Right now Barilla Pasta is getting a lot of press for being against gay marriage.
Damn, that's too bad. That's my preferred brand of pasta. I guess I'll go with the fresh Buitoni brand instead.
People boycott for many reasons. I stopped shopping at Target in 2010 when it was revealed that the owner used corporate funds (via Citizens United) to support a far-right-wing candidate in Minnesota.
Did I mean to "make an effort to make sure people who believe this wrong thing are impoverished so they can't afford to buy votes"? No. I merely meant to make sure that the money I spent was not enriching someone who would use that same money to directly advocate for causes I adamantly would not & do not support.
On the other hand, I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart because their very model destroys main-street businesses & guts small towns. The CEO's political beliefs do not figure into that decision. However, I'm sure most CEOs are adroit enough to know that if a consumer knew said CEO's political beliefs that s/he would take that info into consideration when deciding when & where to make purchases. That was caused a lot of the incredulity when the owner of Chick-Fil-A made his anti-homosexual beliefs known: why would he reveal such information & risk losing so many customers when it would be much more prudent to keep those ideas close to the breast? Revelation made little business sense.
Damn, that's too bad. That's my preferred brand of pasta. I guess I'll go with the fresh Buitoni brand instead.
People boycott for many reasons. I stopped shopping at Target in 2010 when it was revealed that the owner used corporate funds (via Citizens United) to support a far-right-wing candidate in Minnesota.
Did I mean to "make an effort to make sure people who believe this wrong thing are impoverished so they can't afford to buy votes"? No. I merely meant to make sure that the money I spent was not enriching someone who would use that same money to directly advocate for causes I adamantly would not & do not support.
On the other hand, I stopped shopping at Wal-Mart because their very model destroys main-street businesses & guts small towns. The CEO's political beliefs do not figure into that decision. However, I'm sure most CEOs are adroit enough to know that if a consumer knew said CEO's political beliefs that s/he would take that info into consideration when deciding when & where to make purchases. That was caused a lot of the incredulity when the owner of Chick-Fil-A made his anti-homosexual beliefs known: why would he reveal such information & risk losing so many customers when it would be much more prudent to keep those ideas close to the breast? Revelation made little business sense.
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