Nestle’ , for their unethical marketing practices abroad - they push baby formula in third-world areas, where a) access to clean water is rare, and b) the average family is unable to afford formula, so they water it down and babies wind up ill or malnourished. There are LOTS of Nestle’ products, unfortunately.
Domino’s, for their anti-choice stance. Also their “pizza” sucks.
Wal-Mart - for their practice of coming into small towns and destroying local businesses.
–tygre
Temporary Employment services.
I think they are doing employees a disservice.
Thank you, C3. As to WHOM I boycott, they are mostly food companies which mistreat animals before/during slaughter (McDonald’s and KFC being the most prominent.) I also boycott Taco Bell for lying to vegetarians about ingredients (their sour cream has gelatin) and Proctor&Gamble for horrific testing methods. But, like I said, do you have any idea how many products Proctor&Gamble makes? I think they even made this thread…
Every major sports team and or player. I do not/will not buy any merchandise, tickets, etc. I will watch on TV, and I’m an avid fan of all sports. But they will not get my $$$. They need a reality check.
I do not support any Hollywood bozo, via movies or rentals. I avoid their establishments as well. Fat Oprah and her contributions to the demise of critical thinking is on the list too.
I boycot my local news rags, The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News. Crap - both of them.
tygre wrote:
That’s a myth. If Domino’s Pizza ever did support anti-abortion organizations, they no longer do so. This is addressed in Domino’s Pizza’s own FAQ at http://www.dominos.com/About/faq.cfm#q20.
However, I don’t know if I can say the same for Carl’s Junior.
Shell Petrol for their vile practices in Nigeria
Nestle for their formula hawking
Various cafes and shops which have annoyed the crap out of me over the years 
One particular checkout operator who ALWAYS puts the raw meat with the other stuff and then ARGUES when I ask for another bag.
That’s bad news about Amazon 
I do use them but I will try harder not to. It’s just that if I want to order books from the US, they are the cheapest most reliable shippers. I do try to boycott large bookshop chains as well. They influence publishers to drive price per book down and the book shops are now getting an IMO unreasonable amount of input into publishers buying decisions
Tygre
I agree about Wal Mart.
Unfortunatly there is almost no other place to go.
I’m a hardware kind of guy and the good old stores that had everything are long since run out of buisness. I’m stuck with Wally’s selection that is prepared exclusively for the suit and tie chap.
Has Cracker Barrel ever abandoned its anti-gay hiring/firing policies? What was participation in a boycott has turned into habit with me.
I don’t buy any caps, T-shirts, or other clothing with the names of for-profit companies on them. They want me to advertise for them, let them pay me. But that isn’t exactly a boycott; I’ll still buy the companies’ other products if I’m so inclined.
Human rights violations is part of it, but the thought that my dollars might be used to expand those violations into free and democratic countries is the crucial issue for me. All countries have some degree of human rights violations, but China is not only worse than most, but a long-run threat to others.
Re NAMBLA: I see that Amazon also sells Hitler’s * Mein Kampf, * Marx and Engels’ * The Communist Manifesto, * and de Sade’s * Justine. * Further reasons for boycott?
Nestle’s for my family too. That means no Willy Wonka candy, no Friskies for the cat, no Juicy Juice for the kids, no Contadina or Libby’s. It goes on and on, but we’ve adjusted. It’s more than that they want to sell their artificial baby milk product in underdeveloped countries, it’s that they have systematically figured out exactly how much free formula to give the mothers and when so that their milk dries up even when they didn’t intend on weaning completely. They are just plain evil.
I don’t actively boycott anyone/anything, but it seems that the female population of this planet has conducted an amazingly effective boycott of me for more than a decade
McDonalds. They tend to flaut the zoning regulations of many communities where their restaurants are lcoated. Several years ago, I worked as a planner in a small Southwestern city – the four McDonalds outlets located there accounted for about 10% of the sign code violations I had to deal with.
I, too, boycott MCnastie’s
when they came into my home town they put up their sign in the middle of my sunset view from my backporch.
I have even gotten some of my friends to boycott as well.
heheheh
I don’t have any real hard and fast boycotts, but whenever I have a choice between a huge coporate megaglomerate and something smaller, I’ll go smaller. With the exception of one or two places that have given me excellent service in the past.
Any of you folks tried to buy stuff for a party of union activists? shudder I ended up buying some noname beer.
I can’t even remember all the things I’ve boycotted. Nestle, the diamond industry (deBeers, etc for their practices in Sierra Leone), Exxon, WalMart, the Red Cross (for not accepting blood from gay donors)… I’m sure there are more that I’m not remembering.
Barnes & Noble for their scorched earth policy of entering malls (they extort the mall owners into kicking out any competition)
Auto Zone & Discount Auto Parts: for sucking in general
Pro sports teams: at least until I get a viewer subsidy check - pay me and I’ll watch
Belk’s: They harassed the hell out of me for a $10 payment even though I had already paid it.
One particular Wal-Mart in town: the one where all the mutants and freaks shop
Disney as much as possible
Blockbuster Video: for their 2,3,4,5 day rentals. Try renting movies for yourself and games for the kids when they all have different return dates.
You ARE kidding, right?
I won’t buy any magazine that accepts tobacco advertisements.
Oh, and a local pizza place for suddenly deciding that they didn’t deliver in my neighborhood anymore.
Hmmm. Sounds like they were boycotting you.
Well, let’s just say * I * wouldn’t boycott Amazon for that reason.
Call it testing Robin H’s principles.