Costco is another one. Home Goods, Marshalls, Kohls works too. Grocery shopping is Aldi, Price Rite, and Wegmans. I'll do Walmart also as last resort. I know they're bad but they are kinda the villain you expect. Target was that good guy that went evil that you know they could be better so the hope is a boycott shocks them back to the light side. I'm lucky enough to live in a medium city so I have a lot of options.

They're all evil, but Target REALLY leaned into the Pride Month for sales, then made a hard backtrack once fascists were in power.

The real answer is locally owned grocery stores, which are mostly dead except for some Asian supermarkets.

Walmart destroyed the idea that a grocery store was owned by someone who lived in your community.

Costco yup

Wish I had a Costco

I will often still look for things on Amazon, but I try to find reasonable alternatives from Shopify. It’s not perfect, and shipping tends to be slower and more expensive, but I like the idea of not making Bezos more money when I can.

Bad news about Costco: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/costco-not-sell-abortion-pill-mifepristone-its-us-pharmacy-stores-aug-14-2025-08-14/

UPDATE (for additional context): Reportedly, Costco has never carried mifepristone, ever, and according to Costco’s own analysis, there has not been significant demand from Costco members to warrant adding it.

https://www.seattletimes.com/business/costco-asserts-that-it-wont-sell-abortion-pill-mifepristone/

For even more context, mifepristone is only ever meant to be administered under the direct supervision of medical staff. That doesn’t mean a doctor prescribed this pill for you to take at home, it means you only get the pill in a doctor’s office, with the doctor and staff there to care for you.

People I know who have taken mifepristone confirm: it does fuck you up and you DON’T want to take it at home.

Get woke or go broke

Yeah I was talking about their pride collection. They used to be loud and proud about that and then they placated terrorists on the right. This is coming from someone who is not LGBT but has friends in that community.

I think its worth questioning whether this has anything to do with DEI, or if its actually just that the economy is so bad that people cant afford to shop at Targét for overpriced garbaggio anymore.

Every time I have ever bought anything at Target it just reminds me why I avoid ever buying anything at Target. Its Walmart for people with more money than sense. Its business model is built to fail in a recession economy.

Not to mention, like you said, what exactly did they do differently when they had DEI policies. What LGBTQ products ever really existed outside of “Make Money off the Gays Month”

Go fash, stonks crash. :D

Only if you're rich

Shareholders should be demanding his head.

You mess with the honk, you get the bonk

They aren't

I found more to get at a Japanese dollar store that opened recently:

https://daisous.com/

Not sure what you like consuming, but no, olive oil is not all the same. I've produced it several times.

Not all olive oil is the same. That's true for a lot of groceries.

Also some people enjoy owning movies they like or buying them to support them.

With your "order everything mindset" why but just order groceries too instead of going there?

Just feels like you took your life and wonder why everyone doesn't live that way lol

Making an effort is good. I do realize that it is unavoidable to completely boycott a place. But the point is to send a message. If they get $15 from me in 2 months instead of the usual $60 a week I'm doing right.

Saying no 80% is still change. I struggle with feeling like I am not doing enough to change tides. But you are at least doing something and that’s better than nothing.

They actually didn't expand into produce until the 2010s. Until then it was just pantry items. I remember the remodel when I worked there.

What? That's what they've always done. They've been a combo department store and small grocer for decades. Their demographic is middle-class white women too snooty for Walmart but not so wealthy for luxury brands.

Neil Saunders, an analyst at GlobalData Retail, said in a note to clients Wednesday. “Target, which used to be very attuned to consumer demand, has lost its grip on delivering for the American shopper.”

They could have a very niche demographic or maybe their just out of touch.

Read the article

I never understood this phenomena myself. Even during its prime. The entire b&m model was so outdated to me. I used to prefer shopping online via Amazon.

Then they enshittified the platform, quality of goods dropped tremendously. Then the stories of poor treatment of warehouse workers and last mile delivery workers was the last straw to me.

Now my retail shopping consists of preferring local groceries and trying to buy direct from brands that I like. I don’t even care about the free shipping anymore. It’s all a farce these days and it’s just an added cost to items now (even if you don’t return the item).