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, gay & 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
!
We're all in a position to
reduce sales to these stores as soon as this gets
around!!!!
....SO THERE IS POWER IN THE PEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
....SO THERE IS POWER IN THE PEN!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Mr Forrey experienced a failure in communication and has since retracted the above letter. He is mortified that it continues on, slandering a company that DOES INDEED support our troops. Now ya know... :)
ReplyDeleteI really wish people would learn to research things before just posting old rubbish. Targets does not do bucket drops of any kind (Salvation Army or schools) and they only give gift cards for items in the store or to use as a prize. They do not give out cash. I was just pointed to your blog post because someone took it as gospel truth. I have since educated him. Not only does Snopes give you the correction, so does Vietnam Veterans of America - http://www.vva.org/pr/VVA-TargetEmailHoax.html. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE learn to research before sharing false information.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, Snopes? 🤣🤣🤣 Sure Jan.
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