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

[Moonandstarz]

So it's June & so far the big companies that are being heavily boycotted are as follows..

Innocent Drinks & smoothies
Oxfam
Target
Nike
Bud Lite
Lego
NZ products
Starbucks

Who am I missing?

If their design decisions on the new car are as a bad as the marketing, the brand is sunk. Their chief exec is on a time limit.

Total Titter on X has created a great graphic on how Jaguar owners are coming out to support the new branding.😆

Arf! 😄

And isn't it interesting that JaGUar have said their new target market is younger, urban people who want exclusivity? Woke culture is all 'inclusivity, inclusivity, inclusivity' until it comes to money. The poor are still tainted.

Quote from the Jaguar boss:

"We don’t want to necessarily leave all of our customers behind".

The word "necessarily" does some heavy lifting.

Who do they think is their target market? Not surely affluent 30 somethings whose father is a fully paid up member of the gin and jag set. Even if they earn more than average they are struggling with kids, mortgage, whether they can afford VAT on school fees, and whether there will be an inheritance at the end of the day. House prices are much higher than a generation ago, child care is more, and other costs too. Daddy's generation were luckier.

Are they instead aiming for the young international rich? Dubai visiting trustafarians. Hip hop stars? Well paid footballers? Is the idea to compete with the flash sports cars regularly ticketed outside Harrods. It's quite a leap from a home counties golf club car park.

My fella's dad has got a jag, he's a member of an owners club. He's in his 80's.

I cannot wait to see the photos from the Christmas party.

Et tu the Guardian 😭

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/22/jaguar-new-branding-cars-donald-trump

There is something ludicrous about a guy poised to roll out cars that are going to start at a hundred grand boasting about being mega-inclusive.

watching that sixth form performance art, you would have no idea what they were trying to flog. At least the bud light advert had some beer in it.

E45

I like to look on the bright side. I don't know what the future holds for Balenciaguar (thank you YouTube stranger), but somewhere out there is a group of around eight friends who now know exactly what they're wearing to the New Year fancy dress party.

Yeah this. And yeah LOL at the Jaguar boss saying he is all for equality and inclusiveness, and then going on to sell cars most people can't afford.

He may not sell as many now though, after this horrific ad! 😬

I've been boycotting Savers since they decided to allow dogs in. A strange choice for a shop that sells cleaning products and medicine and is generally tiny.

Is it me or has the Boots Christmas advert been edited to remove the pronouns part?

Definitely! 😆 Been edited to shit. Looks like they did have to listen to the 100s of 1000s of people complaining about the hilarious, but also offensive anti-women wokery.

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Adverts are often edited down after some showings of the longer original, in the hope that they just serve as reminders once the audience has already seen the full commercial, and of course because a shorter slot is cheaper.

What can be interesting is what gets left in and what gets taken out. Especially in this case.

I know this is an old thread but I’ve just moved my online shopping from Ocado to Morrison

Congratulations 🙌. Thanks for resurrecting the thread. I didn’t do online shopping at Tesco (which I’ve been boycotting for a while) but did most of my shopping at the local shop. I decided to switch to Morrison. I’ve found that I can get nearly everything I want but I don’t much like their own brands. For some things I go to Amazon. I know this is problematic but I live in an area where it can be difficult to get some things and as these are mainly branded I’m still getting them through a third party. We have to live in the real world and make compromises.

What I have found interesting is that after a short period of adjustment I found I could source an awful lot locally from smaller independent shops or direct from the manufacturers. Also from other online shops. Eg I’ve found a great Scottish shop which has an excellent online service. None of this is more inconvenient or time consuming than the old Tesco routines. I don’t think it is more expensive, although I don’t compare things. If anything I am saving as my shopping is a lot more intentional with fewer impulse buys falling into the trolley.

Because of this I don’t visit Morrison’s as much as I expected. I do miss Tesco in some ways but even if they recanted, issuing a grovelling apology, I probably wouldn’t go back to my old ways.

Hope you tell us how you get on. It can be hard changing shopping habits.

I haven't RTFT but isn't that a copy of the Mermaids gender spectrum thing?

Anyone else hoping that some of these companies redeem themselves in the coming days with statements etc supporting women.

I'd be quite happy if businesses went back to their core purpose; producing something to sell at a profit. Instead of setting themselves up as moral arbiters. They are not, as a group, 'nice guys'. They will say and do whatever works best for thew and their shareholders.

Oh no. I love their shoes. 😢

Oh, I've just bought some Tropics for an upcoming holiday.
As for the long list of places and brands to boycott, I shop mostly in Lidl, the bargain/discount stores like FarmFoods,.and then charity shops.
I live frugally and rarely if ever visit any of the stores on the list so no changes required for me.
However, if sometimes tells me Tunnocks are going ohe boycott list, I will be very upset

I'm looking to change my bank from Lloyds. Does anyone know of a bank with sex-realist views and not promoting the harmful GI?

I had to go into a Lloyds branch recently to close my account. I was quite shocked to see an entire wall dedicated to a giant progress flag. I thought I had walked into the trans alliance HQ by mistake. There were no other posters showing support for other groups.

no but I also will be leaving Lloyds so about to research this