Target is evil

And I'm not even talking about how we're not supposed to shop at Target because of their policy about dispensing Plan B. (I'm sorry - I'm weak. ETA: And, sadly, I live in a part of the world where anywhere I shop, I'm patronizing a company that's on Planned Parenthood's shitlist re: Plan B. Seriously. Even the mom & pop places - not that I've found any that I like - probably support physicians' right not to dispense Plan B. So I figure that I might as well shop at an evil empire that sells things I like. God, I miss CVS.)

No, Target is evil because I can never walk in the door without spending a whole buttload of money. It's like a great big playground, where I toss things into my cart with abandon and then am honestly surprised when they reappear at the cash register.

I went in there to buy a heating pad - just a heating pad.

What did I leave with?

• two pairs of earrings
• one necklace
• one white t-shirt
• one  jacket (like this but in red)
• one striped blouse
• body lotion
• two pairs of black hose
• meringue cookies
• a nifty new post-it pad (sticky AND perforated!)
• and, of course, a heating pad

So I spent the hour I had earmarked for exercise wandering happily through the aisles of Target. And burning money instead of calories.

THAT is why Target is evil.

Comments

[profgrrrrl]

Cute stuff! And thanks for reminding me of why I don't go there anymore (oh, the workout clothing aisle is dangerous)

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Definitely! I get all my workout stuff at Target. (I didn't let myself look this time, since, well, I haven't been working out....am not allowed to buy exercise gear until I start exercising again!)

[ianqui]

HOW ODD. I also wrote about Target tonight. And while the force of my post was, uhhh, a little different than yours, I certainly confessed that I share many of the same feelings about Target that you do.

[Michelle P]

Clothing isn't a draw for me. The urges lie within the houseware items. Total empty spending.

[Celandine]

Well, if the alternatives are Target and Walmart, which is less evil, anyhow? I shop at Target. But there's no pharmacy at mine anyhow.

[The Impersonator]

I so totally agree about Target, though I call it "the happiest place on earth." I've started giving my husband a list of the things that we need from Target and making him go, because he is somehow immune from its seductive powers. Though he admits that he was tempted to wander this evening and almost purchased a DVD that was not on the list.

[abd me]

Can it truly be evil if it brings such happiness? I never leave there without spending $30 more than I intended to. Now that they've added a grocery store to the one near me, it can only get worse. But they have such interesting stuff in those aisles...

[JM]

whoa, sticky AND perforated?

[Pilgrim/Heretic]

Just FYI - I contacted Target a couple of weeks ago about their pharmacy policy, and they told me this: "In the rare event that a pharmacist’s beliefs conflict with filling a guest’s prescription for the emergency contraceptive Plan B, our policy requires our pharmacists to take responsibility for ensuring that the guest’s prescription is filled in a timely and respectful manner, either by another Target pharmacist or a different pharmacy. ...Under no circumstances can the pharmacist prevent the prescription from being filled, make discourteous or judgmental remarks, or discuss his or her religious beliefs with the guest."

[New Kid on the Hallway]

Yeah, I got that e-mail from them also. The sending someone to another pharmacy is what bothers me here - I think that could be used to give someone the runaround. But I will say they say they're following the American Pharmacists' Association (or whatever it's called exactly) guidelines, so if that's the case, and that allows problems with getting Plan B, it's the guidelines that should be addressed. (And anyway, the e-mail makes me feel a little bit better!)

[kristiface]

That email you received makes me feel better too :) I may write a letter to send in anyway, just to feel good about my desktop activism ;)

I too have a hard time at Target. I went in to buy candles and came away with candles, a book, a new movie and a pack of gum. SHAME ON ME!

[Ancrene Wiseass]

I got the email reply, too. I'm really not satisfied; I don't think it's enough to say "Well, we send them to another pharmacy. Whaddaya want?" Nope, sorry. That's not good enough. Women who have a prescription from a doctor should not be discriminated against because they have ovaries and the medication does something to that woman's ovaries that the pharmacist might disagree with.

The pharmacist doesn't get to make a decision here, and this is very, very clearly a continuation of our society's determination to let any old schmo weigh in on what a woman gets to do with her own frickin' body, even if it's medically sanctioned. I call bullshit.

If Target's acting in accordance with the rules of the pharmacists' association, then you're absolutely right: that organization needs our letters, too. I'm gonna look into that.

Oh, and yeah: I'm getting a delivery from Target today. Makes me feel really crappy to still be buying stuff from them, but I couldn't find what I needed anywhere else!

Oh, Target, I love your inexpensive-yet-vaguely-hipster goods! You love my money! Why must you tarnish our passion with Pharmaceutical Wingnut horseshit?

[earlygrrrl]

It's bullshit, and reason #249 that the FDA should get off its religious right-laden ass and put EC over the stinkin' counter already.

With EC OTC we can ignore the moralizing pharmacists and continue, guilt-free, our love affair with Target. Boycotting WalMart was easy, but Target's breaking my heart...

And fyi: CVS appears to have a palitable policy, but the fine print allows for a pharmacist to refuse to fill in store, while instead having a CVS employee deliver it to your home. Apparently honoring patient privacy is trumped by honoring pharmacists who refuse to do their job...

[Target is the devil]

Here's why I know Target to be evil (don't go here if you don't like bad language or wishful thinking about the Target CEO being raped by Saddam Hussein):

http://bittergirl666.livejournal.com/20150.html?mode=reply