Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004 | 9:13 a.m.
The Salvation Army may lose as much as $9 million in contributions in the U.S. this holiday season after Target Corp. told the 139-year-old charity it could no longer set up its red collection kettles outside stores.
That's about 10 percent of the $93 million in U.S. kettle donations received last Christmas, said Major George Hood, the Salvation Army's national community relations secretary, in an interview from the charity's U.S. headquarters in Alexandria, Va.
Target policy prohibits groups from soliciting shoppers outside its 1,313 stores, though it had made an exception for the Salvation Army, Hood said. Minneapolis-based Target said in September the Salvation Army could no longer use its stores.
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