Target is decreasing the number of stores carrying Pride-themed apparel
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- Target is decreasing the number of stores that will carry Pride-themed apparel. Some have spoken out on social media about how merchandise can be found online but not in as many stores. NBC News' Maura Barrett reports on how companies are trying to find balance when it comes to addressing social issues.
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#Target #Pride #LGBTQ
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Most people aren’t LGBT. Target is a business, with shareholders, and customers they need to please.
Seems like some of the "pride" items they were stocking were doing more to be controversial than they were actually helping or making money--a lose-lose
maybe if they stop trying to sell tuck swim suits in the woman's department they wouldn't have such an issue.
@@LA-rc7cw 😫
The problem is people are toxic in the LGBT community, specifically transgender people. Nothing against the LGBT community but as a whole, it's just toxic and they get offended with literally anything.
No it is even that. It is people sick of the alphabet mafia.
Enough with corporate virtue signaling.
Truth that companies cannot be moral if profits don’t align. If moral and profits then moral. If not moral and profits then not moral. Also target is not moral or not moral because some lgbtq merchandise. What a pathetic display of morality if that the reason for their morality. What else is target doing that is disgusting?
You're using the wrong verbiage. Virtue signalling is claiming to have righteous morals that is above every one elses.
How are they virtue signalling when they pander to all demographics? They'll sell Juneteenth merch and will have a patriotic collection trickling out to stores for July 4th soon after that.
They're loyal to none but the Almighty dollar.
@@danielmcdermott3558 they're just trying to sell what they think will sell, and every store like this tries to cater to a wide audience. Ultimately, some of these items aren't really selling and are causing controversy, so there's no reason to keep them on the shelves. It's not that complicated, and you were right initially that morality really isn't involved
NBC pushes the garbage then holds everyone's coat while we fight!
I guess target isn't so proud after all😂
thank god ! stand up to the lgblt+++ bullies
Target sells stuff. If products don't sell and even cause problems, they get booted from the shelves real quick
Their recent bottom line seems to not be pride worthy.
Perfect!
Why are we embarrassed about things we should be proud of and proud of things we should be embarrasses about?
Nice comment, Jerry.
Because the West is in a state of moral decay.
Well said Mr Seinfeld
Well, that can be believed by people on both sides of the issue. Was that your intention, to keep your own views on Pride out of your comment?
@@bobdavis4848 Go ahead Bob, lecture away groomer.
Target your customers, and dont push an agenda. Target lost billions last year.
They are doing just that. Should i be offended if the store sells Easter stuff or Biblical themed stuff during Christmas if I'm not Christian? Mind your own business. If the Pride stuff makes a loss naturally, the store would not carry them. So, its cool for stores to carry stuff you like but not stuff other people like?
To translate your words, if it doesn't align with your life it's wrong and it's an agenda.
@dquan731 with the majority of Americans celebrating Easter and Christmas, they are targeting the majority. Target makes the most profit by targeting the majority. LGBTQ+ is the minority and caused a major loss in revenue. Only a foolish company would value a loss in customers and profits.
@@dquan731I feel like that last sentence is a flawed way of thinking. Target is minding the business that pays them, similarly as you demand the commenter do. & apparently pride doesn’t pay. When demand diminishes, so does product. I remember learning that in elementary, idk if you do. It’s pointless for retailers to hold on to, let alone try to sell inventory they know won’t. Bad business 101. & I feel if that last sentence was the case, more topics of discussion would come up, for example: why don’t Target and other major retailers have exotic ingredients & foods for prominent but still minority communities? There are many Asian’s and Hispanic’s in my area, if they want something they normally get from their home country, they have to go out of their way to a local bazaar or market. But then what happens to those local markets? I know it’s not a perfect comparison, pride is only in stores for a month, meanwhile food is year round. But questioning “it’s cool for stores to carry stuff you like but not stuff other people like” is a broad question that opens up to broader topics. Yes, in a perfect world we’d have anything anyone could ever want just a short drive a way, but it’s not, and frankly shouldn’t be. It’s good to have those smaller retailers. So what Target doesn’t carry your rainbow mugs this year? If you’re in need of pride merch that badly, there are other options, local boutiques, mom & pops, even online Etsy shops. I’m sure at least 1 is selling that rainbow merch you or the one you’re advocating for want, plus it would be a better option to buy from one of them than a conglomerate like Target.
@@rileyrat6065 I made this comment in regards to the haters who were offended Target had the audacity to even put out this line of merchandise to begin with. Or have you selectively forgotten all the hateful media last year? Even now, I don’t know if they are cutting back because of lack of demand or if they want to avoid haters going into the store and causing problems. My point is, buy or don’t buy. Why do you care what the store decides to sell?
Bring that Lego collection back people actually liked that!
Never get involved in culture wars 😂
CZcams can keep erasing my comment but ill keep posting it
What did you write?
Target sells t-shirts with alcohol brands on them and it is a little suspicious how no one is talking about how that can be seen as promoting alcohol
I'm appalled at the lack of clothing at Target that make me feel especially straight
John Wayne! I want a selection of t-shirts featuring John Wayne, the Man's Man! True Grit would be great.
I'm appalled at the lack of clothing at Target that celebrates White people.
Maybe the pride community can beef up those sales and support those companies that tried to represent. Just like all women's rights groups supported the wnba.
You are trying to inject morality in capitalism. Capitalism is neutrally moral because profits is what drives decisions not morality. If morality then bankruptcy l. What company in capitalism will willingly go bankrupt for a good cause?
I get the disappointment but people forget that last year their employees were being harassed for ignorant reasons 😔so I see why this year they moved most of the merchandise online and just have a few select store with the physical merchandise in it.
@phoenixr6811. Not to mention the huge amounts of $$$ that were lost due to their stock price plunging. Stupidly handled mess. Babies with pride clothing!
Only in ur mind
@@JeanneOlson-vv9tl Woke ideology is hard to stand up against when you haven't faced it before. They immediately label you evil and "over react" to anything you say or do in an attempt to cancel you. Anyone at Target who tried to say this clothing was a bad idea would have been immediately labeled a bigot by their "professional" co-workers and written up to HR about their "unsafe and dangerous" behavior.
Yeah, but the problem is that by caving Target is sending the message that violence gets people what they want. Now they'll do more of it because they know it works.
😂😂they don't care about employees being harassed. They had their first sales drop in years in the second quarter of last year after this, and they assumed correctly that it would be worse this year
Budlite sales have been flat? Its always tasted flat. Ive boycotted that for decades on the sole basis it tastes like crap. Lol
Nah it isn't flat, just tastes like bubbly pisswater
Go Woke, Go Broke
If you aern't woke you go broke
No pride month, no clothes, and no online sales of Trans clothing or we Americans are going to boycott Target again. Take it from Budwiser, you will never come back from this mistake. I myself will not shop target
I'm an American who only shops at target because they sold Pride merchandise.
....no clothes??? 0.0
Conservatives in a nutshell
The senate chamber aide video made everyone a little less proud I guess? I think the oncoming backlash is sorely underestimated, as we're all becoming wise to their "lifestyle" choices.
:( this is the first year as I'm coming out, and i expected to shop at Target this year for pride
They have pride merch online
They not only targeting DEI…. They targeting pride too!!! This country is becoming more and more conservative
You said that like its a bad thing 😂
Trump 2024 🇺🇸 ❤
Awesome!
Cry more
We can only hope and pray! 🙏🏼
@@khj8716 Amen 🙏 ❤️
If you don't want to wear Pride gear, don't buy it. It's abhorrent that so many were being harrassed and threatened over items for sale in a store. There are plenty of things there that I personally would not buy. I JUST DON'T BUY THEM AND GO ABOUT MY DAY!!! I don't harrass or threaten anyone because the store is selling something I don't like. People seriously need to grow up and get over themselves.
Its not about buying or not buying, its about pushing back and exposing this disgust so that the world can be a little better for kids
@@ZackSilver77 So threatening store employees makes the world better for kids? I think you and I have VERY different definitions for how to make the world better. I spent six years working with the LGBTQ+ community. I even brought my kid around them starting at age 4. It was one of the best communities that I could have raised my kid in. The people are so kind and authentic. It was the polar opposite of the judgemental, uptight, emotionally manipulative and abusive religious community I myself was raised in.
Yea I’m not gonna buy it but that doesn’t mean I want it in my face when I go shopping either
Flat globe
@@fairywingsonroses if you’re ok with having kids being shown by that sort of stuff, doesn’t mean other parents are comfortable showing these things to children. It’s fine that YOU feel ok with sharing these things around YOUR kids. Not all religious people are like that, there some LGBTQ people can act just like the “angry manipulative conservative Christians”. I don’t think that sort of mindset can make the world better either
It's always about the money.
Yeap.. Its a business not super hero academy
I think it’s not wise for companies to be apart of controversial topics. Pride month is one of those. Not that they can’t sell the products but I think last year we saw what happened when a company takes a political stance on divisive issues. We saw the Same thing happened to other companies like Chikfila and Cracker Barrel. The companies have the right to make a stance but they will have to understand that it will come with back lash. I know for myself I hadn’t shopped at target all year bc of their pride line. Mind you I still shopped at Walmart and Bath and Body Works, two other companies that sold merchandise for Pride month. The difference is how they handled the issue and what they sold. To put the blame on the customer is never the professional response and to push a controversial ideology right when you walk in is not ideal either. People go to stores to shop and they shouldn’t feel worried they may be indoctrinated just by walking in. You can’t after all have a reputation of being a certain type of store that is family oriented and then all of sudden be ok with advertising things that brings division to the world.
Stop. G r o o m i n g!!!
How do lgbt people groom
Yes ... stop forcing republican and bible crap on people !!!
Said every parent to Catholic priests that were grooming their children in sexually assaulting them funny how you forget about that you hypocrite
@@vulcan2882 Because target totally does that lol.... Only your political side like to force everyone to join their mind cult while calling it progress 🙄The people have spoken, they don't want your crap.
@@vulcan2882 Thanks for self-identifying as the problem.
DOn't want it? Don't buy it! Market economy 101.
We dont have to buy anything from a company that pushes toxic ideologies...thats the beauty of a free market! Target lost 12% of sales (24 Billion dollars) because we (the consumer) decided that we dont want to support the woke nonsense anymore...
People don't want to buy it - don't cry about it!
That's why they're pulling it, the people don't want it.
That's exactly why target cancelled it, because people didn't want it...... Why waste money on useless merchandise?
@@noneyabizz8337They aren’t pulling it people can still buy it online
I've boycotted Tarsh*t for over three years because they treat their employees like trash. A relative of mine worked there for a little while, and the stories they told of yelling, verbal abuse by managers in front of customers, physical violence like grabbing the employees, and "pay raises" of 8 pennies for all employees made me never shop there again. They even recorded the store manager's verbal abuse once and let me listen to how they were treated. I hope both sides boycott them!
I worked there for almost a year and they were so kind and if they talked to you they did it in a private place… I miss the people I worked with
@@mariarosales6044 Lucky you! It's great when we enjoy the people we work with. I've formed some solid friendships over the years with coworkers.
An “election year” has nothing to do with it. 🙄
They could have saved all this grief by knowing their target market. The also could have set up a specialty store instead of incorporating it where it was likely to infuriate current customers.
ONCE AGAIN PATRIOTIC AMERICANS ACHIEVE VICTORY AGAINST THE WOKEST MOB!
Girl 💀
I'm a patriotic American who'll only shop at Target this year if they carry Pride merchandise again! :-) Just another straight in favor of LGBTQ rights. :-)
They call us snowflakes but get triggered when they SEE A RAINBOW????
Yes!! keep trash out!!!
Ok karen
@@SherlockHolmesAnimeAFFIRM ME!
@@SherlockHolmesAnimeits trash
They should stop selling all the pride merch targeting kids... it should be illegal to do that.
Yuck
Price and service issues need an appropriate solution
It's a reciprocal relationship. If 1% feels reciprocated, then 99% will not. Who is your customer? You can't be everything to everyone.
Finally! Maybe they realized that their profits were tanking
Morality should rarely ever be sacrificed for profit but you speak of a recognition of losses as an indication of immorality. Recheck this logic.
@@danielmcdermott3558wonderful principle... For running a charity
@@danielmcdermott3558gain some
@@danielmcdermott3558yeah because a lot of people don’t agree with lgbt for biological reasons. Which is fair cos it doesn’t really make sense biologically. Plus they are minority and they shouldn’t expect everyone to accept it by forcing it down peoples throats
What killed it for me was the devil's approval of pronouns. So yeah, why is that okay? Is the embodiment of evil itself seen as Joyful? Even if it were another form of evil, it still won't be okay.
That pin wasn't sold at target at all, it was made by an artist who also made a design for the pride collection, but it wasn't a part of the pride collection. I don't think Target even looked at the artists portfolio before hiring them considering they made extremist stuff romanticizing guillotines.
Go woke Go Broke. its really old and repetitive.
Target got hundreds of my dollars for Pride items last year. :-)
This month supposed to be Father's Day Month!! Father's Day Month!!!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 ITS ABOUT TIME!
Target finally learning from their mistakes
Oh no. Where would i buy dresses for my vegan, transgender dogs and cats!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
😂
Side note, cats are obligate carnivores.
In the Circus 🎪 you clown 🤡
Petsmart have all the rainbow pet gears on clearance
Well good kids don’t need pride anything.
One time, I saw the Target 🎯 store 🏬 EMPTY and TJ Maxx PACKED.
All those pride clearance? What to do with them 🤔🤔🤔
Target looks intelligent in an instant. All stores should remove rainbow flag. I feel like this comment will get removed since I’m on woke news.
Another Bud Light moment in history
Sick!!! Boycotting Target!!!!
Better realize!
I'll believe this isn't a short lull to let the wildfires die down some when they fire the DEI people they put in place at their H.Q. Having contact with their lowest tier employees 'team members' means I get to learn things during 'casual talks'. They are still pushing DEI training as mandatory and it isn't just a Golden Rule type training.
They've also seen their hours cut as bad if not worse than in 2019. (Those that are still there this long due to economics.)
My own family used to shop at Target since it spread out to Western U.S. states. The amount of traffic even on a weekend is laughable to that back then. Yes, the internet giant Amazon accounts for a lot of that, but its like shopping at Lowe's and then ten minutes later the same day going to Home Depot. Lowe's is extremely light traffic while HD is heavy.
It's really sad. Target and Lowe's used to be good stores with better quality stuff than their competitors. Even Target's paper ads were fun to read with humorous texts.
I hope both start trying to survive in earnest if only for the sake of those employees. At least Target seems to realize their path course needs correcting.
Sorry but I would never buy nothing in Target again!
Good... they learned their lesson...
Thank goodness
Apple might be next?
I stopped shopping at Target. Too expensive. There are other alternative stores that are much cheaper. Well, I guess I could continue to shop at ones in California. Fill the cart up and not pay. It’s not like there arresting folks for shoplifting in Cali. They even do it in front of Newsome so it must be ok.
Did you just watch like 2 news reports about shoplifting in SF one day and profile the whole state accordingly?
Targets decision was smart.
I guess morals do have a price
We need Mike Myers back
I ain’t surprised
shows that target is a sell-out. they don't care. why would they decrease pride merch? It's all about the dollar.
I'm not sure what I missed. I haven't gone into a target since March 2020. I'm a curbside-atarian.
Conservatives started freaking out about the Pride merchandise after decades of Target selling it. So much so that it got violent and they were boycotted. It's weird and immature
Put that crap in California stores I’m sure they’ll be ok with it
California and New York are really the only true far left states.
Cool... Doesnt matter to me at all
Yeah, Modelo number one beer
That's great to hear. NOW.... they need to REDUCE it more. NO company should be so political!!!! Companies should NEUTRAL!!!! You neither support or oppose any groups. I don't see what is so difficult about that. Remove your from all political crap.
We need Austin Powers 4
Shame on you Target.
What, for carrying Pride at all or for not carrying more?
Perverse ideological intent...
Ive BOYCOTTED them for a couple YEARS. DONT MISS EM!
I shop at Target sometimes if they have a product I want, despite me disagreeing with them. I shop at Walmart, despite me disagreeing with them. I love a sammich from Chik Fil A even though I disagree with them.
Trade is one of the things that transcends boundaries . You are annoying and I don't like you.
@user-rh8fl8qz2z I don’t like you either. Companies under capitalism are morally neutral. capitalism supposes endless profits. If morality conflicts with profits morality has to go.
@@danielmcdermott3558 Your opsec is bad. Real bad.
The free market has spoken!! And we've decided we dont want the pride crap 😂
The free market didn’t speak the ignorance threatened employees and they have to protect their employees from people like you
@@mariarosales6044 the threats came from your side...
cry more
@LockHimUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAA proof
Its hypocritical for anyone who claims that they aren't homophobic because either 1. Its supposedly a "meaningless insult" or 2. They aren't literally scared of the gays to be celebrating this. Its also hypocritical for people who claim to be against cancel culture
It's not hypocritical at all. You don't understand what the word means.
I am an anti-woke homosexual who can't stand "Pride".
Also, "cancel culture" refers to individuals, not corporations.
Probably TNF too
It’s interesting to see companies in capitalism playing by capitalist ideology while trying to be moral. Capitalism presupposes a neutral moral consideration. While we can’t say something is moral because it makes profit so to can we not say a company is moral because it does or does not make profit. But we can say for certain a company under capitalism will not chose to remain moral among a loss of profit.
over wokeness has gone too far as it is, it needed to slide back a bit...
Perhaps then we should ramp up civil rights protections for minorities then also
@@asha8443 nah, we wont be doing that, they got enough protections as it is...
@@asha8443there isn’t a single thing a white person in this country can do that a minority can’t. Minorities have an ADVANTAGE. Re: affirmative action.
@@asha8443- Which minorities? In both the DEI and CRT constructs both jews and asians are the oppressors. Hypocritical much?
Time to Cancel Target. Who's with me?
Not surprised here! Good Riddance!
Serious question. If you are not the target of the product why Do you care ? How does it affect you ?
@@mrpartsask yourself that…pretty sure there is one thing in the world that you dislike that doesn’t affect you
@@justing42 Target sells bibles and religious paraphernalia. And somehow, I dont screach like a raging Karen because I spotted religious crrrap in their stores.
See how that works??
A reply in a comment section isn’t a screech. An adult going into a store and knocking down merchandise like a 5 year old having a tantrum meltdown IS.
See how that works??
@@justing42 I don’t go around stores destroying the merchandise I don’t like. Only religious lunatics are obsessed all day thinking about rainbows and peoples genitals when they go to Target.
Finally
It's ashame that the lgbt community is having a setback in 2024 . We need to fight stronger than before
Absolutely, I hope the LGBTQ community will get more support than ever and can overcome all the bigotry.
Good.
They lost me for good last year. I haven’t missed it as Walmart has really stepped up their game in our area.
You realize Walmart sold pride stuff last year as well?
🙌🏻
Wonderful news
TRUMP 2024 🇺🇸
20-24
I wish they would get rid of all their religious products as well. Fair is fair.
Morality is not compatible with capitalism. Capitalism seeks profits morality does not. Religion seeks profits.
Religion doesn't indoctrinate young children to believe that there's something wrong with their body parts and that they should self-sterilize and self mutilate themselves before they've reached the age when they can decide for themselves how to deal with their body dysmorphia. Why do you want religion off the shelves?
Yeah… because it is so full of them. Get real.
@@justing42It’s literally a section. Stop being sensitive
I've never seen a Christian section in any Target, stop bullshitting and gaslighting
Honestly their products were ugly so i didnt buy anything.
target management must be related to the genius who did the ads for bud light.
Butt blasting doesnt belong on products
You can find butt blasting products in adult stores im sure.
I wonder if Target will reduce its Christmas displays this year.
Target ceo has learned something finally😂
FUN FACT:
Those threats turned out to be coming from the wokest mob warning Target against pulling the LGBT merch
Who is the woke mob?
@@waterbaby7808 get a mirror
#BoycottTarget
There's no longer enough room because of all the space needed for the plus-size women's clothing used to signal their commitment to another trendy social agenda.
Good. People need to stop idolizing pride.
Boycott Target!😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠😠
never , you people are anoying , nobody cares who sleep with
You're too late.
We already did
Modelo is king
Migrants buying that
Thats good news AGS rules
Get rid of it entirely. Then the company will do much better.
Why are you on a multi global corporations side exactly? Haha
@@danielmcdermott3558 I hate WOKE culture and Agenda pushing but that doesn't mean I have to hate corporations.
Yeah you don’t have to both dislike what a corporation stands for and hate a or all corporations. That’s not what I said. I actually said you are standing up for a corporation because they are seeking profits rather than because they are doing something moral. I think that’s stupid. All companies do that and you are merely stating that morality doesn’t matter.
@@danielmcdermott3558 Morality is very important but it's not exactly good for business. I mean all business are guilty of that but when agenda pushing is more important than the consumers that is a problem.
@NormanAlexander-lc6ss Go back into your cave already
Good I'm glad they are rid of Rainbow pride theme, Rainbow pride is ugly in the eyes of God, but it's not going to stop me from shopping at target.
😂😂😂they aren’t stupid
😂😂😂😂😂
Well done
Disgusting. Anticipation of a possible second Trump term isn’t even mentioned in this piece but no doubt it’s a factor. Target’s anticipatory surrender to intellectual Neanderthals is vomit making.
😫😫 But Trump😫😫😫
Trump derangement patient...go get some help
The reason was 100% financially motivated, child mind.
@deebee4575 Maybe so, but half of America is still behind the times thinking that by granting lgbt community basic rights somehow takes away from their own.
@@asha8443 What basic rights are this group being denied? What does that have to do with stores not participating in grooming?