I love that consumers might be causing financial pain to big corporations, however:
Target, Walmart, and Amazon have always engaged in practices that harm individuals of every color and creed. The fact that DEI has become the impetus for these boycotts is evidence of the extent to which republicans still control the narrative. Liberal media sources follow right in step and whip their audiences into a fervor as well.
In reality, these companies directly exploit workers all the way down the supply line and up to the point of retail. We’re supposed to be mad that a small portion of those being exploited won’t be as diverse? That really sounds an awful lot like some neolib right-to-work shit.
Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.
I agree that the whole DEI issue arose from republicans controlling the narrative, but things have now moved beyond that.
The question now isn’t “these companies have always been evil so why focus on DEI?”, the question is “this is where we are–whose side are you on”? IOW one’s stance on DEI has become a proxy for who you stand with–the oligarchs or the people.
Businesses/oligarchs getting rid of their DEI policies are doing it to prove to trump, and us as well, that they have now fully joined with him to destroy democracy and form the Oligarchy (along with the christian nationalist faction but that’s another topic).
So it’s a symbolic action (among others) they are taking to demonstrate that they are now part of the trump regime and consider themselves to be our rulers. Therefore these boycotts of their businesses is our symbolic action that we do not accept them as our overlords and will oppose them.
Amazon in particular. We all should have absolutely buried Amazon years ago. Better late than never, but getting rid of DEI is not even in the top 100 horrible things Amazon has done.
I’m probably going to get shit on for this, but I’ve always supported Amazon until last couple years for one big reason, it gave competition to Walmart. Amazon’s union busting practices were learned from the Walton masters, those of y’all who remember Walmart having butchers? The reason they’re gone is they unionized and Walmart got rid of them. Walmart will invade a town, bullying them to build their store without having to pay for utilities or they’ll move to the next down over, run that store at a loss until all competition is gone then if it’s too small a town they’ll close it down forcing people to go to the central hub. They have training for employees to get food stamps while actively avoiding letting people work full time to avoid giving benefits… things they’ve been doing since Amazon was a bookstore in a garage.
And if you’re against Project 2025, the Walton Family was one of the three that proudly donates to the Heritage Foundation.
I am here to go against any of these big corporations and Amazon is number 2 on the list, both need to go down. But as someone who used to live in its hometown I’m just consistently baffled that Walmart is somehow teflon to the outright attempts to bring it down whereas Target and Amazon get them every time. If anyone wants to know on size of these companies, Walmart is number 1 company by revenue, Amazon is number 2. The next 4 companies are State owned by China or Saudi Arabia, and 7th had a CEO Luigi’d.
Anytime people decide to do something good there are always people who shit on it and say it’s not enough.
Because it isn’t enough.
Still, the best time to boycott them was years ago. The second best time is now
This would be the best time to boycott these companies with the tariffs going on they will be hit doubly hard.
Stop buying from them all at all times not just for chosen weeks. 100% boycott.
Already done!
Too late.
If not now, when?
I cancelled my prime sub a long time ago. Probably eight or nine years ago. Amazon isn’t even a good place to buy things anymore. So many knockoffs and counterfeits mixed in with the real stuff. The only time I even use it is when I get a gift card, which is often unfortunately. My wife does a ton of studies and they seem to all pay in Amazon gift cards.
I think the tariffs are going to make amazon’s business model suffer. Can’t say I like them, but when 90% of my search results are items with random all-caps names, I don’t think I’d buy them if they were 34% more expensive.
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Such low effort trolling. Damn, I’m glad there’s a block function!
Did you downvote your own post?
And everyone clapped.
And then he woke up, having slept in his Kia in the city park, thankful that he wasn’t beaten up by cops again last night. An auspicious start to another day in Amerika.
Is there a list of retail companies that are still committed to DEI policies? The only one I know of is Costco.
Edit: I did some more digging and found this website - dei.watch. The following are some of the ones listed as ‘committed’ on there at the time of writing:
- Albertsons
- Best Buy
- Costco
- CVS
- Dick’s Sporting Goods
- Dillard’s
- Dollar General *
- Dollar Tree *
- Guess
- H-E-B
- Home Depot
- Home Goods
- Ikea
- Lidl
- Marshall’s
- Meijer
- Patagonia
- Petco
- Publix
- REI
- Ross
- TJ Maxx
- Walgreens
- Wegman’s
Note: I’ve only listed physical store retailers who sell items (not restaurants) with either a nationwide presence or a significant number of retail stores. I’m sure I’m missing some, but this is a start.
*This chain might have an active DEI policy they are supporting and maintaining, but even among retailers they are also famous for treating their employees horribly.
UPS we haven’t cut any of our protections… But we didn’t exactly need dei in the first place, were already very diverse due to non discriminatory hiring practices (ie, hire literally anyone who applied)
Meijers owners son is a republican congressman who voted to impeach trump. They still donate biggtime to the republucan party. They also have tons of tesla chargers in front of their stores.
“There is no ethical consumption under capitalism.” Best anyone can do is make informed decisions to minimize the harm to the best of their abilities.
Home Depot has effectively had DEI in there core values since they were founded and that hasn’t changed yet. Hell “Respect for all people” is printed on every single apron
Yeah, but aren’t the owners of Home Depot big financial supporters of trump?
It’s not nothing, but “Hasn’t shit on DEI” is hardly a saving grace here.
Unfortunately on my research, while Home Depot is the worst on this one, so is Lowe’s, Menards, and every other tool/home store…
That’s been my understanding as well. Apparently he’s just a whiney, old, rich guy:
This page digs into their DEI status and summarizes it as “active but shrinking”: https://buildremote.co/dei/homedepot/
Thanks. Added them to a list, with a number of others I found on the dei.watch website.
Hell yeah, another reason to keep shopping at Wegmans. They’re great <3
Nice to see Wegmans on the list. This is also how I find out that Danny isn’t the CEO anymore (guess the cocaine habit finally won out).
HEB baby! I can still get groceries!
lol Salesforce made the dismantled list. That place weirded me out, it felt so insincere. I knew that “Ohana” culture was horseshit. Also not a fan of their software.
If you don’t buy from them, how will Krasnov pay for the tax cuts for the 1 percent douchebags in bed with him?
Won’t someone please think of their poor children that they refuse to provide for? Have some empathy!
I froze these fuckers out long ago. Before shopping anywhere I look into their policies as of 2025.
No need to wait.
Incidentally I’ve probably saved 300 bucks just by not convenience shopping
I’ve been doing that the day the started.
Amazon? Yeah me too bar a 6 month moment of weakness back in covid. I felt dirty so nuked the account. It really is all about making consumption harder
I still have an account to create a saved list and then go to the manufacturer website!
Alternatively, I’ve suggested to my friends to create a single order for each item.
I used target for breakfast bars as my kid only wanted the target brsnd ones, but I have Lidl branded ones a shot and have been able to replace them. ✌️
Same. I had some Target-brand stuff I liked that. A few months ago, I tried shopping at different stores and realized how much more/better products existed. Loving all the Asian supermarkets out there.
I haven’t bought from or through Amazon in at least a decade, and that’s mainly because of their sweatshops and overall anti-union orientation. If I can’t find something locally at a thrift shop or at some locally-owned not-quite-big-box shop, then I’ve bought via eBay. Am I still a Collaborator … does eBay deserve a boycott too, and if so why [based on corporate shittiness, not product shittiness]?
I haven’t given a cent to Target in at least 5 years since they F-d me over on a return - a return that was 100% due to a mistake on their part, but that’s a personal grudge. Still nice to see the boycott as Target shareholders and management deserve it.
