{"id":463524,"date":"2010-03-23T13:12:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10003612"},"modified":"2010-03-23T13:15:46","modified_gmt":"2010-03-23T17:15:46","slug":"target-ignores-its-own-ban-lets-petitioners-annoy-shoppers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/463524","title":{"rendered":"Target Ignores Its Own Ban, Lets Petitioners Annoy Shoppers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/032310-004-target-petitioners-1-thumb-300x200-38483.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/032310-004-target-petitioners-2-thumb-480x360-38482.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Target has a ban on any sort of petitioning or fund-raising activities in front of its stores, <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.target.com\/site\/en\/corporate\/page.jsp?contentId=PRD03-001336\">even in California<\/a>, but G says that yesterday he went to the Target in Vallejo, CA and ran into a group of petitioners at the entrance (see photos). <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>I went shopping at the local Target in Vallejo, CA and found petitioners soliciting my signature for bringing big industry back or something or other. They segued the petition by asking me if I was a registered California voter and by my answer of yes, I was hit by a barrage of two different petitions to sign in addition to the big industry petition.<\/p>\n<p>I mean, I&#8217;m all for grass roots movements and getting out the vote, but I kind of get annoyed and just want to do some shopping. I mean, at first I was peeved Target woud not allow Salvation Army bell ringers and the Girl Scouts in front of their stores but found it quite the hidden blessing when they did not allow petitioners.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>G says he tried to speak to the manager to ask why this group was being allowed to petition shoppers, but he was told the manager was unavailable. <\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"032310-004-target-petitioners-2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2010\/03\/23\/032310-004-target-petitioners-2.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" class=\"mt-image-none\" style=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Target has a ban on any sort of petitioning or fund-raising activities in front of its stores, even in California, but G says that yesterday he went to the Target in Vallejo, CA and ran into a group of petitioners at the entrance (see photos). I went shopping at the local Target in Vallejo, CA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=463524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463524\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}