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February 8, 2019

TARGET: About That Phone App That You Trust

Filed under: Target — baseball91 @ 12:41 PM
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Target Logo, SunnyvaleA 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.

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1 Comment »

  1. 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 | Reply


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