Same thing happened to my son (about two months ago). I try my best to not shop there, but it is hard to avoid all of the time.
I still have not gone to France and will not use their products.
May I ask what happened?
My own personal boycott of of Perkins has been successful since I posted this more than two years ago. Gawd, I hate that place…
It might interest you to know that Exxon wasn’t the bad guy here. I worked for the law firm representing the plaintifs against Exxon, and during the time I was there, I read thousands of documents about that incident, from the chain of events that happened upon the initial crash, to the grocery lists that the cooks had in the galley, to crewmen’s diaries.
The boat personnel called the coast guard AND the spill response agancy within minutes of the crash.
Shortly after the incident, I was employed at an environmental company, one of their key responsibilities was in keeping a database of over 5000 response personnel.
In 1999, I was a project manager for an environmental company (no, NOT the greenpeace lobbyist type, the kind that actually do physical labor to CORRECT environmental problems) doing landfill closures in and around the prince william sound, INCLUDING soil sampling. There are plenty of fish, seal, moose, all kinds of critters there, and the shores and water is as pristine as it ever was.
You may, or may not change your mind, but as a former Alaskan of 34 years, who worked closely on several related projects, I can promise you that it is FAR different from what the media propaganda would have you believe.
Just a thought. 
Some great boycotts here. I love to see people voting with their wallets !
I don’t buy Nike products because of their commercials.
I don’t buy any tires other than Goodyear because they’re the only American tire company left besides Cooper. Their pension plan stlll supports my relatives.
I don’t buy Toyotas, Nissans, Mazdas, Mitsubishis, or Hondas. The Japanese shot at my father in WWII and don’t deserve my business, ever. My kids know that if they buy japanese cars on their own in the future they will have to park them in the street, not in my driveway.
I understand your animosity, but wonder if you include Lamborghini, Volkswagen, Porsche, Audi, Ferrarri and BMW in your personal boycott?
My philosophy is that you don’t make children pay for the sins of their fathers. Or grandfathers. (Did the Jews kill Jesus?) Personally, I am very glad that we have been able to forge peace with the Italians, Germans, and Japanese if for no other reason than because friends don’t shoot at you.
Will my grandchildren be buying Iraqi, Saudi and Afghani cars in 50 years?
By the grace of God, I hope so.
Mithril, Whole Foods Market-was Fresh Fields at one time, I think sells loads of Burt’s Bees products.
I’m adding another to my list, starting today. Heinz, because of the connection to John Kerry…
While I can’t speak for Sublight, I can offer my own experience of travelling to the US … up until about 7 or 8 years ago if you’re Irish you had to have a visa to go to the US on holiday, this was then relaxed and you had to fill out a visa waiver form at the airport before departure (if you’re flying to the US from Ireland you have to go through Immigration in Ireland - before you even get on the plane). Now I live in a small coastal town that offers a lot of seasonal work in hotels and the like - and in my younger days I liked to travel a lot, so I’d work for so many months, then take off somewhere and find another job when I got home. I’d all my life wanted to go to America, so when they relaxed the visa restriction, I got a temp job in a supermarket for 6 months to fund my trip. I got to the airport all excited, and went to the Immigration desk I hand the fella at the desk everything I had - passport, travellers cheques, plane ticket - he asked if I’d been to America before and I said no, then he asked me where was I currently employed and I said I was between jobs. He looked at me. There was a deathly hush. I suddenly realised “*uck, he’s not going to let me through”, I started babbling on about living in a resort town and that I’d be getting my regular summer job in a hotel when I came back (I was travelling in late March), he starts shuffling the stuff I’d dumped on the desk, and caught sight of the wallet containing the traveller’s cheques. He frowns, “how much spending money do you have?” I had something like $2,000 between the cheques and cash (no credit cards). I was by now nearly wetting myself in fear of a burley security guy handcuffing me and escorting me out of the airport. He looks at me again and after an agonisingly long pause he said OK, stamped my passport and let me through. My legs nearly went from under me and I was barely able to walk away from the desk.
I don’t smoke, drink, do drugs, and have never been in any form of trouble whatsoever in my life, when I have a job, I work damn hard to the best of my abilities and most of my employers ('cept one git who more or less fired me for being off with flu) have nothing but good things to say about me - in other words, I’m a decent law abiding citizen, and just because I wasn’t at that precise moment in time employed someone had the right to apparently tell me I couldn’t take my holiday in America.
Now I don’t know what other people’s opinion of that is, but I think it’s a bit harsh. I am currently on Carer’s Allowance (looking after my elderly/disabled relatives) and I haven’t had a holiday in over 5 years. I’m hoping that during the summer one of my brothers will take over for me and let me get away for a week -10 days, and I’d really like to go to DisneyWorld, but I sincerely doubt I’ll be able to, as I am “unemployed” and have no guarantee of “work” on my return to Ireland (other than continuing to look after my parents), and taking the visa waiver form at it’s word, I’m not eligable to enter the States under that program
I’m boycotting Chrysler because of employing Celine Dion in their ad campaign.
German’s love this woman and paid her very well to screach an incomprehensible song that was about as powerful or motivating as a fart in church to promote their cars.
When I hear a Celine Dion song I do not think about the open road in a sport, new car. I think about clawing my eyes out and aiming my new caravan off the nearest cliff.
Germans know alot about engineering and styling, but they were wrong, wrong, wrong about picking her as their figure head. Their concept of music and acting differs greatly than ours.
Her ads, which never took off at all with the American Public, have been scaled back.
I wonder who those wacky krauts will pick next to spearhead their product: **David Hasselhof ** ?
I’ll boycott them still.
When I read that in the local paper, I just cackled with glee.
And then you’d need a new van! 
That’s just complete and utter insanity.
Can you at least move to Stoli?
Do any South Carolina Dopers know how on earth Maurice’s is still in business? I figure my boycotting a small locally-owned business is more effective than boycotting Nestle or Wal-Mart, and I haven’t been there since the flag flap and neither has anybody else I know with the possible exception of my father. Their signs always advertise big sales and help wanted, but there are still several locations and they don’t go away! Is there that big a population of unabashed racists and people who just don’t know any better to keep more than one location open? It isn’t even good barbeque!
Oh, and I try not to go to Wal-Mart, but it’s about the only thing open 24 hours and sometimes you just get desperate. But at least I don’t go during normal business hours.