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Pastor Jamal Bryant is calling for 100,000 Black consumers to join a 40-day economic fast against Target from March 3 to April 19

BKF1 said:
I don't think I've (me personally) ever heard anyone say or act like they needed Target.
Most people don't do things (like shopping) out of need but mostly wants and convenience.
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I would agree, except this thread is full of folks saying why this boycott is stupid, pointless, or even harmful. If Target is so unnecessary what would be the point?
 
Big Tex said:
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Levi been a good company . Yeah in the 1800’s they were racist but all cacs were, I appreciate the flip.

"Levi Strauss & Co. is a company with a long and mostly proud heritage. Across our history, we have strived to do good in and beyond our business and to be a positive force for equality and racial justice," a Levi Strauss & Co. spokesperson told NPR in an emailed statement. "But there have been times when we've fallen short."

 
Dr. Truth said:
Levi been a good company . Yeah in the 1800’s they were racist but all cacs were, I appreciate the flip.

"Levi Strauss & Co. is a company with a long and mostly proud heritage. Across our history, we have strived to do good in and beyond our business and to be a positive force for equality and racial justice," a Levi Strauss & Co. spokesperson told NPR in an emailed statement. "But there have been times when we've fallen short."

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Poison fruit from a poison tree, papi. Levi sells their racist ass jeans in a punk ass Macy’s. Why not kill 2 birds with one stone?
 
It's crazy that some of our people that told us to withhold our vote don't agree on withholding a dollar from these conglomerates.

We got to practice this type of economic protest it's the only kind of protest that has proven to be effective in America.
 
Temujin said:
It's crazy that some of our people that told us to withhold our vote don't agree on withholding a dollar from these conglomerates.

We got to practice this type of economic protest it's the only kind of protest that has proven to be effective in America.
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There are stories about our people at the end of the Civil War fleeing with their masters to the southwest. Their masters had told them that the Union soldiers were coming to enslave them. While I believe we have to go to the end of the earth to get our people back, we have to admit we are not going to get everyone back. As a people, we have to ensure we document all of our interventions to reunite with our kinfolks.

I don't blame my people for their reticent, I blame their oppressors.
 
Today (April 14) is supposed to be the last day of the one week WALMART blackout. I wonder how many of our people participated in this one?
I hope we didn't forget.

 
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ByAndrew Adam Newman
April 11, 2025
• less than 3 min read
As its stock dropped to a four-year low on April 4, Target also saw its foot traffic drop for the 10th consecutive week, a traffic slump that began the week after Target announced it was cancelling its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program in January.

For the week that began March 31, Target saw foot traffic drop 7.9% YoY, its worst drop since the week beginning February 17, when it dropped 8.1%, according to data from Placer.ai.

Costco, which defied demands from the Trump administration for private companies to spike their DEI programs, notched its 15th straight week of foot-traffic gains, although this week just by the skin of its teeth, with a gain of 0.3%.

The big-box retailers’ stock prices are trending in opposite directions, too, with their graph curves resembling up and down escalators criss-crossing at the mall.

Target stock dropped to a four-year low of $88.76 a share on April 6, from a high of $266.38 a share on November 15, 2021. Costco stock hit its four-year high of $968.99 on February 12, from a low of $363.87 on April 13, 2021.

Target did not respond to Retail Brew’s request for comment.

Bunny slope: On a March 4 earnings call, Target CEO Brian Cornell disclosed that there was a “sales decline” in February without specifying how large a decline, but he was bullish about the retailer’s Easter assortment selling briskly, saying the company was “looking forward to Easter.”

However, the day before that pronouncement, however, a 40-plus-day plus Lenten boycott spearheaded by Black pastors—which now has more than 150,000 participants, according to its organizers—began against Target. That boycott lasts through Easter, April 20.

As we noted in our previous dispatch, on the week beginning March 24—which included six of seven days of Target’s deep-discount sales event, Circle Week, not to mention that Easter assortment about which Cornell was so optimistic—foot traffic still fell.

Meanwhile, a deal that when inked in 2020 was lauded as a foot-traffic generator for Target, namely the placement of Ulta Beauty mini-stores within Targets, hit a snag on April 3, when Ulta CEO Kecia Steelman told an analyst conference that the retailers were hitting pause on plans to expand the program. For years, both Target and Ulta said the goal was to add the shop-in-shops in 800 stores; they paused almost 25% short of that goal, at 610 stores.
 
Politic Negro said:

ByAndrew Adam Newman
April 11, 2025
• less than 3 min read
As its stock dropped to a four-year low on April 4, Target also saw its foot traffic drop for the 10th consecutive week, a traffic slump that began the week after Target announced it was cancelling its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) program in January.

For the week that began March 31, Target saw foot traffic drop 7.9% YoY, its worst drop since the week beginning February 17, when it dropped 8.1%, according to data from Placer.ai.

Costco, which defied demands from the Trump administration for private companies to spike their DEI programs, notched its 15th straight week of foot-traffic gains, although this week just by the skin of its teeth, with a gain of 0.3%.

The big-box retailers’ stock prices are trending in opposite directions, too, with their graph curves resembling up and down escalators criss-crossing at the mall.

Target stock dropped to a four-year low of $88.76 a share on April 6, from a high of $266.38 a share on November 15, 2021. Costco stock hit its four-year high of $968.99 on February 12, from a low of $363.87 on April 13, 2021.

Target did not respond to Retail Brew’s request for comment.

Bunny slope: On a March 4 earnings call, Target CEO Brian Cornell disclosed that there was a “sales decline” in February without specifying how large a decline, but he was bullish about the retailer’s Easter assortment selling briskly, saying the company was “looking forward to Easter.”

However, the day before that pronouncement, however, a 40-plus-day plus Lenten boycott spearheaded by Black pastors—which now has more than 150,000 participants, according to its organizers—began against Target. That boycott lasts through Easter, April 20.

As we noted in our previous dispatch, on the week beginning March 24—which included six of seven days of Target’s deep-discount sales event, Circle Week, not to mention that Easter assortment about which Cornell was so optimistic—foot traffic still fell.

Meanwhile, a deal that when inked in 2020 was lauded as a foot-traffic generator for Target, namely the placement of Ulta Beauty mini-stores within Targets, hit a snag on April 3, when Ulta CEO Kecia Steelman told an analyst conference that the retailers were hitting pause on plans to expand the program. For years, both Target and Ulta said the goal was to add the shop-in-shops in 800 stores; they paused almost 25% short of that goal, at 610 stores.
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I guess the CEO still doesn't think target tanking matters with him talking about looking forward to easter. Nobody's gonna buy shit from target on easter either you DUMB ASS CAC
 

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