posted on December 19, 2003 07:08:12 PM
Subject: No support from Target
>
> by Dick Forrey of the Vietnam Veterans Association
>
>
> Recently we asked the local TARGET store to be a proud sponsor of the
> Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall during our spring recognition event. We
> received the following reply from the local TARGET management: "Veterans
> do not meet our area of giving. We only donate to the arts, social
> action groups, gay & lesbian causes, and education."
>
> So I'm thinking, if the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall and veterans in
> general do not meet their donation criteria, then something is really
> wrong at this TARGET store. We were not asking for thousands of dollars,
> not even hundreds, just a small sponsorship for a memorial remembrance.
> As a follow-up, I e-mailed the TARGET U.S. corporate headquarters and
> their response was the same. That's their national policy. Then I
> looked into the company further. They will not allow the Marines to
> collect for 'Toys for Tots' at any of their stores. And during the
> recent Iraq deployment, they would not allow families of employees who
> were called up for active duty to continue their insurance coverage
> while they were on military service. Then as I dug further, TARGET is a
> French-owned Corporation.
>
> Now, I'm thinking again. If TARGET can not support American Veterans,
> then why should I and my family support their stores by spending our
> hard earned American dollars and to have their profits sent to France?
> Without the American Vets, where would France be today?
>
> Feel free to pass this along to whomever you want.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Dick Forrey
>
> Veterans helping Veterans
posted on December 19, 2003 07:40:56 PM
ho hum, another forwarded email, replete with misinformation...why do so many otherwise intelligent people insist on believing word for word all the dreck that gets shuffled around the internet? Target is hardly a "French owned corporation". Here are it's particulars, including major individual and corporate shareholders. It's a Minnesota Corporation, which began life as Dayton-Hudson, and also owns Marshall-Field and Mervyn's, so you'd better not shop there either...
regarding Target's support of veterans, before you began contributing to the bandwidth drought, you might have wanted to read Target's community giving pages, which contain quite a bit of actual information.
Of course, it's easier to just hit "forward to all", isn't it
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posted on December 19, 2003 08:26:48 PM
Hi MAH645 - We've all been 'stung' by these emails. Not knowing if they're true or false. Just like you wondered by using a "?"
A good way to check them out for yourself is to use
http://www.snopes.com. There you can type in 'key words' and see if it's so.
posted on December 19, 2003 08:53:12 PM
After looking on Google,looks like they have been a target for quite some time. I was thinking they were maybe owned by Marshal-Fields at one time,so was Iveys.
