Bill Kirk
Appearances
WSJ What’s News
Boycotting Target, Part 2: Is Its Business Paying a Price?
Tariffs one, Walmart two, consumer health three. And then the boycott kind of comes in with that consumer health. Like, how's that consumer feeling about Target? So I guess I would list it fourth.
WSJ What’s News
Boycotting Target, Part 2: Is Its Business Paying a Price?
Among the companies I cover, Target sources the most product internationally. They import the most stuff, more than even Walmart.
WSJ What’s News
Boycotting Target, Part 2: Is Its Business Paying a Price?
This so far has been a lot smaller than the boycott that Target initially went through. The boycott Target initially went through was about five points of their business, about five percentage points, five percent of their business went away.
WSJ What’s News
Boycotting Target, Part 2: Is Its Business Paying a Price?
And this so far does not seem like a five points of business, but that's why it's a risk everybody needs to pay attention to, because if it does get bigger, things get worse quickly.
WSJ What’s News
Boycotting Target, Part 2: Is Its Business Paying a Price?
We're trying to monitor just how loud it gets and if it starts to kind of escape maybe the groups that are organizing it. Because once it gets out of that immediate group, then it becomes a kind of a real boycott.