Chick-fila? We like their cool billboards, but dont go out of our way to eat there. My wife doesn’t like their politics and frankly there is better chicken now (they used to be one of the best, sure, but others have caught up).
Sizzler is one I boycott. They declared bankruptcy decades ago, closed their doors without warning. Only FT staff got any $, and only managers were FT there, Sizzler deliberately made everyone under FT so no benefits, etc. I knew two very nice people who were badly hurt by that. Laid off without warning, and it took ages for their earned compensation and tips to be divulged and both rcvd a tiny % what they figured their tips had been.
Sizzler also paid waitstaff less than Minimum, based on Tips, but their system did not encourage tips, since you ordered at the counter.
Another place I boycott is Cheesesteak factory, due to their policy of making you wait to make the place look more in demand. They will make you wait 30 minutes or so even if tables are immediately available. Not to mention the food is expensive and just OK.
Not a store, exactly, but I don’t knowingly buy Nestle products, after the whole baby milk scandal (unethical marketing of formula to extremely poor and uneducated folk, resulting in avoidable baby deaths).
I also sorta boycott a local toy shop chain, which I did visit before finding out that the owner’s ‘Christian morals’ not only insist it closes on Sunday, which I don’t have an issue with, but they refuse to sell any Harry Potter merchandise as it ‘promotes witchcraft’, and I don’t like my money going to someone so publicly idiotic.
I was visiting Philadelphia a few years ago and I wanted to have an authentic cheese steak sandwich. Not having a dog in the fight, I got in line at Geno’s because it was closer to my parking space. Then I saw a sign saying “This is America. Speak English.”
So I went to Pat’s and ordered a cheese steak sandwich in English.
I find Walmart’s business model to be repugnant. They treat their employees horribly and have a detrimental effect on the local community where ever they open. I will gladly pay more money for the same item at a locally owned store.
Hobby Lobby doesn’t sell anything I want to buy. I have eaten at Chick Fil A a couple of times and I do not like their food. These decisions do not rise to the level of a boycot
You don’t. They are not telling you that you have to have Sunday as a day of rest, they are just closed then- you can do anything you want, just not buy their product. Many stores close on the weekends. Hell almost the whole US government shuts down. Do you boycott USPS because it is closed on Sundays?
I was in Berlin a few days ago, the huge, cosmopolitan capital city of one of the most athiest-leaning countries in the Western World, and trying to find a business establishment other than a hotel or restaurant open on Sunday was virtually impossible, everything from huge supermarkets to tiny souvenir kiosks were shuttered up tight, but somehow the Germans aren’t up in arms about archaic, oppressive religious beliefs infringing on their freedom, but instead seem to believe that a gov’t mandated day off for the vast majority of citizens results in a net positive for society as a whole.
Wetherspoons. Picture a UK national pub chain that specialises in high quality real beer produced by small independent breweries. And very inexpensive. Which is also a pub chain which buys and renovates - beautifully, I might add - historic buildings to site its pubs in, from the Imperial Hotel in Exeter, to the Opera House in Tunbridge Wells - there are many, many examples of this. Even when the buildings are of lesser significance, they are renovated to preserve local history, like the Jack Fairman in Horley.
The founder is a very vocal supporter of Brexit. A (very rare) poster-boy businessman for it.
Burger King, since they bought Tim Horton’s so they can move their headquarters to Canada to avoid paying US taxes.
Chik-Fil-A for obvious reasons.
I was boycotting Target when they were contributing to Mark Dayton’s homophobic opponent in the Minnesota gubernatorial race (ironic since Dayton is the scion of their founding family), but they changed their view on the subject so I have started going back.
Years ago, I was a Walmart customer. Then I found out they were number one on the NLRB’s violations list year after year.
Denny’s restaurants consistently claims it’s not company policy, but I kept reading of black people being hassled or simply ignored at Denny’s. I like the food, but I don’t go there.
I’m a big supporter of separation of church and state. Domino’s and Hobbity Lobbity have owners who donate heavily to those who lobby to destroy it. I go to their competitors’ stores.
I quit a local gym that had unethical billing practices. Instead of sending out annual membership bills, they’d have a collection agency do it, with an undeserved late fee tacked on.
My favorite hot dog brand is Nathan’s Famous. I switched to Hebrew National, my second favorite, when I read that the owner of NF was a big friend and supporter of President Chump, even holding a fund raiser for him.
I disagree. There are several stores very close to my house that I don’t go to and where the reason I don’t go became evident before I’d bought from them, but which I would have bought from otherwise. Namely, greengrocers specializing in local produce: I go to several others, but not to those which offer unpasteurized milk. There are a couple I’d actually entered and started shopping at before seeing the sign.
None of my former clients is a retail chain, but several of them make end-consumer products. There are several whose products I won’t buy, or whose products from certain types I won’t buy, if an alternative is available. Bad production practices, bad safety practices, or just considering them a bunch of murderous %/(%&($·/&$·/(!V=·.
