A Target Corporation news release:
We are a community in pain. That pain is not unique to the Twin Cities—it extends across America. The murder of George Floyd has unleashed the pent-up pain of years, as have the killings of Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor. We say their names and hold a too-long list of others in our hearts. As a Target team, we’ve huddled, we’ve consoled, we’ve witnessed horrific scenes similar to what’s playing out now and wept that not enough is changing. And as a team we’ve vowed to face pain with purpose.
Every day, our team wakes up ready to help all families—and on the hardest days we cling even more dearly to that purpose. As I write this, our merchant and distribution teams are preparing truckloads of first aid equipment and medicine, bottled water, baby formula, diapers and other essentials, to help ensure that no one within the areas of heaviest damage and demonstration is cut off from needed supplies.
[My bold.]
I’ve noticed over the years that the news reports from time to time how Target dedicates some X% (I forget just what – 10%?) of their profits to local charities, and at least portions of the company founder Dayton family have been very socially active (and others not so much, of course). Between having the supply chain to pull this off and some sort of social conscience (I am always a bit suspicious of corporate social conscious/conscienceness, but let’s go with it here), they may come out of this an even more solid corporate citizen than before.
I wonder if Wal-Mart is doing anything similar.
