Re: O.T. Target stores

Posted by Mark - IN. on December 05, 2004 at 06:43:49 from (205.188.117.7):

In Reply to: O.T. Target stores posted by Gene Davis (GA) on December 03, 2004 at 17:14:18:

This is my understanding of why they will not allow bell ringers in front of their stores. They have a blanket policy that prohibits ANYONE from soliciting in front of their stores. Should they allow bell ringers, then they must allow pan-handlers to do the same. Pan-handlers may not be a problem in rural areas, but in larger cities, are a pain in the a$$. I'm not against helping the needy, never have been, and do help when I can, but I am against the the ambulance chasing trial lawyers and ACLU types who will then sue the bajeebers out of Target for allowing the bell ringers, then forbidding pan-handlers to do the same.

I've heard people referring to Target Stores as the grinches who are stealing Christmas, well my theory is that it's not Target Stores so much as the trial lawyers in this country that go unchecked and haven't the common sense to police themselves in their search of the mighty "free big buck" like parasites.

Personally though, I'm not a big fan of the Salvation Army, for my own reasons. In the late '70s, I was a foreman in a boat factory in Goshen, IN. One day the bosses came around and had us take our workers to the warehouse to watch a presentation put on by United Way (although was mostly Salvation Army). Many of the workers, myself included then signed forms to have a certain amount of our pay deducted from our paychecks and sent directly to them. NOT A BAD THING, we didn't mind. Then one day the bosses came up to us and said, "We're out of business, send your people home". No warning, jobless at a time when the economy was in the tank. Remember the Jimmy Carter years of long gas lines, inflation rate at 20+ percent, unemployment lines as far as you could see? I'd just become part of that. $70 a week unemployment didn't get it back then when you couldn't find a job and bills weren't being made. Then I began getting phone calls from them, not once, but several times that they "hadn't been recieving my weekly contributions", and when I'd explain my situation, they'd respond "but we can arrange to have the contributions automatically deducted from your unemployment". I pretty much blew a gasket with that one. NOW, the topper: some years back was a photo of the CEO of the Salvation Army and his wife boarding the "company" Leer jet to fly to ??? in the paper, and a lengthy story about him that mentioned his "$10,000,000" annual salary (that's 10 million dollar annual salary). And the guy says of the Leer jet and his annual salary, amongst other things, that a person of his stature, a CEO of a large company deserves such things to be current or competitive with CEOs from other large companies. Yep? Yep? Yep?

Not to be a grinch, put put Target down as one of the stores that I'll be trading with these holidays, for personal reasons.

Mark - IN.

Follow Ups:

• Re: O.T. Target stores MarkB_MI 03:27:03 12/06/04 (0)
• Re: O.T. Target stores Paul in Mich 07:24:19 12/05/04 (1)
  • Re: O.T. Target stores Mark - IN. 22:11:31 12/05/04 (0)

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