Target has a nicer shopping experience and even if they were the same in their offerings, Target would still be better. After all, the 'low-brow' people and their "screaming unattended children" shop at Wal-Mart.

Wal-Mart is also more likely to be available in small-town USA than Target...And as we all know, from universities to the Electoral College, some parts of the USA are just more important than others. Why would people in the more important parts really want to share the same Orwellian shopping experience as those in the lesser parts? Well fortunately W-M has been a bad corporate citizen so we can just blame that for avoiding them. The fact that our own preferred retailer has done the same dirty tricks is of little importance, the unattended kids don't scream and they stock nicer linens.

So both have been caught doing largely the same things but Target is ok because it's a smaller mega-retailer?

Do I understand that right?

Suppose there was a successful boycott of Wal-Mart such that it closed down...do people honestly believe Target would sit back and not get larger?

What's especially interesting is how candid some other commentators have been, essentially propping up Target as a matter of class distinction rather than what's really at issue here: Social justice.