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mk  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: People of Hubski, what companies or famous individuals have you boycotted and why?

I avoid Walmart.





camarillobrillo  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yes! With a passion. I can't go in there with my GF because we'll be fighting by the time we leave. The people, the lines, the desperation in the air. Nope.

tacocat  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's the only place I can buy cheese and spray paint at all hours so I check my morals with the greeter. I need food and weird shit with a dose of convenience pretty often

camarillobrillo  ·  3615 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Fair enough. But at what cost?

Walmart is everything I hate about us in bright fluorescence. Always low prices on your very soul.

tacocat  ·  3614 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I worked there for over three years. I'm intimately familiar with how awful they are but driving to three stores that might be miles apart, also big boxes too in almost every case, isn't really doing anyone any good except maybe some feelings of moral superiority on my part.

thenewgreen  ·  3614 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've been in a Walmart three times and only once have I purchased something.

What a horrible place.

ButterflyEffect  ·  3614 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Walmart is a bad store with bad policies. Grocery store culture is almost a thing where I live, and that's because of one word:

Wegmans.