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We need to slow the roll on the whole holiday, it's gotten absolutely insanely out of hand.
We get each other used books and home made gifts nowadays, usually preserves and jelly and various processed goods. I don't wanna give other people expensive clutter.
That sounds great, I was gifted a make your own hot sauce kit some years ago that I never used and broke that out recently, I came up with a pretty great (imo) pineapple hot sauce that I think I'm going to be gifting haha.
In this current timeline, "boycott" just means millions of us are about to start shoveling millions of dollars out of the US economy and into the offshore accounts of healthcare companies that don't know what taxes even are, and those of us who don't die are going to be too poor to afford luxuries like "Amazon Prime" or "food."
The apparent fact that a store would try to sell to a group while avoid hiring from that same group, is utterly absurd.
Not that absurd when you consider American government hasn't been enforcing their monopoly laws.
I’m going to do a buy nothing Christmas
I don’t celebrate Christo-fascist holidays anyway, so fucking stoopid.
Yes. Boycott target and Amazon. Do all your shopping at Walmart.
I'm still boycotting Amazon for the poor treatment of their warehouse workers.
Im not buying shit from anyone. Even my son's gift's this year will be sourced second hand and from small retailers. They made my vote woth nothing, I'm not buying their garbage landfill trash!
Still boycotting big corps since inauguration. This made me find a refill store near me, repurpose more items (which actually looks real cool and saves me money), shop second hand, shop local for as much as possible.
Fuck em.
So continue what a lot of us were already doing?
Yeah but it's trendy now and will be for two or maybe even three whole days.
2 or 3 days won't even register on a weekly report if people buy the products that they didn't buy after the 3 days.
Just quit using them altogether. It is inconvenient and it is more expensive but making a stand should have a price. Otherwise it would have been just a sensible decision.
Hey, remember when millions of people didn't buy anything for a single day in protest to show how much power they had and hurt the corporations in the wallets?
Remember the next day when millions of people then bought the stuff they waited a day for.
Yeah, like, I canceled Prime nearly a year ago now and just shop elsewhere. I only buy from companies with shitty policies like these if there's no other realistic option (e.g. when something is only available on Amazon :/).
I've been boycotting these stores since the inauguration.
TBH, I've been boycotting stores in general, thanks to the pedoeconomy.
I would recommend cutting Amazon anyway. You don't realize how much useless junk you buy when it's just that easily available. I've saved so much money since I cut it.
I don't think a boycott is sufficient. We need to gum up the works. We need to enshittify as customers.
We need to waste employee time so they can't do things that are profitable for the company.
I've received death threats for saying this.
Buy stuff, unbox it, return it for a refund. Please only do this to big players like Amazon.
They pretend it's cheap but it's only cheap when it's a tiny percentage of their sales - the reality is returns are costly for all businesses.
Amazon wanted to give me $46 dollars for a $250 purchase to keep it. My reason for returning is because it's broken. Why would I want to keep a broken item
I'm doing my part! I've boycotted them already for supporting the fascist dictator who threatened my country.
Let's not buy anything from them even harder!!
I browse Amazon all the time. I add stuff to my cart and leave it for weeks. Then I delete it all.
All parking lots with flock surveillance systems should be boycotted, at a minimum.
Be a real shame if you accidentally backed into one of those camera systems and knocked it over, too.
You'd likely have to pay for it
Much better way to get rid of them: Submit a FOIA request for their data. So far many cities are simply getting rid of them to prevent that data being public
Even if the government is happy to comply with the request, the data is a powerful tool to sway public sentiment. Camera near some bars? Request the data from 1:30-2:30 each weekend morning. Near a church? Request the Sunday morning data. Whole lot of people will realize how dangerous Flock cameras are when you anonymously post lists of people doing various things to one of those neighborhood apps
Note: The government can charge "reasonable" amounts based on costs incurred complying with a FOIA request. I recommend keeping your requests narrow as a result
Y’all are still shopping at these places? It’s been over a year since I last went to HD (just before I found out about their pro-Trump donations) and even longer since I shopped from Target or Amazon. Fuck all three of them.
I'm pretty sure Target has been losing money and has even gotten a new CEO, so clearly what we've already been doing has been working. Save yourself money anyway.
If organizations want to make actual change, they need to stop it with the one-day boycotts. We shouldn't ever be giving these companies money. The longer you go without using Amazon and Target, the easier it gets.
If organizations want to make actual change, they need to stop it with the one-day boycotts.
Same goes for one day protests. If you want the government to be changed it needs constant and increasing pressure.
I’ve been boycotting all US products and services online and offline since Trump 2.0. Now I’m working on avoiding the most stubborn things like Mastercard and visa, but I’m getting there.
this is good practice for organizing a general strike
Involuntary boycott cause no one can afford jack shit rn
come on, target. stop this foolishness. we need each other.
but you clearly need me way more than i need you.
Haven't been to Target since January and turns out I don't need them.
Ironically, Prime is where The Man in the High Castle adaptation came from.
Wouldn't a buycot make more sense? Companies losing business will just blame it on the economy. Companies performing better than their competitors would be most likely to make the correlation.
I don't find that to be a particularly helpful boycott. Boycotting several large corporations like that takes a lot of effort. That's effort that can be used for more effectively directly fighting Trump
Call your representatives, protest, rally voters, etc. are far more effective with less impact on your life