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Get fired.

Good. Scroom.

CEO’s might be the dumbest people alive.

They're fucked lmaoooo

It’s a shame to see a long-standing, once-beloved brand like Target struggling. I mean, all they did was shit on some of their most loyal customers in order to suck up to a fascist. Real shame.

This is what happens when businesses placate to bullies

Using AI to get pwned faster and harder - current Target “strategy” Brilliant

The CEO then went to say "We believe by becoming more agile through cutting edge technology we can circle back to blast processing our way through these troubled times with innovative and breathtaking new customer-driven experiences" before bending 180 degrees to start sucking himself off.

The ship is sinking, let's turn to AI. LOL

Gonna stop the fire by using "gasoline" to become "more energized", great idea CEO guy.

You’ll never meet someone less interested in anything other than career advancement than an MBA. As far as I can tell it is a degree that only exists to reinforce white male privilege.

The damage that business schools and MBA programs have done to this world cannot be overstated. They should all be closed and their faculty and staff driven out of society.

<man hitting himself in the head with a hammer> “I need to become more agile."

So in addition to everything else, they're wasting time dragging fixtures on and off the floor and redoing their displays. Brilliant idea, Target, that'll fix things.

Yes! This happens in the alcohol section in our target. So hard to find the button

Ha ha ha ha “we forgot to install the employee call button on our impenetrable product fortress” is the best metaphor for 2020-era corporate colllapse.

amazingly enough, the sanitary products (at least) are not locked up (can’t speak to the other, haven’t looked)

Target is never hiring more than 1 person to work *all* the cash registers in a given shift ever again.

Why am i getting “Borders partners with Amazon” vibes? 😬

they should invent an AI that spends money

30 minute meetings at the start of the work day. Time spent working on pointless meetings. It's middle management wanting progress numbers.

Well, you are wrong. So I would've moved past flabbergasted and explained why you are wrong.

Yes, they say this to the shareholders and then tell the employees this is the plan but it needs to fit our “corporate culture”.

So Target is paying their CEO how much to ask ChatGPT "How do I run a retail business?"

I live in the Twin Cities, the birthplace of Target. For literally decades, I shopped there regularly. That all ended when they caved to Trump on DEI. They are now second behind Tesla on my list of businesses I would like to see disappear. (Or maybe third behind Amazon)

That’s why I stopped shopping with Amazon.

Good thing AI solves customer-distaste problems.

He's speaking the technomagical buzzwords that makes thd dick of his octagenary masters tingle for a brief moment

why not just bring back in the Black Owned business products...

Oh they’re turbo cooked lol

It is the golden age of self-deluded bullshit

Ha! Wtf target? Such dumbasses...

Good. It's what they have always deserved

Conver them all to union halls.

Not to mention that most people won't even try:

I swear most big corporations absolutely LOATHE their customers and it shows.

Invest in their competitors

I need you to know I smiled INCREDIBLY wide at this. This was exactly the style of reply I was hoping for. Thank you.

hahaha

May AI damn Target all the way into the the black hole so that they r sucked away into the abyss.

Let me fix that quote a bit : The CEO says he's going to accelerate the decline by being a dumbass and making things worse for customers and employees.

CEOs who admit that they could be replaced with AI probably should be replaced with CEOs who don't self-report like that.

Good luck to them, b/c turns out AI doesn’t walk into Target and buy stuff

The last decade called, they want their Buzzword Bingo card back

Good.

My plan is to say buzzwords until people stop asking me questions and I get my pay reinstated.

F her i never liked her 😫

This is not the way. A once great company is dead to me.

"I know! We'll *dig* our way out!" [Sounds of shovels digging the hole deeper]

“Write three letters.”

But have they tried reinstating their DEI initiatives and hiring workers to assist customers and reduce theft? Why no, no they have not.

I’m starting to see a connection between greedy white male CEOs of corporations and their decline or demise. Hmm. Head scratcher

Are they planning to make AI customers?

"We're going to cater to racists in a more agile way. Specifically, we're going to have cheetahs attack nonwhites at the door."

Cue racist chat bot

*shoots self in foot* Well I know how to patch this up! *aims at other foot*

Good luck to them, it's not gonna help much.

*he probably doesn’t know

Tough shitski as the russians might say…

Unless AI is going to start purchasing seasonal throw pillows for their non-existent apartments, athleisure wear for their non-existent bodies, and curling irons for their non-existent hair, I don't see how tech is going to dig them out of their nobody-wants-to-shop-here hole.

Oh look another foot to shoot xDDDDD

I would love to see the fall of Target. Maybe some others, too.

Funny part is Target already had very powerful data collection and analysis. The reason why target is failing is because they are not playing to their customers. White women in their 30s don't like what they're doing because it's making the experience worse.

No Target no more I will not buy anything locked away

You wouldn’t believe the amount of times I find myself thinking “boy this store would be great and I’d definitely shop there if only they were more agile”

FFS, all they have to do is reinstate their DEI programs and I'll start shopping there again. But, nooooooooo! They can't do *that*! Idiots.

CEOs just seem to think you can just become the brand that everyone shops at and ignore that unless you provide a good reason to do that nobody is gonna change their current shopping habits

They know exactly what is causing this and refuse to change course. I don’t think they believe we’ll hold out for the long run. We’re already gone.

K-Mart would never have done this.

They fired all QA years ago and now they're telling the engineers that they need to use AI to be 2-3x productive and that there are hiring freezes...meanwhile the engineers are all overworked and spiraling, creating a culture of rubber stamp push to prod slop. Adding AI is pouring gasoline on top.

yah. same. and at a lower price, without having to wait for the absent employees to unlock the cabinet to get my 236,000 dollar deoderant.

Former Target employee here. They could not give LESS of a damn about their workers. They are no different from any other corporation, willing to exploit, break down, and even put us in direct danger just to make a quick profit, even if it means breaking the law. May they go bankrupt ❤️

They think AI will solve everything. Look what happened to Duolingo.

As a Canadian who lived through Target's expansion into my country, I can totally believe that company is going to self-immolate someday.

Oh someone sold the CEO on some magic AI beans, everything is going to be fine at Target!

A good start would be actually staffing their stores so they don’t feel like dirty and poorly stocked ghost towns, raising wages so staff is happy and supported, and firing all the overpaid toolboxes at Target HQ who screwed up such a beloved company over the last decade.

I stopped shopping at Target because their shelves were always only half stocked and they only had one cashier while expecting everyone to self-checkout. If I'm spending my money, you must have products and cashiers. Don't expect me to do the work of your employees.

Or, or, hear me out, you could reinstate the programs, publicly apologize, and make a *substantial* organizational and financial commitment to the people you marginalized and hurt like many beloved brands do. But this is why I'm not a C-level. Non velocimetric six sigma day 1 agile alpha thinking.

Is that CEO for real!? If he thinks the path he's about to take will save his failing company, he should get his head checked.

So what megacorp or conglomerate are they gonna be sold to?