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    • themurphy@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Not even the slightest uplifting.

      Stock holders and owners are probably dictating these changes. Not the CEO alone.

      • Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        It was dictated when his pay package was approved by the board. Since they haven’t shitcanned him they must not be too disappointed or not willing to pay for his exit package.

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          It’s mostly “here’s some bad stuff happening to someone I don’t like” so it’s a bunch of schadenfreude.

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            It’s a stretch, but you could say it’s uplifting that other retail CEOs can see this and learn from it

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      Ay, old Chico is my jam. Haven’t had it in a minute. I just looked it up and Total wine and more has it. I might have to make a journey to go get it. Haven’t had it since I lived in the city of trees.

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      Amazon has sucked for at least a decade. It was a solid base idea. But they don’t give a fuck about the consumer.

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    The only bit of the title I can fully get behind is this:
    Target CEO.
    Target CEO 🎯🎯

    Greedy pricks like this should live in fear.

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    Didn’t target boost prices leading to record profits during the pandemic? Seems like balance is returning to the world. Perfect time for some tiny violins

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    1 year ago

    Oh no, only a few hundred million a year instead of all the millions a year? Devastating

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      Guarantee this prick is furious over this, don’t worry. Like, probably even more upset than you or I would be for getting fired unfairly. These people have their entire identity and ego wrapped up in this stuff, their brains are broken.

  • Sho@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Still not enough. As someone who frequently shopped at Target, I doubt I’ll ever go back.

    • gradual@lemmings.world
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      1 year ago

      Walmart has better deals.

      I don’t take people seriously if they complain about not having enough while shopping at places like target.

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          Capitalism is. The whole point of it is that more gets more, until everything is Monopoly. It’s literally the point of the board game to show the absurdity.

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            I don’t think it’s capitalism. It’s the checks and balances associated with said capitalism. The government that is supposed to regulate it, does not.

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              Capitalism is of course alot of things in practice, but you have to regulate it extremly hard to not get to late stage capitalism at some point.

              Socialistic capitalism is the closest thing we got in the real world, and is funnily enough also the countries with best living standards and reported happiness.

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          Wall mart killed your community. We used to have walkable neighborhoods, instead we’ve salted the earth with parking lots and bigbox stores

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        Shop at a local hardware or grocery store. Even if it’s a fucking chain grocery store, you’re doing more for your community than shoveling money into walmart.

        If you don’t care what happens to your community, you have no right to complain about how shit your community is.

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          Walmart employs members of the community. They bear some of the responsibility for why our community is so prosperous.

          If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains. Otherwise they’re just using “buy local” as an excuse to rip people off and enrich themselves.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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            If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains

            Nah see, this is still dodging accountability.

            It’s not about if the STORES care about the community, it’s YOU. You decide if you want to pay more so the community prospers. It’s ridiculous to expect smaller stores to be able to compete with large corporations, but it’s also ridiculous to expect “someone will take care of it.” Nah bro. It’s on YOU to decide if you’re investing in your town, your county or your state or if you prefer low prices but also rotting wages and none of the things you want around you.

            “I’m just doing what everyone is doing to survive.”

            Yah and you’re all here in “survival mode” because you picked the faster, cheaper option. It’s not too late to turn it around. Maybe you will spend $5 bucks on a new toilet gasket instead of $4.50. Maybe you have to spend $1.90 on each cucumber instead of $1.25. Yes it adds up, but that money is staying in your immediate area. Your local walmart doesn’t cut checks from your local credit union, that comes from a corporate account that never touches your area. Repeat this all over the country, every day, every month, every year, and you have massive amounts of YOUR money being shipped out of town and out of country.

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              Yeah, typical useful idiot thinking it’s up to the customer instead of the business owners to foot the bill for these problems.

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              It’s not too late to turn it around.

              Unfortunately, it is. It’s nice to think that everybody can do their part to bring back the locally-owned places and sense of community, but you’re not going to convince people living paycheck-to-paycheck who are going to always make a beeline for the cheapest prices. The only time a Wal-mart dies is when the town builds a bigger, new Wal-mart or the town itself dies altogether.

          • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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            If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains. Otherwise they’re just using “buy local” as an excuse to rip people off and enrich themselves.

            Yah, I wish more people would rise up against all these small businesses who are ripping off the common working man! It’s about time we put an end to these small-business fat-cats and get that wealth back in the hands of giant oligarchs and offshore tax havens where it belongs! I don’t want my money in my community! Next thing you know, the lazy assholes in our neighborhoods are going to expect better schools and road repairs!

            If there’s one common theme EVERYONE knows, it’s how greedy these small businesses are. If they REALLY cared about their communities they would offer their wares for free and then sacrifice themselves on the altar of Shug’Blahamut and let their blood fertilize the soil so corporations can feast from the endless bounty!

            Don’t bother replying this is where I block you and forget I ever wasted time reading any of this obvious bait and nonsense. Make a new account and try again when you start shaving and get a job.

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              If local stores care so much about the community, they can offer us better prices than the chains.

              Way to completely ignore the argument.

            • ameancow@lemmy.worlddeleted by creator
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              Check the user’s moderation history. They’re just a troll. Report, block and move on. Your reply was great, I hope at least other people get something from it.

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              Not only does Walmart have an enormous number of employees on government assistance, they have training classes for their employees to help them apply.

              Also, a lot of the people they hire, are people who worked for, and even OWNED, small local businesses that they have run out of business. Same goes for ALL big box retailers like Lowes and Home Depot.

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            Walmart employs members of the community. They bear some of the responsibility for why our community is so prosperous.

            You mean part time workers who don’t get benefits by design, who depend on social welfare programs despite having a job, and who can’t get work anywhere else because Walmart killed all the local businesses?

            “Prosperous.” Please. If walmart packed up and left you’d be fucked. Especially if they are heavily responsible for your “prosperity.” It’s a dependent relationship that traps you all in a financial cage. Walmart is a parasite, and we’ve known this for a long time.

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                  Yeah. The facts are clear.

                  The fact is I wouldn’t have even moved here if there wasn’t a Walmart.

                  The fact is, most useful idiots are proud to pay more while doing mental gymnastics to think they’re getting a better deal.

                  The fact is, I genuinely don’t respect most of your financial advice because most of you people spend money like morons while complaining you need more.

                  Gonna ignore you now because this isn’t up for debate.

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    Target was one of few department stores I actually felt okay about. They hadn’t done anything particularly terrible, even what scandals I did find seemed to have nuance to them. Then they decided to wage war on minorities - sorry, “DEI”, and I called them to specifically say I’d never shop there again.

    I didn’t bother to state “unless”, but I’d be okay with returning to them if they turn out to fire the people responsible for the move.

    • katy ✨@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      seriously; it was a phenomenal misreading of their demographic. do they not realise how much lesbians love to shop at target?? i haven’t been in once anymore since then.

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      Same for our family. To be clear I saw their “inclusivity” for what it was, but I’ll still reward that over its absence, because I want to see more of it in the world regardless of motivation. My wife was all in, the stereotypical Target-loving mom who liked them a LOT and would visit sometimes just to kill time between other things.

      But she has principles, so she hasn’t shopped there since all this stuff, and we won’t be going back.

      Folks, give your money to Costco! There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism, yes, but Costco has been a standout in the industry just for how they treat their employees, for a long time now, probably decades by this point. And they read the room wisely (or just actually mean it, but probably not) and vocally retained DEI efforts.

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      Straight guy here who worked at Target for 8 years. Used to stop by every week, haven’t been back since. It’s not just the anti LGBT stuff. It’s the fact they were pro DEI and LGBT and then went back on their stance. They have zero integrity. They bend their knees to terrorists. If they had just not sold pride stuff the entire time I probably wouldn’t have cared.