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   On 16 Dec 2021, Rudy Canoza  posted some   
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   > Bankrupt this woke company.  Put them out of business.   
      
   Target’s stock has lost a whopping $13.8 billion over the past two weeks,   
   hitting its lowest levels in nearly three years as the “cheap chic”   
   discount retailer continues to face backlash over LGBTQ-friendly kids   
   clothing.   
      
   Shares of the embattled chain sank 2.2% at $130.93 on Wednesday after   
   dropping for eight straight sessions — the stock’s longest losing streak   
   since November 2018 — giving the company a market capitalization of $60.4   
   billion.   
      
   That’s off 19% from two weeks earlier on May 18, when the stock was   
   trading at $160.96 on the eve of the crisis.   
      
   It’s also the lowest levels Target shares have hit since the company was   
   recovering from the depths of the pandemic in mid-2020.   
      
   The ongoing losses are a result of an ongoing 14-day boycott that was   
   triggered by Target’s release of “PRIDE,” an LGBTQ-friendly line that   
   includes clothing for children and “tuck-friendly” women’s swimwear with   
   “extra crotch coverage.”   
      
   Wall Street is worried that Target will suffer the same fate as Anheuser-   
   Busch, whose Bud Light sales have fallen by more than 25% since the brand   
   tapped transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney to promote the beer on April   
   1.   
      
   “Investors are concerned that Target may be experiencing a sales decline   
   because it’s alienated some of its core customers,” said Edward Jones   
   analyst Brian Yarbrough.   
      
   Investors are selling their shares on the “assumption that Target might   
   have to lower its earnings guidance because its sales and profitability   
   has been impacted,” Yarbrough said, adding that sales could suffer for the   
   next nine to 12 months.   
      
   Still, Yarbrough and other Wall Street analysts have not changed their   
   ratings on Target, he said, because “we think this will be an afterthought   
   long term.”   
      
   Target’s shares started falling after May 17 when it reported mixed first   
   quarter earnings, warning that sales would slow down this year as   
   consumers spend less on discretionary items.   
      
   The Post has reached out to Target for comment.   
      
   Other items in Target’s LGBTQ-friendly line include a onesie for infants   
   that say “Bien Proud,” a children’s book titled “‘Twas the Night Before   
   Pride” and a handful of T-shirts donning LGBTQ-friendly slogans, like   
   “live laugh lesbian.”   
      
   Customers have accused Target of grooming children with the items — most   
   recently alt-right rapper Forgiato Blow who’s topping iTunes chart with   
   his new rap song, “Boycott Target.”   
      
   The song’s lyrics address an LGBTQ “agenda” that the rapper sings has gone   
   “too far.”   
      
   “Attention all shoppers, there’s a clean up on every aisle. Target is   
   targeting your kids,” Blow says in the track’s opening line.   
      
   As a result of the incessant backlash, the retailer said it would remove   
   items from the “PRIDE” collection — citing “volatile circumstances” and   
   “significant confrontational behavior” — but did not specify which ones.   
      
   Among the ones that garnered the most attention were “tuck-friendly”   
   women’s swimsuits that allow trans women who have not had gender-affirming   
   operations to conceal their genitalia, as well as rainbow-themed   
   children’s clothing.   
      
   Target has also announced that would move its Pride section to the back of   
   its stores in some Southern outposts after displays were knocked over by   
   protestors who also confronted workers.   
      
   Target reported a $10 billion loss in market valuation earlier this week,   
   just 10 days into the Pride line-induced boycott.   
      
   Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, however, has said that he doubts the backlash against   
   Target would be as impactful as that of Bud Light.   
      
   Sales of America’s once-most-popular beer suffered a 25.7% fall on   
   Tuesday, its worst week ever.   
      
   Cruz said on his podcast on Friday that while multiple alternatives exist   
   to replace Anheuser-Busch’s brands, the same is not so for Target, which   
   boasts more than 2,000 locations nationwide.   
      
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   Target customers were particularly outraged over a “tuck-friendly” women’s   
      
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