Target's "guests"

[paul johnson]

and Wal Marts associates
and Human Resources for Personnel
and
and
and we euphemism ourselves into a two tier society.  Of course these
aren't euphemisms, these are manipulations

On 1/10/2014 11:11 PM, Wilson Gray wrote:
> Have you shopped at your local Ford store, lately?
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> On Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Neal Whitman <nwhitman at ameritech.net>wrote:
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>> I remember my dad having a problem with this sense of "guest" since at
>> least as far back as our family trip to Disney World (1989). He didn't
>> like being called a guest when he was having to pay a lot of money for
>> us to get in there. Guests should get in free.
>>
>> Neal
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>> On 1/10/2014 10:24 PM, Joel S. Berson wrote:
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>>> Target's Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer Gregg W.
>>> Steinhafel continues to refer to those at risk due to its failure to
>>> keep their personal information secure as "guests".*  But I wonder --
>>> does that let Target claim it does not have a contractual
>>> responsibility to its (house-?) guests that a less with-it company
>>> might have to its customers?
>>>
>>> * This apparently is their standard nomenclature.  I never
>>> knew.  Because I've never shopped at Target.  And I don't listen to
>>> their commercials.  I guess I'm not at risk.
>>>
>>> Joel
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