To the editor: As members of the Dayton household, we’re shocked and dismayed by Goal’s rollback of its Racial Equity Action and Change and Supplier Diversity programs.
When our father and his 4 brothers reworked a household division retailer into the nationwide retailer it’s at the moment, their work was primarily based on a transparent set of ideas. They had been excellence, a “buyer is all the time proper” mantra and a dedication to the well-being of their neighborhood.
Not solely did they consider these to be excessive moral requirements, additionally they acknowledged them as sturdy enterprise practices. The higher the service, the happier the shopper and the stronger the neighborhood, the higher the enterprise.
We’re alarmed how shortly the enterprise neighborhood has given in to the present administration’s retaliatory threats. It isn’t “unlawful” for a corporation to create a enterprise mannequin primarily based on what it believes to be necessary moral and enterprise requirements.
By cowering, Goal and others are undermining the very ideas which have made their corporations successful.
Anne S. Dayton, New York
Lucy B. Dayton, Helena, Mont.
