Do you boycott certain businesses?

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In my community we boycott the fast food chain Chick-Fil-A because of their chief operating officer opposes marriage equality. The company actually donates money to anti gay causes.

They have a right to their opinion just as I have a right to boycott them for their bigoted, homophobic views.

The gay community boycotted Target for many years; until they changed their stance on gay issues.

http://www.advocate.com/business/2012/07/17/chick-fil-coo-dan-cathy-officially-comes-out-antigay

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Dan Cathy, the chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, said there is no denying that his company opposes marriage equality.

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@jcboy,

No, not for their personal stances on something, which I believe is their right (as you said). But I do boycott places which have crappy service and/or products. And I avoid buying anything made in China where possible. Talk about crap. And I try to avoid any company which has outsourced their help/support.

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@jcboy,

No. Some years ago, a list of anti-freedom of self defense
companies were listed by the NRA, with whom I 've been active,
such that the members were free to avoid contributing
their money into anti-freedom efforts, if so thay chose.

I never really got much into boycotting.
I 'm not boycotting anything.

David

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@jcboy,

Ill NOT eat any chick-fil-A's if you boycott all Tractor Supply STores (TSC). The quality of their metal parts for big farm machinery is ttal crap.
I bought a blade for a Bush Hog style finishing mower and it shattered into a gazillion pieces, one of which impaled itself into our new barn door. I am so pissed at this company (This is about the third piece of **** that they tuck me with).
I bught a big barn fan and it destroyed itself after less than a year of norml use.

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@farmerman,

Did u demand satisfaction ?

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@jcboy,

Given a choice between say donating stuff to Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries, I will donate to Goodwill Industries because of Salvation Army's conservative view towards gays and lesbians. I also used to give my change whenever possible to the bell ringers of the Salvation Army doing the Christmas time. I no longer do so.

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As a member of the Palestinian Solidarity Campaign, I boycott all things Israeli.

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I try not to shop at Walmart, Walgreen's, Target or other national big box stores. I'll pay a premium to support mom and pop and I'll pick a family-run restaurant over any chain. That said, I don't actually boycott them in a "I refuse to shop here because... and this is how you'll get my business..." way except Yoplait yogurt. They sold millions of $$$$ worth of pink-labeled yogurt in the guise of supporting BC research which turned out to be a farce under SGK.

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@izzythepush,

Oh, and I don't shop at Boots, because they avoid paying tax.

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@tsarstepan,

Yes Tha Salvation army is another organization I wouldn't donate to.

And now Dan Cathy is finally admitting it, a couple years ago he was shocked anyone would call him anti gay.

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@Mame,

I'm sort of like that too - for crappy service I will not go back. For the other stuff - personal things I don't believe in - I don't unless it is really obvious - like walking by a restaurant and it says we don't service blonds.

Although I'd like to boycott places that outsource - almost everywhere does and often times you do not realize it. I still have my money in funds where I used to work even though they were outsourcing me to the southwest and have outsourced many jobs to India.

Who doesn't outsource their customer service to Peggy in India?

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@Linkat,

Oh just today, I got frustrated with changing my address for something. I got a response (even though they had a spot on line to do so) saying I had to provide in writing with signiture for my address change. They also provided the customer service number to call - which I did.

Anyone after going through and pressing my selections and still getting no where on the phone, I responded to customer service online - one of my responses was - it would be nice to speak to a person even if they were in India.

Can't wait to hear their response.

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@Linkat,

I just switched my telephone service because my former one outsourced to a country where they don't speak English and I couldn't get any help. I sent them an email telling them why I switched. Don't care if I hear from them, just wanted to register my protest. If you're going to have customer support, make sure they can speak the language!

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@tsarstepan,

tsarstepan wrote:

Given a choice between say donating stuff to Salvation Army and Goodwill Industries, I will donate to Goodwill Industries because of Salvation Army's conservative view towards gays and lesbians.

I also used to give my change whenever possible to the bell ringers of the Salvation Army doing the Christmas time. I no longer do so.

I don 't either, since thay became politically correct.

David

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@Mame,

I did get a response to my actual question - but not to the out of the country remark -

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@JPB,

Walmart is one store I will never shop in again!

I also support mom and pop stores, and prefer the privately owned restaurants to chains. In this town we don’t have a lot of chain restaurants, with the exception of fast food places.

Most of the high end restaurants downtown are all privately owned.

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@jcboy,

I will boycott an establishment in a minute - both on a personal level and a social level, if I do not feel appreciated for my patronage.
There are some retailers who will watch me and even follow me around the store, and I'm no teenager. I closed my account with Wells Fargo and will not do business with them again.

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Now what do you do when you get really bad service via phone and then go to the actual business and get great service when you finally deal with a person face to face.

That has happened to me recently - today and about a couple of weeks ago. One was retail; one was a bank.

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I boycott all goods from Israel and all Israeli companies.

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@jcboy,

jcboy wrote:

In my community we boycott the fast food chain Chick-Fil-A because of their chief operating officer opposes marriage equality. The company actually donates money to anti gay causes.

They have a right to their opinion just as I have a right to boycott them for their bigoted, homophobic views.

The gay community boycotted Target for many years; until they changed their stance on gay issues.

http://www.advocate.com/business/2012/07/17/chick-fil-coo-dan-cathy-officially-comes-out-antigay

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Dan Cathy, the chief operating officer of Chick-fil-A, said there is no denying that his company opposes marriage equality.

Yeah, they're Christianists. They don't open on Sundays, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day. They were sued by a Muslim employee for having fired him for not participating in an employee prayer.

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