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Will you be boycotting the top 100 retailers on Black Friday?

Will you be boycotting the top 100 retailers?

  • Yes! Down with the 1%!

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • No! I'll be shopping!

    Votes: 10 24.4%

  • I support the boycott, but I don't shop on Black Friday.

    Votes: 8 19.5%

  • I don't support the boycott and I won't be shopping on Black Friday.

    Votes: 22 53.7%
  • Total voters
    41
I completely understand what OWS is trying to do. I mean, I hate people who work hard to produce goods and services that I want or need and provide them at prices I can afford. I really wish American retailers would stop making a profit. What they should do is make and sell things that I don't want or need and charge prices that will guarantee that they go out of business. Honestly, the world would be a better place if we lived in mud huts and had to hunt for our food with home-made tools. Then there wouldn't be all those unfair social pressures to get a job because everyone would be just fighting for their own survival.

Sorry, a little over the top?
 
Idiotic, knee-jerk reaction conceived by an adolescent mindset unable to grasp the principles of action versus reaction.

Yeah, in the worst economy in recent memory let's boycott retailers on the biggest money day of the year for them, so that in 2012 we can see a few hundred thousand more unemployed people when retail establishments that are just hanging on by their fingernails completely collapse and burn.

That said, we don't do Christmas so I won't be doing any shopping at all. Don't worry, folks, the pittance that I could spend even if I wanted to wouldn't effect the economy any more than a single drop affects the content of the Pacific Ocean.
 
Funny how OWC thinks a boycott will hurt big business. Did it ever occur to them the number of local and State programs that depend on sales tax for funding. Yeh, hurt big business and cut off revenue for the programs that help the ones they claim they represent.

I don't shop on the friday after thanksgiving. What shopping we do is before or after the mad shopping days. Hate crowds.
 
Redress said:
I might buy from Amazon, but not the rest.



That would actually be working against their goals. They want to buy things, just not from big Wall Street/bigtime stores.
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Those stores employ people. If the occu-tards hurt those companies, they hurt the working class folks that work for those companies.
 
radcen said:
The whole thing, like so much of the OWS "movement", is poorly thought out. Ok, don't buy from big retailers, buy from small retailers. But, small retailers get the same goods from the same big multi-national manufacturers that the big retailers do, so the big manufacturers that they have been railing against win anyway... again.

Like somebody else said, if you really want to make a difference, forgo Christmas altogether.
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It is good for small business to buy from them instead. Can't argue with that.
 
radcen said:
Like somebody else said, if you really want to make a difference, forgo Christmas altogether.
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How do you want local, State, govt. to make up the loss sales tax revenue, if people don't purchase items?
Many local and State services for the poor are funded by taxes other than income tax.
 
I bocott Wal-Mart year-round. Not because I hate big companies, but because I hate having to deal with the hoople-heads that shop there.

I was in Wal-Mart tonight--because the old lady can't seem to go any-****in-where-else--and got in line behind some dumb bitch that didn't know how to swipe her ****ing debit card. Then, after they cleared that hurdle, her stupid as didn't know her PIN and had to call her husband.
 
LOL, this is going to fail so miserably.

Yeah, getting dragged to black Friday shopping this year though I don't think they're doing the door buster stuff...thank god.

On the plus side, having all my Christmas shopping done before December takes a load of stress off.
 
Josie said:
Some Occupiers are organizing boycotts against the top 100 retailers on Black Friday.

OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY

Here are the top 100 retailers:

2011 Top 100 Retailers | STORES.org
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I have been saving up and not purchasing anything for some time so that I can go out on Black Friday and spend. I am specifically going to AutoZone, Wal-Mart, Costco, Trader Joes, Staples, MacDonalds, and Verizon. Thanks for the list that way I can hit up some more and support the stores and the workers who work at them since they are the 99%.
 
I don't care, my shopping is done, I stay out of all stores after Thanksgiving.
 
mike2810 said:
How do you want local, State, govt. to make up the loss sales tax revenue, if people don't purchase items?
Many local and State services for the poor are funded by taxes other than income tax.
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Does not compute. The notion that I should spend money because the government needs the tax revenue is completely ridiculous to me.
 
i just hate the crowds on Friday. will be staying as far from the malls as possible.

i do plan to go out and spend a bit on Saturday, though. there is a movement to spend local that day, and i really like my local businesses.
 
I don't like huge crowds, don't have a car/driver's license, and my husband is working.

However, even if all the above wasn't true, their protests wouldn't affect my shopping at all, since I would be most likely shopping at the NEX and they can't do that crap on base.
 
apdst said:
I was in Wal-Mart tonight--because the old lady can't seem to go any-****in-where-else--and got in line behind some dumb bitch that didn't know how to swipe her ****ing debit card. Then, after they cleared that hurdle, her stupid as didn't know her PIN and had to call her husband.
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:rofl

know the feeling.

Have you seen those self service check out things? Watch an oldie try to assault one of those things. Hilarious.

Feel kinda bad for laughin about it.
 
friday said:
I suppose if I was a broke college kid who couldn't afford $300 for a large flat screen LED tv, then I probably would be more inclined to the absolutely idiotic idea of boycotting United States retailers because they want to give me insanely good discounts to clear out their old inventory. If I were going to be logical about taking out the top 1%, I think what I would actually do is boycott the other 364 days where retailers make much larger profit margins by selling at their usual market rates.

Actually, if I really wanted to take out the top 1%, I would stop buying theater tickets and DVDs of Hollywood movies. then we could hurt the real 1% who does very little to spur economic growth, like George Clooney, Robin Williams, Sean Penn, Danny Glover, Dustin Hoffman, Chevy Chase, Barbara Streisand, Michael Douglas, Susan Sarandon, Alec Baldwin, Michael Moore, etc.

Funny how the 99% gives all of them a pass.
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DUDE.... if you know where a large flat-screen TV can be had for $300, you need to share that information quickly! :)
 
Josie said:
Some Occupiers are organizing boycotts against the top 100 retailers on Black Friday.

OCCUPY BLACK FRIDAY

Here are the top 100 retailers:

2011 Top 100 Retailers | STORES.org
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I already avoid some of those businesses, but more than a few of them are ones that I will patronize because they are franchises owned by locals. I know the owner of the 7-11 by my house, for example, and he's a really great guy. He actually cuts me deals now because I helped out one of his cashiers by forcibly removing a belligerent drunk asshole who was harassing her.

I tend to shop local and avoid chain stores, but I make exceptions for franchises.

I won't be shopping on Friday, though.
 
Goshin said:
DUDE.... if you know where a large flat-screen TV can be had for $300, you need to share that information quickly! :)
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They are the "door buster" deals at any big box store. They'll have something like 10 of them per store and if you aren't one of the first people in line waiting to get in at midnight, you have no chance at getting it.
 
I never go shopping on Black Friday, I hate the crowds.


But I think I'll go buy some stuff THIS friday just to torque off OWS.

Yeah, let's hurt businesses, that'll help people find jobs, sure... :roll:
 
Goshin said:
DUDE.... if you know where a large flat-screen TV can be had for $300, you need to share that information quickly! :)
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I think Best Buy and Wal Mart have those deals near me. Wal Mart is a cheap brand though and Best Buy you have to bring the tent. Best Buy won't work for 99% of people because all their campout gear was confiscated at the park last week.
 
friday said:
I think Best Buy and Wal Mart have those deals near me. Wal Mart is a cheap brand though and Best Buy you have to bring the tent. Best Buy won't work for 99% of people because all their campout gear was confiscated at the park last week.
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:lamo :lamo :lamo
 
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