Bad move ... really dumb.
 

Now saying they do not support our troops is a DUMB thing to say and even worse when they are running a business .. or should I say ruining a business?

Thats really strange, especially since there is a Target less than a minute away from the naval base here. I've seen uniformed officers in Target, Walmart, supermarket, mall, etc. with no problems at all.

Wow! I can't even believe what I am hearing! I would hope this would be taken to the news as everyone should know where they stand. Pigs :thumbdown

My husband is in the Airforce and no they are not required to wear thier uniforms all the time but just like other people they do have things they need to do in the real world before and after work and at lunch times etc...this of course means that they are all over in thier uniforms. We have been to out to buy cars, go to banks, pick things up at Walmart, out to eat lunch and so many other things with him in his uniform and have never had a problem anywhere.

I cannot tell you how you how angry this makes me :mad: Our men sacrifice thier lives and put the rights of all American's and then some before themselves and even thier families. Military families give up everything that is important to them and put everything on hold every time they are asked to move. They give up what is most important...thier husbands and fathers for long periods of time and sometimes they never come back. We do all of this and all the while are asked to live next to poverty levels for all of our sacrifices all in the name of freedom for the very people who treat them like dirt. :thumbdown

I don't shop at Target very often just because it is kinda far away but I have often said it was my favorite store...I will never shop there again and will go way out of my way to make sure everyone knows where they stand. I pray that the man this happened to gets the media involved...

Sorry...hit a nerve...

Thats soo disturbing!!!

OMG How pathetic!!!

That seems so wrong. I can understand not supporting the war BUT the people in the military don't have a choice over whether or not they go! It'd be like not letting people in who have darker complections "just in case" they're in the taliban(ridiculous). It's discrimination plain and simple.

That's what I was thinking. I can understand not supporting the war but I don't understand not supporting soldiers

They lost me as a customer.

Amen! Very well said.

What if it was just the manager at this one Target though? Snoops says that it isn't true that Target as a company doesn't support the troops and I've never seen Target publically say they don't support them.
And many of you have said you've seen plenty of uniformed men in Targets before. It could have just been this one manager at this one Target that asked the man to leave. I guess I would just need to see more proof before I just automatically said I wasn't going to shop somewhere anymore.

Just bumping...I mentioned this in another thread and has some people PM me asking where this thread was.:)

Thats soo disturbing!!! He should make a complain to corporate:thumbdown

how terrible :mad: makes me want to throw up

Am I the only one that finds this a little hard to believe? Im not saying th OP is lying..but I don't think that ALL Targets are anti-military..? I don't know..I don't meant to step on any toes..just thinkin!

I'm sure they are NOT all anti-military--I'm sure that it is very dependant on the individual managers and employees at the individual locations, their personal views and how they choose to handle the situation. However, their regional and corporate offices are apparently standing behind them when they take actions like this, are they not?

I guess..it just seems hard to wrap my mind around! I also don't understand how they can make someone leave because they don't support it? What if it was a priest dressed in his robe? Just because they don't support that religion doesn't mean they have the right to make them leave..it just doesn't make sense to me..

So strange.....

If Target does not support the military when it comes to fund raising/charaties, that's one thing,but to ask someone to leave their store based on their career IS discrimination. This is no different than if a nurse or doctor walked into the store wearing scrubs or a police officer in his/her uniform. Hmmmm, I have just never heard of a corporation refusing service based on someone'e employment. :confused:

Tammy

This happened in Lubbock, but has since been corrected. Mgmt had told the employees that men in military uniforms were not allowed to collect money at the store as in their fund raisers and one of the employees misunderstood the instructions.

Long story short, you can shop in Lubbock at Target in your military uniform.

Thanks for the update! I was going to say...this is truly crazy.

Thanks for the clear up! I thought it sounded a little fishy!

*whew!* glad I read to the end of the thread! I was about to tell fam/friends to boycott! I thought there was either something more to the situation, or that our country had truly gone amuck!

Thanks for clearing this up...I had a hard time believing the original story..I figured there had to be something that was missunderstood. And this is why everyone needs to take a step back and not immediately believe everything they read on the internet and then automatically make a decision based of of it.

That seems very strange for Target. I am actually a Team Leader there and we have no such policy and have people in the military in our store all the time in uniform. The only way someone would be asked to leave the store is if they were causing a problem or being inappropriate. I would ask to have spoken to a manager because all Targets around the nation have the same exact policy.

I assume that most people do that? I certainly didn't jump to any conclusions based on this thread alone, although it did prompt me to look into it further (in ways other than web searches). It actually seems like they are anit-EVERYTHING. I'd rather give my money to a company that is actually involved with and eager to support charitable causes. Personal choice.

He was asked to leave because the employee misunderstood the instructions, so the orginal story was correct, but now it has been fixed...