ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Business@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTarget foot traffic is still down after 3 months in the fallout of dismantling DEI and subsequent boycottsfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square22fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10cross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
arrow-up11arrow-down1external-linkTarget foot traffic is still down after 3 months in the fallout of dismantling DEI and subsequent boycottsfortune.comByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net to Business@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square22fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@beehaw.org
minus-squarecowfodder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoTarget cancels DEI, foot traffic goes down Costco doesn’t cancel DEI, foot traffic goes up Your argument falls flat on its face.
minus-squareccunning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoI mean even the article itself says correlation isn’t causation so I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. I am curious why Jeff thinks Costco is immune from the economic uncertainty.
minus-squarealaphic@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoI’m not, as he doesn’t seem terribly clever.
minus-squarejeffw@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoOk bud. Since you think correlation is causation, why did all the other companies that cancelled DEI programs and were subject to the exact same protest not suffer? And why did Wal-Mart, a direct Target competitor, suffer equally to Target?
minus-squareccunning@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 days agoWell that one I can answer: Walmart and Target are on the same boycott list I’m working from: https://naacp.org/campaigns/black-consumer-advisory
Target cancels DEI, foot traffic goes down
Costco doesn’t cancel DEI, foot traffic goes up
Your argument falls flat on its face.
I mean even the article itself says correlation isn’t causation so I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that.
I am curious why Jeff thinks Costco is immune from the economic uncertainty.
I’m not, as he doesn’t seem terribly clever.
Ok bud. Since you think correlation is causation, why did all the other companies that cancelled DEI programs and were subject to the exact same protest not suffer?
And why did Wal-Mart, a direct Target competitor, suffer equally to Target?
Well that one I can answer:
Walmart and Target are on the same boycott list I’m working from:
https://naacp.org/campaigns/black-consumer-advisory