DEI Under Fire: Target Rolls Back Diversity Plans As Costco Keeps Them—Here’s The List Of Major Companies Dropping DEI

Costco is looking like the big winner after Target's DEI rollback

Costco and Target have long made corporate social responsibility a big part of their brand identities, but they have recently handled their DEI policies differently.Talia Lakritz/BI (Costco); Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images (Target)Target and Costco have responded in different ways to the changing politics around DEI.A recent survey indicates some customer foot traffic and market share has shifted from Target to Costco.Meanw…

Multiple D.C. LGBTQ+ bars pull Jack Daniel's orders over distiller's retreat from diversity & inclusion

The owner of Pitchers and A League of Her Own, two popular LGBTQ+ bars in Washington, D.C, is cutting ties with Jack Daniel's over its decision to abandon diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.Once his current stock of Jack Daniel's is gone, Dave Perruzza won't be ordering more. The gay business owner's move comes in response to Jack Daniel's parent company, Brown-Forman, withdrawing from the Human Rights Campaign's Corporate Equality Ind…

The Cost of Dropping DEI: Target and the Power of the Black Consumer

A Target store in Springfield, VA (Photo Credit: Jay Reed/Flickr). In recent months, Target has faced significant financial setbacks, with $15.7 billion erased from its market value. While various factors contribute to a company’s stock fluctuations, one decision stands out—Target’s retreat from its diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The retailer’s declining sales serve as a stark warning to corporations that underestimate the e…

Deere shareholders vote down anti-DEI proposal

The move comes months after the tractor giant rolled back its support for “social or cultural awareness events” in July.

Ex-Anheuser-Busch executive blames DEI for company’s missteps

Former Anheuser-Busch executive Anson Frericks wrote in the New York Times on Tuesday that the large-scale embrace of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at his former employer and in corporate America in general was destined for failure. "The massive corporate embrace of D.E.I. was always destined to fail, in large part because the movement was never well defined to begin with," Frericks wrote in his Times guest essay, noting tha…

AT&T ends all DEI programs, says Robby Starbuck

CV NEWS FEED // Billion-dollar corporation AT&T has scrapped all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, shifting its focus to a “skilled workforce,” journalist Robby Starbuck… The post AT&T ends all DEI programs, says Robby Starbuck appeared first on CatholicVote org.