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If you ask, more often than not they'll open it for you - albeit behind the counter so theres less of a chance of you grabbing it and running off.
Businesses you don't frequent out of principle
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If you ask, more often than not they'll open it for you - albeit behind the counter so theres less of a chance of you grabbing it and running off.
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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.
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.
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Maybe they are just super evangelical. Sometimes, it is hard to tell.
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I boycotted Starbucks when the Sonics was stolen from OKC.
I avoid Best Lies in store as much as possible, i seem to always have a bad experience with them.
I haven't bought anything from Jack in the Box in over 10 years since i got food poisoning from them.
I avoid Best Lies in store as much as possible, i seem to always have a bad experience with them.
I haven't bought anything from Jack in the Box in over 10 years since i got food poisoning from them.
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I'll be honest.. I support their right to marry, but not as much as I enjoy a good chicken sandwich.
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You guys are taking this thread beyond its scope with your boycotts. This is about places you don't frequent - out of principle. Like, on principle, you only go there sometimes.
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Schnatter was quoted as saying, "Colonel Sanders called blacks niggers and Sanders never faced public outcry". So yeah maybe he said it in a meeting about not saying naughty things, but what context can you put that in that doesn't paint Schnatter in a bad light? That's like if the Archbishop of Boston was quoted out-of-context as saying "Back in the 50's priests molested kids and never faced public outcry." Context not needed.
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Uhhh yeah. You probably couldn't spend yer $ anywhere if you looked at any company hard enough. I ain't got time for that shit so I just go by how I'm treated by companies. And on that front Amazon/Wendy's/McD's can all fuck off. Not spent any $ at those places in years.
Regal Cinemas is kinda on my not fond of list. But now that AMC has their A-List program I've got not much reason to hit Regal up so is fine.
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What are your sponsorship rates?
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A buddy of mine who grew up in KY and worked at one of the OG Papa John's during HS told me about what a piece of shit that guy is. And that was long before he was upset at NFL players kneeling or dropping N bombs. Also, yes, the pizza is absolute shit. I ordered it once after they opened a store in Chicago and everything was so fucking sweet, including the breadsticks for some odd reason.
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There’s a certain level of success that is achieved only after you have discarded certain societal and cultural norms. Once you’ve accepted that, the world becomes a much easier place to live. It exploitative.
There are no true “good guys” in that circle.
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So basically, he was saying “100 years ago, you could get away with this”, in the context of offensive things he’s paid the price for.
Meh, sucks to be him.
I think we are overly PC and ridiculous at this point but you also have to understand your audience and clientele.
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What happened to them?
That was the pitch, but the home run was when their leadership was caught paying ISIS for rare old Christian antiquities.
The stories of WalMart "associates" having to visit food pantries on Thanksgiving - or the store asking patrons to donate food to the store's own employeesthanks to low wages - really drove the final nail in that coffin.
Schnatter strikes me as a textbook example of a U.S. capitalist: as long as you're profiting, you're beyond shame or reproach. His attitude towards employees seems to range from apathy to annoyance, as evidenced by his attitudes on employer-paid healthcare or wages. While he says that most of his drivers don't earn minimum wage, which may be technically true, the company's own 10K filing says, page 18, "A significant number of hourly personnel are paid at rates close to the federal and state minimum wage requirements" under the Risk Factors section. (By the way - that 10K has more information if you're at all curious.) The latest charge of racism is just one more affirmation of that apathy.
I personally think Papa John's makes a serviceable pizza, but thankfully, I can sacrifice variety for a cleaner conscious by getting a pizza from Costco. As for GameStop? Their long-term future is anywhere you can't find good and stable internet connections.
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I am tired of people having to go away because they said something vaguely offensive.
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Must be a Florida thing.
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