Stores and or other places you refuse to do business with

[GaryHK]

You must be one of them one percenters!

"... That's because Amazon actually owed money to the federal government in 2019. After two straight years of paying $0 in U.S. federal income tax, Amazon was on the hook for a $162 million bill in 2019, the company said in an SEC filing on Thursday...."

Amazon had to pay federal income taxes for the first time since 2016

While both left and right like to criticize Amazon for not paying enough in taxes, all they are doing is taking advantage of every tax deduction they legally can. If you don't like how they pay, or don't pay, federal taxes, your beef is with the tax code, not Amazon. Write your congressional representatives.

I wish, lol.

As far as paying for the first time, whoop dee doo. That was, what? An effective tax rate of a whopping 1%?

I'm pretty sure I'm entitled to my opinions as to where or why I won't shop somewhere and surely where I spend my hard earned money. It also probably doesn't help that I live literally 10 miles from their headquarters.

Anyway, not here to argue tax codes, etc. No matter what you want to call it, it's an exploit and I don't agree with it and won't support Amazon. Period.

 

[biku324]

Interesting. What's your reasoning, Biku? With Miroku, anyway, it can't be quality of the product...

Respect for Uncle Clarence, badly wounded on Tarawa.

 

[Big Cholla]

Bank of America
Starbucks
AARP
Wells Fargo Bank
Dick's
Disney
DISH TV
Direct TV

 

[ladder13]

...........
While both left and right like to criticize Amazon for not paying enough in taxes, all they are doing is taking advantage of every tax deduction they legally can. If you don't like how they pay, or don't pay, federal taxes, your beef is with the tax code, not Amazon. Write your congressional representatives.

The "tax code" is nothing but a special interest grab bag. With the power to write and revise the tax code comes ....cough cough....
"donations".
Even lowly middle class taxpayers get some crumbs to keep them in the game.

 

[GaryHK]

This may open your eyes a bit:

These Are the Roughly 200 Businesses Whose Leaders Are Backing Gun Control Initiatives by Beth Baumann

These Are the Roughly 200 Businesses Whose Leaders Are Backing Gun Control Initiatives
Beth Baumann
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Source: AP Photo/Philip Kamrass, File
The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms launched an initiative last year aimed at providing information to Second Amendment-loving Americans. The goal was to provide a comprehensive list of companies and/or CEOs who back gun control initiatives and legislation or have anti-firearm corporate policies in place.
"When we started this project last year, we were actually surprised, and in some cases disappointed, at some of the businesses we added to the list," CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb said in a statement. "We discovered several brand name businesses and corporate leaders who evidently have a nefarious agenda to limit gun rights. Their current and potential patrons should have the knowledge of what their hard earned dollars are actually funding."
The CCRKBA recently added Gucci to the list after it was revealed the high-end brand donated $500,000 to the March for Our Lives organization, which launched after the Parkland shooting in Florida. March for Our Lives quickly used the funds to advance anti-Second Amendment legislation, Gottlieb said.
According to Gottlieb, putting together the list was about giving pro-gun Americans knowledge about their purchasing habits. It's not about boycotting companies and businesses but rather about giving Americans the ability to make informed decisions about where their hard-earned dollars go.
"We encourage people to buy products from companies they can count on to not support efforts aimed at curtailing constitutional rights," he explained. "By providing this information, we hope gun owning consumers are making reasonable decisions about which businesses to patronize. This might convince some businesses to re-think their core values."
"We're not calling for a boycott of these companies," Gottlieb said. "Businesses and the people who own them can support whatever kind of philosophy they want, and gun owning consumers can likewise not spend any money with those firms. Let the marketplace decide. Over 100 million American gun owners represent a sizeable [sic] consumer bloc, and they will decide where they spend their money."
Below are the roughly 200 businesses that made the list:

Comcast

Had no idea Comcast was on the list. Funny given that about 90% of the shows they broadcast feature guns.

 

[Onomea]

I'm an advocate of the flat tax, m'self. But meanwhile I will take any legal deduction my accountant can find.

 

[gregintenn]

My list has gotten so lone that there are very few places I'll shop. I do make exceptions if the wife wants something. If mama ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.

 

[GypsmJim]

Well as a former employee of AutoZone for a very long time
Why do u not like Autozone?
I really liked working there
I am pro small business and have loved dealing with small business most of my life as growing up in a small town
I see so many businesses now with very poor employees who do the bare minimum and support staff like managers not doing their part to train and manage them
I have worked most of my life in upper retail management and I have never seen such low standards across the board and never seen employees demanding so much for high pay and little effort on their part
I know here we have problems with people showing up for work
Which seems crazy to me
When i was just out of school and before and during college I worked as many hours as I could
I agree most of these big companies have sold out to what ever they feel is necessary to make a buck
And sadly this seems to be the trend
I have said this since I got very ill
All of my friends and family think I am a grumpy old man even though I am not old ..
i say we are in the age of the idiot
We are getting away from what made our great nation thrive
God help us if we do not change soon
I can see real pain for us if these people do the changes they want to do
Please stay safe and warm out there
God Bless you all my friends
John


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I hear what you said and my findings are the same. I blame a good part of the problem on Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerburger. They were in it just for the money (and maybe fame) but they are the ones that TURNED everybody into an idiot.

I have worked with and supervised some brilliant young people in my later years just before retirement. They had good grades and actually had stellar intelligence. Their problem was a lack of life experience. At every lull in the conversation, out came the IPhone so they could check and see who had a good poop this morning. If I mandated no phones in the room during the meeting you would have thought I told them to jump off a bridge.

 

[GypsmJim]

And another thing - what's wrong with WalMart?

My son is an up and coming Management executive. One of his early jobs was at WM. He started out as a clerk and worked up to Co-Manger. The store manager was a woman with a HS diploma, and she started out as a cashier.

If you want to work hard, there is no limit to where you can go, plus the salary and benefits are competitive. If all you want is to stock shelves and are personally OK for not showing up at times, well then your salary and benefits may not be quite as good.

They sell cans of spray paint for $3.99. The same can at a local hardware store is $5.49. Why not go to WM? Some of my recent trips required that I ask a woman on the sales floor where to find something. She went out of her way to help me. The guy at the Ammo counter is unusually helpful as well.

Now the outfits that some of the customers wear is another story....

 

[Fishslayer]

I don't generally do "boycotts." Have ya seen the list of woke companies? I would live a very austere life.

As for bad attitudes, good prices and a good consignment case forgive a multitude of sins. I've actually had good experiences at a few locally reviled establishments.

But yeah.. Less Expensive Than Soil ain't gettin' a dime from me!

 

[GaryHK]

And another thing - what's wrong with WalMart?

My son is an up and coming Management executive. One of his early jobs was at WM. He started out as a clerk and worked up to Co-Manger. The store manager was a woman with a HS diploma, and she started out as a cashier.

Has nothing to do with the employees.



Personally, I have nothing against Walmart but it's not somewhere I spend more than 15 minutes in.

 

[jeffrefrig]

I've done commercial refrigeration for many years. I've learned that most of the high end restaurants I've serviced have some of the dirtiest kitchen/food prep areas I have ever seen. Not all, but most. Many of the family-owned stores are filthy...not all. I've seen too much filth in the food areas. I try not to think about it when I go out to eat. Also, if I have a choice of going to (fictional name)'s restaurant in the city or their other joint 5 miles out of the city, I will drive out of the city, where the employees might have a give-a-care attitude. Even McFood chains are cleaner in the rural areas compared to the city's. I want clean food. A good friend & classmate of mine died, among a few others, from hepatitis that he got from a restaurant chain in the area about 17 years ago. That chain lost everything and all their restaurants shut down. Anyone from this area probably remembers the story. 'nuff said.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Read about the Montgomery Bus Boycott then we'll talk about the effectiveness of boycotts.
Letters-typed or handwritten-to corporate management- do get attention.

 

[JET4]

AARP
Target
Starbucks

 

[Step N. Mud]

I felt like Firestone did me wrong on my first new car/truck, a 1975 Ranchero. The tires started unraveling after a few thousand miles with steel belts coming through the treads. Had a major recall on these tires and was a disappointed with the proration I got for the tires at Firestone to replaced. Did a One man Firestone boycott for 30 years and then had a Firestone store in 2005 replace a set of truck tires and paid in advance for E- Load range on F-250, only to find out the tires were D-Load range when I was called to pick up the truck and pointed that out to the manager immediately. The manager said I could have a refund for the difference or they would put on the correct tires. Only it was closing time and needed to wait until the next day for the right tires.

 

[ordnanceguy]

...Target (anti-military) ...

DoubleDipper:

Respectfully, I would be interested to see any evidence that Target is "anti-military". That seems to be an old but oft-repeated internet claim but one for which supporting evidence has been missing-in-action.

On that subject the evidence I have seen is completely the opposite. For example, Target's website lists a number of ways in which it supports the U.S. military, members of the Armed Forces and veterans. See the link: military & veteran support

Snopes.com investigated claims that Target had an adverse relationship with one or more veterans' causes. Snopes found that such claims were false. FACT CHECK: Rumors About Target

The website Truth or Fiction did a similar study and found that such claims were untruthful. Target Stores Won't Fund Veterans Projects-Fiction! - Truth or Fiction?

The organization Veterans Advantage lists Target as a "Partner" in its programs. Target.com Military Verification | Veterans Advantage

Full disclosure: For many years Target was a client of mine. I worked closely with the company and never once encountered any hint of an anti-military stance by Target. The company employs almost 400,000 people including veterans and members of the Reserves and National Guard. With hundreds of thousands of employees I suppose that there is a chance that one of those employees might consider him or her self "anti-military", but that is certainly not the position of Target.

Over the years Target has been criticized for many things but the claim that the company is "anti-military" is simply not true. It is past time for that old canard to be squelched.

 

[PALADIN85020]

My wife once walked into a Victoria's Secret store and asked if she could be fitted for an Erin Go Bragh. She said they scurried around for quite a while to see if they had any. She also asked if they carried Freudian slips, but after searching they informed her that they were out of stock. She said it was all very frustrating.

She doesn't go there any more.

John

 

[UncleEd]

My wife once walked into a Victoria's Secret store and asked if she could be fitted for an Erin Go Bragh. She said they scurried around for quite a while to see if they had any.

She doesn't go there any more.

John

She's partial to green colored underwear?

 

[ladder13]

I've done commercial refrigeration for many years. I've learned that most of the high end restaurants I've serviced have some of the dirtiest kitchen/food prep areas I have ever seen. Not all, but most. Many of the family-owned stores are filthy...not all. I've seen too much filth in the food areas. I try not to think about it when I go out to eat. Also, if I have a choice of going to (fictional name)'s restaurant in the city or their other joint 5 miles out of the city, I will drive out of the city, where the employees might have a give-a-care attitude. Even McFood chains are cleaner in the rural areas compared to the city's. I want clean food. A good friend & classmate of mine died, among a few others, from hepatitis that he got from a restaurant chain in the area about 17 years ago. That chain lost everything and all their restaurants shut down. Anyone from this area probably remembers the story. 'nuff said.

You ain't lying! I did some side work years ago which required me to go into restaurant basements. Filthy doesn't even begin to describe them. High end restaurants are not immune.
Manhattan, leafy Westchester County, all of em.
I never ate in the ones I was in, even though the owners offered me free meals.

 

[wheelgun28]

I felt like Firestone did me wrong on my first new car/truck, a 1975 Ranchero. The tires started unraveling after a few thousand miles with steel belts coming through the treads. Had a major recall on these tires and was a disappointed with the proration I got for the tires at Firestone to replaced. Did a One man Firestone boycott for 30 years <snip>.

My dad had a boycott of Firestone too, well he didn't call it a boycott, he used colorful language to describe his feelings toward them.

The tires were the Firestone 500, my dad was proud as pie to have them on his car at the time. His didn't fail but was just outside the recall range being a lot too early. He didn't trust them and had them replaced in short order. I think the 721 replaced the 500 tires?