Target as Bad as Wal-Mart? You Decide

By Kari Lydersen, CorpWatch. Posted May 1, 2006.

Target may look more upscale -- but when it comes to wages, working conditions, sweatshop-like suppliers, and effects on communities, the two big boxes are eerily similar.

Shopping in a Target store, you know you're not in Wal-Mart. But the differences may be mostly skin deep.

Targets are spaciously laid out and full of attractive displays and promotions. While many people associate Wal-Mart with low-income, rural communities perhaps dominated by a prison or power plant, life-size photos throughout Target stores remind you that their customers are a lively, beautiful cast of multi-cultural hipsters.