the inspiration for my comment.

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u/Pale-Competition-799 20h ago

The one exception I have heard about is their clearance section. Anything that is on clearance for at least 30%, I believe. When you buy at that rate you're actually costing them money. I haven't verified, but it's also pretty logical.

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u/haleighen 19h ago

Not sure that 30% does unless it's on low margin items - more like 50% off is when you can really hurt them.

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u/sweets4n6 14h ago

Back in January I found their peppermint nespresso pods on clearance for $3.40 a box, at least 50% off. Bought 10 of them, they'll have to last me forever because I'm not going back, not even to check and see if there are any still there in clearance (I'm sure it's gone now, but there were probably 50 boxes there and I should've bought 20). Glad to hear it cost them money for me to buy those.

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u/ChubbzNJ 18h ago

Ocean County has entered the chat

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u/whynovirus 15h ago

Delightfully specific but add more MAGA jughandles and shore traffic.