Do DUmmies have anywhere to shop?

[dandi]

Not that a welfare check goes very far these days, but...sheesh.

AmericaIsGreat (389 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 05:24 PM
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Just gave up Chik-Fil-A forever
   
Should have done it a while ago. I always knew the owner was a right-wing, religious-zealot asshole but after hearing about the company giving money to organizations like Family Research Council (and then hearing him basically try to lie about it) there is no way I'm going to continue buying their food, as awesome as it is.

Really gonna miss that spicy chicken sandwich

First time I've taken a stance like this and hope to do more of it. Anyone else done some permanent boycotts?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1211104

Well I knew Chik-Fil-A was run by Christians, so it's pretty much a given it would be like sunlight on a vampire to them. But then they start ticking off their list of other companies:

gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 05:26 PM
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1. Wal-Mart for the standard reasons
   
But I also personally boycott K-Mart because of the lousy way they treated me back in 1977.

truebrit71 Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 05:33 PM
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5. Dead Lobster & Olive Garden, Wal-Mart,
   
..I won't eat Idaho potatoes either...

Elwood P Dowd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 05:43 PM
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10. Add Dell to the list.
   
Michael Dell has given tons of money to the right wing loons.

Zen Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 05:54 PM
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18. I don't eat Chik-Fil-A or Olive Garden ... and I check paper products
   
to make sure I'm not buying ANYTHING made by the evil Georgia-Pacific.

As far as Red Lobster, I ate there once about 20 years ago, and that was one time too many. Nasty stuff.

-..__... (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 06:17 PM
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26. Smith and Wesson at one time (but, not any longer).
   
After they entered into an an agreement with HUD back in 2000...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson#Agreement...

Fortunately... the boycott was a great success, and even though the agreement is still technically binding, it hasn't been adhered to in ages.

Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 06:28 PM
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28. Johnsonville brats and Sargento cheese.
   
Haven't bought any since the WI situation started and I wrote both to tell them (not that they care).

bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 09:47 PM
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63. I did the same. Gave up Johnsonville Italian sausage. Also, Perri is from
   
Edited on Wed Jun-01-11 09:48 PM by bluestate10
Wisconsin. Gave up Perri products too until I can figure out whether I can use their Italian sausage.

eilen Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 06:40 PM
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29. Dominoes Pizza
   
Owner is a RW Fundie Catholic tool. Plus, their pizza sucks ass.

dixiegrrrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 06:47 PM
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34. Cracker Barrel restaurants...infamous for being anti-gay, firing gays,
   
refusing to hire gays.
There was a rather successful boycott of them on the Gulf Coast back in early 90's for that reason.

Georgia Pacific products=Koch brothers. Problem is, Georgia Pacific hires a lOT of people in our area,
for the local mills, but has also been buying up a LOT of local mills which had to close because of the economy, so GP got them at fire sale prices, made everyone take early retirement, then hired other people at much lower wages and benefits.
Booooooooooooo....

sendero (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 06:53 PM
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41. Exxon/Mobil.
   
... (never forgave them for evading responsibility for Valdez) Dominos (ketchup on a cracker though I hear their pizza has improved the dipshit owner has not), Shell (treated like crap at their stations multiple times, won't buy anything there any more).

I used to thing Lowe's was better than Home Depot (and I spent literally thousands there last year) but at a bar recently saw a big old Lowe's logo behind the talking head-cases on Fox so now I'm torn.

Already mostly boycott Chick-Fil-A, have eaten there about twice in the last decade.

UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 07:15 PM
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43. squal-mart since 2000 - toys-r-china since 1999
   
shell gas since 1984 - exxon - bp - marriott hotel - oreck - applebees - anyone who ever advertised on limpbag's program - charles schwab since we found out that they were big bush backers - UMB - Bank of America - Wells Fargo .... the list has grown exponentially over the years, but now it's rather fun to just add another to it

welcome to boycotting!

we vote with our dollars

Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 08:59 PM
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53. Yes: Walmart, fast food, eating mammals (or just about any animal products
   
unless I'm traveling), products with HFCS in it, and BP stations.

HeiressofBickworth (9 posts) Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 09:21 PM
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55. Dow Chemical
   
During the Vietnam War, when I learned that Dow Chemical was responsible for napalm, I vowed never to purchase their products. I've kept that vow to the best of my ability (given that they may have subsidiary companies I don't know about). And that's been a long time!

CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 09:41 PM
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61. I boycott Nestle, as much as possible. It's harder now...   Updated at 6:32 PM
   
They've bought up so damn many companies.

But they are so evil it's breathtaking...

My original gripe (and apparently it's still going on, damn them) is over their practice of sending women dressed as nurses into hospitals to pitch how great their formula is for newborns. It's expensive and of course nowhere near as good as mother's milk. By the time the new moms figure out how awful and expensive it is, their own milk has dried up. So the moms dilute the stuff so they can afford it.

Wretched behavior on Nestle's part. Plus they do whatever they can to buy up various water sources, including lying to the voters and etc.

Scummy bastards, and they are buying up companies all the time.

Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 09:44 PM
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62. Hot Pockets.
   
The sponsored Rush Limbaugh in the early days for a long time there. I didn't want to support THAT.

Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 11:29 PM
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66. I haven't had a drop of Starbuck's coffee in years.
   
When they refused to support a ban on 'concealed-carry' in their stores, I gave them up for good. What the hell good is all their reputed charity work and Third-World benefit donations if some bad-tempered asshole can just unlimber his piece and pop off on a bunch of other customers if he feels the line is moving too slowly?

I started going to a locally-owned & run coffee shop where the coffee is just as good, if not better, the barista on duty during the time I usually show up in the morning is much hotter, and the money stays in the neighborhood and supports a small business.

No wonder they spend so much time in convenience stores, they must do all their shopping there - groceries, furniture, clothes, hardware, you name it.



 
 

[diesel driver]

UpInArms Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 07:15 PM
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43. squal-mart since 2000 - toys-r-china since 1999
   
shell gas since 1984 - exxon - bp - marriott hotel - oreck - applebees - anyone who ever advertised on limpbag's program - charles schwab since we found out that they were big bush backers - UMB - Bank of America - Wells Fargo .... the list has grown exponentially over the years, but now it's rather fun to just add another to it

welcome to boycotting!

we vote with our dollars

Doesn't he mean, "we vote with our DOLLAR."

Man , their boycotts sure are "puttin' a hurtin' " on all those "evil" corporations.   

[LC EFA]

Do we really care if they have anywhere to shop  ?

If it were up to the DU we'd all be shopping at the local government ration store with our government supplied ration books.

Sorry comrade but there is no flour or oil this week. Better luck next time comrade.

If they were to starve to death because they can't "ethically" shop anywhere that just means one less moocher voting in one more looter. No great loss.

[docstew]

Do we really care if they have anywhere to shop  ?

If it were up to the DU we'd all be shopping at the local government ration store with our government supplied ration books.

Sorry comrade but there is no flour or oil this week. Better luck next time comrade.

If they were to starve to death because they can't "ethically" shop anywhere that just means one less moocher voting in one more looter. No great loss.

H5

[JohnnyReb]

Doesn't he mean, "we vote with your DOLLAR."

You dropped a letter....FIFY

[Karin]

I love these lists.  They lay it out and make it so convenient for me.  I buycott everything they boycott. 

Over the weekend we had some cookouts.  Johnsonville brats, cheeseburgers w/ Sargento, fine products from the good people at Miller Coors, mopped up with Koch Brothers brand paper products.  I don't know what that guy's beef with Idaho potatoes was, but we that those, too. 

[Ralph Wiggum]

I love these lists.  They lay it out and make it so convenient for me.  I buycott everything they boycott. 

Over the weekend we had some cookouts.  Johnsonville brats, cheeseburgers w/ Sargento, fine products from the good people at Miller Coors, mopped up with Koch Brothers brand paper products.  I don't know what that guy's beef with Idaho potatoes was, but we that those, too. 

Buycott... 

Like that one, Karin!

[Rebel]

If they were to starve to death because they can't "ethically" shop anywhere that just means one less moocher voting in one more looter. No great loss.

Sounds almost like you follow Neal Boortz. 

He always says there are three types of people, the moochers, the looters, and the producers.

[DLR Pyro]

Well I knew Chik-Fil-A was run by Christians, so it's pretty much a given it would be like sunlight on a vampire to them. But then they start ticking off their list of other companies:
 
 

I once worked with a flaming ghey who refused to eat at In-N-Out Burger because the company puts Bible citations on the bottoms of their soda cups and burger wrappers.  His loss.

[SSG Snuggle Bunny]

I once worked with a flaming ghey who refused to eat at In-N-Out Burger because the company puts Bible citations on the bottoms of their soda cups and burger wrappers.  His loss.

I queer that won't put In & Out meat in his mouth?

Who knew?

[BattleHymn]

26. Smith and Wesson at one time (but, not any longer).
   
After they entered into an an agreement with HUD back in 2000...

http://en.wikipedia.org/w...mith_%26_Wesson#Agreement...

I went to this link, and all I saw were pictures of Glocks.    

/DUmp mode

[GOBUCKS]

 

26. Smith and Wesson at one time (but, not any longer).
   
After they entered into an an agreement with HUD back in 2000...

That's the only boycott I've ever heard of that worked. When S&W got in bed with the Clinton commies, endorsing a host of gun control regulations, the NRA and gun owners literally destroyed the company. The boycott ended with S&W going out of business, sold to another outfit at a fire sale price. The new owners immediately told the Clintons to go to hell, and the boycott was over. Not much like the DUmbass's not-one-damn-dime day.

[Karin]

What a stunningly dumb business decision!  Knowing how passionate their customer base is about guns....who the hell in their right mind would do that? 

[FiddyBeowulf]

That's the only boycott I've ever heard of that worked. When S&W got in bed with the Clinton commies, endorsing a host of gun control regulations, the NRA and gun owners literally destroyed the company. The boycott ended with S&W going out of business, sold to another outfit at a fire sale price. The new owners immediately told the Clintons to go to hell, and the boycott was over. Not much like the DUmbass's not-one-damn-dime day.

I am still bitter at Ruger for his/their support of the 10+ mag ban. 

[DumbAss Tanker]

What a stunningly dumb business decision!  Knowing how passionate their customer base is about guns....who the hell in their right mind would do that? 

They were trying to give Clinton a blow-job, stab the competition in the back, and stay alive on just the law enforcement market while the Dems killed the rest of the U.S. gun industry.  It was a piss-poor idea all around, especially once Billy Jeff lost the ability to control the legislative agenda in Congress just two years into his first term.

[GOBUCKS]

What a stunningly dumb business decision!  Knowing how passionate their customer base is about guns....who the hell in their right mind would do that? 

Oh, I don't know, how about Jim Zumbo? Guy writes for outdoor magazines about hunting and guns, has a TV show about hunting, and then writes a column saying semi-automatic black rifes should be outlawed because they look scary. He immediately lost everything, TV show, magazine column, endorsements, everything. So he hires Ted Nugent and goes on TV whining and crying about making a mistake. I would not want to be around anyone as dumb as Jim Zumbo if he's got a loaded gun, and Nugent isn't much smarter, for selling out to the jerk.

[USA4ME]

dixiegrrrrl

Cracker Barrel restaurants...infamous for being anti-gay, firing gays, refusing to hire gays.  There was a rather successful boycott of them on the Gulf Coast back in early 90's for that reason.

Successful boycott, huh?  That must be why, since the early 90's, there's a Cracker Barrel off virtually every Interstate exit along the Gulf Coast teaming with fairies that cook your meal and serve your food.  But you just keep telling yourself whatever makes you "feel" better, OK primitive?

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[Rebel]

Oh, I don't know, how about Jim Zumbo? Guy writes for outdoor magazines about hunting and guns, has a TV show about hunting, and then writes a column saying semi-automatic black rifes should be outlawed because they look scary. He immediately lost everything, TV show, magazine column, endorsements, everything. So he hires Ted Nugent and goes on TV whining and crying about making a mistake. I would not want to be around anyone as dumb as Jim Zumbo if he's got a loaded gun, and Nugent isn't much smarter, for selling out to the jerk.

Reminds me of this jackass:

http://www.covnews.com/archives/15031/

The Augusta Chronicle had a field day with that idiot.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/content/blog-post/rob-pavey/2010-10-26/hunter-hating-sports-editor-gets-rude-awakening-here-georgia


Seems he's from "Kaleeforneea" and moves to Georgia to become an outdoors writer, but then proceeds to tell all us "southrun rednecks" how evil hunting is.

My opinion? Take your sorry ass back to California. We don't GIVE a **** how you did it where you came from.

[GOBUCKS]

Successful boycott, huh?  That must be why, since the early 90's, there's a Cracker Barrel off virtually every Interstate exit along the Gulf Coast teaming with fairies that cook your meal and serve your food.  But you just keep telling yourself whatever makes you "feel" better, OK primitive?

I wish someone would boycott Cracker Barrel. We always stop there when travelling, and I'm sick and tired of waiting for a table. The DUmbass boycott of Cracker Barrel was as successful as their boycotts of Wal-Mart, Chik-Fil-A, and BP. The only boycott they seem to keep going is against soap.

[miskie]

I once worked with a flaming ghey who refused to eat at In-N-Out Burger because the company puts Bible citations on the bottoms of their soda cups and burger wrappers.  His loss.

Bess Eaton Donuts did the same thing around here ( most of the chain was located is SE New England ) and it drove the moonbats crazy - they were overjoyed when Tim Horton's bought the chain, and since then Horton's has abandoned pretty much everything they bought, leaving Bess Eaton to begin again - there are three of them in Rhode Island now, using all the old recipes.

Of course, the primitives rejoiced at the then demise of Bess Eaton - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x1476097 -- and now the chain is 'born again' == Too bad, primitives.   

[Tucker]

Do we really care if they have anywhere to shop  ?

If it were up to the DU we'd all be shopping at the local government ration store with our government supplied ration books.

Sorry comrade but there is no flour or oil this week. Better luck next time comrade.

If they were to starve to death because they can't "ethically" shop anywhere that just means one less moocher voting in one more looter. No great loss.

They did do that with cheese. I bought it from the welfare DUmmies for 5 bucks a carton.

That was some good cheese.

[miskie]

They did do that with cheese. I bought it from the welfare DUmmies for 5 bucks a carton.

That was some good cheese.

I have to admit - I LOVED the Gub'mint cheese. It made the best tuna-noodle casserole. I found out years later it was actually generically packaged Land-o-Lakes yellow American.

[AprilRazz]

Aristus Donating Member (1000+ posts)  Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list    Wed Jun-01-11 11:29 PM
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66. I haven't had a drop of Starbuck's coffee in years.
   
When they refused to support a ban on 'concealed-carry' in their stores, I gave them up for good. What the hell good is all their reputed charity work and Third-World benefit donations if some bad-tempered asshole can just unlimber his piece and pop off on a bunch of other customers if he feels the line is moving too slowly?

I started going to a locally-owned & run coffee shop where the coffee is just as good, if not better, the barista on duty during the time I usually show up in the morning is much hotter, and the money stays in the neighborhood and supports a small business.

Funny that is when I started buying from them again. Not their burnt coffee but their cider and cold drinks are great.

[diesel driver]

I have to admit - I LOVED the Gub'mint cheese. It made the best tuna-noodle casserole. I found out years later it was actually generically packaged Land-o-Lakes yellow American.

My ex-mil used to get a bunch of the government surplus handout stuff, and what she didn't want, she'd give to us.

I had an actual can of "government pork".  We kept it until the expiration date, then opened it.

About a third of the can was fat and grease that had risen to the top.   

[true_blood]

Saturday Donating Member (1000+ posts)   Wed Jun-01-11 06:28 PM
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28. Johnsonville brats and Sargento cheese.
Haven't bought any since the WI situation started and I wrote both to tell them (not that they care).

You're right DUmbass. They don't care about a primitive like you.
Those Johnsonville Brats are killer on the grill I tell ya. Love'em.