Who are you boycotting?

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JoeMal said:
Not everyone can afford to shop at the local hardware store, or the local grocer, or the local electronics store. Go to your Mom & Pop store and spend $50, then go to Walmart and spend $50, and see which store gets you more product for your money.

I recently had to go to my local hardware store to buy lawn-bags in a crunch and spent over $4 for 5 bags. Home Depot has the same bags for $1.88. If the markup on cardboard bags is over 200%, think about how much they are marking up things like tools, carpet, or paint. I also just recently bought a new cell phone and needed a case for it. Spend $30 on one at the cell phone store or go on eBay and buy one for $3? Hmm...decisions decisions.....don't even get into car chargers or extra chargers for the house. Those 'local' stores want $20 each for those and I can get them for pennies online.

And in all honesty, just because they are 'local' doesn't mean they give a crap about you. They are in it for the money just as much as the 'big box' stores

I don't boycott anything. I shop where I want, I buy what I want. It's simply a personal choice. Complaining to the manager at these corporate stores isn't going to get you anywhere because they don't make the decisions. And complaining to the manager at the local store probably won't get you anywhere because the rules are setup the way they are for a reason.
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If you think Mom & Pop are making big bucks, guess again. The difference is that Mom & Pop are paying the highest wholesale price while the big box stores are buying direct from the factory and, in Wal-Mart's case, demanding the factory hit a certain price.

Yes, I can beat any local gun shop price by buying from Bud's but I can keep more of the money in the community by buying from Jim Pruett or one of the other local shops.

As far as boycotts go, the only place I frequent that has the 30.06 sign posted is my doctor's office. I like my doctor and I think I will keep going. Kind of awkward to be packing during an examination, anyway.
 
Paypal and e bay. Quit a Dr when they put up a no guns sign. Told him why and left. Sign was down a week later but I wouldn't go back anyhow.
 
Walkalong said:
Add Progressive insurance, if it hasn't been mentioned. The owner is a big leftist donor. I guess the name "Progressive" is his own little joke.
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Boycott who you want, but Progressive is a publicly traded corporation - there is no "owner." It was founded in 1937 and both founders are dead.

I've read all the responses and realized I am terrible at boycotting for RKBA reasons. I do shop at Target occasionally, I've been a Progressive customer for years, I own Smith & Wessons with the interlock that was added after the Clinton Administration was over, I order from Domino's Pizza.

I won't buy Levis, but that has to do with their employment practices. I don't eat at Chick-Fil-A because their chicken is awful. Same with Buffalo Wild Wings. I don't shop at Wal-Mart because of their employment practices and the fact that much of what they sell is junk made to a price-point, even the "name-brand" merchandise.

And, as mentioned, I am sticking with my doctor, who doesn't care anything at all about guns one way or the other (the professional corporation that owns the building put up the sign).

I will say that I do try to avoid businesses that are obnoxious about being anti-gun but I seldom encounter any of those and I do patronize businesses that are rational about RKBA.
 
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Joe Lewis was co-founder of Progressive Insurance. His son, Peter Lewis, was their CEO from 1965-2000. He's still the Chairman of the Board and presumably, draws a check. He is the single largest contributor to the ACLU. The ACLU is a leftist/socialist organization that protects pedophiles. Lewis' "new world order" is scary. No way am I giving money to that clown's company.
 
The topic of this thread is boycotting businesses because of their attitude toward or actions against those who prefer to travel armed and have the lawful right to do so, not because they are "socialist,""fascist" or vegetarian. History shows us true socialists and fascists love guns (at least in their hands).

I try to draw the line between signs posted because the business' squirrelly attorneys told the company it was important from a liability point of view and those posted because the owner is actually anti-gun. It's tough to argue with corporate CYA. When it's the hysterical baloney we heard from the Texas Legislature last session, that's different. I am personally boycotting Dan Patrick next election.

I am not sure how one "boycotts" a business or group one would never utilize in the first place. What's the point? And who cares? You're already not doing business with them; are you going to organize pickets or stage a sit-down strike to actively hurt their business? Buy advertising to slam their stance on RKBA? In short, are you going to organize a real boycott where others, who are doing business with the offending enterprise, also withdraw their custom? Those are the kind of boycott most likely to produce results.
 
This one keeps wavering between being somewhat on topic and grossly off topic.

I suspect a more focused thread, perhaps in the activism forum would be more useful.
 
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