Target stores.....

Target Stores - What a surprise

Wasn't it last Christmas that Target refused to let the Salvation Army ring their bells in front of their stores?

Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association wrote.

'Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud
sponsor of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our
spring recognition event.

We received the following reply
from the local TARGET management:

" Veterans do not meet our
area of giving. We only donate to the arts, social action
groups, *** & lesbian causes, and education."

So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and
veterans in general, do not meet their donation criteria,
then something is really wrong at this TARGET store.
We were
not asking for thousands of dollars, not even hundreds, just
a small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.

As a follow-up, I e-mailed the TARGET U.S. Corporate
Headquarters and their response was the same...

That's their
national policy!!!

Then I looked into the company further.

They will not allow
the Marines to collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their
stores. And during the recent Iraq deployment,they would
not allow families of employees who were called up for
active duty to continue their insurance coverage while
they were on military service.
Then as I dig further,
TARGET
is a French-owned corporation.

Now, I'm thinking again.
If TARGET cannot support American (or Canadian) Veterans, then why should my family and I support their
stores by spending our hard earned American (or Canadian) dollars in their stores???
And,
have their profits sent to France .

Without the American (and Canadian)
Vets, where would France be today?

'They most likely would be speaking German and trading in Deutsch Marks'
Sincerely,
Dick Forrey
Veterans Helping Veterans

Please send this on to everyone you know
to let Target know
we don't need them either!

:rant::fight:

I stopped shopping there a few years back because of this crap , told the boss lady to stop it also , she did my kids are doing the same

That Transmission plant in France was sold off
several years ago, they supply a few of Fords Transmissions
but you have to remember FORD is a USA company with international
operations and a major player selling cars in Europe,

We should want our USA companies to do well,
even overseas, it's not 1955 and the USA the only growth
country in the world.

Not all Ford trans are made at that plant, in fact
it's main output was the C-3 a three speed
in the Pinto.

My F150 was built, designed and assembled in the USA
are there foreign parts, sure, because Ford has
international operations. They could not survive
selling the USA alone as too many USA people buy
Japanese, Korean, and soon Chinese made cars.

F150 is built in Kansas City, keeping USA workers
employed, FORD took ZERO money from Zero

Ford will get my money from now on...
and I was a Bow Tie fan, big time...

I will say Obama changed me on that LOL

Regarding Target, the retailer came under fire improperly from a Vet that wanted money for his travelling wall memorial, he missunderstood that the store was sending him to the corporate office where they have a department that handles this, same guy started up a protest against Target saying they are against vets, not true, they give a lot of money.

As to the Salvation Army, the company simply made a rule that there are no solicitors
ever at any store, now I don't like that the SA can't have bell ringers there, but frankly they are at every supermarket in the city, wal mart, etc.

Target was running into problems with every group wanting to setup outside
their stores and being threatened with legal action if they did not let "abc group"
solicit but they let "XYZ Group" solicit, it's called discrimination and probably overkill
on Targets part.

However

Target has a partnership with the SA and they donated $1 Million to the SA in 2006 and run a special sales program where you can buy a special ornament for the SA and 100% of the money goes to the SA.

I buy Fords and shop at Target have no problems with it.

snopes.com: Target Bans Salvation Army