Target loses $10B in market cap in 10 days and stock falls to its lowest trading value in a YEAR in the wake of its Pride ‘tuck-friendly’ swimwear line

Target has lost more than $10billion in market capitalization in the span of 10 days – as it continues to face backlash for Pride-themed merchandise.

Prior to the controversy – which stems over a LGBTQ-geared clothing campaign that touts ‘tuck-friendly’ bathing suits and pro-trans T-shirts for kids – Target shares were trading at $160.96, giving the retailer a market valuation of roughly $74.3billion.

By the time The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) closed Friday, the blue-chip stock was trading at $138.93 – marking a market valuation of 64,2billion, and loss of $10.1billion.

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Backlash Over Target’s Pride Month Bathing Suit Echoing Boycott of Bud Light

Target is reeling this Memorial Day weekend, with complaints over its Pride Month displays, especially its merchandising of a “tuck-friendly” bathing suit, ballooning into a marketing debacle on the heels of Bud Light’s recent ordeal regarding its promotion with a transgender influencer.

On Friday, Target shares fell for the seventh day, hitting their lowest level in three years. The stock dip is “partially about earnings,” Barron’s reported, as the retailer warned of “softening sales trends” in the first quarter, and “partially about a decision to adjust its LGBTQ+ Pride Month collection.”

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Disney mocked for ‘woke-a-thon’ $250M Little Mermaid live-action reboot: with ‘drag queen’ Ursula, King Triton the environmentalist, mixed-race mermen, and ‘affirmative consent’ slipped into prince’s love song

Disney is under fire for ‘wokery’ slipped into its live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, which is projected to bring in $100 million for the company despite mixed reviews this Memorial Day weekend.

Critics and audiences have given the reboot of the 1989 animated classic ‘average’ and ‘unfavorable’ reviews on ratings site Metacritic. Some bash the makers’ efforts to update the film to contemporary social mores.

Naysayers have focussed on tweaks to the plot and lyrics that play around with sex, ethnicity and cultural values to make the 125-minute remake fit with Disney’s progressive politics.

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Jesse Kline: When beer companies mock their customers for progressive cred

If there’s one thing the recent controversies over beer ads and swimsuit models highlight, it’s that marketing departments have completely lost the plot. Not content to simply reach out to new demographics, many large companies are poking their traditional customers in the eye, and then acting surprised when consumers feel alienated.

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Target has donated $2.1 million to groomer group that pushes school districts to allow children to secretly change gender

Target Corporation is partnering with a K-12 education group for which focuses on getting districts to adopt policies that will keep parents in the dark on their child’s in-school gender transition, providing sexually explicit books to schools for free, and integrating gender ideology at all levels of curriculum in public schools, Fox News Digital uncovered.

House of Horrors: “Gender-Affirming Care” at Texas Children’s Hospital

h/t Mauser

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My Religion Is Not Your Costume

Cowardly Gays Never Dress Up As Mohammed

When it comes to the culture war, the Left is playing a different ball game.

In recent weeks, the Los Angeles Dodgers made headlines by flip-flopping on whether or not to honor a group of anti-Catholic drag queens at their annual Pride Night. First pressured by Christians and then pressured by LGBTQ activists, the Dodgers have changed their minds several times, eventually landing right back where they started.

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Target loses $9B in week following boycott after exposure of effort to cultivate Groomer market with Cross Dresser-friendly kids clothing

Target has lost $9 billion in market value since angry social media users called for a boycott of the Minneapolis-based retailer over its rollout of the “PRIDE” collection featuring LGBTQ-friendly clothing for children.

A week ago Wednesday before the controversy erupted, Target’s stock closed at $160.96 a share, giving the big-box chain a market capitalization of $74.3 billion.

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Budweiser is giving away its beer for free with new promotions after Drag Queen backlash wiped almost $16b off parent company Anheuser-Busch’s market value

BUD LIGHT – The King Of Drag Queen Beers

Budweiser is giving away its beer for free with new promotions after the Dylan Mulvaney backlash wiped almost $16 billion off parent company Anheuser-Busch’s market value.

Anheuser-Busch has seen its market value plunge $15.7billion since the disastrous campaign with Mulvaney began on April 1.

In the latest scramble to return to the good graces of customers, Bud Light revealed a new promotion called the US Budweiser Family Memorial Day Rebate online.

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Dodgers re-invite drag nuns to Pride Night after cutting them

Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence – Anti-Christian Hate Group

The Los Angeles Dodgers announced that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, a well-known San Francisco order of queer and trans “nuns” that has existed since the 1970s, are once again welcome at the team’s annual Pride Night.

Last week, the baseball team rescinded the group’s invitation after a Republican senator from Florida wrote a letter accusing the sisters, a group which came to prominence during the Aids crisis, of being anti-Christian activists. The group, which does charitable and protest work in addition to its street drag show performances, was set to receive an award during a ceremony before a 16 June game against the San Francisco Giants.

h/t Mauser

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Target takes ’emergency’ action to ‘avoid a Bud Light situation’ and removes ‘tuck-friendly’ women’s swimwear and LGBTQ products from display in Southern stores – as CEO DEFENDS the line

Target’s CEO has defended the company’s controversial ‘tuck friendly’ female swimwear line, insisting the woke product rollout will be a success.

The retail giant sparked backlash after releasing a new line of clothing to celebrate Pride month in June, which includes a label advertising ‘tuck-friendly construction’ and ‘extra crotch’ coverage. The design is made to help conceal a person’s private parts.

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How Bud Light Blew It

Bud Light – The Beer Of Sexual Mutilation Fetishists

With one blunder after another, the brewing giant behind the brand became a case study in how not to handle a culture-war storm

Budweiser’s famous Clydesdale horses still live in St. Louis, Mo., where its brewer, Anheuser-Busch, has been making beer since the 1850s. Visitors can tour the flagship brewery to check out a vintage delivery truck and pick up a Budweiser eagle T-shirt at the gift shop.

The company’s marketing hub is about 950 miles away in a sleek building in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Employees can brainstorm in the break room while helping themselves to beer on tap, or take a drink up to the roof deck.

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Bud Light is ready to buy back unsold cases of expired beer that sat on shelves

Anheuser Busch has offered to buy back cases of unsold Bud Light that went unsold after the brewer’s disastrous partnership with trans influencer Dylan Mulvaney.

Bud Light sales have plunged 26 percent compared to this time last year amid backlash from its customers over the woke marketing pitch.

Now it’s been revealed by The Wall Street Journal that the brewer has told its wholesalers that it will buy back unsold cases of beer that have gone past their expiration date.

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Bud Light’s hangover from hell: Sales figures for America’s once-favorite beer reveal how EVERY region in U.S. has turned its back since the Dylan Mulvaney tie-up

New figures reveal that Bud Light sales have plummeted in every US region in the wake of its disastrous partnership with Dylan Mulvaney.

America’s flagship beer brand has been sent into a steep decline after it used the controversial trans influencer, 26, to promote the beverage.

Data from Beer Business Daily showed that sales of the US’s number one brand has fallen in every region of the country.

A well deserved disaster.

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