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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 am going to avoid the retailers on Friday.......much like I avoid them the other 364 days of the year. My wife and I purchase at least 90% of the discretionary stuff over the Internet.

Given what I have seen of the OWS crowd, I sincerely doubt any retailer in the country will miss their minute purchases. I will also bet the one retailer that crowd will not boycott is the local drug dealer.
 
I boycott all retailers every Friday after Thanksgiving.

It's Buy Nothing Day (which has been around for alot longer than OWS).

This year I might buy something at a small local store though, since the economy is bad.
 
I've changed my answer. I'll be boycotting Kohl's because of their stupid friggin' Black Friday add in which they use that god-awful song by Rebecca Black.
 
We only buy what is necessary, and we do not care, that much, from whom.
Inflation/economics/fixed income forces this..
Participating in this silly "event" is insanity itself.
no vote
 
friday said:
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?
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Profits are proof of social service. They indicate that factors of production have been combined in a way that yields an extraordinary degree of value. Thank you, high profit companies. You are providing for our most urgent needs.
 
I think "Black Friday" is an obscene and decadent practice that perfectly showcases how disgusting our society is.

I also hold the same general opinion of the "Occupy" movement.

They both consist of frenzied, teeming hordes of mindless vermin with no higher aspirations than to get whatever they want, however they can, with no regard for the lives or the property of civilized human beings just trying to go about their daily business in peace. It's the exact same behavior.

And, as far as I am concerned, it has the exact same solution: nerve gas.
 
tessaesque said:
I've changed my answer. I'll be boycotting Kohl's because of their stupid friggin' Black Friday add in which they use that god-awful song by Rebecca Black.
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that Kohls ad is turbo annoying.
 
I usually try to shop small and local anyway, even if it costs me a little bit more. I don't support the working conditions/policies of most of these big companies.
 
If you want to boycott, eh, I have no problems with you. I’m going to boycott Applebee’s! I’m kidding, kid. I do not shop on Black Friday. I cannot afford the extra bobbles I really have no use for. I’m going to occupy Karaoke bars.
 
tessaesque said:
I've changed my answer. I'll be boycotting Kohl's because of their stupid friggin' Black Friday add in which they use that god-awful song by Rebecca Black.
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Black Friiiiday
Black Friiiiday
Something that rhymes with Friiiiiday

I'm with ya. Ugh.
 
Why would I want to do that?
 
Every year there are calls to boycott Black Friday so it is nothing new. None of these boycotts work. NONE. Same with the gas boycotts. If we wanna hurt big box we gotta do it daily! Not just one damn day a year.
 
Josie said:
Some Occupiers are organizing boycotts against the top 100 retailers on Black Friday
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I'm going down this list and buying something online from each retailer.

I am the 100%
 
Kali said:
Every year there are calls to boycott Black Friday so it is nothing new. None of these boycotts work. NONE. Same with the gas boycotts. If we wanna hurt big box we gotta do it daily! Not just one damn day a year.
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Why do we want to hurt the big chain store? Where's the sense in that idea?
 
friday said:
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?
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Yea I hate the conveniences of modern life too.
Lets all become Luddites.
 
As I stood in line at Best Buy, I shopped online at Walmart, and then Amazon, and then New Egg.

Sorry 99%, but your ideas are just becoming damned stupid. I quite enjoy being a consumer (and so do retailers), thank you very much.

I mean, how many people actually can identify with this crap? "Oh no, I don't want items at affordable prices to give to family members in one month. Please, give them to me at jacked up prices, instead! Show the corporations, maaaaaannnnn!"
 
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apdst said:
Why do we want to hurt the big chain store? Where's the sense in that idea?
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I would rather support local biz and places that only have stuff made in the USA.

Oh and Black Friday is just dumb as hell and once again this year folks acted like fools trying to get their greedy hands on crap. :roll:
 
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apdst said:
Why do we want to hurt the big chain store? Where's the sense in that idea?
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Kali said:
I would rather support local biz and places that only have stuff made in the USA.
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Given the choice between supporting George & Martha from across town, or supporting some CEO from across the country, George & Martha get my vote. However, George & Martha still need to be competitive in their selection and pricing and service, too. That doesn't mean they need to match dollar-for-dollar or item-for-item, but they need to be close and reasonable. George & Martha don't get a free ride.
 
I don't understand the point. Our economy sucks. Spending helps the economy. There is nothing inherently wrong with buying stuff.

I also don't see what the top retailers have to do with what Occupy says its problem is. They aren't the banks, or the stock exchange, or the government. They're just businesses. While I am certainly a fan of supporting small business, I am not sure what is so bad about the big businesses (there are some specific ones I have a problem with, but there are specific reasons for that - it's not just because they're big).

So... they want to hurt the economy by starving out a part of it that has nothing to do with what they say their problem is... why?

I ordered something online for a Black Friday sale. It was something I've wanted for a bit and just figured I'd see if it went on sale, which it did. I don't really "shop." I buy stuff when I have something specific in mind.

P.S. I wonder how many of the people in their own movement are working at one of these places, because it's all they can find. Do they really want to hurt their own?
 
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radcen said:
Given the choice between supporting George & Martha from across town, or supporting some CEO from across the country, George & Martha get my vote. However, George & Martha still need to be competitive in their selection and pricing and service, too. That doesn't mean they need to match dollar-for-dollar or item-for-item, but they need to be close and reasonable. George & Martha don't get a free ride.
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Agree. I should make clear I do have to shop at big box stores for goods because I cannot afford to shop at a lot of the local places for clothing and stuff. I do try to support them as much as I can but I am on a budget and have to eat. It is also not easy to but made in USA as the prices are too high. But I do what I can to support local. I hope my post other post does not seem dishonest as I do shop at big box stores:)
 
Harry Guerrilla said:
Then present another plausible scenario.
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One can enjoy some of the conveniences of life without all of them.

You don't have to choose between a smartphone and smoke signals, for example. Nobody is saying you should foresake everything, just the excess. I have a perfectly good TV that isn't 60 inches and isn't HD.

And you sure as heck don't need to wait in line all night to crowd into a Wal-mart to get stuff a little cheaper than usual.
 
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SmokeAndMirrors said:
I don't understand the point. Our economy sucks. Spending helps the economy. There is nothing inherently wrong with buying stuff.
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Depends. Are you debt free? Do you have cash to spare rather than saving for retirement or your kid's college?

The fact is that for lots of people today, the answer to those questions is no.
 
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