[Activism] I re-iterate my boycott against Target

Alternet.org has an article here paralleling the similarities between Target and Wal-Mart. In short it is a big box store that has a deliterious affect on towns and community, as well as having a Pharmacy policy that puts the Pharmacists beliefs over customer needs.

from the artice:

In contrast to this image, however, critics say that in terms of wages and benefits, working conditions, sweatshop-style foreign suppliers, and effects on local retail communities, big box Target stores are very much like Wal-Mart, just in a prettier package.

Of more than 1,400 Target stores employing more than 300,000 people nationwide, not one has a union. Employees at various stores say an anti-union message and video is part of the new-employee orientation.

We have been boycotting Target and Wal-Mart and have been able to source 99% of our needs from other more local/regional and progressive sources, and this is in Rochester, a small city of only 85,000. I realize in the south (Arkansas in particular) as well as some rural areas, you have no option but to go to Wal-Mart or else travel 30-40 miles to get your needed goods. In that case, all I can say is that you can fill out customer surveys asking that Wal-Mart treat their employees better, amend their Pharmacy policy, and stop doing evil.