Customers in the San Jose store, many of whom were with their children, stopped in their tracks when profanity-filled, pornographic audio blared out of speakers, with shopper Gina Young putting a recording of it on Facebook (Warning: contains offensive sounds and language).
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Judging by her son’s reactions, they weren’t too thrilled about the XXX exposure, either.
“People were up in arms”. Others were yelling at employees.
Shoppers heard a woman moaning, breathing heavily and talking dirty over the loudspeaker at the Target in Campbell, Calif., about 10:30 a.m.
Witnesses posted to social media that the incident lasted about 15 minutes until someone was finally able to get it off the PA system.
“Employees were running around everywhere”, she says in the video’s description. It has already been viewed more than 50,000 times. The tactic worked for a couple of minutes, but then the porn started playing again.
“It was terribly awkward”, she wrote. Her twin boys, Wyatt and Weston, rode in the cart as one of the little scamps sized up a box of delicious, microwaveable pizza poppers.
A Target spokesperson said that the retail giant is conducting an ongoing investigation into how or why graphic, screaching sounds of lovemaking were broadcast to hundreds of shoppers.
Target said it is investigating the incident, but officials “want our guests to know that we take this very seriously”.
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Target issued a statement saying: “We are actively reviewing the situation with the team to better understand what happened and to help ensure this doesn’t happen again”.
