Target's decision to sell this card created a social media firestorm.

​Target pulled "stalker" Valentine's Day cards from shelves in response to an anti-making-light-of-stalking campaign led by Ginger Lee.

Yes, that Ginger Lee -- the same former porn star who brought down U.S. Rep. Anthony Weiner after it came to light that the two had exchanged sexual e-mails with each other.

Target caved quickly after Lee and others took to social media to express outrage about the understated and possibly creepy V-Day cards.

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Target quietly used a child model with Down Syndrome in this ad that ran over the holidays.

​Last night NBC Nightly News profiled Ryan Langston, the child model with Down Syndrome who recently appeared in a Target ad that won the local retailer plaudits for inclusion.

We told you about Ryan Langston last week. He had appeared in a Target ad over the holidays, which was generating buzz online.

"Target is committed to diversity and inclusion in every aspect of our business, including our advertising campaigns," told City Pages. "Target has included people with disabilities in our advertising for many years and will continue to feature people that represent the diversity of communities across the country."
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​Over the holidays, Target Corp. quietly did something small that is generating big praise.

Without trying to draw attention to itself or the child, Target included a young boy with Down syndrome in one of its clothing advertisements.

It might not seem like much at first, but the intentional, untrumpeted inclusion of mentally handicapped people in ads aimed at a general audience is a rare strategy for major retailers. Target's ad says something reassuring about what "diversity" and "inclusion" mean for the company.

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After a disappointing holiday season, Target dropped its lead ad agency.

​Fresh off news that Santa gave Target a lump of coal this Christmas, the company is making changes.

Target has dropped Portland-based Wieden and Kennedy, the company's lead advertising agency for the past six years.

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State Patrol

A Target truck experienced its very own race to the bottom this morning.

​Some business observers might argue that Target is sinking, but they surely wouldn't have this in mind.

Around 6 a.m. this morning, a Target semi-trailer driving eastbound on Interstate 94 near Monticello drove off the road onto a pond, then broke through the thin ice and sank.

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Target workers had a Black Friday alright

​An exhausted Target worker in Palm Beach, Florida, crashed her car into a canal at 7:46 a.m. after working the midnight shift on Black Friday.

The accident is notable because it shows the potential danger for workers forced to work the midnight shift after Target decided to open its doors earlier than ever on Black Friday. The new hours triggered a backlash from employees, who delivered a petition with 181,000 signatures to CEO Gregg Steinhafel asking the retailer to "Save Thanksgiving."

The petition was met with a bizarre editorial from the Star Tribune that told workers they should shut up and just be happy to have a job in a bad economy.
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Target: no sight for tired worker's eyes.

​The rage has come home to roost.

On Monday afternoon, Seth Coleman,  a seasonal Target employee in Northfield, will deliver a hard copy version of the "Save Thanksgiving" petition to the retailer's headquarters on Nicollet Mall.

"My choice is stay up all night and work two shifts like a zombie, or sleep and not have a Thanksgiving," he says.

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This is not the super Thanksgiving employees had in mind.

​Target is facing a backlash from its own employees as the clock ticks down to the craziest shopping day of the year: Black Friday.

In the escalating arms race to get as many crazed shoppers in the door as possible, Target announced it would be opening its stores at midnight on Thanksgiving. That includes all Minnesota locations.

While one's initial thought might be, "Who'd want to be shopping on Thanksgiving night?" the better query is, "Who'd want to be working?"

As it turns out, no one.

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As Bob Barker reminds us, get your dogs, cats, and websites neutuered.

​Target is ready for a recession. Hell, Target is ready for a zombie apocalypse. Just don't ask Target about being ready for the 21st century.

Yesterday, Target.com crashed for the third time in the last 50 days, offering further proof Minnesota's most likely world-beaters are not quite ready for the modern world.Tuesday's public failure was a new low: The main Target.com website went down, and stayed down, for almost three whole American hours.

Perhaps this time it's a sales strategy, with Target banking on consumers literally chewing and eating their electronic devices during the website's otherwise inexplicable outage.
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"Woof!" said the dog. "Find another job," said Gregg Steinhafel.

​Target Corporation is hiring, but not just stockers and swipers for Black Friday: Now, they also need someone who knows how to keep Target.com from crashing.

Yesterday, Target announced that online president Steve Eastman was leaving the company. In Target's version, Eastman is off to "pursue other opportunities," though most cynics think he's getting a crack at those "opportunities" because of a couple very public, very embarrassing website problems.

Eastman seems to be falling on the sword for two total failures at Target.com. The first came last month, when the site launched the new line of Missoni apparel, and the flood of customers overwhelmed the site.

The second, less easily explained crash happened last week Thursday, when site-goers were greeted simply by Target's dog mascot and a message that said, "Woof!"
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