politics and voting with your wallet

EllaHella

Do you support/avoid a business based on their politics or faith?  Do you 'vote with your wallet?'

 I will come back and answer later.  My son just stripped off his pull-up.  Potty training joys  

 

 

 

 

 

missymo

 Yes, I do.  If a business pisses me off, I won't go there. I don't hang out with friends I don't like either.  It's the same idea for me.  I don't expect my lack of patronage to make a difference, but I'm not going to give the bully my lunch money.  

LexiLupin

The only one that comes to mind is Chick-fil-a, BUT that has dated back several years, not just to the fiasco in the past few months. When they started spreading to my area during HS, I heard a lot about their reputation of allowing/encouraging proselytizing in their stores and that skeeved me out even as a teenager.

CinemaGoddess

Sometimes.

I don't shop at WalMart anymore.  I do shop at Target. 

I try to buy local when I can, but sometimes it's out of our price range.  I'll be doing Black Friday this year as well as Shop Local Saturday. 

Every company pisses someone off.  Our local cupcake joint is very gay friendly, so some of the more conservative folks don't get their cupcakes there. 

I think it's important to know how the company you're patronizing treats it's workers.  That, to me, is more important than their political leanings in general. 

I think everyone can agree that using slave labor in Thailand to produce cheaper clothing is bad.  Unfortunately, not everyone recognizes that many US companies have their employees by the short hairs because of the economy.  People have to take jobs wherever they can get them and businesses are still making profits because they're cutting jobs to save on health insurance benefits. 

After seeing that list in the other thread about the companies that are laying off workers because of Obamacare, I will not be patronizing those companies anymore.  They don't care about their workers and so I won't be giving them anymore of my monies. 

justAphase

The only ones I have avoided are CFA and Walmart. But to be honest, I don't do much research on the businesses I do frequent so I wouldn't know unless they put a big sign outside or it becomes newsworthy. 

vlagrl29

honestly I don't really know how a company believes unless its in the news.  I hate walmart because its always so busy, but I'm biased because I'm a target girl.

how old is your son? what method of potty training do you use?  just curious 

Nechie122

I try to, but I'm not perfect. Sometimes I simply don't have enough information about a particular corporation one way or another, or there are no good alternatives in my market (my cable company comes to mind.) 

 

The big example for me growing up was that my parents refused to buy German cars because they are the children of Holocaust survivors. 

JeniLovesNeil

Yes, I definitely do.  I refuse to shop at Hobby Lobby, Chik-Fil-A, use AT&T, etc.  Of course I can't avoid everything, but I stay away from those that are the worst.  

EllaHella

I forgot to answer my own question.

I try to, yes.  I try to shop local/small business when possible.  I also try to look at how that company treats its employees.  And if they are known to funnel profits into a cause I can't support, I go elsewhere. 

I don't need a chicken biscuit.  And I crave one, CFA doesn't have the market cornered. Same with Papa Johns.  I can have a better, clean and local pizza delivered for the same price. 

And to answer V- he is 2.5y and he is to the point where he strips naked when he has to potty and he goes.  We waited until he was ready (huge fan of not pushing milestones) and daycare basically handled the introduction.