Did you catch the Target update on the 5 o’clock news on Channel 2?  Briefly summarized last week’s story (hello, Rachel!) and presented the news that Target had emailed new directions for all cashiers and employees regarding coupon usage.  The section of that email that required all Target cashiers to ask each and every customer if they had coupons was apparently lost, since each and every customer exiting the store, when queried by CBS’s Dorothy Tucker, replied that they hadn’t been asked.

A breaking Trib story quotes Jill Cataldo, “coupon expert,” as having posted the Target email and policy change today, along with other unnamed sites.  I find this puzzling, since Jill was not mentioned in either the original Channel 2 broadcast nor in this follow-up today, and in point of fact, a slew of other sites (including this one) had posted the email days earlier.  Oh, well, chalk it up to disappointment that I do not yet have 40,000 believers chanting my name.

And the picture?  Obviously, one of Target’s corporate attorneys…