Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 15:20     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:


That’s a pretty eye-popping chart.
And there aren’t enough world leaders for Trump to have Oval Office spats with to distract from this very bad economic crash.

Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:43     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:If boycotts didn't eventually work, people wouldn't be on here calling them "silly."


They work.

https://www.newsweek.com/here-are-some-successful-boycott-examples-1581199

This is only the beginning. Four years of boycotts will mean something. Keep at it. I am.



Yes. We are just getting started.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:40     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:12     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
According to the Atlanta Fed, consumer spending fell 1.3% in Q1. Not all on February 28, and other factors (layoffs, job insecurity, prices/inflation, etc.) were probably the driver. But people are buying less. (And it is hurting Trump's economy.)
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:09     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:Big businesses are perfectly fine operating under an authoritarian regime. As long as they get their pennies (oops, nickels now.)

I don't know what impact any of this had but I don't have the stomach for them now. It's a good time to put my spending through a fine tooth comb.


This past Friday made me much more conscious of how much money I put on my credit card!!

Almost daily I use it to buy a coffee, some gas, parking, pick up a snack, buy something like a pair of shoes or a t-shirt online when I have some downtime, get takeout for dinner, food shopping, dog food, a pair of slippers for DD, etc.

I'm going to be much more deliberate with my spending. I took some cash out of the bank, and I'm using that for small purchases. Visa doesn't need my money.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:08     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Bookstore.org supports independent bookstores.

This is a Capitalist society- nothing speaks louder than your dollars. Withhold them from bad corporations and give them to good companies.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:05     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Well, one thing that it’s accomplished is making a lot of people— even people that didn’t participate this time — a lot more intentional in our purchases. I’ve always supported small, local, and minority owned businesses, and I grew up with family members who remembered the success of “don’t shop where you can’t work” efforts, and local boycotts of stores like Peoples drugstore. It’s more of a marathon than a sprint. I’m not going to get my personal efforts to boycott some stores to zero — if only because Bezos owned stores have bought out the locally owned grocery stores in my neighborhood. I will cut way back though, and cut back on Amazon as well. The most difficult thing for me will be finding books, but I’ve been shifting to eBay whenever I can. Even Etsy has become a great option for lots of purchases.



Please support Barnes & Noble. Cut back so you can increase your savings & investments, but I don’t understand arbitrarily shutting down all spending as a PROTEST measure. If anything is left to stand, please let it be Barnes & Noble and a few coffee shops, I need some happiness


Barnes & Noble or independent bookstores
Thriftbooks
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:03     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:Well, one thing that it’s accomplished is making a lot of people— even people that didn’t participate this time — a lot more intentional in our purchases. I’ve always supported small, local, and minority owned businesses, and I grew up with family members who remembered the success of “don’t shop where you can’t work” efforts, and local boycotts of stores like Peoples drugstore. It’s more of a marathon than a sprint. I’m not going to get my personal efforts to boycott some stores to zero — if only because Bezos owned stores have bought out the locally owned grocery stores in my neighborhood. I will cut way back though, and cut back on Amazon as well. The most difficult thing for me will be finding books, but I’ve been shifting to eBay whenever I can. Even Etsy has become a great option for lots of purchases.



thriftbooks isn't owned by Amazon (yet)

https://www.thriftbooks.com/

Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 14:02     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:If boycotts didn't eventually work, people wouldn't be on here calling them "silly."


They work.

https://www.newsweek.com/here-are-some-successful-boycott-examples-1581199

This is only the beginning. Four years of boycotts will mean something. Keep at it. I am.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 13:59     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:Well, one thing that it’s accomplished is making a lot of people— even people that didn’t participate this time — a lot more intentional in our purchases. I’ve always supported small, local, and minority owned businesses, and I grew up with family members who remembered the success of “don’t shop where you can’t work” efforts, and local boycotts of stores like Peoples drugstore. It’s more of a marathon than a sprint. I’m not going to get my personal efforts to boycott some stores to zero — if only because Bezos owned stores have bought out the locally owned grocery stores in my neighborhood. I will cut way back though, and cut back on Amazon as well. The most difficult thing for me will be finding books, but I’ve been shifting to eBay whenever I can. Even Etsy has become a great option for lots of purchases.



Please support Barnes & Noble. Cut back so you can increase your savings & investments, but I don’t understand arbitrarily shutting down all spending as a PROTEST measure. If anything is left to stand, please let it be Barnes & Noble and a few coffee shops, I need some happiness
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 13:56     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:If boycotts didn't eventually work, people wouldn't be on here calling them "silly."


+1

They work hard for the money
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 13:53     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Why just one day? We should be supporting small businesses in a regular basis.


THANK YOU!

It's ALWAYS a good idea to shop small.

Buy from local or small/medium sized businesses. They sometimes cost more but the proliferation of storage units across the country suggest that we should spend more for higher quality goods rather than "save" money and accumulate massive loads of junk. If you really want to lessen the power of corporations, change your habits.



Spending more than you have to in order to acquire a needed product or service is economically inefficient and is self-injurious in the long run. You may feel virtuous, but your retirement savings will be less, and your lifestyle lower than it otherwise could be. By all means do that if the psychic benefits outweigh the lifestyle and financial security drawbacks you'll experience. for most rational consumers, the choice is always to maximize their return on investment, not to minimize it.


Spoken like someone who has never heard of the Walmart effect. Do some reading then come on back and we can talk like informed citizens.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 13:52     Subject: Re:Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Well, one thing that it’s accomplished is making a lot of people— even people that didn’t participate this time — a lot more intentional in our purchases. I’ve always supported small, local, and minority owned businesses, and I grew up with family members who remembered the success of “don’t shop where you can’t work” efforts, and local boycotts of stores like Peoples drugstore. It’s more of a marathon than a sprint. I’m not going to get my personal efforts to boycott some stores to zero — if only because Bezos owned stores have bought out the locally owned grocery stores in my neighborhood. I will cut way back though, and cut back on Amazon as well. The most difficult thing for me will be finding books, but I’ve been shifting to eBay whenever I can. Even Etsy has become a great option for lots of purchases.

Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 13:40     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
If boycotts didn't eventually work, people wouldn't be on here calling them "silly."
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2025 13:40     Subject: Feb 28 is economic blackout day
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Did it work?


Of course not. It would be plastered everywhere by the leftist media if it was.

They can't lie about it because numbers will show differently.

Have you heard anything about results? Of course not.

Moreover, whatever they didn't buy Friday, they bought yesterday.


Silly. And pointless. No results.


Well, some of us are continuing not to buy.

What do you "have" to buy all the time except for food, utilities and health / childcare?

So we will see what the results are in 3-6 months. And considering that a lot of Americans are finding it challenging to afford to buy food right now, we'll see what happens..