r/mildlyinfuriating • u/Pukestronaut • 21h ago
“Journalism”
This type of shit should get you some sort of fine or something ffs.
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u/Mrs_happy_lady 21h ago
This is so annoying 🙄 it's not a "retail blackout" it's Easter Sunday. Sad what our journalism has become.
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u/Pukestronaut 21h ago
Yep. They’re 100% implying that it’s politically motivated. Literally just a holiday. Maddening.
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u/first_go_round 17h ago
A move that panders to Christians.
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u/no_brains101 14h ago
Interestingly, so does the rage bait article making it politically motivated. (Gotta keep them feeling persecuted somehow)
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u/AnarionOfGondor 16h ago
I don't think target is pandering to Christians by shutting down on a public holiday
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u/smittles3 16h ago
Easter isn’t a national holiday. It’s a religious holiday like Passover or Yom Kippur
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u/AnarionOfGondor 16h ago
My apologies, in Australia it is a public holiday
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u/smittles3 16h ago
My apologies as well for my American assumption. Cheers
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u/TaleOfDash 16h ago
I think we all learned a valuable lesson today about easter sunday.
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u/InvoluntaryGeorgian 15h ago
In Australia, of course, it’s Easter Monday since they’re on the other side of the international date line.
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u/Smash_Shop 16h ago
That Australia has even less separation of church and state than the US.
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u/Burgundymmm 15h ago
I think really the only reason Easter isn't a public holiday is because offices already have Sundays off so not like anyone with the power to make it one really cares
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u/Tokyo_Sniper_ 16h ago
"Separation of church and state" means the church as an organization cannot interfere in government, not that individuals cannot base their personal opinions on their religious views and vote accordingly. This seems to be very commonly misunderstood on Reddit.
The majority of Australians were/are Christians, so they've voted to have a day off for a popular Christian holiday.
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u/PotatoAmulet 15h ago
Separation of church and state is good, except when it gives us a pair holiday and/or a 3 day weekend
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u/Most_Moose_2637 13h ago
Well yeah obviously. The King is the head of the state and of the Church of England.
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u/Falitoty 15h ago
Not necesarily, I would say It is probably way better than what there is in the US
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u/Flint_Vorselon 11h ago
It’s like 4 public holidays in a row in Australia.
I remember working all of them once, 4 full days at x2.5 pay was incredible.
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u/MidnightMorpher 11h ago
What? Lucky… It’s not even acknowledged here beyond the standard “Easter egg chocolates” in stores 🥲
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u/Forged-Signatures 11h ago
In the UK stores don't even call them that anymore, they've gone all secular and just call them "chocolate eggs" now.
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u/Moon_Sister_ 11h ago
I mean, Christians just copied a pagan's homework anyways. 🤷♀️
And didn't veggie tales teach you anything?
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u/Sherlock-Brezerl 10h ago
Same in Austria. The shorter and smaller version of Australia. Kangaroos and Coalas can be seen here in zoos.
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u/zaevilbunny38 13h ago
I worked the last 19 easters and wrote the schedule for the last 12. We get 40% of the labor for the week before and after. There is a rush for the first hour, and another between 1130a-1230p. After that it is dead, we use the time to stock. I then have to cut hours midweek as sales were slow for Easter. It is better to close and be fresh, then have to send people home early and piss off the rest of the staff, with having to pick up the slack.
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u/Sysheen 12h ago
I mean it should be. Christmas is just as special for non-religious folk, for similar but different reasons. Easter is a complete holiday outside of religion reasons as well. It should be a national holiday that you celebrate in whatever way you see fit. Hopefully that changes soon.
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u/ElectricalGas9730 10h ago
I'm happy celebrating the vernal equinox, but I'd prefer to not have religious trauma associated with it.
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u/Appropriate-Weird492 54m ago
Stores closing for Christian holidays piss me off to no end. You wanna be capitalist or Christofascist—pick ONE. Yet another reason to not shop there.
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u/ShartlesAndJames 15h ago
Target's PR is going to seize this and anything like it moving forward as an easy way to try and virtue signal their way out of the DEI mess without actually walking anything back.
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u/borkthegee 9h ago
"We fixed our DEI issue, liberals come back!"
What did you do?
"Pandered to conservatives by closing for Easter..."
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u/ItsCalledDayTwa 10h ago
I have to admit, I didn't even know what the issue was here because I just assumed big corporate stores like this were always open on holidays now in the US.
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u/LegitimateLoan8606 12h ago
Easter is a religious event. It isn't a government holiday. This is politically motivated to pander to religious fanatics
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u/General-MacDavis 3h ago
Dang, celebrating the FOUNDING PART of your religion in a tradition that’s lasted hundreds of years is fanaticism now?
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u/Several-Honey-8810 20h ago
And hasnt Target been closed on Easter for the last few years, after being open on Easter?
Same with Thanksgiving.
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u/AutumnTheWitch 19h ago
Target has always been closed on Easter and Christmas. They were open on thanksgiving for a few years because competition was, but they stopped that a couple years ago.
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u/kipperzdog 8h ago
I never knew they were closed on Easter, at least in Update NY, I've never really noticed it's Easter beyond seeing the merchandise in stores.
Dyngus Day (day after Easter) is a much better holiday anyways
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u/idwthis God forbid one states how they feel or what they think. 4h ago
I've never, in all my 42 years on this planet, ever heard of "Dyngus Day."
Is this an upstate New York thing? I grew up in Northern Virginia, and have lived in a couple other states over the years, but never encountered this.
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u/kipperzdog 4h ago
It's a huge celebration in Buffalo, Anderson Cooper has one of the best breakdowns of the holiday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V61VWE5P5z4
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u/Acrobatic_Country524 15h ago
This is from The Mirror. That's not journalism.
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u/Stepwolve 15h ago
This is the real problem - people see one screenshot of a shit tabloid headline - and use it to paint all of 'journalism' as inaccurate
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u/Chirimorin 12h ago
Honestly, that's because the majority of "journalism" is just clickbait now.
I'm not saying genuine journalism doesn't exist anymore, but it sure is hard to find between all the AI slop with clickbait headlines because each click is another fraction of a penny in ad revenue and that's all they seem to care about.
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u/illumantimess 15h ago
It’s the Mirror. It’s a tabloid publication. Tabloids have been running scammy misleading articles for more than a century
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u/Roflkopt3r 11h ago
Easter Sunday
On Sunday?
In Germany, retailers generally close 4 days from friday to monday over easter. Sunday is always closed, except for a couple hours around noon in a few cities.
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u/Conscious-Milk-155 12h ago
wait isnt Sunday a general day off in the US?
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u/kipperzdog 8h ago
Maybe some places but generally everything is open Sunday, just with fewer hours. If it's a business that would traditionally only be open weekdays, that may spill onto Saturday but not Sunday and then other places will choose to be open on the weekend and then take Monday/Tuesday off (mostly true of restaurants)
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u/KuTUzOvV 13h ago
Hey, target did not pay that guy like 20 bucks so he would ask chat bot to write this articule, for you to now call it out
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u/SmushinTime 13h ago
I'm so confused...is target joining a retail blackout or trying to get the black out of retail this month?
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u/Excellent-Hat5142 11h ago
Yes, they want people angry, angry people get engaged with their content.
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u/No-Rip-9573 8h ago
Rofl and here I thought I missed the news about a worker’s strike or something similar 🤣
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u/Manic-StreetCreature 3h ago
They did the same thing with Lowe’s, acting like it was some kind of insane destabilization, then you read the article and it’s “oh a bunch of stores are closing to give people the holiday off.”
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u/georgecm12 19h ago
Despite having a byline, there's a pretty good chance that this was written by AI, and just attributed to "Hannah Broughton" who may or may not even exist.
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u/Initial-Public-9289 20h ago
It's also by the same author twice.
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u/Craw__ 19h ago
By ChatGPT, ChatGPT.
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u/Basil_9 17h ago
somehow i don't think that's a mistake
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u/Traditional-Yak8886 17h ago
prob just means she wrote it and edited it tbh but I could be wrong
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u/a7ofDogs 15h ago
Could be some junior dev selecting two random author names from a list and forgetting to check for duplicates.
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u/missedopportunites 20h ago
One person’s black out is another person’s day off for a holiday
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u/drinkacid 11h ago
Limited customers, all last minute panic buys of holiday meal ingredients and bunny shaped chocolate. Time and a half for all employees. This is a low profit/high hassle day even if they were open.
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u/Nightdrifterzz 15h ago
"All public schools set to close for the coming Saturday and Sunday"
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u/Pukestronaut 15h ago
“Next up: Sun stops shining for a period of several hours. Find out more tonight.”
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u/MoosedaMuffin 17h ago
This feels AI written
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u/CJMcBanthaskull 16h ago
It says right in the by line it was a joint effort between Hannah Broughton and Hannah Broughton.
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u/watchforbicycles 20h ago
My mom saw a similar clickbait title but with Macy's and thought that they were all closing for good. She was really concerned, considering she's only ever shopped in the Toys'r'us located inside them.
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u/ropeerasers 10h ago
I'm so excited for the day when your mom discovers the possibilities of shopping at literally any store that isn't a Macy's Toys R Us. Even just the rest of Macy's is a universe of untapped potential for her!
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u/mew5175_TheSecond 6h ago
This is an article in The Mirror US...a tabloid based in the UK with reporters based in the UK... Nobody should use something written in The Mirror to categorize journalism as a whole.
The Mirror, like The Daily Mail, exist just for clickbait and entertainment. They are not serious news outlets.
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u/Unmolested_Ecclair 18h ago
The sad part is, it took you how long to figure out the article was clickbait? 30 seconds to read the first sentence? People refuse to do even that much research today. 90% are just going to share it without a second thought and before you know it, it'll be a talking point on fox and friends.
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u/Shortymac09 16h ago
Remember when most store where closed on major holidays
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u/Zealousideal-One-818 14h ago
Stores used to be closed on Sundays. Most everything was closed on Sundays.
That started to change around the mid 90s
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u/YourInMySwamp 1h ago
Target is literally always closed on Easter. They just wanted clicks on their articles so they wrote this
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u/Altruistic-Falcon552 17h ago
Got a title largest supermarket in MA closing all stores! It was for Easter but they get their money from the clicks
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u/Three_Twenty-Three 16h ago
Is this on legit media now? I've only seen it on the bottom of the barrel garbage sites, like Hindustan Times, The Sun, and The Mirror.
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u/Competitive-Bowl2696 16h ago
(It’s not on legit media, it’s from one of those sites and this dweeb is pretending he doesn’t know the difference.)
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u/Floh2802 13h ago
I have chosen to join into a communal strike, it consists of all of us taking 8 hours breaks every day while lying down at night.
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u/Dichter42 10h ago
Oh no the stores are closed for 24 hour on a holiday that also is a Sunday...
Here in Germany, almost every store is closed on EVERY Sunday. Plus for easter we also have friday and monday closed since those are also holidays here.
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u/Tobs3l 1h ago
If I ever meet some of the guys who want to cut one Holliday "for the economy" I might get over my lazy pacifism and punch them in the face. Leave my free time and worker rights alone!
The better idea would be to maybe compensate for every holiday that falls on a Sunday and get the next workday off too.
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u/Zaphod_Beeblebrox142 1h ago
Where I live that happens every sunday. Our infrastructure is just so bad that we need a retail blackout once a week.
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u/Inevitable_Channel18 16h ago
Here’s the actual article. It’s from The Mirror so it’s barely journalism
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u/Famous-Register-2814 18h ago
I wouldn’t use this to criticize journalism as much as I would use it to point out the problems with the internet and the creation of clickbait garbage “news” websites. I doubt we would see an actual news organization(AP, NPR, NYT, WSJ for example) publish something this dumb.
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u/SeasonGeneral777 15h ago
OP, did you know you can decide what websites you read? fucking crazy huh
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u/CatsTypedThis 15h ago
This isn't the first time I've seen this exact thing. It appears it is becoming a common means of getting people to click. Disgusting.
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u/VileSlay 15h ago
Saw a similar headline to this where they also added that Walmart would be able to take advantage of the blackout
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u/placidlakess 14h ago
Looks like some random website OP. You have an incredibly misleading title and you’re doing about as much Clickbait as the article that you posted. Maybe don’t be a hypocrite.
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u/wildcat_abe 14h ago
I can't tell you how many Easter Sundays I've forgotten it was Easter and tried to hit Target, only to find it was closed. I won't be trying this year, but cool for this article to act like this is a new development for Target.
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u/Restless-J-Con22 14h ago
By Hannah Broughton AND Hannah Broughton
When two Hannahs are still not enough
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u/Hamphalamph 12h ago
Some trash bag click bait rage farm 'news' site doesn't have journalists. They have Hannah Broughton, a liar who's fully aware of what they're doing for money. If I ever see that name on another article I will abandon that source forever.
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u/jancl0 12h ago
Does this count as libel? Depending on the views of target, they could theoretically not want to associate with the protests. In that instance, claiming they're participating would a demonstrably false statement that "negatively" affects the reputation of the business. Do journalists not get in trouble for this sort of thing? This isn't just misleading, it's a direct lie
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u/HumanBeing7396 8h ago
This reminds me of the Onion headline ‘Rotation of Earth plunges entire North American continent into darkness’.
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u/Atlaska826 6h ago
I literally just read this same article, and am so mad about it. I thought it was like Target trying to get back at protestors or something (which would be dumb), but no, just Easter.
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u/Tiny_Mastodon_624 6h ago
They’re getting so lazy. I live in San Antonio and one of the headlines was “Mass Layoffs at Health System”.
They didn’t renew a contract with a physician services group that brought 26 physicians…
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u/Osiris_Raphious 5h ago
Latestage capitalism where workers are serf class, companies work 24/7 and consumer slaves deserve no breaks or holidays...
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u/luniz420 2h ago
why is this "infuriating" when you've gone out of your way to find it? Karens like you are the only infuriating part.
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u/TheRealFedorka 2h ago
"You clicked the clickbait. Now let us provide you with a history of Target before getting to the topic at hand."
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u/Shiel009 1h ago
Any one of else think that some red hatters will protest the wokeness of target on this day
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u/Randompersonomreddit 1h ago
I was also pissed at this click bait ass title. I guess "All Targets to close for Easter As Usual" wouldn't get them any clicks.
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u/Ray797979 16h ago
This entire "article" seems like it was written by an AI with no human approval.
It makes it sound like Easter is some new, obscure, unknown event and goes on to explain what it is.
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u/Competitive-Bowl2696 16h ago
It’s interesting that you cut off the name of the outlet.
It’s the Daily Express, a right-wing UK tabloid known for many things, and journalism wouldn’t crack the 25 on that list of things.
So it’s more than mildly infuriating that you did that knowing that it would lessen your argument.
On the other hand if you can’t tell the difference between that outlet and actual journalists doing real journalism, well, that’s not infuriating, that’s just sad.
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u/Pukestronaut 16h ago
Just because they’re known for it doesn’t make it any less shitty.
I cut out the outlet because if i didn’t want them getting clicks from my post.
Being able to tell the difference between bait content and not ALSO doesn’t make it any less mildly infuriating.
Not sure why instead of coming together and agreeing that this is infuriating, you decided that you’d rather be rude to a person. Says a bit about you I guess.
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u/Competitive-Bowl2696 16h ago
My point was that you’re wilfully misconstruing the difference between this outlet and journalism.
And it turns out yeah, you honestly don’t know the difference.
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u/Pukestronaut 16h ago
How am I “misconstruing the difference” between this outlet and journalism when my post calls it out for not being journalism?
My post is: “look at this bs post under the guise of journalism” and you’re coming at me with “hurrr you can’t tell the difference between this and journalism?”
Ffs.
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u/Competitive-Bowl2696 15h ago
Maybe you’re talking about a post you intended to make, but it’s not this one.
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u/Weird_Abrocoma7835 17h ago
Tbf, the stores in my town don’t close for Easter, and I think it sends a cringe precedence for forcing people to work. I think stores should close on holidays-even if people don’t celebrate having a day off is nice.
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u/Acrobatic-Warning901 13h ago
Makes me wonder if articles like these are conditioning us to the imminent reality of a market depression and actual retail blackouts.
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u/Malicious_Chaos 12h ago
That's fine right? Life just doesn't happen on holidays. Just like trash, don't ya know? Trash doesn't happen on holidays OR Sundays even! It just doesn't exist so the trash trucks don't have to run those days. So many people live with such an overwhelming amount of ignorance.
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u/climat_control 14h ago
Name the outlet. One outlets poor reporting is not all. Each one has different standards and calling all by the actions of one shields the offending parties.
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u/Human_Bean_4000 14h ago
They did the same thing for Costco. Got an article saying they were closing all Costcos in MN and took a peak, totally forgot about Easter tbh.
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u/CupcakeThick8341 10h ago
During covid there was a quite strong "no-vax" movement in my country after the vaccine was made mandatory to go out. One day a newspaper had the title "man dies few minutes after vaccine"
He was hit by a bus while walking back to the car after getting the shot.
This, of course, was written only in the full article
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u/nirvingau 9h ago
That used to be every Sunday in the UK when I grew up. Local shops closed at 1pm on a Saturday too.
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u/AE_Phoenix 9h ago
Onto our next story, in Japan the sun will rise tomorrow on the Eastern horizon.
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u/Dee-V-Dee 9h ago
Scientists predict the sun will disappear from our sky later this evening. When and will it come back?
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u/Kissable_baby 9h ago
Honestly feels like the journalistic version of yelling "fire!" in a theater just to sell popcorn
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u/djcueballspins1 7h ago
What kind of ethics does the person who wrote and edited this have to have? What depravity .
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u/Sea-Appearance-5330 7h ago
So they are closed like normal or always for The Easter holiday?
Wow, what a surprise!
I never expected this!
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u/Finance-Low 4h ago
Isn't everything pretty much closed on Easter? Why are people trying to make this like its some big deal? Am I missing something?
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u/mr_pou 21h ago
Clickbait at its finest