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When Target CEO Michael Fiddelke took over the struggling company in February, he faced a daunting task.
Not only did he have to reverse a sales slide, but the new boss also had to change how consumers saw the brand.
Conservative shoppers viewed the brand as "woke" because of its DEI policies, bathroom rules, and Pride merchandise.
Liberal shoppers watched Target abandon some of those things, leaving the company to anger customers on both ends of the political spectrum.
That wasn't the chain's biggest problem, according to GlobalData Managing Director Neil Saunders.
He believes Target's lackluster sales had more to do with failing on execution than being caught up in cultural issues like DEI.
"As important as that matter is, and as much as it does have some impact, it has never been the main issue," Saunders wrote, according to theAssociated Press.
Sujeet Naik, an analyst at Coresight, did an interview with TheStreet looking at the changes Target has made and where the company stands now.
TheStreet:Was Target really struggling as badly as it was portrayed? Sujeet Naik:I would say no.
Headlines were exaggerated, but Target is not facing any existential crisis.
It just lost momentum over the past few years while Walmart and Amazon kept widening their advantages.
Sales slowed, traffic weakened, shoppers questioned its value proposition, and the company became caught up in political debates that distracted from the business.
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