Target Store...What do you think?

United States
October 5, 2006 5:46pm CST
I just recieved this in my Email and thought it would be a good idea to see what you all thought about it.
4 responses
@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
9 Oct 06
That email you got is a URBAN LEGEND: http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/target.asp From the Target site regarding them supporting veterans: http://sites.target.com/site/en/corporate/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001461 I know for a fact that last Christmas the Target store had the salvation army person in front of their store.
• United States
9 Oct 06
Thank you for the links....I am glad to hear it is a scam.
@chileman (967)
• Australia
9 Oct 06
Ummmm, I think you forgot a very important ingredient in this discussion....lol!
• United States
9 Oct 06
SORRY....Here is the rest of the store!!! I got this in an email and thought you all would like to share your input on it..... Wasn't it last christmas that target refused to let the salvation army ring their bells in front of their stores? WEll....Mr 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 out spring recogintion event. We recieved the following reply from the local target management: Veterans do not meet out donation criteria, We only donate to the arts, social action groups, gay& lesbian causes, and education. So I'm thinking, if the vietnam veterans meorial 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 emailed the tareget us corp headquartes 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 corpration. Now, I'm thinking again, If target cannot supports american veterans, then why should my family and I support their stores with spending our hard earned american dollars? and have their profits sent to France. Without the american vets, where would France be today? They most likely would be speaking German and trading in deutsch marks! Sincerely, Mr forrey veterans Helping veterans
8 Oct 06
It's kind of hard to think anything about it as you didn't share it with us? ;)
@bblessed (1822)
• United States
9 Oct 06
i HAVENT BEEN THERE IN A WHILE