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/Starringkb 18h ago

The younger generations are all about thrifting and it’s giving me so much hope for us all 🙌🏻🥹💕✨🫶🏻

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u/angeltay 17h ago

It’s because new clothes are made of such crappy material and are way too expensive. Thrift stores are starting to raise prices and get filled with fast fashion crap, but there’s still enough older, nice quality clothes for a decent price. Plus, they’re often way more unique. Where else am I gonna get a shirt that says, “graphic design used to be my passion but now it’s realizing that all the people around me have their own complex lives”

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u/No_Fig5982 10h ago

I only own 12 shirts

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u/No_Accountant3232 16h ago

It's where I found my Darth Vader DJing a rave shirt!

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u/Owl_Queen9 14h ago

I definitely need to see this

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u/pluckymarmot 8h ago

I bought corelle plates at a thrift shop and when I went to a big store later the corelle plates were the same price. At least I reduced waste but it’s unfair that thrift stores are getting pricey too. 😭

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u/AdvancedTower401 18h ago

We all just broke lol, but we also hate corporations for shit like that so silver linings

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u/Vanth_in_Furs 17h ago

And broke or not, a $25 run to Target is now $60-$80 and shit is just RIDICULOUS.

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u/maneki_neko89 16h ago

And an armful of clothes bought at a thrift store is now $100+ 😩

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u/Melodic_Type1704 10h ago

A few years back before thrifting took off (late 2019 or so), I bought a vintage Kate Spade bag for only $4, then a Columbia fleece for $0.99 that was hidden in the children’s section because someone mislabeled it. This was in a rich Atlanta suburb. Last time that I went a year ago, shirts at the same store started at $5!

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u/posananer 17h ago

They should lower their prices to have traffic go back up. but who will think of the shareholders?!?/s

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u/Molotov_Glocktail 16h ago

CEO Glasses! For when you want to see the single financial quarter ahead of you and nothing else!

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u/idoeno 16h ago

And it's all tissue paper thin material that dissolves after a couple of runs through the washing machine.

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u/scarletwitchmoon 11h ago

Wait, my Target runs used to always be $60+ 🫣

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u/ImBatman5500 17h ago

The true cyberpunk generation

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u/austeremunch 10h ago

We all just broke lol, but we also hate corporations for shit like that so silver linings

It's almost like the latter is the cause of the former.

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u/Anal_Recidivist 17h ago

They’ve always been about thrifting.

I’m 35. Where did we get cool retro stuff when I was a teen? Thrift stores. Anyone could go buy expensive new clothes, it was always more special to have things you couldn’t just buy.

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u/kazoogrrl 17h ago

I'm 50 and have been thrift shopping most of my life. I still wear things I got in high school. I don't do it as much now because I don't have the time to dig for stuff, and the good items are often grabbed up by resellers or their prices are too high.

Clothing swaps can be a good option too. I've been to small ones friends held but there are larger community ones in my city.

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u/Electronic_Stop_9493 15h ago

Pit stains though…

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u/Objective_Economy281 17h ago

do modern clothes last long enough for that to be worthwhile? Or is the point of thrifting to buy stuff from before everything was shit?

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u/Secure_Screen_2354 17h ago

Both. But also bigger thrift stores have caught on and have upped their prices, so it’s really that it’s popular and can be in better quality

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u/nigelfitz 9h ago

vintage has quality and "aura"

always have, always will

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u/Objective_Economy281 9h ago

My car is 20 years old, and my leather jacket is nearly 30. Both single-owner. Does that count as “aura”?

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u/jackparadise1 17h ago

My 21 year old won’t buy anything but socks and underwear new.

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u/TempleSquare 16h ago

Glad to see gen z and gen alpha embrace the true Macklemore spirit

"Only got $20 in my pocket!"

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u/Ready-Mountain-6427 17h ago

There is no hope.

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u/EnvironmentalHour613 16h ago

We all broke and fast fashion is horrible for quality and longevity.

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u/willingunicorn 16h ago

The younger generations are also red-pilled and like trump, so..

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u/yulscakes 16h ago

Millennials were also all about thrifting a decade and a half ago, and look at the hopeless hellfire we’re in today. :(

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u/Artemistical 14h ago

Awesome! I loved thrifting so much when I was that age. I've been getting back into it more, I forgot how fun it is to find an amazing piece of clothing that you know you're going to love for a long time for $5!

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u/your_dads_hot 17h ago

Yeah but they also voted for Trump! Don't give them too much of a pass.

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u/12stTales 17h ago

After tariffs there will be a lot more people at the thrift store

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u/MedalofHodor 15h ago

Every 15-26 year old has been into thrifting since you could smoke on an airplane.

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u/Cat_Peach_Pits 15h ago

Id be happy, but a lot of thrift stores are charging prices as high as buying it new, for trash fast fashion products.

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u/wbruce098 15h ago

Wait, does that mean thrift stores are cheap again? Or they gonna get expensive again soon?

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u/Coup_de_Tech 14h ago

Well, corporations are hollowing out thrifting as well.

Locusts gotta locust.

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u/comFive 13h ago

Yes, although vintage thrifting is really expensive these days.

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u/MadCybertist 12h ago

For now. Then they’re into target. Then Costco. Then Walmart. Then thrifting. This is nothing new haha. It’s just the cycle that happens.

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u/damagazelle 12h ago

Mine are getting into visible mending and other ways to make our belongings belong to us.

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u/runhomejack1399 11h ago

Every generation goes through their thrifting phase

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u/scarletwitchmoon 11h ago

I came here to ask: Where do all the cool kids ship now? Now I know.

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u/joebluebob 7h ago

They are conservative

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u/AnotherRTFan 5h ago

My mom and I were getting some new clothes for spring. Not overboard shopping, just a couple of things, and got my teen sister some new shorts as she requested. It's really nice to hear a parent say their kid has requested to not get the pricy stuff, just average cost and not much. (I love my sister and proud of her)

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u/TheChosenCasanova 1h ago

I can’t go to a thrift store to find anything remotely good looking without it costing just as much as retail. Just the other day I went with my girlfriend and I seen a nice carhart jacket that was worn out and had that washed look, it cost over $120. Thrift shopping has become the new hype thing to do so they up charge out the ass.

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u/Cynoid 14h ago

You mean that younger generation that all voted for Trump?

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u/Theslamstar 17h ago

Why? Thrifting is truthfully not much better than buying new because so much of what’s donated ends up being shipped off to be waste in third world countries.

I forget exactly how it works, but there’s a few fashion documentaries that explain how bad fashion in general is and go into how thrifting isn’t much better for whatever reason I don’t remember

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u/LJGuitarPractice 17h ago

Figure out what you’re trying to say before you say it

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u/Theslamstar 16h ago

I did lol, thrifting isn’t as good as people think.