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I am not low on funds. I make ALOT of money. I CHOOSE to live frugally, and save the rest. Believe me, it will be needed in the interesting times ahead.
I didn't mean it to sound that way. My apologies if it did. I agree with you that we are in for interesting times ahead but that is a whole different topic!
The only place that I refuse to shop is Abercrombie and Fitch. Besides their clothes being monotonous and over-priced, they blatantly use sex to sell their goods. For some reason, I used to receive their catalogs and they were despicable...and this coming from a guy in his mid 20s. They've toned it down a lot in recent years, but I still won't shop there.
The only place that I refuse to shop is Abercrombie and Fitch. Besides their clothes being monotonous and over-priced,
Another reason I like Macy's. They have style and value. I used to feel guilty that I didn't look like my peers, but my clothes looked more stylish even when it was Foley's.
I try to buy locally grown food, use CITGO (Venezuela) gas and avoid, as much as I can, Chinese made stuff. The latter is nearly impossible now a days. Oh, I really try to avoid Walmart.
The only place that I refuse to shop is Abercrombie and Fitch. Besides their clothes being monotonous and over-priced, they blatantly use sex to sell their goods. For some reason, I used to receive their catalogs and they were despicable...and this coming from a guy in his mid 20s. They've toned it down a lot in recent years, but I still won't shop there.
That's odd that A& F is the only place you boycott.
Most clothing companies rely on sex to sell their products.
That's odd that A& F is the only place you boycott.
Most clothing companies rely on sex to sell their products.
Abercombie's marketing was the most sexually-driven that I have seen. Their quarterly catalogs had spreads of naked men, naked women, multiple naked men and multiple naked women in bed together, sex advice, interviews with porn stars, drinking games, etc...and they would distribute it to minors, as well as their official target market of 18-22 y/o's. To me, for a clothing catalog, that's excessively trashy.
From A&F Quarterly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ...
"The catalog featured an A&F 'sexpert' who offered advice on 'sex for three' and told readers willing to 'go down' on a date at the movies it's acceptable, 'just so long as you do not disturb those around you.'"
I just don't think that such marketing should be done by a company that heavily profits from teenage buyers. If haute couture houses want to pursue that type of marketing, I don't care. Their target market is not teenagers.
But, like I said, after several lawsuits by various states, they don't do the catalog anymore. I don't shop their now because I just don't like their clothing.
As long as Americans continue buying "stuff", half of which they don't need and as long as they demand to get it cheap, I don't that the majority of people will apply political and ethical principles to shopping. We are a nation of consumers. It's the American way. We buy stuff, use it for awhile, sell it on Ebay, sell it at garage sales, donate it and then go and buy more stuff. When the new model of something comes out, we have to have it. Parents wait in lines for hours to get their kids the latest gizmo. We like to keep up with the "Jones". And yes, we indirectly keep millions of retail employees working, but those jobs will never be as good as the manufacturing jobs were that we lost. I'm old enough to remember when a basic TV set was $700, thus most homes had 1. And you kept that TV until it was on its last leg. Our TV was made in suburban Chicago, 15 miles from our house. The plant was a huge employer and the jobs were surely better than cashiering at a retail store. Siblings shared Big Wheels, bikes and toys - every kid didn't have their own personal cache of toys. Younger kids wore their older siblings hand me downs and if you tore your jeans, your mom would iron on an ugly iron on patch. lol! Things were much more expensive in relation to what people made back in the 50's, 60's, 70's and even 80's. When I was a kid, most everything was made in the U.S. But things cost more too. It can't go both ways.
I think it is much easier to boycott when you have money. Most hard core advocates are younger Caucasian people who come from a wealthy background. I woulod love to spend a day protesting for what I believe in, but I can't afford to.
Do the practices of a company ever sway you from shopping at a particular store?
Also..a little deeper..
Would you stop purchasing goods from a store that buys products from a country that still treats women as second class or has what can only be called slave labor, or commits human rights abuses against its own people?
Do you compromise your ethics, religion, morals etc by purchasing products from such a store?
For the most part no, not on a large scale (it would have to be a really big something that would probably also be illegal, not just unethical).
In all honesty I'm more likely to stop shopping somewhere because of high prices, poor selection, or poor service.
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