Go Woke & Go Broke! New list of boycotted brands..

Ah yes - there was quite a stooshie over that one!

They were - I believe - having orders for breast binders delivered to the store in plain package for girls to collect (Lush store in a mainline London train station - just where teen girls will arrive when coming into town for a day our shopping). They also did a clothes swap didn’t they (so you could swap your ‘gender’ clothes). Lush are pretty well known for this nonsense - getting staff to wear only an apron (and nothing else) or a white t-shirt and encouraging customers to kiss it (did they have lippy on?) but you can imagine where these staff members were getting kissed.

It’s like a couple of 12 year old boys jagged up on sunny delight and skittles are writing their sales and marketing plans.

Screwfix and B&Q are woke as fuck, (both owned by Kingfisher.)
Toolstation don't take blokes indecently exposing themselves to female staff members seriously (no actual CCTV in store, the cameras are dummies.) I don't know if that's the case in all of them or just our local.
I think Homebase are the only sensible ones left.

Wickes - I've been driving past them to another DIY store for the past year or so.

But that was the one found to be giving out binders to girls (under the counter job in plain packaging), so maybe they have decided to keep their nose clean for the time being.

I'm sorry to be late, but what on earth?! What now?

I really hope, one day, companies will concentrate on selling their stuff at a good price and treating their employees and suppliers fairly, just that, (well okay add looking after the environment), and just. stop all the virtue signalling stuff. Because as soon as it's no longer fashionable it will be dropped without a second thought anyway.

Fat Face - granted they haven’t gone all out rainbow but have posters in their window. which is useful as I was needing to buy some summery clothes for our furnace of an office, so rolled by eyes, muttered ‘fuck that’ and spent my money elsewhere.

Amazingly the Lush next door to the one in the station have nada rainbow in their store. But that was the one found to be giving out binders to girls (under the counter job in plain packaging), so maybe they have decided to keep their nose clean for the time being.

Lego again...

Nothing on Travelodge's FB page that I can see.

I always found Premier Inn overpriced fir what it is. Also, a lot of its restaurants are closing so it doesn't even have that over Travelodge.

Going to add Whitbread/Premier Inn to this list. Their website is neutral so didn’t realise initially but the premier inn facebook page makes their allegiance to the ideology obvious and progress pride flag and stonewall endorsements are prominently displayed at their properties - flag may just be for June but it's very in your face

Shame I often used premier inn for short stays as usually a decent mattress and reasonable price but I’ll be looking elsewhere next time.

Boycotting does have an effect:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2024/02/29/bud-light-trans-boycott-world-biggest-brewer-ab-inbev/

That’ll be the super drug, the responsible comoany that will sell you testosterone without any questions or checks.
can that be ethical?

Woke, I’m afraid. Superdrug, too.

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/superdrug_superdrug-superdrugtalent-whereyoucanbeyou-activity-7117872715364978688-QJX5

https://www.boots-uk.com/newsroom/news/supporting-global-pride-month-at-boots-uk/

I’ve not touched Barclays since apartheid, but you really are narrowing your options if you are looking for mainstream retailers which don’t support trans rights. You are well served with media, at least.

Thanks Joke. I've boycotted Amazon for over 5 years now. Us old leftists abandoned Barclays decades ago. The others are a work in progress. The wall is coming down though....

At least we don’t have to boycott Newhub, the New Zealand media outlet that so shamelessly lied about KJ Keen - because they’re being shut down!

Also Vice has gone too.

It seems people don’t trust a lying news source for some reason.

"Screwfix is working with Stonewall, the leading charity for lesbian, gay, bi and trans equality, and partnering with MIND to promote mental health."

https://www.kingfisher.com/en/responsible-business/Sustainabilitycasestudies/responsible-business---colleagues/diversity-partners-in-the-uk.html

Here's the full list of the Top 100 Stonewall approved companies - you can add those to the list. They include Network Rail, Amazon, NHS England, HSBC, Barclays and Tescos.

Add vodafone and O2 as well.

Boycott away!

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/top-100-employers/full-list

Thanks for this.

Just about to have a zoom with WRN re joining - hurrah!
https://www.womensrights.network/

Adidas
Billingtons
Bodyform
Body Shop
British Library
Burberry
Calvin Klein
Clarks
Dorset Cereal
Etsy
House of Fraser
Lush
Oreo
B&Q
M&S
John Lewis
Primark
Always
Gillette
Estée Lauder inc. Jo Malone, CK, MAC, Clinique
Monsoon
Seafolly
Starbucks
Tate Gallery
Nike
Alpro
Waterstones
The North Face
Mattel
Flora
Innocent
Waitrose
Tampax
Sainsburys
The Cooperative Bank
McCain
Oxfam
Hat Trick Productions
Halifax
New Zealand & all products from NZ
Wagamama
Wickes
Bud Light
Costa Coffee
Coutts/Natwest
Vogue
Campbells
Braun
BBC Radio 6 music
Kew Gardens
Virgin Atlantic
Tesco
Superdry
London Bridge station
Ripcurl
Pets At Home

Updated

Julie B has written about this, specifically the Body Shop, in the Spectator. I admit it gave me a few mean minded chuckles

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-welcome-demise-of-the-smug-shop/

Has anyone mentioned Rip Curl - although they are backtracking.

Boots - is that on there?

Monsoon.

Who paid for the prom dress for the man who was asked to leave the ladies changing room.

www.independent.co.uk/life-style/monsoon-non-binary-dressing-room-b2057108.html

John Lewis now. 🙁

You got Oxfam down twice

Not sorry to see body shop go, that tweet was nasty. Wonder if the social media team and senior management learnt anything.