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Companies and/or Products You Avoid (MERGED)

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1) Nationwide is definitley not on your side
2) Dell - Mac is the way to go
3) Walgreens - Too many, they just keep popping up... and wouldn't ya know it they're right next to a CVS...
4) Xbox - just plain gay
5) ESPNU/NFL Network, etc. - I think we can all agree on these
6) MTV - clearly false advertising
 
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You look a little short on cash in your picture, so let me offer this.

I won't buy at Wal-Mart,

because they are a big company, and they are everywhere.

See, you are a nickel richer already :)

In all seriousness, I do not like shopping for anything at Wal-Mart - but this has much more to do with the toothless hordes that seem to gravitate to the place.
Guess I just don't enjoy the company of mewling, snot-ridden, overweight, impolite kids and their ignorant and often loud-mouthed parents. These seem to be everywhere -- at Wal-Mart.
 
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The beef I have most with Wal-Mart is the treatment of their employees. Read the chapter on Wal-Mart in Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed.

Also, I've never been in a Wal-Mart I liked as a store. Everything is always so disorganized and dirty. I go to Target instead if I need to shop at a large discount store.
 
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sandgk;700972; said:
In all seriousness, I do not like shopping for anything at Wal-Mart - but this has much more to do with the toothless hordes that seem to gravitate to the place.
Guess I just don't enjoy the company of mewling, snot-ridden, overweight, impolite kids and their ignorant and often loud-mouthed parents. These seem to be everywhere -- at Wal-Mart.
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I would agree with you, but I was in the BeaverCreek Target Saturday night and it was a friggin Monster Truck rally or Pro/Fake Wrestling event or something.

I haven't seen that many mullets since the last time I watched Slapshot....

As for WalMart, I tend to go to Meijer OR Sam's Club if I have the time, but I'll generally go to whichever is easier.
 
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OSU_Buckguy;700963; said:
no offense to anyone here, but if i had a nickel for each person who stated that he or she hated starbucks or wal-mart but couldn't come up with adequate reasons except for "they're a big corporation" and "they're everywhere,"... well, i'd have enough to buy only a grande, non-fat, iced, no foam, decaf mocha latte. of course, that's still about, what, 100 nickels.
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Here is a good place to start... http://walmartwatch.com/

For the most part though, I choose not to shop at Wal-Mart because I would rather give my money to the locally owned and operated stores as much as possible.

While I didn't have Starbucks on my "don't buy list" I don't buy their coffee because I think it sucks and it is tremendously over priced, of course that is just my opinion. I lived in the Seattle area for about 4 years and there are numorous coffee shops/chains out there that are much better than the almighty Starbucks. For the most part people are buying the name, not the coffee.
 
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OSU_Buckguy;700963; said:
no offense to anyone here, but if i had a nickel for each person who stated that he or she hated starbucks or wal-mart but couldn't come up with adequate reasons except for "they're a big corporation" and "they're everywhere,"... well, i'd have enough to buy only a grande, non-fat, iced, no foam, decaf mocha latte. of course, that's still about, what, 100 nickels.
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No offense to you, but it doesn't take a deeply intellectual mind to recognize a poor product. Walmart is cheap, and little else. As pointed out, Target is a vastly superior bargain superstore.
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1) Wal-Mart (the most corrupt company in the world, IMHO)
2) Microsoft (they can't even copy good products correctly, see the Zune)
3) Sony (I just don't like them)
4) Ford (they are throwing money at political agenda issues when they aren't even making money selling cars)
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Good list, Sony has done plenty to tick off it's consumers. My favorite was the virus they included with their copy-protected CDs.

I don't like Microsoft, but bought an Xbox 3 years ago (sports/FPS gaming easily removed the PS2, college dorm gaming edged out the gamecube). However my next console will easily be a Wii, outstanding product.
msj2487;700971; said:
3) Walgreens - Too many, they just keep popping up... and wouldn't ya know it they're right next to a CVS...
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While that location pattern is strange... you must hate about 100 companies.
4) Xbox - just plain gay
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5) ESPNU/NFL Network, etc. - I think we can all agree on these
6) MTV - clearly false advertising
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jwinslow;701037; said:
No offense to you, but it doesn't take a deeply intellectual mind to recognize a poor product. Walmart is cheap, and little else.
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i appreciate the reason that you listed and understand that it doesn't take intellect to recognize a poor product. however, that isn't the reason that i often hear when i ask someone why he or she doesn't patronize wal-mart on principle. instead, the reasons are often corporate-related, and they're too often poorly argued. i respect someone's enumeration of wal-mart's unscrupulous practices. i don't respect someone's inability to provide adequate reasons for their disdain. away from the net, i too often hear these shallow arguments.
 
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I make a distinction between Starbucks and Wal-Mart. Starbucks is definately predatory when it comes to wiping out the competition, but--while I may have a soft spot for independent, mom & pop stores--I don't have any fundamental problems with Starbucks being competitive. They also have very good policies in place as to how they treat both employees and suppliers.

In the latter regard, Wal-Mart is a fundamentally different animal than Starbucks. Wal-Mart Watch has well documented the hundreds, if not thousands, of episodes of Wal-Mart taking advantage and cheating their own employees as well as being one of the worst profiteers of sweatshop labor on the planet.

http://walmartwatch.com/
 
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ORD_Buckeye;701704; said:
Walgreens needs to be on the list if for no other reason than bulldozing The Kahiki. Bastards! For that, they've definately earned a spot in hell's inner circle.
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i didn't know that. may the executives of walgreens then suffer the many embarrassing (but not lethal) sexually transmitted diseases that the drugs they sell intend to cure and alleviate.
 
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I try to stay away from any company who's employee's are in a union... I cannot stand unions, it is everything capitalism isn't... if you want to see first hand what a union can do, look no further than the U.S. steel industry, the U.S. auto industry, and the U.S. airline industry. Pay your employee's more than their worth, and you will eventually go bankrupt as others eat away your market share.
 
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Ford. I will never forgive Ford for the way they treated Goodyear, when, after Goodyear ponies up cash to account for Ford's pathetically designed SUVs, Ford has the audacity to first trash GY and terminate the relationship, THEN run ads based on the theme of how well Old Man Ford and Old Man Goodyear used to go fishing together back in the day. Backstabbing sombitches don't care about their strategic partners, and I am to believe they could give a rat's ass about me?

Verizon. Deliberately sold my mother a phone KNOWING she lived in an area that rendered the phone useless, then threw every road block in her path when she tried to cancel the worthless contract. (Note: EVERY cell phone co. knows your reception to within 500 feet of your residence. If they claim otherwise, they are lying.)

MSM, generally. I do not patronize liberal news sources that pass themselves off as unbiased and impartial. Put it on your sleeve or STFU.
 
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