Your Player Injured? Fanatics May Give Your Money Back
The division of online athletic gear retailer Fanatics Inc. introduced the offer Monday in ads featuring gymnast Livvy Dunne. The company has also extended the refund to other sports, with terms that vary. Fanatics first introduced its Fair Play Insurance last September, although it was only good for injuries in the first quarter of a game.
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Ex-NFL fullback earns UFC contract, rips 'liberal, snowflake' league
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Target's in a brand identity crisis. It's not alone.
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Taking his place to steer the brand out of its malaise is … Cornell's right-hand man. The brand we petite bourgeoisie once playfully referred to as Tar-zhay has lost its spark. The company reported a decline in sales for a third straight quarter, part of a broader trend of falling or flat sales for two years. Employees have lost confidence in the company's direction. And 2025 has been a particularly rough financially, as Black shoppers organized a boycott over Target's decision to cave to right-wing pressure on diverse hiring goals. Shares fell 10% in early trading. It's not to say the new guy, Michael Fiddelke, is unqualified. He's been at Target since he started as an intern more than 20 years ago, after all. But Wall Street is clearly concerned that Target's leadership is underestimating the severity of the need for a significant change— just as President Trump's tariffs on imported goods threaten the entire retail industry. 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Target over-ordered and wound up with a glut of unsold inventory, just as generationally high inflation was making things more expensive. As Covid subsided, consumer spending shifted to experiences. Taylor Swift was on tour and everyone wanted to take a vacation or make up for the bachelorette weekends we'd missed during lockdown. Meanwhile, Target and other retailers began locking up products behind Plexiglass, claiming a scourge of shoplifting was to blame for disappointing profits — a cry that didn't always hold up to scrutiny. Locking up necessities has backfired in almost every way, annoying customers and burdening employees, yet Cornell stood by the decision and claimed on an earnings call that customers were actually grateful for the inconvenience. Cornell's misplaced optimism about locking up shampoo was an early indication Target's management might have lost touch with its customers' lived experience. 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McDonald's and Pizza Hut are both trying to win customers back as they balk at $18 combo meals (in McD's case) and seek out better deals from rivals (in the Hut's case). Southwest Airlines is practically unrecognizable today as it ditches all the things — like open seating and zero baggage or change fees — that made it distinct from rivals. Another brand in crisis is MSNBC. The news channel said this week it is rebranding itself as MS NOW, or My Source News Opinion World, for reasons beyond grammatical understanding. Target doesn't seem to know whether it can revive its Tar-zhay magic or whether it morphs into something else. 'It's unclear what they represent,' wrote Jamie Meyers, senior analyst at Laffer Tengler Investments, in a note Wednesday. 'They're not an office retailer, a low-budget chain, a dollar store or a direct competitor to Walmart or Amazon.'
