Would you shop any business didn’t support your beliefs?

[HoLeChit]

I stopped going to Lowes because of their views because I am white, I am automatically a racist.
I haven't been inside a Lowes in over 2 years.

Bank of America, Lowe's sponsored CRT training urging Whites to 'cede power to people of color'

Bank of America, Lowe's, Truist Financial, and more sponsored a United Way critical race theory challenge claiming that America is institutionally racist and urging people to get "woke at work" and "cede power to people of color."

www.foxbusiness.com

On the other side of the big box store, I refuse to go to home depot unless I have to, because they now require I download an app to track my purchases and god knows what else on my phone just to get a military discount. Its simply a corporate policy that was put into place to pad their "losses" of offering a discount by collecting personal data and shopping metrics for the sake of selling said data to data brokers and researchers. Ironic, considering that Home Depots digital security has a horrible track record, with one of the largest payment system breeches in history under their belts.

Also, Canadian Home Depot stores have some questionable training materials:

The flyer that was reportedly posted in a break room at a Calgary, Alberta, Home Depot showed the home improvement giant's logo and was titled, "Leading Practices: Unpacking Privilege." It asks employees to literally "check" their "privilege," whether it be "white privilege," class privilege," "Christian privilege," "cisgender privilege," "able-bodied privilege," or "heterosexual privilege."

What about Ace? Ace Hardware is considered pretty conservative from everything I have seen. Maybe even nonpolitical. But if you look deeper, when that david hogg kid called for advertiser boycotts of some fox news program, Ace pulled their advertising.

I just feel like if anyone digs deep enough, they can find something they dislike about something. Thats why the extreme liberals/democrats/woke dudes are tearing each other apart. Nobody is without blame when viewed from a hypercritical, nothing less than perfection standard.

 

[BryanDP]

I don't take a "no guns" sign at a store personally because I realize they're often not a political statement but rather an insurance requirement or just something someone put up "to make people feel more comfortable" (as ignorant as that may be.)

When a business starts preaching to me or taking an obvious political stance in their marketing and advertisements I start trying to avoid them - definitely if I strongly disagree with their position but honestly possibly even if I do agree with them. A good example is the Bud Light debacle. I'm not anti-trans at all. I don't understand it completely, but I'm not anti at all. That said, I really don't want to hear about it at every turn, especially in the marketing of a beer. The truth is I always ordered a Bud Light probably because of their marketing and now I don't order one because of their marketing. .

 

[BryanDP]

I honestly don’t go out of my way to keep up with or research the political affiliations or religious beliefs of most businesses, so I’m sure I do business with some that I don’t agree with.

Same here. If they're going to turn me off with their political stances they're going to have to market them hard to me. I feel the same way about people I meet. If I don't know their politics, we're good. If I know them and agree, they're good. If I know them and disagree, they're probably a turnoff. If they're a judgmental jerk with their politics then I want nothing to do with them.

 

[sherrick13]

Yes and I have.

 

[Dale00]

Does PETA boycott Budweiser because of their enslavement of Clydesdale horses? ....something to ponder.

 

[Snattlerake]

Does PETA boycott Budweiser because of their enslavement of Clydesdale horses? ....something to ponder.

Believe me, those horses are treated better than you and I put together.

 

[Preacherman]

Because of the way that most of the guys shot at the range in the conceal carry class I took I can understand the no guns sign in a business.
Most places do not support my beliefs so if I eliminate them I wouldn't be able to shop. That actually could save me a lot of money.

 

[Gideon]

If there is a business that advertises an exact mimic of your beliefs, then your beliefs aren't serious enough to bother boycotting anything over.

 

[TedKennedy]

I try to support businesses that are Pro-2A, Pro -Sanity.

I still need to buy things from businesses that aren't. I work for a company that is 180 degrees from most of my beliefs...I still take the paycheck.

We're on a downhill slide, and I doubt we have the stamina to run back uphill. Gonna have to let it all fall apart, then see what we can do with what's left.

 

[Glock 'em down]

On the other side of the big box store, I refuse to go to home depot unless I have to, because they now require I download an app to track my purchases and god knows what else on my phone just to get a military discount. Its simply a corporate policy that was put into place to pad their "losses" of offering a discount by collecting personal data and shopping metrics for the sake of selling said data to data brokers and researchers. Ironic, considering that Home Depots digital security has a horrible track record, with one of the largest payment system breeches in history under their belts.

Also, Canadian Home Depot stores have some questionable training materials:



What about Ace? Ace Hardware is considered pretty conservative from everything I have seen. Maybe even nonpolitical. But if you look deeper, when that david hogg kid called for advertiser boycotts of some fox news program, Ace pulled their advertising.

I just feel like if anyone digs deep enough, they can find something they dislike about something. Thats why the extreme liberals/democrats/woke dudes are tearing each other apart. Nobody is without blame when viewed from a hypercritical, nothing less than perfection standard.

What pisses me off about Home Depot is that they offer a military discount but not an LE/first responder discount.

Don't get me wrong...anybody that knows me is well aware of my feelings for our soldiers and sailors but I just think the defenders here at home should be recognized as well.

Besides, I also go there because mi amigo, a fellow OSAer works there, so I try to help him out.