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.

https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/bank-of-america-lowes-sponsored-crt-training

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.