Target has announced that it will only sell their Pride Month collection in select stores after suffering a backlash and boycott last year during the 2023 Pride season.
Were they going to stock it in all stores to begin with?
Like, I assume that they don’t just use a fixed strategy to stock stores across the country. Even aside from regional fashion preferences, you’ve got varying climate as an input. Part of what they do as a retailer is gonna be recording what people buy and making optimal use of advertising and stocking space to sell to people, and in a computer era, I’d think that they’d be doing that at a more-fine-grained level than nationwide.
googles
It looks like Target pulled Confederate flag gear from their stores in the past too. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that they probably weren’t selling them in, say, their San Francisco locations, even prior to that. Similarly, I’m also guessing that they probably aren’t selling “pridewear” in rural Mississippi or whatnot. That isn’t even to deal with people getting grouchy about it being there…just that those items aren’t gonna sell well.
The confederate flag is just as bad as a swastika. It should not be tolerated at all no matter what backward hick shit hole the store happens to be in.
considers
Were they going to stock it in all stores to begin with?
Like, I assume that they don’t just use a fixed strategy to stock stores across the country. Even aside from regional fashion preferences, you’ve got varying climate as an input. Part of what they do as a retailer is gonna be recording what people buy and making optimal use of advertising and stocking space to sell to people, and in a computer era, I’d think that they’d be doing that at a more-fine-grained level than nationwide.
googles
It looks like Target pulled Confederate flag gear from their stores in the past too. I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that they probably weren’t selling them in, say, their San Francisco locations, even prior to that. Similarly, I’m also guessing that they probably aren’t selling “pridewear” in rural Mississippi or whatnot. That isn’t even to deal with people getting grouchy about it being there…just that those items aren’t gonna sell well.
The fact that target sells Confederate gear at all is problematic.
The confederate flag is just as bad as a swastika. It should not be tolerated at all no matter what backward hick shit hole the store happens to be in.