to ask if anyone has boycotted stores etc

[spence82]

Have any of you boycotted any shops or particular brands because you don't agree with some of there policies?

I often see on things like fb or twitter people saying this. For example people boycotting tesco due to the bad taste 'mental' patient Halloween costume.

I will be honest and say I've never even thought about boycotting somewhere.

[5madthings]

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[5madthings]

There is a store in a town near me that is owned ans run by a man who has stood as a ukip cacandidate, so yes I boycott.

Ans the nestle thing is re nestle breaking the who code on baby milk advertising and misleading sEllis of formula and promoting it in countries where there is no access to clean watee leading to the unnecessary death of babies.

[TheEnchantedForest]

imalooney

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott

www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/nestle-baby-milk-scandal-food-industry-standards

unlatched.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/why-nestle-is-evil-it-goes-beyond-just-infant-formula/

[OorWullie]

I boycott Asda because their produce is shit. I had to chuck away almost all my fruit and veg because it didn't keep and several chicken breasts because they became inedible after cooking (cooked in exactly the same way as i always do) the last time i shopped there.


would also love to boycott my local shop but since i work there and it's the onky shop within a 20 mile radius i don't have much choice. it was much better when it was independently owned.

[embeddedclaws]

Sainsbury on customer service grounds. I used to spend 100 plus weekly there, but gave up on them due to rudeness on a five quid exchange of an unworn item in a sealed packet. Tried them again only last week as it'd been years and was told "oh that's a lot of shopping, we're low on bags and will only give four to each customer but you can buy bags for life". I'd left my bags in the boot and wasn't up for dragging a baby and two toddlers back to get them so I suggested I'd go to tesco where I could not only have enough bags to put a weekly shop in but their staff will happily help you pack! I got bags with bad grace. One at a time, requesting each individually as shopping piled up and so I couldn't sort it into different bags. Plus it costs way more, it borderline surreal how petty our local is. The customer on the next till made me laugh, she took four bags then when they ran out just left two thirds of her shop on the belt. Surely the cost of employing someone to put it all back is far more than a few bags?

I use desirable bags normally, just a forgetful moment..

[Caitlin17]

I boycotted and continue to boycott Murdoch owned newspapers decades ago.

I also boycott Tesco as I refuse to put a penny in the pocket of Dame Shirley Porter after her appalling treatment of people in social housing in Westminster city council area.

[manicinsomniac]

As a teenager I tried boycotting all Proctor and Gamble products due to animal testing. I also thought I was boycotting Nestle.

But both make/made too many products for me to keep it up.

[Unexpected]

I boycott our local branch of Boots because they are all so miserable in there. It's a small branch with four regular staff whom I recognise, and the pharmacist. The pharmacist is generally helpful but the rest of the staff honestly act as if they have far better things to be doing with their time and are just serving customers as a special favour. They now also have a full-time security guard which seems a bit disconcerting for a small shop with only 3 aisles in a quite safe Home Counties type of village. I used to come out either deflated or raging every time I went in there until I realised that a) there are two other perfectly good pharmacies in the village and b) because it's a small branch, they mostly don't have whatever hair colour, shampoo etc I am looking for anyway!

[Caitlin17]

If there are senior management from Asda, Sainsburys, Lidl or Aldi reading this. I don't shop in your shops either but I'm not actively boycotting you. Just Tesco.

I used to boycott all South African fruit and wine but not now. I still boycott Israeli products.

[mindthegap79]

Top to Bottom curtain shop in Bristol. I was collecting some curtains for a very poorly friend and rang ahead to check they were ready. I was tokd they probably were ready but they couldn't be expected to check, as that would involve going downstairs and she'd just sat down with a cup of tea

I also loathe B&Q for their crappy customer service and the fact that products are often damaged and missing parts but they're still sat one the shelves at full price.

I prefer small local shops and use them as much as possible. It does sadden me that on my local high street there isn't a greengrocer, butcher, baker or even so much as a candlestick maker and yet we have 4 estate agents and 4 banks.

[Lovecat]

:o at being called Lovechild...

I forgot, I also boycott one branch of the 2 Costa Coffees in our town. The woman on the till let me get as far as saying 'please may I...' and then turned to the bloke standing in the queue behind me and proceeded to have an animated conversation with him. I walked out. She realised and called after me that she was so, so sorry. I may have loudly said something about her astonishing rudeness and have never been back. Which is a pain because I like their coffee and the other branch is not in a convenient location, but not while she's still working there...

[ppeatfruit]

Sorry Lovecat I wondered if it was right but couldn't be bothered to scroll back (I was tired yesterday!).

I noticed some posters boycott Costas and I understand the Starbucks boycott but not the Costas ;could someone explain for me?. They make the best decaff soya capps ever IME and I DO try the independents but end up burning my mouth on boiling tasteless or too strong drinks !

[indieblack]

Another Lady Porter Tesco boycotter here. We also avoid Murdoch press and Natwest after they lost a cash deposit, called me a liar when I complained and failed to apologise when they finally admitted their mistake.

[kali110]

Huge retail shop i worked in wouldnt allow customers to use staff toilets. They werent insured for customers to use staff areas. Staff cant use common sense if theyre told customers arent allowed in certain areas under no circumstances.

Im going to be shopping in lush more now though.

Boycott kurt keiger too. Wouldnt refund expensive pair of shoes id had on for less than 15 minutes. Bloody straps wouldn't stay up!

Bbs coffee chain. Asked me too an interview when i left uni and then gave me 2 hours too see how i got on whilst saying he hoped it would give his other staff kick up the arse. Then never called me again.
It was fine next day big chain rang me asking me to come back and work for them.
Now boycott these for doing nothing about staff and managers bullying other staff.

[weeblueberry]

I can't think of any companies I 'boycott' as such.

I'm interested though for those of you who boycott Starbucks and Amazon on a tax related front, do you do the same with Facebook? Or Google....or Apple....or eBay.... Because they're all guilty of the exact same thing.

I genuinely don't have an issue with people boycotting companies but at least would hope they're consistent with it.

[Harrietsferrets]

I started boycotting Next after the way they behaved towards my 6 yr old and now so does my mum when I explained why.

[Hairylegs47]

I refuse to buy warm water prawns from any shop and I won't order a meal containing them.
The way the prawns are farmed disgusts me. The only person 'winning' is the producer.
Ethical won't get my business after a 7 hour flight with no entertainment screens - I wasn't bothered by that, it was they way the stewards spoke to passengers asking if or when it would be fixed. Rude isn't the word. They could've just made an announcement that they weren't working, but no. In the end someone fixed it by switching it on and off again. And the stewards were STILL arsey.
Halfords, they sold me a Satnav that stopped working after an hour. I rang them, they told me to take it to any store and they replace it. Not in Bolton they didn't. The manager kept on saying 'With all due respect madam, you have to take it back to where you bought it' as he was sniggering. In the end I said 'Stop saying that, you have no respect, your actions speak louder than what you are actually saying'.

[ppeatfruit]

Me also Hairylegs Along with prawns from half way across the world I won't buy non organic meat esp. from supermarkets. The mass meat industry is vile IMO.

I'm also on a thread about meanness and I posted that everyone who could afford it should buy organic products (or non treated from markets) basically to keep the world in a fit state for our dcs and dgc .

[Minicooper]

I boycott a high profile charity and avoid any of their events after they treated dh and other employees appallingly. A shame as I was previously a great supporter of them. Although I think they do good work, I will not support them while the current CEO is in post.

[WhatchaMaCalllit]

I boycotted Benetton stores in the 90's and since due to their awful advertising campaign back then. I have never (knowingly) worn Benetton clothes and I wont.

[DesertRose1958]

Most of the people I know boycotted British and American companies when Iraq was invaded. It took them hours to do there shopping. I didn't join the boycott because I just thought to myself there's hundreds of thousands of people from these countries who are also against what's going on so why should I go against them by joining the boycott.

[Theodorous]

Lush because they stink of shot and find plane stupid yet I see their stinking shit being imported here 4000 miles away. I hope they go bust and are forced to use the stinking crap themselves as a punishment. Also for the smuggo "hand made by Paul" stickers. Who needs to know the name of the student who packed your soap?

[BoffinMum]

I have little to do with the NSPCC because they appear to approach safeguarding as a business opportunity, and spend a lot of time printing stupid leaflets that get normal parents into a total panic about whether they can leave older children at home, ignore a crying baby for ten minutes, etc. They link in my mind to the mad people who were building careers setting up the now defunct Vetting and Barring Scheme, mainly journalists who made a very nice living whipping people up into a frenzy about child protection making us the most frenetically nervous country in Europe.

[joanofarchitrave]

I find this thread very heartening.

I do boycott in my personal life but use products at work from companies I boycott. It isn't my decision what gets bought.

Nestle.
Danone (not hard).
Murdoch media.
Tesco for their shitness to their suppliers.

I don't think councils have much option re planning permission for supermarkets. I believe that if councils turn them down, supermarkets have enough money to pay for endless legal representation to contest the decision. Councils are scared of being bankrupted by actions like that.