Most of Target’s 1,797 locations already have single-occupancy or unisex restrooms, but it will add the option to 277 stores by November and to about 20 remaining stores by March 2017, the company said on Wednesday.
Target’s finance chief Cathy Smith said the move is a response to feedback from customers voicing displeasure over the company’s bathroom policy. She added the customer discontent hadn’t had a material impact on sales. CEO Brian Cornell had promised to roll out family restrooms earlier this year and defended the company’s stance on diversity.
Protests started at Target stores after the retailer said in April that it welcomed transgender employees and guests to use the restroom or fitting room that corresponded with their gender identity. “Everyone deserves to feel they belong,” the company wrote on its website.
The company made the announcement after North Carolina became one of the first states to enact legislation requiring transgender people to use the public bathroom corresponding to the gender on their birth certificate. In its wake, several businesses promised to withdraw investment in the state. The National Basketball Association relocated its All-Star game from Charlotte in protest.
One group, the American Family Association, says more than 1.3 million people have signed an online petition to boycott Target stores to protest the issue. The petition said Target’s policy was “a danger to wives and daughters” and called on Target to offer…CONTINUE READING
LMAO money still talks the Bozos. Didn’t take long I hope this reinforces what unity can do and the power we have.
TO LATE TARGET…… I WOULDNT BUY FROM YOU IF YOU WERE THE ONLY MERCHANT ON THE FUKIN PLANET
IMO, they are and will be ruined because we KNOW that they are communists.
SCREW TARGET! I will never set foot in Target again!
Here’s a 1965 film made by George Putnam explaining the corrupt media machine hell bent on perverting youth. In other words Jews doing what jews do best to destroy our values.
Closest one is in Albany – 29 miles away. Pass.
I’ll take Bi-Mart instead (although they might want to consider changing their name, considering…) 🙄
Boycott them anyway, because you know their intentions.
And I hear that their changing rooms are the hottest new cruising grounds for freak lovers to meet.
their numbers have gone to crap as well – great call execs [ie: idiots]