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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't proactively support small businesses even if I like the notion of small businesses because they're just not that great. They are more expensive and don't have the same stock. And some are certainly very ideological (looking at you Penzys).

Amazon is wonderful. Target is convenient. The only person who cares if you try to make a moral argument out of avoiding Amazon and Target is you and you alone, no one else. Do what you want but you aren't budging the needle except you will spend more money by trying to avoid the big boxes and Amazon, and it was another person on another thread who also pointed out it's more ecologically friendly and sustainable to stick with Amazon and deliveries than going to 20 different stores in your car. [/quote]

Beg to differ:

Teslas is down 40%
Target sales are down 3% since Jan, stock is down

You don’t think Target and Tesla care? You do you but I’m spending MY money where I want and with businesses who aren’t groveling at the feet of facists. [/quote]

Tesla is an intriguing and narrow example to cite, the product was far more popular among the "left" than the "right" so it was prone to consumer shifts in a way mass retailers are not. A comparable would be Budweiser, it's a product more popular among the "right" than the "left" so the boycott had real impact. And it doesn't help that Tesla stock was already enormously overvalued as any market guru would have told you even before Musk came on the scene. Unlike Budweiser, given Musk's history in reviving Twitter's value I wouldn't rule out a big Tesla boom in a year or two.

Your boycott is going to garner nothing more than a slow clap because reasons you cite are actually very popular among most Americans, such as the DEI rollbacks. You are in the distinct minority. Both Amazon and Target and Walmart also hire large numbers of working Americans who'd struggle otherwise to find other jobs. If you knew anything about Amazon, while their corporate culture is demanding and works people hard, those who who are able to perform are rewarded greatly. A lot of success stories of employees starting from the bottom and working their way up with determination and grit.

You can do what you want, the tradeoff is that you will spend more money and be more inconvenienced by avoiding Amazon and popular big retailers who have enormous scales of efficiency they pass on consumers. Virtue signaling is a luxury, and it's your decision. [/quote]

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