What companies do you boycott?

[Danmel]

Ever since the Exxon Valdez, I have refused to purchase Exxon gas ( it's really hurt them too, huh?) and of course now I won't buy Mobil either.

I will not darken the doors of Wal-Mart.
What corporations do you boycott and why?

[shenmue]

1. UPS.

They support Bill O'Reilly.

[Clark2008]

2. Wal-mart.

I also try to buy American whenever I can. I own an American car and three American-made TVs - that I never watch. :rofl: (My son and husband watch them). In other words, it's a partial-ban on foreign products, if I can avoid them, which, of course, is next to impossible.

[elocs]

32. Out of curiosity, what American made tvs do you own and how old are they? n/t

[Ian David]

3. The list is too long.

See:

www.BuyBlue.org

I only buy my gasoline from Hess and Citgo.

And I have stopped eating in places that put the Fox Noise Channel on their televisions-- such as Bickford's.

Halfaway Cafe is "on-notice" that if I see Fox Noise Channel on there one more time, I'm not going back.

My wife got upset yesterday because I refused to eat at The Olive Garden.

But high on my list of "over my dead body" places I will not patronize are Wal-Mart and Outback Steak House.

[dysfunctional press]

8. that buyblue link doesn't really work...

all you get is an anoouncement that they're shutting their virtual doors.

[rucky]

9. What's the dang deal with all the eateries that play FOX News?!

Pretty much every place with a TeeVee in my area (Boehner's district) has FOX playing. I usually tell the manager to change it to ESPN, or just walk out. It's maddening. They always act surprised that a customer would be offended by it.

[Clark2008]

15. Nevermind...

I read your post incorrectly. I thought you'd said you DO boycott Citgo. My bad.

Oh - and if I stopped going to places that have on Faux Snooze, I'd never be able to go anywhere - this is why I tell people here that Dems boycotting that network isn't the greatest idea as it relates to the South and mid-West. All waiting areas in the "Heartland" have it tuned to Faux. I just either change the channel myself or ask that it be changed because I don't want to see that brand of propaganda. They always oblige and no one else waiting seems to give a shit.

[dysfunctional press]

4. walmart, and any gas station that ISN'T citgo.

nt

[Ian David]

6. You should consider using Hess along with Citgo.

Look them up on BuyBlue.org

[dysfunctional press]

10. i never heard of hess, and buyblue.org is no longer in operation.

does hess operate stations in the chicago area...? i've never heard of them.

[terip64]

11. Hess is on the east coast n/t

[dysfunctional press]

14. that's pretty far for me to drive for a fill-up, just to "buy blue"...

i'll stick with citgo.

[terip64]

26. Me too. I am in MI but when I go back east I love filling up at hess! n/t

[Clark2008]

17. Northern east coast.

We don't have them in the Southeast.

[Ian David]

69. I just saw that BuyBlue.org is shutting down and providing their data to Advomatic.com

Hess donates 98% to Democrats.

It's the only "Blue" oil company.

Station locator at:

http://www.hess.com/storelocator/storelocator.aspx

Unfortunately, it looks like they don't operate in Illinois.

[tsuki]

5. Nestle's. nt

[SteelPenguin]

16. Yeah definately Nestle's

They advertise baby formula even in areas the World Health Organization has asked companies not to because it puts children at risk if their parents stop breast feeding.

http://www.babymilkaction.org/pages/products.html

Gotta make that buck though.

[tsuki]

18. No, it stems from the 80's when a decision was made to ship

powdered baby formula to flooding Bangladesh. They had only contaminated water to mix the formula with. Thousands died.

Fast forward to Bolton confirmation hearings. Carol Finney let it drop the the Neo_Con Death_Head Bolton was the one that pushed the UN to do change its policy to enrich Nestle's. He Knew that babies would die.

Ambassador to the UN? He should be in Levenworth.

[Clark2008]

22. Advertising it doesn't work if folks can't afford it.

I'm planning to both breastfeed and supplement with formula because I'll have to go back to work when my baby is very small (I don't want to, but baby was a surprise and we'd just purchased a house and a car that we can't pay for without my income. Sigh - the middle class blues).

Anyway, my mother will be watching my children and she'll need to be able to give my girl some formula if she runs out of my breast milk during the day.

That said, formula is EXPENSIVE!!! I don't know how any one affords it as a sole means of feeding their infant!! I expect to have to only buy one can a month and I'll have to SAVE to do that. Not to mention how much better breast-feeding is for an infant. Wow!

[SteelPenguin]

29. They give it out free

They give out free formula to new mothers at hospitals. They encourage new mother's, whose milk might not be in yet, to supplement with formula, while also not telling them how to pump in order to supplement correctly. Next thing you know there are women not just in the first world, but the third world whose milk doesn't come in, and who have babies and now are slaves to buying them formula.

Formula is fine to use as a supplment , if you can afford it and do it correctly so that your own milk supply doesn't decrease. The problem is that Nestle's has gone directly against the reuqests of the WHO and others by distributing and advertising formula to women which encourages them not to breastfeed, or participate in behaviors which reduce their natural milk supply.

[vanlassie]

53. Very bad idea to use powdered formula....

Nutrients do not disolve adequately and can go thru baby's system unabsorbed.... Just a friendly and hopefully helpful piece of information for you, not that you stated you WERE planning to use powdered, but the "one can" thing made me anxious for your baby.

[annarbor]

7. Short list...

Walmart (Sam's Club)
JC Penny's
Cracker Barrel Restaurant chain

Ann Arbor

[terip64]

12. Why Penney's? Also, I am in Chelsea. :) n/t

[JNelson6563]

19. Can't speak for that poster but

Penney's is flooded with sweatshop goods.

Julie

[terip64]

25. Thanks! I didn't know that! I will add them to my list. n/t

[annarbor]

50. Hi Terip 64

I began my boycott of Penny's during the time of the old "Ellen" sitcom. JC Penny's pulled their sponsorship of the show once they learned that she was gay. I worked in several malls and I can attest to the fact that many of JC Penny's customers and employees were gay.... I sent back my Penny's credit card and haven't set foot in one since.

Gotta love the weather in Washtenaw County today!

Ann Arbor

[Marrah_G]

66. self delete

[liberal N proud]

13. Exxon-Mobil & Shell

BP when I have a choice.

I can't boycott Wal-Mart, my wife works for them. She started when Sam Walton was in charge and actually cared about his people and promoted American made goods.

[OlderButWiser]

20. Is she trying...

...to change them from within? I should think that is like trying to stop a frieght train by waving your hand at it.

[liberal N proud]

23. Yes she is actively looking for something that pays as well

She is an assistant manager/slave

[OlderButWiser]

24. Tell her...

...Best of luck!

[Cerridwen]

35. I remember that WalMart.

I sometimes wonder if Sam is spinning in his grave watching what his "children" have done to his life's work.

Best of luck to your wife. I hope she has success finding a place which values her and her work.

[uppityperson]

56. I remember that WalMart, had a friend working there then, moved from KMart to walmart

Was treated much better, better pay, benefits, etc at WalMart. What the heck happened to WalMart? Or rather, when?

[hiaasenrocks]

21. NBC news programming

[RebelOne]

27. I boycott any company that tests on animals.

[Raine]

51. Me too nt

[bluerum]

28. FOX and Walmart are the biggest. eom

[elocs]

30. China-Mart (better known as Wal-Mart) n/t

[toddaa]

31. Acme

Because they hate coyotes

[SayWhatYo]

54. lol

I can't be the only one who found that funny(well, other than you)

[NEOhiodemocrat]

33. Wal Mart and Penny's

Penny's since I found out they gave 100% to republicans, I won't even look in their ads since then, refuse to step foot in their store. And WalMart, well, we all know the reasons for that.

[mmonk]

34. I'm going to start with as many on the membership list

of the American Turkish Council that I can.

[MsLeopard]

36. Short List

Domino's Pizza - they donate heavily to pro-life fundie groups
Folger's Coffee - seriously in bed with the CIA funneling money to black ops in central America
All gas stations but Citgo

[Bjornsdotter]

37. My list

....Wal-mart, Target (backed their pharmacist who refused to sell the morning after pill to a woman), Fox, Coke, any gas station except Citgo and any local business that supported * during the last election (Chicago Tribune, Northwest Herald and smaller local business).

Cheers

[MasonJar]

38. I have not gone to Exxon since Valdez either and never will. I also

make it clear to one and all that I despise them and Walmart.

[Mz Pip]

39. Dominos Pizza

That's about it. I buy my gas at the local Costco, no because of any boycott but because it's cheaper. There isn't a Wal Mart around here.

Unless Dominos has changed hands I won't go there. I won't support any company that is owned by an anti choice fundy wacko.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[LuckyTheDog]

49. Umm... well, better re-think that

Domino's changed hands several years ago. Tom Monaghan sold it to a private-equity firm and it has since gone public.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0DQA/is_1998_Oct_8/ai_53138528

I'm not suggesting that Bain Capital is exactly all about saving the world. But considering who had been running Domino's, it's refreshing to see that the company is focusing on profit above all else these days.

[dave_p]

40. Nestle, Coke

The first because of its baby-killing spree and its effort to destroy cocoa-farmers with artificial alternatives.

The second because it peddles noxious saccharine crap, kills union activists and doesn't even contain coke.

[otohara]

41. Coke, Pepsi, Procter/Gamble, Walmart, GE, Dominos,

and a host of others....

[Pyrzqxgl]

42. I won't shop at any chain that is non union

I guess that includes more than I have space to name.

[Fierce]

43. It's easier for me to say I support companies that are union

than to list those I boycott.

[KansDem]

44. McDonald's, Walmart...

But it is an uncompleted list.

[Doremus]

45. Wal-Mart, Bob Evans, Red Lobster, Cracker Barrel ... all neocons n/t.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

46. I've been boycotting Nestle's since the late 60's...

Although they have bought out so many companies, it's getting harder and harder to avoid them.

I also will not shop in Walmart.....

I hadn't realized that Nestle's was still doing damage to new moms in third-world countries.....

Those dirty bastards just make my blood boil! :nuke:

[onna no hito]

47. those you mentioned plus Sony

because they are promoting their play station by using a decapitated goat.
just what kids need to be told: how cool it is to kill animals for fun.

Sony sucks!

[Altean Wanderer]

48. Walmart, Exxon - Mobil n/t

[SaveElmer]

52. Fox and especially Wal-Mart...though

Not a strict boycott I guess...more that I just choose not to patronize them because there are superior choices, both qualitatively and because of their business practices...

That doesn't mean I haven't watched a Fox show, or have never stepped into a Wal-Mart...sometimes it is unavoidable...but in general I do no patronize either one...

[brentspeak]

55. Mall-Wart

[lpbk2713]

57. Here are a few I avoid for obvious reasons ....

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x756776

[Catfight]

58. Never been to Cracker Barrel since they wouldn't hire gay people.

Wendy's, same reason
Walmart, because they don't pay and their morning after pill crap
JCPenny's since they Ellen show and their anti-gay policies
Tropicana Orange Juice since Anita Bryant
Circut City, since they fired their workers to save money but didn't bother to cut any of their CEO pay. Also, they screwed me years ago on an extended warranty I never went back anyway.
Land's End, sweat shops

I also stopped going to any place that has Faux on, in fact, it's why I stopped going to my chiropractor, I just couldn't stand a place that openly had a political ignorance with a picture of Dumbya and Faux on. I figured if they were that ignorant, they couldn't possibly be competent to adjust my neck.

Thanks for this post, I didn't know about Domino's, not that I ever went there anyway, but it's good to know. And thanks for reminding me why Outback continues to suck.

[joshcryer]

59. None.

My impact is so infinitely small that I don't even care about what places I 'boycott.'

[The Gunslinger]

60. Fox, ABC, Nike,

[greblc]

61. The State s of

Texas and Florida

[Canuckistanian]

62. Walmart. Circuit City. McDonalds.

Esso (Exxon to you).

And Home Depot (not because I especially hate them, I just prefer to support local sources).

But I save a special hate for Walmart. Even here in rural Canada, we've had to battle them.

But they won the right to put up a store in a local town that was devastated by a Hershey factory closing.

That's how it is. They target towns that are doing badly.

[Hissyspit]

63. Buy only shampoo that is no-animal-testing. n/t

[Seedersandleechers]

64. I don't buy any produce that's not grown in the US

There is so much fruit here from Chile. What kind of pesticides do they use? I know it's not perfect here but some foreign fruit look good but taste horrible.

[Bluzmann57]

65. Wal Mart, Coors

Domino's pizza are three main ones. Wal Mart built three new stores here in the area since 1997 and I haven't set foot in any of them. Coors is just a bad company, has trouble recognizing Unions as well as the Coors family being right wing exttremists, and Domino's not only tastes like cardboard with crap on it, they are a big time republic party donor. We should try and support local businesses whenever possible, although there are a couple of them that I'm unhappy with as well. A local pawn shop took out a full page ad in a local ad sheet in 2004 supporting gw bush for president. I don't use pawn shops, but I did call and tell them they sucked. And a local drinking establishment refused to take off fox noise after I asked them to, so I no longer drink beer in there.

[WA98296]

67. FOX, Walmart, and ALL local business who display GOP campaign signage

[jannyk]

68. Walmart n/t

[Ian David]

70. Hess and Citgo and Traveling Blue

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[mainegreen]

71. In principle all of them, in practice as many as I can.

Buy local!
;)