Et tu Target?
Over the 4th of July weekend I went into a good old American Target store to pick up some stuff for the family. Hot dogs, buns, soda, that kind of thing. Practically as soon as I walked through the door, I was confronted by an incredibly offensive wall of piñatas.
Piñatas at Target=bad
I get it that some people might want to buy piñatas for their kids. They don’t understand the potential dangers. Fine. But selling these atrocities on one of the most important days of the year, when we celebrate Americaness? Come on Target? Why not just start selling French stuff too? Make a mockery of what the 4th of July stands for?
I went to the manager and asked him what our Founding Fathers would think about him selling piñatas on the 4th of July. Mister Gutierez (did I spell that right?) barely listened to me, even though I very calmly explained to him the dangers of piñatas and how inappropriate it was for him to sell them on this particular holiday. He just kept looking at his watch and finally made an excuse to go do something else.
All I can say is I will now be taking all of my business to Walmart, where they truly understand what it means to be an American company!
July 25th, 2010 at 12:30 pm
You must be “white” and under educated. The potential danger with pinatas i get. The whole “Americaness” I don’t. America does not have one ethnic background rather a collective number of traditions and history that inevitably created American culture. Your offense of something so minuscule is the key to your personality, the part where you actually took time out of your day to bring up the issue to the manager, Mr. Gutierrez, is rather pathetic and one can see your rant is merely one in many I’m sure against things that are “un-American”