Target Prints Onesie With Minnesota Badgers [PHOTO]

When I was in the eighth grade back in about 1975 or 1976, a friend of mine (preacher’s son) and I were caught shoplifting lighters by store security at the Target store in Fridley, Minnesota, which at the time was only the second store in what would become a gigantic nationwide chain. It was his idea, of course, but I went along and have always regretted my incredibly foolish lapse in judgement that day. I never again did such a thing. But while I feel bad about my youthful moral failing, one good thing came of it…a funny story.
The store manager had us in his office and threatened to call police but first made us call our parents. My friend’s mom came to the store and the manager decided not to have charges pressed for our 79-cent thefts. Our “severe” penalty was a lifetime ban from that Target store. We were never to set foot inside those doors. But, just two years later, I was hired by the very same manager and began working my first official payroll job at the very same Target.

Now I see this story today about the Target chain printing thousands of infant “onesies” in Minnesota Gophers colors and lettering but the front of the clothing reads, “Minnesota Badgers.” Apparently nobody at Target noticed until the items were already on store shelves.
I guess Target’s quality control and record keeping hasn’t improved much since the crime-ridden days of my youth in Minneapolis!

[Minneapolis Star Tribune] [Twitter: Gopher Hole]