Post here business you have/are boycotting...

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LynneSin  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-02-10 09:35 AM
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Post here business you have/are boycotting...
 I have not bought Pizza from Pizza Hut since December 1992 - that's when they hired Rush Limbaugh as a spokesperson.

I probably haven't bought Domino's pizza for that long of a time too - since I found out the owner was a religious zealot.

Mind you, if someone happens to have bought pizza from those places (without any money coming from me) AND there is nothing else to eat I may have a slice, but in general I have hardly had any since I started boycotting.

I also won't shop at Whole Fields (Owner is a nut job) and Chik-a-Filet (religious nutjob). And I stopped feeding my cats Nutro Cat food when I found out how much money the CEO of the company had donated to George Bush (a shitload).

What companies do you boycott?

Lemme guess.....

PassingFair  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-02-10 09:41 AM
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2. Whole Foods; Forever 21; Nike; Walmart
 Whole Foods because the owner is a douche.

Forever 21 because they print bible verses
on their bags and because they sell cheap
junk imported from 3rd world nations.

Nike for constant violations of human rights
and child labor restrictions the world over.

Walmart because Walmart sucks.

Didn't know that about Forever 21, but I have never been in one of their stores.

cbdo2007 (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-02-10 09:46 AM
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4. I don't really boycott businesses.
 Sure I won't go back to a restaurant or somewhere if I have a bad experience there but there aren't any places that I boycott for any specific political reason.

It's a free country and I don't really care what people do with their own money. I am happy for people to have different opinions than mine as that's what our country was founded on.

I understand you wanting to make a statement but every day you unknowingly support people who spend their money on horrible, hateful, racist, sexist, stuff so signaling out a few for that reason just seems ridiculous.

hmmmm....

Aristus  (1000+ posts)        Tue Mar-02-10 09:58 AM
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8. I just recently vowed never to shop at or purchase Starbuck's products again.
 They refuse to ban gun-packing nut-jobs from their stores in the "shall issue" states. Washington is not one of those states, but why reward such a policy? Until they kick out the gun-crazies, I'm buying another brand of coffee. There are plenty of independent coffee businesses in this state.

What kind of shithead needs a gun to buy a cup of coffee? 

That is cool. 

MiddleFingerMom  (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-02-10 10:09 AM
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10. "Personal" boycotts aren't anywhere near as effective...
 .
... as highly organized boycotts (although I have a few of my
own), but organized boycotts can have HUGE positive effects --
some serious human and civil rights gains because of them (or
the fear of them). With them, bad conditions may still remain
bad... but without them, those bad conditions would almost
certainly deteriorate even further.
.
Conservatives tend to belittle them (because they can be
effective when well-conducted), although they do their best
NOW to use boycotts of their own against Left-leaning businesses
(while confirming the substance of their integrity by continuing
to belittle them).
.
I don't go to Chik-Fil-A because of the fore-mentioned religious
nutjob reason, but I DO have to give him credit -- it probably
costs him a FORTUNE to shut down on the Sabbath -- someone
actually following his convictions at the expense of his
personal finances (seems to be a rare lack of hypocrisy from
someone on the Right).

I bet that hurt.

Iggo  (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-02-10 10:09 AM
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11. Steve Miller.
 I know. He's not a company. But I've been boycotting him since the 80's.

That ain't right man.

I have given a little more money than I used to at Whole Foods now, because I LIKE the CEO.  Not much, just a little. 

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[JohnnyReb]

We need more missionaries to convert business owners....The DUmmies aren't starving fast enough.

[Mike220]

Losers.

[Ralph Wiggum]

MiddleFingerMom  (1000+ posts)      Tue Mar-02-10 10:09 AM
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10. "Personal" boycotts aren't anywhere near as effective...
 .
... as highly organized boycotts

And how are those highly organized boycotts working out for you DUmmies?  Is Wal-Mart out of business?  Nike?  Fox News?

[Karin]

My personal boycotts:

MSNBC, Time, Newsweak, NYT, & others of course.
Adidas, for putting a hammer & sickle on a cap shortly after the election. 
Che tshirts and anybody who sells them.
Charmin toilet paper for their gross ads with the bears, the lastest slogan being "Enjoy your go."  WTF?
Lite beer and fake dairy products.

I reserve the right to add to this list.  Power to the people, Man!!

[USA4ME]

My personal boycotts:

MSNBC, Time, Newsweak, NYT, & others of course.

And just look, the print media and the Big 3 network news are suffering.  Conservative boycotts work, lib boycotts don't.  I mean, who's going to miss their $1.37 per month?

Of course, primitives never fully follow through on their boycotts.  If you going to boycott Pizza Hut, you need to also boycott any of their suppliers, like Pepsico, and whoever sells them their cheese, meat, veggies, breads, the supplier from who they purchase their napkins and silverware, light fixtures, tables, etc..., and then any businesses to whom those suppliers also sell.  But like all things, the primitives are too lazy to find out these things, so they symbolically boycott to make themselves "feel" good.

.

[Duchess]

And how are those highly organized boycotts working out for you DUmmies?  Is Wal-Mart out of business?  Nike?  Fox News?

Well the NAACP's threat to boycott Mississippi over our flag vote was sure effective! LOL!

[AllosaursRus]

The US Gubmint!!!

[Airwolf]

Toshiba is about the only company I boycott and that's because their company in Japan sold the Russians the tech needed to make their Nuke Subs more quiet and harder for us to detect during the heyday of the Cold War.

[AllosaursRus]

Toshiba is about the only company I boycott and that's because their company in Japan sold the Russians the tech needed to make their Nuke Subs more quiet and harder for us to detect during the heyday of the Cold War.

Wasn't it some traitor that let Japan have it in the first place? Or did they come up with the tech? I thought most of it was propeller engineering.

[The Village Idiot]

I am boycotting democrat underground, LLC. I will not give that evil corporation one penny!! 

[The Village Idiot]

Hey Passing Fairy

Nike for constant violations of human rights
and child labor restrictions the world over.

ever heard of Apple??

[DumbAss Tanker]

Reads like a 'Who's Who' of successful businesses.  Coincidence?  I don't think so - a clear inverse relationship between DU-endorsed patronage and business success.

 

[Karin]

I got a kick out of this, too. 

Mind you, if someone happens to have bought pizza from those places (without any money coming from me) AND there is nothing else to eat I may have a slice,

What a freeloader, and can't even stick to her principles if it means not feeding her piehole with free chow. 

Thanks for the Toshiba tip, I have never owned anything by them, so shoulder-to-shoulder! 

[thundley4]

I got a kick out of this, too. 

What a freeloader, and can't even stick to her principles if it means not feeding her piehole with free chow. 

Thanks for the Toshiba tip, I have never owned anything by them, so shoulder-to-shoulder! 

I think Toshiba still has a plant or two in Texas that makes electric motors.

[AllosaursRus]

Hey, SinninLynn:

Heh!

[The Village Idiot]

I think Toshiba still has a plant or two in Texas that makes electric motors.

Its too late for me not to buy this Toshiba laptop. heh

[AllosaursRus]

Its too late for me not to buy this Toshiba laptop. heh

Uh oh, you're gonna get a spankin'!

[Lord Undies]

Is there a difference between "boycott" and "no use for"?

[Karin]

Technically, yes.  I was just using the excuse to exercise some righteous indignation.  My Adidas boycott is pure, however.  I could use their stuff, but will not.  I brook no hammer and sickle. 

[Airwolf]

Its too late for me not to buy this Toshiba laptop. heh

I wouldn't expect everyone to know or to remember what Toshiba did. Selling the tech needed to improve the Russian Nuclear Subs propellers only made it into the papers for about a day or two and as far as i know it was barely mentioned at all on TV.

[AllosaursRus]

I wouldn't expect everyone to know or to remember what Toshiba did. Selling the tech needed to improve the Russian Nuclear Subs propellers only made it into the papers for about a day or two and as far as i know it was barely mentioned at all on TV.

I KNEW it had to do with the props! Didn't recall it being Toshiba though. I've never bought any of their stuff anyway. I'm strictly a build your own from scratch kinda guy. Generic clones work just as well as the high end stuff. Been doin' it since '93.

[AprilRazz]

I make a conscious decision to not buy from certain companies. Not trying to make a statement just not wanting to give my hard earned dollars to someone who is going to give it away to people that want to spend it on causes that I do not agree with. Most of the time there are other products that are comparable if not better.
Ben and Jerry's
Heinz
Burt's Bees
and a few more.
I also do not donate to the United Way because of the fact that peta and the humane society of the US is on their CFC list. That and if I am going to give someone money then I want it all to go to them.

[AllosaursRus]

I make a conscious decision to not buy from certain companies. Not trying to make a statement just not wanting to give my hard earned dollars to someone who is going to give it away to people that want to spend it on causes that I do not agree with. Most of the time there are other products that are comparable if not better.
Ben and Jerry's
Heinz
Burt's Bees
and a few more.
I also do not donate to the United Way because of the fact that peta and the humane society of the US is on their CFC list. That and if I am going to give someone money then I want it all to go to them.

I find it hard to lump the Humane Society into that mess as most are strictly locally owned and operated. They get funds from the central group, but rarely agree with the lefty politics. At least in my neck 'o the woods.

[AprilRazz]

I find it hard to lump the Humane Society into that mess as most are strictly locally owned and operated. They get funds from the central group, but rarely agree with the lefty politics. At least in my neck 'o the woods.

A good guess would be that the local ones would be associated with the ASPCA.  Some use the term humane society but are not connected at all. As a matter of fact the one by where I grew up goes out of their way to say that they are not a part of or connected in any way to HSUS. HSUS is an anti-hunting/animal rights organization. They rescue as many animals as peta does.