I was bored today and I am a giant PITA. I think it was weak that they booted the bellringers this Christmas so I sent them a long sarcastic email that will be deleted as soon as it is received. But since I am a big fan of Christmas, tradition, the good ol days, whatever.......I am posting it here because...I am bored and you can kill five minutes at work reading it.

As sent to Target corporate website........

Yesterday, my coworker and I went out at lunch to do some Christmas shopping. When we went out with the intent on heading to a nearby Target store, but then I said, "Wait, Target does not allow Salvation Army bell ringers anymore, lets go somewhere else." He agreed.

We went to Wallmart. I hate Wallmart. They are some sort of wierd cult over there. I think the employees have computer chips in their heads. And even in Minnesota the employees all have deep south accents as if they had been trucked in from below the mason-dixon line. But they allow the bellringers and their red kettles. Jingle Jingle. The sound of Christmas. I put my measly crumpled two bucks in the kettle.

If you haven't noticed, it is the Christmas season. That means lots of shopping and sometimes happy, sometimes miserable bellringers, depending on the weather, standing outside of store, collecting money for good things. I am not an activist by any stretch of the imagination, or some evangilist neither. But I have had so much of goofy corporate wussies that give in to every PC bunch of crap because they are too cowardly to stand up for something good even though it may break some coporate policy.

The boy scouts apparently are some bunch of satan worshiping heathens. Or are they psuedo christians? I forget which is worse these days. Same with the salvation army. I heard they use the money to kill puppies.

Grow some gonads for goodness sakes. Banning them was such a cowardly move.

Its Christmas now, or Hanukkah, or Kwanza. Does not matter if it is June. I am not returning to Target until the bellringers do. Partially because I am as stubborn as a mule and partially because the decision to boot folks who freeze their butt off to gather a few nickles for the poor seems so UN-CHRISTMAS.

Sure, Target gives a bunch of money to the little sisters of the poor. Whoop-T doo. Corporations try to do that stuff to show just how wonderful they are. Tax deductions don't hurt either.

Perhaps it is the word "salvation", it sounds sooooooooo.....religious. Geez, who can stand THOSE people. Why, Marx and Engels state such beliefs are forbidden. Merry non-specific Holiday! Happy Kwan-christ-nakah!!!!

Or the official reason, "How can Target allow the bell ringers and refuse some other groups?"
Simple, grow some nuggets and say "Because we have always allowed them and it is part of the American Christmas tradition. Would you like a copy of our weekly sale flyer?"

The obsiquious folks at Wallmart will be more than happy to pander to the bible thumpers, rally around the flag and reap the sales that you lose. All because some PC empty head with a big german car, suggested in a board meeting that it would more closely follow some corporate policy if you banned them, while at the same time you could hide behind your record of corporate giving. The other empty suits agreed. Coporate boards really need to each try to have one guy from the south that never went to college on them, to keep them from doing really dumb politically-correct nonsense. The guy who made the suggestion will get a pat on the back, a big bonus, all the while driving a bunch of shoppers out of your stores.

Oh well, maybe next year. I guess I will buy the cheap plastic crap I need at Wallmart or what is left of K-mart. Other shoppers may join the Wallmart cult and never come back.

I feel like I need to cleanse myself with a couple viewings of the Peanuts Christmas Special. Maybe they sell it at Wallmart.

Merry Christmas.


Sincerely
J Dub

 

lol, good on ya! Even if they do ignore it, I like to see people stick it to the man.. entertaining read too.. I didn't realize they don't allow those people to do their charitable things infront of the store... We don't have target around here... Ah well, those places are all the same more or less, so if they don't allow Salvation Army infront, it's worth to go somewhere else, not lke you'r'e losing anything.. and making a personal stand is important too.. even if nobody else notices

 

Just so everyone knows, Target decided not to allow Salvation Army bell-ringers in front of their stores this year, but instead they just made a very large donation to help counter the effects.

 

walmart hardly "rallies round the flag." :/ There isn't much there that isn't made overseas.

Target donates huge amounts of money to various deserving groups. Discounting their valuable contributions just because other people give also is ignorant. Target donates almost a tenth of their total profits to community charities. Walmart donates less than one percent. Let's not even get into how Walmart treats their employees.

 

Aren't the owners or creators or something of Target..... French??

 

uh, no. They are based in Minnesota.

 

No i know that Target Corp. is also Marshall Fields, Mervyns and what not. But I could have sworn someone told my Target's creators or something were French.
Oh well C'est La Vie!

 

walmart did try in the past to buy american whenever possible. too bad no one bought the us made stuff because it costs a lot more.

walmart tried. the customers made their choice.

 

Wallmart rallies around the flag with there public persona, even though in truth it is BS. I am not a fan of wallmart, they are weasels.


Target sold Marshall Fields just this year.


I don't care what Target gives or what they want to take credit for giving through their own self promotion. I like the notion of bell ringers sacrificing their time out in the cold, and people bieng reminded every time they go to the freaking store to throw some dough to the less fortunate. It is what Christmas is all about.

Not just trampling over somebody for a $20 DVD player when the store throws open its doors, or scalping the hot toy on ebay for some rediculous price to screw someone across the country into paying wayyyy to much for a toy for their spoiled as hell kid.

Jingle jingle.

 

Am I the only one that doesn't give a sh1t?

Target's sole purpose in existence is to make a profit. Personally, I can't stand the Bell Ringers outside of every store that I walk into. It's a huge guilt trip that I don't need. Kind of like a homeless person walking up to you asking for change... and I HATE change. Half the time I just throw in on the ground if for some reason I pay cash & not use my debit card. It's just principle. I give how much I want - when I want to. Not because some bellringer stands in front of the local Wal-Mart/Target/JC Penny/whatever... and like TalsonTSiDude said, they more than make up for it by donating a huge of money amount anyway.

I volunteer once a year at our local soup kitchen and donate a percentage of my paycheck to charity every month so I'm not a total as$hole. I do know if/when I ever own a business I will not allow any type of solicitation in or near it what so ever.

~end of rant~

feel free to flame