So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I’ll help out.
DeBeers, Blackrock, Exxon, Disney.
Can we even boycott black rock?
Why not?
They own iShares which has some of the biggest ETFs on the market.
Although I don’t know if their competitors are any better.I didn’t know they owned an etf. I always say them as more of a hedge fund where they didn’t have a product for the average person to boycott.
Chick-fil-A
Any animal agriculture company
Putting aside that boycotting doesn’t work and actually has the opposite effect.
Coca-cola
Name a single boycott that ever managed to take down an international corporation that didn’t end up making them more famous then they where before that. Being “boycotted” is even a marketing tool companies like nike have used before.
Did you think this through or did you just want to be contrarian for no actual reason?
The goal isn’t “taking down” a company. It’s to influence their behavior/policies.
ChikFilA stopped donating to anti-gay charities when they were boycotted.
ChikFilA stopped donating to anti-gay charities when they were boycotted.
I feel like now they’re going to say because rightwingers attempted to boycott after that change, that boycotts don’t work…
Because they don’t understand rightwing extremists are bad at boycotting and statistically insignificant to a nationwide chain.
I think what you’re getting at is that the publicity generated by flashy boycott activism only generates free advertising for the companies. Which it certainly can! But that’s also dependent on what is being boycotted and the social and political beliefs behind it. If one group boycotts a product because the company is homophobic, another group buys more of that product because they agree with the company. That sort of thing.
But it isn’t as two dimensional as “boycotting has the opposite effect”. Here are some examples of effective boycotting. Though you did get me interested in how effective boycotting really is, but I couldn’t find any efficacy studies that weren’t behind a paywall…
If you need papers, try sci hub
Wow, thank you for the actually measured response. I’ll have a look at the link you posted!
Do you have sources for this claim?
Giving a company money -> they reinvest that money -> company grows
Not giving a company money -> ??? -> company grows
Everybody knows that, duh!
We both know that you actually don’t think it’s that simple. You just wanted to be contrarian.
I’m actually so correct in what I said that getting targeted with hate campaigns is something companies try to do. As I told another one of you NPCs before, Nike did that exact thing. They intentionally did something that upset a target demographic, those people burned nike products and tried to “boycott” them and it ended up making their sales go up because everyone was talking about them now.
This is such a well known thing that I’m surprised you people got mad at me for saying it. Redditors will get mad at everything for no reason I guess.
They intentionally did something that upset a target demographic, those people burned nike products and tried to “boycott” them and it ended up making their sales go up because everyone was talking about them now.
I bet if you were specific, it was something about supporting a progressive cause that most people support and rightwingers got mad and “protested” by buying Nike products to destroy…
Just because rightwing extremists are the minority and don’t understand how boycotts work, doesn’t mean boycotts don’t work.
Most redditors have been running from life for so long all they know is anger and pain, with the anger being the only anti-pain strategy they have.
This is a lot of text for being completely wrong. Good for you.
That was a very efficient way of saying nothing.
DuPont, source of our microplastic nightmare
And 3M. They both dumped a shit ton of PFAS/PFOA into the ground at every one of their factories around the world.
And teflon and other chemicals used in large quantities while delaying the inevitable reports of danger they pose.
Tencent
Dave’s Auto Body shop
Someone really has a personal gripe on this one ! What’s the story?
I found lug nut in my killer bread!
All of the big ones
Shell gas station. They bought dirty Russian oil
Boycotts aren’t going to kill a company. They are to influence them.
I did boycott ChikFilA when it came out they were supporting homophobic asshats. And once they announced they were dropping those charities, I stopped boycotting.
I use CVS over Walgreens as long as I can get my prescriptions at CVS due to Walgreens stances against women’s health. If Walgreens ever cleans up, I would happily use them more often because they are more convenient and inexpensive for me.
I only go to Shell gas stations as a last resort because they blast ads at you while pumping gas.
At most gas stations, you can mute the ads by pushing the second from the top button, sometimes on the left side sometimes on the right.
I hate the ads too, but muting makes them bearable.
Since these tricks have become common knowledge, they’re all being disabled. New pumps cannot be silenced.
If you need another reason to get an EV, you don’t get ads when you charge at home.
I’ve seen this mute mentioned, but never had it work. Is it for real? Every place has these ads now 😐 I don’t get fuel on my personal vehicle very much much but I drove a lot for work and it is awful.
Sounds like maybe newer pumps don’t work like this? At least in my area, I’ve only had this fail once.
Well I tried this later yesterday on a brand new as of August fuel station, and it worked!
Thanks for the reminder to keep trying.
Did they ever really stop? Honest question, because I’ve heard it go back and forth a lot
They’re still run by evangelical Christians, so I wouldn’t expect a Pride month advert campaign coming from them any time soon.
But yes, they stopped donating to a particular group of charities in 2018/2019. Part of the “then they started donating again” claim was timing and tax records, but the actual donation was made before they changed policy and stopped.
Sounds good, I’ll keep eating at Raising Cane’s instead cause their chicken is so tasty to me
Sorry if this has already been mentioned in the 224 (so far) comments… but another bad guy worth hating is
Hewlett Packard.
Their
“Hey, you need to have our proprietary ink cartrige in your HP inkjet printer plus scanner to print AND to scan as well. The scanner won’t work when you are out of ink”
Is just plain fuckery.
Most of them. There are no “good” corporations only ones that are currently tolerable.
AT&T and basically all of the major US banks
oracle
Isn’t that an unwritten given by now? If not why not?
I envy your ignorance on this.
Stands for One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, not officially but I like to think it is. It’s a corporation built around a database engine.
They have a well deserved terrible reputation based on their commercial practices, including but not exhaustive, shipping full fledged software with functionality locked behind paywalls, buying and demolishing established open source companies/projects, suing the shit out of their customers for license violation (see above), price gouging their customers who often have no other choice than to run their products.
The engine itself is nice and reliable but the business practices of Oracle drives a lot of companies to settle for the competition, at least, those who can afford to leave.deleted by creator
A really shitty tech company.
Oracle hires more lawyers than they do developers then they do things like “oh? You’re using this product in the cloud with the license you purchased? But you didn’t purchase the cloud license”
They also buy technology and proceed to violate whatever license it has, like ZFS.
Thank-you.
Favorite thing I ever read is that oracle has hostages not customers
I’m going to steal that
Yeah long time ago. But they never contributed their chances back to the open source project basically leaving it to languish
Why Vanguard? They primarily offer passive index fund investments at very low costs and are owned by people that have invested in any of their mutual funds. Before Vanguard, the average investor would get screwed by financial advisors who would skim a large portion of investments.
Yeah, my guess is OP is mad they they are the major shareholders of a bunch of awful companies. But when you’re the largest index fund and retirement investment provider in the world you end up owning most of everything.
This isn’t an ideological boycott, this is stuff I avoid bc it’s not great.
ATT (I get better cell service in a subway than I do in my house and I’m on it because my MVNO switched from T-Mobile to att) HP (worlds shittiest hinges) Comcast, Spectrum (parents have comcast, it sucks. My friends have Spectrum, it also sucks)
