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

Will you be boycotting the top 100 retailers?


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I always "boycott" all retailers on Black Friday because I just don't want to deal with the traffic and the crowds. ;)
 
You know, as much as I have no interest in going anywhere near a retail location on Friday, THIS might be enough to get me to go shopping if the Occupy Worcester group was looking to do anything with this. Their website doesn't indicate they're involved in anything more than their ridiculous picket in Lincoln Square and their camp, but if they WERE going to do it, I might have just had to go and spend some money wherever they were protesting.
 
You know, as much as I have no interest in going anywhere near a retail location on Friday, THIS might be enough to get me to go shopping if the Occupy Worcester group was looking to do anything with this. Their website doesn't indicate they're involved in anything more than their ridiculous picket in Lincoln Square and their camp, but if they WERE going to do it, I might have just had to go and spend some money wherever they were protesting.
I actually understand this, but... I dislike large unruly crowds so much that I wouldn't go anyway.
 
Yeah, let's hurt business, that'll help everything for everyone.... no, wait.. :roll:
 
This only hurts the OWS.
 
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.
 
I actually understand this, but... I dislike large unruly crowds so much that I wouldn't go anyway.

Yeah, but if the 99% are boycotting, then maybe there won't be large unruly crowds. They'll all be down at the park engaging in the free exchange of ideas, parasites and STDs.
 
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.

It's especially funny when you consider that the party that likes to rail on Hollywood stars elected Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

EDIT: Don't forget about Rep. Sonny Bono.
 
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I actually understand this, but... I dislike large unruly crowds so much that I wouldn't go anyway.

I have an advantage in that regard..... I carry a gun. You'd be AMAZED at how much space you get after the first person barrels into your right hip and realizes that what the just got jabbed in the ribs with WASN'T a cell phone.
 
It's especially funny when you consider that the party that likes to rail on Hollywood stars elected Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Well, considering how conservative Schwarzenegger was, I wouldn't get too excited.

I know there are conservatives in Hollywood. Angie Harmon has talked about how hard it is to get jobs when they know you are a conservative. I just wonder why the 99% never go after Hollywood, and so many Hollywood leftists are so quick to support them.
 
rocket and liblady, why do you support boycotting the top 100 retailers?
 
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

If occupiers wanted to really hurt retailers, they'd tell their parents, friends and family not to buy them anything for Christmas. THAT might actually make a difference. Don't see that happening, though. But I sure don't know why they want to hurt retailers...that's where the 99% earn a living. Not much of what they're doing makes sense to me, though.
 
If occupiers wanted to really hurt retailers, they'd tell their parents, friends and family not to buy them anything for Christmas. THAT might actually make a difference. Don't see that happening, though. But I sure don't know why they want to hurt retailers...that's where the 99% earn a living. Not much of what they're doing makes sense to me, though.

If they really want to hurt the top 100 retailers, they wouldn't purchase anything from them EVER. Instead, they're just doing it for one day. Yeah, that's gonna make a difference.
 
i don't, a mistake. bad for the economy. i do not, however, participate in the mass consumer hysteria on black friday. i wait for cyber monday. :mrgreen:
 
If they really want to hurt the top 100 retailers, they wouldn't purchase anything from them EVER. Instead, they're just doing it for one day. Yeah, that's gonna make a difference.

Not only that, but doing it on the one day that retailers are offering the biggest discounts. If they really wanted to hurt retailers, they would do all their shopping for the year on black friday.
 
I won't be shopping on Black Friday, but only because I'm not investing a lot into Christmas this year and there's nothing I need/can afford. I'm saving every single penny I can for our house. I think the boycott is a ridiculous idea and I hope we see plenty of arrests and/or failed attempts.
 
I might buy from Amazon, but not the rest.

If occupiers wanted to really hurt retailers, they'd tell their parents, friends and family not to buy them anything for Christmas. THAT might actually make a difference. Don't see that happening, though. But I sure don't know why they want to hurt retailers...that's where the 99% earn a living. Not much of what they're doing makes sense to me, though.

That would actually be working against their goals. They want to buy things, just not from big Wall Street/bigtime stores.
 
That would actually be working against their goals. They want to buy things, just not from big Wall Street/bigtime stores.

I noticed that the local "Occupy" Movement is pushing "Small Business Saturday". I've taken note of who is on that list locally, and I will ensure that I don't go anywhere near those business' at all this holiday season.
 
I hope that there won't be any businesses that I am not boycotting on that day.
 
I don't generally shop on Black Friday. I frequently go holiday shop in a smaller nearby city to avoid the holiday parking lot craze. I'm not wild about the crowds.
 
Some of us grandparent and great-grandparent types got upset at the mark-up on toys several years ago and formed a non-profit co-op to group buy. As a result, the Black Friday prices are more than I normally pay and no retailer is making the middle-man dollars from me. We added clothing from four lines this year to the co-op and are looking into adding electronics.

If this sort of arrangement starts to be common, retailers will have a tough time retaining customers. They will become outlets for the less-in-demand products.
 
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.
 
Radcen, I know several young people who are making all of their Christmas gift this year as part of the OWS type thinking. Patterns are circulating for everything from balance bikes to play structures to wooden puzzles to homemade games for kids. If I didn't have nearly 30 kids to buy for, I would be doing this.

I did take the time to be sure all the clothing I bought this year was made in the US and most of the toys as well. They are tough to find, but it is worth it.
 
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