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    Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
    Boycott from the right is ineffective. What gives a CEO chills is if they ever benome the chosen product of the right. That is feared by a national or multinational company.
    That is true. It's why so many companies ties with the NRA after Parkland - companies know who their bread and butter customers are. The loss of some customers is outweighed by the possibility of losing many, many more.

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      Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
      That is true. It's why so many companies ties with the NRA after Parkland - companies know who their bread and butter customers are. The loss of some customers is outweighed by the possibility of losing many, many more.
      most if not all those companies are back- thats the way it works
      public dismissal then a quiet comeback into the fold-its just business

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        LOL, follower of the mindless media.

        Why is it a "boycott" when performed by a party or group you dislike, and a "protest" when its the party or group you like? I dare you to redo everything you've written and replace boycott with protest and see how it sounds..... Its the SAME THING.

        Kaepernick BOYCOTTS the flag..... Hmmm doesnt sound so cool anymore.... maybe I will not hang out with that guy, hes crazy, you cant boycott that. But protest it, that you can do......

        The tweaking of the language is normal and slanted every time, its expected but the weak minded just flow along with it and buy into it.

        How about, lets say Syria right now. There IS an established government (which is not nice at all, not saying anything positive at all here, just the language thats all), but it IS the government none the less.... The western media calls the opposition to the government "rebels" rather than "terrorists", for, in fact, that is exactly what they are to the neutral common person. They (the common person) dont give a f who is in charge as long as they can get food and gasoline and they generally dont get f'd with. So all you Syria protesters, start calling your peeps terrorists and see how cool it sounds then... You support terrorists....

        Or, lets see, how about protesters vs. anarchists, hmmm, sounds a lot like antifa.... they're just protesters, no theyre flipping anachists, or are they Democrats.... Hey wait, you can't do that. Just did.....

        Or, lets see, for all you star wars folks...... the "rebel alliance" is just a bunch of "magical terrorists" with their force and all. Trying to cram their version of the government upon a society with a functional government already. Seriously, its not going to end well.

        One of the most dangerous mistakes is the attempt of the overlaying of one groups thoughts and mores upon another. It never works. Just saying. I'm sure American Indians really embraced Christianity, well any of the native peoples of the western hemisphere for that matter. I bet all the city and rural people in China thought it was a FANTASTIC idea to embrace communism. Iraq had running water, electricity, food, and a functioning society before the west though they could do better and topple the existing government, I'd say, not so much.... But they've got democracy (maybe democracy doesn't work there? no one ever thought about that, eh')

        So, whatever, but the use of boycott is angled, just use protest instead its the cool buzzword for 2018. Everyone can protest anything and its ok, we are just protesting, no big deal. Don't feel like going to school, just protest. Don't want to go to work, just protest about something - inequality, wages, diversity, the temperature, the taste of the water, anything that makes you feel not "fantastic and free from worry", make something up, just protest.

        Don't like your taxes, just protest (you can, but now Mr. Govt will come along and squash that noise, it wants its cash, so maybe dont protest that...)

        This is all super amusing.... Please drive along with your narrative.




        Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
        A few companies the right has tried (and failed) to boycott:

        Target - gender neutral bathrooms
        The Elin Show - because she's gay and supports LGBTQ
        Nordstrom - dropping Ivanka's failing clothing line
        Macy's - for dropping Donald's failing clothing line
        Dicks - dropping AR 15 sales
        Starbucks - war on Christmas AND supporting refugees
        Delta - dropping a teeny program for NRA members
        Nabisco - for moving jobs to Mexico
        Ford - spoke out against travel ban
        AT&T - supported LGBTQ acceptance in the Boy Scouts
        Star Wars - for having an anti-facist message
        Hamilton - for admonishing Mike Pence
        Netflix - For Having a show called Dear White People
        Pepsi - the subject of fake news that the CEO had spoken up against Trump (she's of Indian descent and said no such thing)
        Anheiser Busch - for a "pro immigration" commercial that talked about AB's immigrant origins and the impact immigrants have had in the US throughout our history
        Amazon for supporting immigration, and because Bezos owns WaPo
        Ben and Jerry's - supported Black Lives Matter

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          ^^^^^ You ramble more than Trump at one of his adoration rallies

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            And feel free to say the right was protesting those companies.

            Look, if the right had not decided to cavort with bigots and chauvanists, these companies would be much more interested in apeasing them as protesters. Siding with an old timey bigot is the marketing kiss of death.

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              Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
              They also blamed much of the hit to soft under Armor sales, which is a huge part of their business. The decision to stop selling assault weapons came in February. The impact would have been bigger then and now starting to flatten out. It is a minor dent in their overall business, not a crusher.

              "Chief Executive Officer Edward Stack said Under Armour sales fell as a result of the sports apparel maker’s decision to expand distribution to a broader range of stores. Shares in Under Armour Inc (UAA.N), for whom Dick’s 700 stores have played a major role in efforts to challenge Adidas (ADSGn.DE) and Nike (NKE.N), fell 6 percent to $19.66.

              “We had expected comp weakness in hunting and electronics, as well as continued pressure in Under Armour and less benefit from store maturation, but these trends caused more pressure than anticipated,” Telsey analyst Joseph Feldman said."

              Also please post articles everyone can access https://www.reuters.com/article/us-d...idUSKCN1LE1CQ\
              News flash. Selling less stuff than before is never good in any business. Especially retail. Especially when the entire country is buying cleats and sneakers for back to school. And especially when the economy is booming. Maybe some of those gun clinging rednecks decided to buy nothing from Dicks once they got into politics... ya think? As MJ once said....”Republicans buy sneakers too”.

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                Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                News flash. Selling less stuff than before is never good in any business. Especially retail. Especially when the entire country is buying cleats and sneakers for back to school. And especially when the economy is booming. Maybe some of those gun clinging rednecks decided to buy nothing from Dicks once they got into politics... ya think? As MJ once said....”Republicans buy sneakers too”.
                They all want to sell stuff to rebublicans but they don't want to associated with the right because of the association with bigotry, gun rights, etc. What is a company to do. Most want to stay as apolitical as possible. Nike wants to try to turn politics to it's advantage. Very unusual and notable. Nike clearly has s lot of research that points to it as a successful business strategy for their brand.

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                  Originally posted by Unregistered View Post
                  News flash. Selling less stuff than before is never good in any business. Especially retail. Especially when the entire country is buying cleats and sneakers for back to school. And especially when the economy is booming. Maybe some of those gun clinging rednecks decided to buy nothing from Dicks once they got into politics... ya think? As MJ once said....”Republicans buy sneakers too”.
                  A short term blip in retail means little. It's about the long term. Sounds like the Dick sales dip was a combination of factors and can't be attributed solely to the gun sales decision. If Nike loses one redneck who wasn't a big user but replaces it with a heavier user who now has a more positive image of the brand, that helps them in the long term. That's the customer Nike wants. While it hasn't been a heavily "political" brand it has a strong history of thought provoking ads, many geared to empower women. Like the poster said above also - companies are navigating tricky waters they've never had to deal with before. But they definitely don't want to be associated with hate or violence.

                  BTW Walmart stopped selling AR 15s too - in 2015. No one talks about that, just Dicks because they stopped after Parkland.

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