Target has sacked a long-time employee and several others across the US for purchasing special-edition Stanley cups, citing a policy against workers using their position to gain an unfair advantage when buying merchandise. Catherine Carter, who has worked for the American retail giant for 19 years at one of its stores near Miami, Florida, USA, revealed that she had “never been written up, never called out, [and] never been late.”
However, her squeaky clean almost two decades of work came to a brutal ending on January 3 when she stopped by her store’s Starbucks café while on break, where she said a barista asked her if she wanted to buy one of the exclusive Starbucks X Stanley mugs.
