AFA Boycotts Target for Banning 'Christmas'

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The American Family Association (AFA) is asking its supporters to boycott Target stores during the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend - the busiest shopping weekend of the year.

The organization says its action against Target that started on October 7 is beginning to affect Target’s bottom line.

"According to USA Today, Target told investors that projected sales at stores open a year in November would miss the estimated 4 percent to 6 percent growth,” said Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of AFA. "On Tuesday, Target’s shares dropped $4.13 to $54.30, a 7 percent decrease.”
 
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newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/17/153741.shtml

The American Family Association (AFA) is asking its supporters to boycott Target stores during the upcoming Thanksgiving weekend - the busiest shopping weekend of the year.

The organization says its action against Target that started on October 7 is beginning to affect Target’s bottom line.

"According to USA Today, Target told investors that projected sales at stores open a year in November would miss the estimated 4 percent to 6 percent growth,” said Donald E. Wildmon, chairman of AFA. "On Tuesday, Target’s shares dropped $4.13 to $54.30, a 7 percent decrease.”

AFA is asking supporters to boycott the company because it banned Salvation Army kettles and the use of "Merry Christmas” in their in-store promotions and retail advertising.

"Federated Stores last year banned ‘Merry Christmas’ but this year they are using the greeting,” Wildmon said. AFA had urged supporters to contact Federated showing their support.
Wildmon said his organization agrees with Bill O’Reilly of Fox News Channel who said, "There is an anti-Christian bias in this country, and it is more on display at Christmas season than any other time.”
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A boycott sounds good to me. I will not buy anything at Target this season. Hit 'em where it hurts. In their pocketbook.
 
I may have been in a Target store only 3 times ever.
There isn’t one near me, so I really have no reason of shopping there.
 
I read the remarks and I would be surprised if the boycott was actually working. However, I have never been in a Target over Thanksgiving weekend in my life, so this will be a no brainer!
 
Target is BIG where I am. All the middle class shops there as a step up from WalMart, all the upper class shops there as a step down from the mall.

I’ve noticed a distinctive increase in prices and decrease in quality over the past couple years.
 
As a periodic Target shopper, I was glad last year when they announced they would no longer be supporting the Salvation Army.
 
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A boycott sounds good to me. I will not buy anything at Target this season. Hit 'em where it hurts. In their pocketbook.
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If it hurts their profits that is to the good. But the primary message of a boycott is that this is not the type of business with which I wish to be associated.

In Target’s case their support for pro-death organizations established that long ago.
 
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