With this week’s controversy over same-sex marriage and Chick-Fil-A, I figured I’d ask a few questions that related to the notion of boycotting businesses, or, as the case may be, not boycotting them.
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1. What is the last business you decided to boycott because a group called for one?
2. What business have you most recently boycotted because of your own experience with the company?
3. Have you ever patronized a business specifically because others have called for a boycott?
4. What is the key factor you use in deciding whether you’ll patronize a business whose owners have views other than your own?
5. How much research do you typically do into the charitable contributions or philosophies of the corporate owners of a business before you patronize it?
6. What single business do you patronize that most closely matches your own world view?
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1. Never done it. Â Silly, in my opinion, to boycott a business because “someone else told me I should.”
2. Taco Bell. Â Certainly you remember my 3-day food poisoning ordeal from our WFLA days… That’s a boycott 10+ years and counting.
3. Nope. Â See question #1.
4. Do I enjoy the product more or find it more useful – or more economical – than other companies’ comparable products?
5. Not as much as I probably should, but likely much more than the average bear. Â I certainly don’t rely on Facebook or Twitter for such information – that would be akin to citing Wikipedia as a credible research source.
6.I don’t concern myself overly with the world views of corporations. Â If I were to boycott every large company who held sociopolitical ideals that were at odds with my own, I would likely starve to death, naked, cold, and alone.
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Gee, Pat. Â This “blogging” stuff is fun. Â Maybe I’ll jump on more often…
my answers are posted here http://dianacorner.blogspot.com/2012/08/saturday-six-434.html
1. I don’t generally boycott a business because group tells me to. Â If I do choose to take my business elsewhere, I do it on my own.
2. A restaurant up the road. I’m not sure that I’d call it a boycott but we will no longer eat there because of a bad experience we had with K being served a bad steak and their attitude when we drew it to their attention.
3. Well – yeah. Â I guess I did make a point at stopping in at JC Penney’s because a group was boycotting them. Â I might have gone there anyway, however.
4. I generally don’t boycott a business because of the owner’s views but more likely because I don’t like their business practices. Â I do make some exceptions, however. If they are supporting organizations that I consider harmful, I will take that into consideration.
5. Â I don’t do this very often. Â If I hear something I don’t like, I will check into it. Â
6. Seventh Generation http://www.seventhgeneration.com/ Â
1. I don’t generally boycott a business because group tells me to. Â If I do choose to take my business elsewhere, I do it on my own.
2. A restaurant up the road. I’m not sure that I’d call it a boycott but we will no longer eat there because of a bad experience we had with K being served a bad steak and their attitude when we drew it to their attention.
3. Well – yeah. Â I guess I did make a point at stopping in at JC Penney’s because a group was boycotting them. Â I might have gone there anyway, however.
4. I generally don’t boycott a business because of the owner’s views but more likely because I don’t like their business practices. Â I do make some exceptions, however. If they are supporting organizations that I consider harmful, I will take that into consideration.
5. Â I don’t do this very often. Â If I hear something I don’t like, I will check into it. Â
6. Seventh Generation http://www.seventhgeneration.com/ Â
1. The only kind of boycotting I do is based on my own personal experiences with a specific business. I haven’t boycotted a business because someone else asked me to, but if I get poor service from one, I’ll take my business elsewhere, which is something I have done many times.
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2. A Finnish web hosting company. Poor service, and their fine print is practically malicious.
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3. No, that’s just silly.
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4. I don’t want to hear about a business owner’s views on anything other than providing me good service. Anything else is just taking away from the one I thing I expect from them.
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5. None whatsoever.
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6. Apple, I guess. I’m not very brand-loyal, but so far every product of theirs I have bought has been worth every nickel and dime. Their world view seems to be focused on producing and selling higher quality products than their competitors, and I like high quality.
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