Target, Support Our Solders?

[Havasu Luvr]

I was told the other day that Target (dept store) does NOT support our troops and that they are French owned. Does any one know if this is true? :mad:

[Kachina26]

NO, check it out at snopes.com :D Plus we just had this coversation a couple of days ago.

[riverracerx]

Target was actually founded by four women who openly enjoyed the sport of archery. They simplified the Target logo because red ink was cheaper than most others when they printed up their first sales flyer. One of the women actually invented the ICEE drink as well, and thus to this day all Target stores have an ICEE machine inside. All other ICEE vendors must pay a license fee for the machine. None of the women originally owned the Target dog.
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead/img/archery.jpg

[NOTALENT]

Wow...nice history lesson....you learn something new everyday...and they look like they could have been hotties... :rollside:

[uvindex]

Target was actually founded by four women who openly enjoyed the sport of archery. They simplified the Target logo because red ink was cheaper than most others when they printed up their first sales flyer. One of the women actually invented the ICEE drink as well, and thus to this day all Target stores have an ICEE machine inside. All other ICEE vendors must pay a license fee for the machine. None of the women originally owned the Target dog.
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead/img/archery.jpgWhere did this information come from? :) Target's history timeline on their corporate site, shows:
1902 George D. Dayton opens Goodfellows in downtown Minneapolis.
1903 Dayton Dry Goods Store is founded; in 1911, it becomes The Dayton Company.
1918 The Dayton Foundation is created with an endowment of $1 million.
1946 The Dayton Company’s bylaws establish the practice of giving 5% of pretax profits back to the community.
1962 The Dayton Company enters discount merchandising with the opening of its first Target Store.
etc.
Then, Circle K's web site says this, "You may have heard the story of Omar Knedlik from Coffeyville, Kansas, who invented the ICEE in the late 1950’s."

[Sleek-Jet]

Where did this information come from? :) Target's history timeline on their corporate site, shows:
1902 George D. Dayton opens Goodfellows in downtown Minneapolis.
1903 Dayton Dry Goods Store is founded; in 1911, it becomes The Dayton Company.
1918 The Dayton Foundation is created with an endowment of $1 million.
1946 The Dayton Company’s bylaws establish the practice of giving 5% of pretax profits back to the community.
1962 The Dayton Company enters discount merchandising with the opening of its first Target Store.
etc.
Then, Circle K's web site says this, "You may have heard the story of Omar Knedlik from Coffeyville, Kansas, who invented the ICEE in the late 1950’s."
Lies, I tell you... all LIES.... :D :D :D

[HocusPocus]

ICEE Site (http://www.iceedistributors.com/index1.php)
In the late 1950's, a man named Omar Knedlik owned a Dairy Queen in Coffeeville, Kansas. On warm days, Mr. Knedlik would store bottles of coke in his freezer and serve these super-cooled, semi-frozen drinks to his customers. He advertised this unique and refreshing drink as "The Coldest Drink in Town".
Target Website on troop support (http://target.com/target_group/community_giving/vet_support.jhtml)
1881 - Joseph Lowthian Hudson became the founder on one of the three largest American department stores when he decided in 1881 to open a small men's clothing store in Detroit . After 10 years he had 8 stores in the midwest and was the most profitable clothing retailer in the country. In 1893 he began construction of the immense department store at Gratiot and Farmer streets in Detroit. The 25-story tower was added in 1928, and a 12-story addition in 1946, giving the entire complex 49 acres of floor space. In 1954 the company became a suburban shopping center pioneer when it built Northland 13 miles northwest of Detroit. In 1969 it merged with the Dayton Corporation to create Dayton-Hudson headquartered in Minneapolis. George Dayton had founded his Dayton's Daylight store in Minneapolis in 1902 and the AMC cooperative in 1912, built the Southland Shopping Center in 1956, and started the Target discount store chain in 1962. The new corporation closed the flagship Hudson department store in downtown Detroit in 1983, but expanded its other retail operations. It acquired Mervyn's in 1978, Marshall Field's in 1990, and renamed itself the Target Corporation in 2000.

[uvindex]

Lies, I tell you... all LIES.... :D :D :DI just can't help it sometimes. :p

[riverracerx]

Come on, do you really believe everything you read on the internet?
My story is MUST be the correct one, because it was posted on ***boat. The authority for such subjects! ;)
Plus I spent a long time trying to find a photo that would work from Google Images.