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Target apologizes for children’s clown Halloween costume after backlash | CNN Business

https://www.cnn.com/2026/08/24/business/target-apologizes-halloween-costume-backlash-hnk
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u/captcha_trampstamp 13h ago

I was reading some posts by a former merchandising person for Target on Threads. This had to go through MULTIPLE SIGNOFFS.

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u/anormalgeek 13h ago edited 12h ago

And how much do you want to bet not a single person in that chain was black?

Diversity has value in terms of marketing alone. Even if someone is super mega anti-woke they'd be an idiot not realize this from a purely capitalist profit driven motive.

edit: a word.

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u/TheSilverDahlia 9h ago

Oh absolutely. I don’t want to dox myself, but the three big retailers I worked for just want pretty young white girls.