Shame on you, Target

Dear Target,

I love your handbags and lounge pants and aisles of inexpensive lotions and potions for my face and skin. Your casual clothing section is even starting to grow on me lately. And you know how I feel about your fabulous sunglasses. But yesterday you did something so stupid, so irresponsible, I'm not sure I can ever shop you again, Target, no matter how cheap your tights and bras and wrapping paper are. And also your beer cozies. Oh, Target, why did you have to go and make it so hard to like you anymore?!

Yesterday at the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade you had people on every street corner in my neighborhood passing out "coupon books" for you. And I put "coupon books" in quotes because the book was about 52 pages long and had a grand total of ONE COUPON. Dear Target, ONE COUPON does not a "coupon book" make. I mean, sure okay, $5 off a purchase of $50 or more is a nice gesture and all. I guess. I mean, $10 off would have been more of a gesture, and $15 off would have been awesome--just think of how many eye shadows and hand creams I could have scored with savings like that!--but I digress.

Target, seriously! Was it really necessary to have 51 pages of absolutely nothing--NOTHING, not even little recipe cards or fun trivia or ANYTHING!--in your stupid little "coupon book." I mean, it was Thaksgiving and 60 degrees, which should tell you something about global warming and the environment and all that kinds of stuff we should be concerned about and here you are on every street corner on the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade route with your boxes and boxes and boxes of these stupid little completely unnecessary wastes of paper, oh, how could you?! Think about the children of our future, Target. Don't you care about children??

The next time you decide to make a 52-page coupon book, I expect to see 52 coupons in it. And no more of this chintzy $5 off $50 or more business. I want a savings of at least 20%.

Thank you, and I still think your beer cozies are cool even if you are a child-hater.

xoxo,

Wendy

Comments

[brookem]

ha, wow. not cool on their part at all. what are they thinking?!

[SunshineFresh]

But it looks like one of those fun flippy books that shows motion when you flip the pages. That's worth it isn't it? I'm a Target lover so I have to take up for them best I can. But you're right...they should have had more more more coupons!!

[Nilsa S.]

My brother came to Chicago from NY for the weekend and made me take him to Target ... because he claims items are much cheaper in the Chicago Target than the NYC Target. Had Target had a chat with, I don't know, ALL their product manufacturers, I'm sure they could have conjured up a gazillion coupons. What a waste of paper!