Target is Dead to Me
Target has good marketing, affordable home goods and some cute Isaac Mizrahi clothes. They also have asshats in charge of decision making. How else to explain their continued support of a Target pharmacist who denied emergency contraception to a person who presented a prescription for it in 2005?
I stopped buying all Target merchandise after this became public. I urged friends, roommates, just about anyone, to stop buying from Target. I signed petitions. You know what Target's PR response was to complaints about this? We respect the rights of our employees. Oh yeah? The right NOT to do their job?
As a pharmacist your job is to fill prescriptions. Precluding health concerns (adverse effects, addiction) you have no right to not fill a prescription. Period.
Now I hear they claim that the 2005 prescription wasn't refused, but that's a newer story, and their stance still remains that their pharmacists have the right to refuse and refer patients to other pharmacies. I wonder if they ever refuse and refer script for Viagra or Oxycotin?
Planned Parenthood has been battering Target for years, trying to get them to back down. Even if they do, I will never shop there again. The damn clothes aren't that cute.