Marketing

The purveyors of the Red Card are working blue:

Shoppers at a Target store in San Jose stopped in their tracks Wednesday morning when a sexually explicit recording began blaring over the store’s public address system.

Chris Minor, who was shopping at the Westgate Mall store, said the material was X-rated and had profanities. Minor recorded the incident, along with the reactions of fellow shoppers, on his cell phone. Customers, which included mothers with babies, were stunned.

On the other hand, this might work out for Target -- they could save a boatload on new construction if they start slapping up old quonset huts on the highway instead of big boxes. And they could probably get a two-drink minimum out of their in-store snack bars. Yeah, this could work....