DEI

Stores

Target suffers eighth week of foot-traffic losses since caving on DEI

Costco, which resisted demands to end DEI, extends its streak of foot-traffic gains to 13.

Andrew Adam Newman
Target store exterior.
Stores

Target foot traffic falls for seventh consecutive week after it dismantled DEI

Costco, which resisted demands to axe DEI, has seen traffic increase for 12 weeks.

Andrew Adam Newman
Target logo on easter eggs in a basket.
Marketing

Target said big Easter sales would boost lagging sales. Then the church boycott started.

More than 150,000 have signed on to the boycott, which lasts through Easter.

Andrew Adam Newman
A Target employee photographed this diversity, equity, and inclusion bulletin board in a Target breakroom and posted it to Reddit. Its posters were torn down after the company rolled back its DEI program, according to the employee.
Stores

Many Target employees furious over the company dropping DEI

Some report stores have slowed down and are closing early since Target’s reversal.

Andrew Adam Newman
Stores

Foot traffic falls at Target for sixth consecutive week after it caved on DEI

Costco, which stood firm on DEI, is on an 11-week streak of foot-traffic gains.

Andrew Adam Newman
Kara Richardson Whitely observes a video with a thin model in a display window at an H&M in the American Dream Mall in New Jersey.
Stores

I went to a mall with a plus-sized retail consultant. Now I know why she dreads shopping.

When retailers boast about larger sizes but sell them only online, it alienates plus-sized shoppers.

Andrew Adam Newman

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