Businesses you don't frequent out of principle

FAT$TACKS · Jul 17, 2018

VanillaThunder said:
This is why I love this place so much.

I'm arguing about the effects and outcomes of corporate policy on socio-economic strata and social interactions.

You just wanted to rectify sales policy.

Madman just wants a free sandwich and a handjob for telling you that.

I don't disagree about the point you are making though.

Also, Manman needs to up his game. At this point he has long only been in competition with himself, and because of not having any real challenges to push him to improve, his venom has become impotent. It's time for some new material or someone new, someone madder and manlier is going to rise up and take his crown.

Tacitus · Jul 17, 2018

FAT$TACKS said:
I don't disagree about the point you are making though.

Also, Manman needs to up his game. At this point he has long only been in competition with himself, and because of not having any real challenges to push him to improve, his venom has become impotent. It's time for some new material or someone new, someone madder and manlier is going to rise up and take his crown.

He's doing the "detached hipster irony" ass blast in chat. His friends are proud of him.

Tacitus · Jul 17, 2018

I was just trolling madman in chat with this and had one of those epiphany moments...

"what the fuck am I doing arguing/trolling this on a fucking forum? there's more to life than this..."

Whatever. free sandwiches and handies for everyone.

norton9478 · Jul 17, 2018

I refuse to eat at church's chicken because of their discriminatory practice of making chicken so bad that only people dumb enough to eat it are white.

norton9478 · Jul 17, 2018

madman said:
If over compensating you for their mistake isn't making it right, what is? What would have been a successful resolution for you?

You may know the the answer to that someday. But first, you need to be promoted to assistant manager.

Tacitus · Jul 17, 2018

Somewhere, DashK is crying to himself on a swing in an abandoned public park and doing spots for Dash Radio..... knowing that this thread exists and unable to bring himself to post.

Syn · Jul 17, 2018

VanillaThunder said:
I was just trolling madman in chat with this and had one of those epiphany moments...

"what the fuck am I doing arguing/trolling this on a fucking forum? there's more to life than this..."

Whatever. free sandwiches and handies for everyone.

Whatever epiphany you discover...posting more>less posting.

I hope to read more of your posts personally!

Neodogg · Jul 17, 2018

Isn't that the old "bait and switch" tactic? Which is illegal, right.

I couldn't get "bait and sandwich" to sound right...

madman · Jul 17, 2018

Neodogg said:
Isn't that the old "bait and switch" tactic? Which is illegal, right.

Bait and switch is when one product is advertised that they have no intention of selling to you and when you show up they sell you something else through a number of shady tactics. In the case of fatstacks with his baller status, they offered 2 sandwiches for a certain price and did not honor said price. He bought exactly what was advertised.

Syn · Jul 17, 2018

Shady, yes. Illegal, not really but lawyers would have to argue it out and no one has principles enough to pay for the litigation. We are talking about a f'n sandwich.

ChuChu Flamingo · Jul 17, 2018

Neotropolis

NeoSneth · Jul 17, 2018

madman said:
Any garbage dump with B&W TVs.

your god damn memory....
if only we could harness that power for something useful.

Syn · Jul 17, 2018

ChuChu Flamingo said:
Neotropolis

Kpj or his staff?

fenikso · Jul 18, 2018

Jibbajaba said:
The main one is Walmart, but if I'm being really honest, although it started out as a boycott of their corporate practices back when I was a wide-eyed college student, at this point it has at least as much to do with the fact that I'm a snob and I just don't like that place.

I think that Gamestop fucking sucks and they do things that piss me off, but again I think the snobbery has more to do with why I won't go in there.

Other places mentioned in the thread that I have never visited include Jimmy John's and Chick-fil-A, but in both cases it's just something that I've never gotten around to doing, and not some kind of boycott. Jimmy John's just doesn't look like something that I want to eat, and in the two small towns where I spend 99.9% of my time, we don't have a Chick-fil-A. John Schnatter is a huge piece of shit regardless of what happened with the whole n-word thing, but more importantly their pizza is complete garbage.

This guy gets it.

oliverclaude · Jul 18, 2018

I used to collect music on vinyl in the late 90s/early '00s, back then there were a couple of good stores in Köln. One of them had a nice Stockhausen album from the 70s, I went to the counter to listen to it and inside was just a cheap whitelabel. Obviously someone scammed them, but since then, they always sold records I ordered or reserved for me to someone else, called it a mistake and apologized. So, I ceased to go there for two decades or so and when I dropped in last year, out of curiosity, D'Angelo's Voodoo cost like a €100. No thanks, one retarded hobby is enough...

BanishingFlatsAC · Jul 18, 2018

VanillaThunder said:
Somewhere, DashK is crying to himself on a swing in an abandoned public park and doing spots for Dash Radio..... knowing that this thread exists and unable to bring himself to post.

I mentioned Dashie in chat a few weeks ago and nobody knew who I was talking about...sigh.

The real question I'd like answered is how many of these stories are real and how many are made up for the sake of posting? I'm gonna be generous and say 75%.

snes_collector · Jul 18, 2018

I try to avoid buying things online I can buy locally. Always better to support local than Amazon or the like

famicommander · Jul 18, 2018

snes_collector said:
I try to avoid buying things online I can buy locally. Always better to support local than Amazon or the like

Why is it better?

You realize that the money you would have saved by buying from Amazon could be otherwise utilized, correct? Essentially, you're going out of your way to subsidize a business that can't compete. So instead of buying, for instance, a laptop on Amazon and then spending what you saved on a meal or a hobby, you pay more locally and get just the laptop. So you just subsidized the laptop seller at the expense of the restaurant or whatever hobby. Ultimately you've caused a net decrease in economic activity. You've turned the same amount of resources into fewer goods.

snes_collector · Jul 18, 2018

Yeah, I agree with you if there is a big price difference I will buy from Amazon or whoever, but if prices are close or the same I’ll go local every time. I just hate to see so many local stores close due to Amazon and Walmart

NeoSneth · Jul 18, 2018

It's interesting how bad service at one restaurant will cause someone to completely avoid the chain.
Shitty service is from shitty people, not a shitty corporation.

Viewpoint · Jul 18, 2018

Dr Shroom said:

LOL Fucking Thank you! Now we just need a blazing saddles reference and the picture is complete.

It's a shame that a movie like Blazing Saddles would never make it in today's world.

And about that PJ's shit. He said something stupid but at the same time context matters. It just goes to show how many people are out to lynch people for even the slightest fuck up.

FAT$TACKS · Jul 18, 2018

NeoSneth said:
It's interesting how bad service at one restaurant will cause someone to completely avoid the chain.
Shitty service is from shitty people, not a shitty corporation.

I think that has a lot to do with location as well.

To avoid a restaurant in the town you live in, is pretty much avoiding the chain.

For example, if I'm out of town and am going to stop at a restaurant, I want to go to something I can't get at home. In those situations it's not like a company boycott really.

Aside form that I don't know how else it would work other than for one to say let's drive an hour to the next city over so we can go to a restaurant they have here that I don't like.

Also, I find if someone really likes the food of a place, they will look past the crappy service a lot easier. Like someone saying they don't like a chicken place that supports ideals different than their own, but will still buy it because they think it is good. As opposed to one stopping at McBurger's after work as it is one of the only things open, the food isn't that good, just convenient to the situation, so when they cross the line, it's easier to write them off.

fenikso · Jul 18, 2018

Viewpoint said:
LOL Fucking Thank you! Now we just need a blazing saddles reference and the picture is complete.

It's a shame that a movie like Blazing Saddles would never make it in today's world.

And about that PJ's shit. He said something stupid but at the same time context matters. It just goes to show how many people are out to lynch people for even the slightest fuck up.

"Colonel Sanders called blacks niggers and Sanders never faced public outcry"

I agree that context matters in these things, look at what he said. It's kind of a racist jealousy. It's like he's thinking out loud 'Oh man, Colonel Sanders got to call the blax (this is a GregN thread, btw, you guys are all spelling it wrong) whatever he liked, how come I got to watch what I say?'.

A rich asshole lost his job for being a racist d-bag, now he'll have to retire with his millions on a yacht somewhere. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Tacitus · Jul 18, 2018

fenikso said:
I agree that context matters in these things, look at what he said. It's kind of a racist jealousy. It's like he's thinking out loud 'Oh man, Colonel Sanders got to call the blax (this is a GregN thread, btw, you guys are all spelling it wrong) whatever he liked, how come I got to watch what I say?'.

A rich asshole lost his job for being a racist d-bag, now he'll have to retire with his millions on a yacht somewhere. Boo-fucking-hoo.

Hello exactly!

This isn’t the first time he’s done the “I’m rich and fuck everyone else” dance.

He’s open about his corporate policies and demeanor. If he didn’t want critique, he should keep his mouth shut and take his face off the brand.

He’s also notorious for his franchising policies and how they utterly fuck owners (unless you’re famous.)

I don’t think he should censor himself because he owns a business... he should just understand the position it puts him in.

For chrissakes, he did Jerry Jones’ bidding on the anthem stuff.

fenikso · Jul 18, 2018

VanillaThunder said:
Hello exactly!

This isn’t the first time he’s done the “I’m rich and fuck everyone else” dance.

He’s open about his corporate policies and demeanor. If he didn’t want critique, he should keep his mouth shut and take his face off the brand.

He’s also notorious for his franchising policies and how they utterly fuck owners (unless you’re famous.)

I don’t think he should censor himself because he owns a business... he should just understand the position it puts him in.

For chrissakes, he did Jerry Jones’ bidding on the anthem stuff.

I stopped eating his crap pizza during the whole healthcare debacle, and his general rich-entitled-assholishness, has only continued to reinforce my desire to literally eat anywhere but at one of his shitty franchises.

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