A Baker’s dozen”
The bakery once upon a time gave you more than you expected.
How about those box stores, as times get tough? With a goal appears to be to just get you to go to the store to buy. Investigative reporting on KARE-11 TV in the Twin Cities reports that Target charges you more once you have committed to buying their item. Shown a lower price on the app, this is a shell game.
Speaking of your understanding of INFLATION.
“Too often a sense of loyalty depends on admiration, and if we can’t admire, it is difficult to be loyal.” — Aimee Buchanon
Target has created these apps to get you inside their box. But their practice has been to inflate the price of an item the closer you got inside their store.
The KARE-11 Investigative team went to work after receiving a call from a lady who bought an electric razor for $100; she noticed a lower price on the app on the Target app as she returned to her car that the price NOW on the item was $70. A KARE-11 Investigative team went out, testing 10 items, discovering that after entering the Target store, four items had gone up in price, from the price advertised on the app.
The spin doctors at Target have announced a change in their own app “to make clear” that a displayed price on an item is different depending upon whether you buy it in the store or buy it online. The spin doctors at Target did not explain to the public the reason that Target had been increasing prices the closer you were the store.
Dishonor? Dishonest? Disgraced! This was just your own fault, for not shopping online. Go to our store. Get inside. Select. Watch 40 percent of your items increase in cost at the register. You are in the prison called the Target Box Stores. Soon you will be checking your cell phones at our door.
Meanwhile, with changing aims, The Target Foundation is “revamping its funding priorities,” ending support to roughly 150 nonprofits. The Star-Tribune reports that Twin Cities nonprofits supported by the Target Foundation have been receiving phone calls in January 2019 informing them of discharge into transitional care. After donating approximately $9 million a year to “charity partners,” The Target Foundation has offered help filling financial gaps during their transition in support over the next three-year. Changes, indeed, in the aims, including fundraising training to Twin Cities nonprofits, as if they do not know anything about fund-raising.
The Target Foundation will continue to support hometown charities and arts organizations but in different ways, the spin doctors at the Target Foundation tried to stress.
Of course. Putting their finger in the dike, to prevent more damage. After an emergency management meeting.
MINNEAPOLIS — Target changed its app by Thursday after a KARE 11 investigation found certain prices on the app switched….
Comment by baseball91 — February 8, 2019 @ 12:58 PM |
The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra announced today the cutback in three staff positions as the organization cut programming after losing some corporate support. According to their news release, SPCO can’t generate enough revenue from other sources to make up for the loss.
“The SPCO has recently been informed of significant shifts in corporate funding affecting many arts organizations in the Twin Cities, which will result in a loss of $230,000 to $300,000 in annual operating support for the SPCO next year and beyond.”
Yeah, in January 2019 The Star-Tribune had reported that Twin Cities nonprofits supported by the Target Foundation have been receiving phone calls at that time informing them of discharge into transitional care. After donating approximately $9 million a year to “charity partners,” The Target Foundation has offered help filling financial gaps during their transition in support over the next three-year. Did you ever try to connect the dots?
Mostly, loyalty is a two-way street, as a leader carrying consumer brands…..
Comment by baseball91 — May 9, 2019 @ 11:10 PM |
Those statements. That corporate spokesman. “Prepared” statements. Target officials.
It was another Fan Appreciation Day. Customers in ‘our’ stores at Target are unable to make purchases, though this was not power that was out. Social media platforms started lighting up around midday with reports of the outage, with many posts sporting a “targetdown” hashtag. “Technology” was the problem.
On Twitter, shoppers reported cash registers had stopped functioning during the noon hour. The power however was on.
Yeah, based upon the past, why would you believe that statement? Do you ever appreciate all the expressed appreciation of a company spokesman? Yesterday Target officials said, with appreciation, that their tech problem was not a data breach or data security issue, and no customer information was compromised.
Shortly after 2 pm, two hours later, Target posted a statement on Twitter.: “We’re aware that guests are currently unable to make purchases at Target stores. Our teams are troubleshooting now and we apologize for the inconvenience. We will provide an update as soon as possible.”
Ah, awareness. Someone woke up the corporate spokesman. Target said in a prepared statement, “We appreciate all of our store team members who worked quickly to assist guests and thank everyone involved for their patience,”
In the end, the problem was said to be “an internal technology issue that lasted for approximately two hours.” And for now, Target does not want you to know more. “Technology” was the problem. This was just your own fault, for not shopping online. It was Target’s very own internal confounded technology. Or to various degrees, their own internal expertise,? And you get what you pay for, generally if the cash registers worked. So how much did the CEO make, and why did he not share some of his own income for a top-notch Information Officer? And while he is at it, a better corporate spokesman?
Dishonest? Dishonored? Disgrace! The spin doctors at Target did not explain to the public the reason that Target’s cash registers did not register, the closer you were to checkout.
“Too often a sense of loyalty depends on admiration, and if we can’t admire, it is difficult to be loyal.” — Aimee Buchanon
Comment by baseball91 — June 16, 2019 @ 11:57 AM |