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Anti-Trump groups urge holiday boycott of Amazon, Home Depot, Target over DEI backtrack
(www.usatoday.com)
So continue what a lot of us were already doing?
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Yeah but it's trendy now and will be for two or maybe even three whole days.
2 or 3 days won't even register on a weekly report if people buy the products that they didn't buy after the 3 days.
Just quit using them altogether. It is inconvenient and it is more expensive but making a stand should have a price. Otherwise it would have been just a sensible decision.
Hey, remember when millions of people didn't buy anything for a single day in protest to show how much power they had and hurt the corporations in the wallets?
Remember the next day when millions of people then bought the stuff they waited a day for.
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Yeah, like, I canceled Prime nearly a year ago now and just shop elsewhere. I only buy from companies with shitty policies like these if there's no other realistic option (e.g. when something is only available on Amazon :/).
I checked a local store that said they closed their doors to the public and online orders only. Ok, I thought. I'll just order what I want and swing by. No. The order link sent me to Amazon and they only do it through them. Not even will-call it turns out. I gave up and figured I can live without it anyway.
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I'm doing my part! I've boycotted them already for supporting the fascist dictator who threatened my country.
Let's not buy anything from them even harder!!
I browse Amazon all the time. I add stuff to my cart and leave it for weeks. Then I delete it all.
All parking lots with flock surveillance systems should be boycotted, at a minimum.
Be a real shame if you accidentally backed into one of those camera systems and knocked it over, too.
You'd likely have to pay for it
Much better way to get rid of them: Submit a FOIA request for their data. So far many cities are simply getting rid of them to prevent that data being public
Even if the government is happy to comply with the request, the data is a powerful tool to sway public sentiment. Camera near some bars? Request the data from 1:30-2:30 each weekend morning. Near a church? Request the Sunday morning data. Whole lot of people will realize how dangerous Flock cameras are when you anonymously post lists of people doing various things to one of those neighborhood apps
Note: The government can charge "reasonable" amounts based on costs incurred complying with a FOIA request. I recommend keeping your requests narrow as a result
Fuck me they're everywhere
Dont forget all Amazon Ring cameras are part of Flock now.
I'm pretty sure Target has been losing money and has even gotten a new CEO, so clearly what we've already been doing has been working. Save yourself money anyway.
tgt's last quarterly loss (negative net income) was over a decade ago, and it was just one quarter.
We have 3 targets, they have all went way down hill in the last year. They are dirtier, less cashiers, empty shelves, bad produce, and stale bakery. They employees all seem miserable as well.
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I don't think companies ever sincerely embraced DEI: it was fashionable to gesture superficially at it to raise share value until it wasn't?
Companies go along where the social pendulum swings. Only few companies genuinely care of social progress.
Capitalism is amoral, Millennials and younger folks think there's a way to correct for that, but there is not. Regulations have to impose our morality on it. Everything else is just marketing.
I would recommend cutting Amazon anyway. You don't realize how much useless junk you buy when it's just that easily available. I've saved so much money since I cut it.
Im not buying shit from anyone. Even my son's gift's this year will be sourced second hand and from small retailers. They made my vote woth nothing, I'm not buying their garbage landfill trash!
Involuntary boycott cause no one can afford jack shit rn
I don't think a boycott is sufficient. We need to gum up the works. We need to enshittify as customers.
We need to waste employee time so they can't do things that are profitable for the company.
I've received death threats for saying this.
Buy stuff, unbox it, return it for a refund. Please only do this to big players like Amazon.
They pretend it's cheap but it's only cheap when it's a tiny percentage of their sales - the reality is returns are costly for all businesses.
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I've been boycotting these stores since the inauguration.
TBH, I've been boycotting stores in general, thanks to the pedoeconomy.
I'm still boycotting Amazon for the poor treatment of their warehouse workers.
If organizations want to make actual change, they need to stop it with the one-day boycotts. We shouldn't ever be giving these companies money. The longer you go without using Amazon and Target, the easier it gets.
If organizations want to make actual change, they need to stop it with the one-day boycotts.
Same goes for one day protests. If you want the government to be changed it needs constant and increasing pressure.
Ironically, Prime is where The Man in the High Castle adaptation came from.
Y’all are still shopping at these places? It’s been over a year since I last went to HD (just before I found out about their pro-Trump donations) and even longer since I shopped from Target or Amazon. Fuck all three of them.
Wouldn't a buycot make more sense? Companies losing business will just blame it on the economy. Companies performing better than their competitors would be most likely to make the correlation.
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The ol' ostracize as many customer demographics as possible strategy. Bold, let's see how it works out for em.
If we stopped spending and went on a "hunger" strike. Don't buy anything for a month. Only buy necessities food for children, the elderly, pets. And simply not buy more than that the corporations would fold over easy. We would add more stress if we stopped going to work at the same time. But what do I know?
this is my plan as well. my actual vote doesn't seem to matter since neither party gives a shit about the working class, so im voting with my wallet.
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I’ve been boycotting all US products and services online and offline since Trump 2.0. Now I’m working on avoiding the most stubborn things like Mastercard and visa, but I’m getting there.
come on, target. stop this foolishness. we need each other.
but you clearly need me way more than i need you.
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We need to slow the roll on the whole holiday, it's gotten absolutely insanely out of hand.
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this is good practice for organizing a general strike
Love an organized boycott!
In this current timeline, "boycott" just means millions of us are about to start shoveling millions of dollars out of the US economy and into the offshore accounts of healthcare companies that don't know what taxes even are, and those of us who don't die are going to be too poor to afford luxuries like "Amazon Prime" or "food."
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