Boycotting Target, Part 1: How It Doubled Down on DEI, Then Backed Off

抵制塔吉特,第一部分:它如何加倍押注于DEI,然后又撤退

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2025-05-18

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Many U.S. shoppers know Target as a place to get everyday items like groceries and paper towels, as well as clothes and homegoods. But recently some shoppers have stopped buying things at Target as part of boycotts over its pullback from policies around diversity, equity and inclusion. In the first episode of this special What’s News series, host Alex Ossola digs into how Target got here: the company’s history and why shoppers are upset with Target in particular at a moment when many other companies are also changing their DEI policies. In your feed, you can find the second episode of this series, looking into the boycotts’ impact on Target’s business and on those of Black entrepreneurs with products on Target’s shelves.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • It's Sunday, May 18th.

  • I'm Alex Osola for The Wall Street Journal.

  • This is a special episode of What's New Sunday.

  • On a recent Sunday afternoon, I,

  • along with producer Jess Jupiter, visited a Target store in Brooklyn.

  • So we're here in Atlantic Terminal, standing in front of the Target.

  • There are a lot of people coming in and out.

  • It's Sunday, it's nice out, New Yorkers are happy, and this store is kind of hopping.

  • I'd say it's booming.

  • Yeah.

  • All right.

  • All right.

  • Let's go check it out.

  • Let's go.

  • We took a walk around the store to get a sense of what was going on.

  • People were waiting to try on clothes and grabbing seasonal items for Easter.

  • Near the registers, we did my favorite thing, looking into people's carts to check out their haul.

  • Organization, cleaning.

  • Snacks.

  • Snacks, yeah.