Target store pulling back all the stops

June 07, 2023, 11:25 PM

erj_pilot

quote:
Originally posted by 83v45magna:
I don't plan to darken the door of one anytime soon to check so...

I haven’t darkened the door of that piece of fecal matter establishment in over 15 years…

"If you’re a leader, you lead the way. Not just on the easy ones; you take the tough ones too…” – MAJ Richard D. Winters (1918-2011), E Company, 2nd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne

"Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil... Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel." - Isaiah 5:20,24

June 08, 2023, 09:23 AM

V-Tail

I have not shopped in Target for maybe ten years. The last time I was in there was to pick up a couple of grocery items on my way home from a range session. My wallet and all unnecessary pocket items were in my range bag, locked in the car and I just had some cash in my pocket.

I grabbed the grocery stuff that I needed, and then noticed an end cap with some wine on clearance, so I put a bottle in my cart.

Got to the checkout register and the cashier wanted ID to verify my age. At the time I was well past 70 years old, looked every day of it, hobbling with a cane, no way that I could have been mistaken for an under-age alcohol purchaser. I was not going to make the trip out to the parking lot to retrieve ID from the car to satisfy their stupidity, so I left and have not set foot in a Target since then.

June 08, 2023, 10:31 AM

chellim1

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the cashier wanted ID to verify my age.

I'm all for the Target boycott... but that cashier was probably following a strict policy. She likely could have been fired, even though it was obvious you were over 21.

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June 08, 2023, 02:57 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by chellim1:
quote:
the cashier wanted ID to verify my age.
I'm all for the Target boycott... but that cashier was probably following a strict policy. She likely could have been fired, even though it was obvious you were over 21.

Nope. Target's policy was to verify with ID if the customer did not appear to be at least 40 years old. I was more than 70. Cash registers had provision for cashier over-ride of the ID "requirement." This was a cashier training problem, not a store or company policy problem.

June 08, 2023, 03:15 PM

stoic-one

Target has been at this since at least 2016 when they started the whole trans bathroom kerfuffle. Screw them.

July 20, 2023, 06:59 AM

PASig

My wife has not set foot in a Target since this idiocy began in late May and she’s gone forever. Before this she’d be there at least once a week, often twice.

I wonder how many women out there have turned their back like this? It’s got to be hurting their numbers.

July 20, 2023, 12:20 PM

jimb888

I thought that it was strange that they would not sell me a lighter unless I produced ID. It's been a few years, not sure if they still do that. I asked, "why do I need ID to buy a Bic lighter?"

Clerck: "Company policy".

Me: "Why is that company policy?"

Clerck: "dunno, just is".

July 20, 2023, 03:10 PM

Dented

I walked away from Target after the trans bathroom fiasco years ago. Haven't been back since. Don't miss it.

July 20, 2023, 05:45 PM

V-Tail

quote:
Originally posted by jimb888:

I thought that it was strange that they would not sell me a lighter unless I produced ID. It's been a few years, not sure if they still do that. I asked, "why do I need ID to buy a Bic lighter?"

Clerck: "Company policy".

Me: "Why is that company policy?"

Clerck: "dunno, just is".

I should get a fake ID.