Great point.
Also, I'll be honest, I don't want old employees talking to me to catch up or ask about my new job, or say they want me back or whatever. I wish nothing but the best for them, but I kinda just want to completely move on from that chapter of my life in a work sense. If I need to buy something, I have another Target that's as close to me. But I'd rather buy what I need and get out.
Glad I'm not the only one. And although I said I'm not avoiding target as a protest or vendetta or anything, part of me doesn't want to give money to a company that doesn't treat their workers as well as I think they should be treated. But again, I just haven't been back to Target because I have better more convenient options now.
And I've told all my coworkers the same thing, Target is going the way of Kmart. They're just a little more savvy, so they may last a little longer. But there's only so much squeezing out of the employees you can do before the business implodes on itself. Especially with the best, most hard working, and most loyal employees. I was with Target for nearly 11 years and I couldn't take it anymore. A lot of coworkers who were there when I first started have either quit or have said they're going to quit this year. It's unsustainable.
I watched Dayton-Hudson Corporation (Target Corp’s previous incarnation) run Mervyn’s into the ground the same way. Only took a year to cut to the bone then sell the gutted corpse to new owners who took another year to pick the bones clean, dump the fragments into liquidation and Mervyn’s was nothing but a memory. Sad, really.
That's rather ironic since my former store was literally built on the grave of a Mervyn's....