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"I'M NEVER SHOPPING HERE AGAIN"
"Oh thank gods, I thought you'd never take a hint. You are objectively an awful person and no amount of spending on your part was ever going to make dealing with you worthwhile. Yes, PLEASE leave and never show your face here again."
This is a bit of a grey area because there are some asshole companies and asshole employees
I'd recently had an experience with a racist aldi employee only bag checking my mother because we where not one of the white people in line and that same aldi employee happened to lie about bag checking the white people ahead that we visibly saw her not check
This happened in Australia, but we live in one of the towns in Queensland not known for progresiveness
I'm planning to move to Brisbane or Melbourne once I am able too just to get away from all of the non progressive people here in my hometown
The comic isn't about boycotting locations as a whole, It's just done through a lens of someone working a minimum wage job who has to deal with people yelling at them. Especially about issues they're having and saying they're never going to shop there again. It doesn't impact them personally and getting angry at them personally won't help.
Honestly they are just doing us a favor. I really don't want to see them again either.
I always either thanked them, or congratulated them for making their first adult decision ever and let them know I woshed them luck as they continued on their journey of self discovery.
Between people boycotting certain brick and mortars for political reasons and the monopoly that is Amazon, there are not a lot of options.
Cory doctrow frequently writes about how voting with your dollars is somewhat ineffective because then the richest people have the most votes.
I still boycott places, though.
That’s true but collectively it still makes an impact
I've stopped going to businesses for various reasons over the years but I've never annouced the reason(s). I just stop going because I don't care about it enough. I'm not a feedback kind of guy.
today a customer thought I was laughing at them. I just had a mouthful of water I was desperately trying not to choke on 🥲😭
thankfully my manager didn't believe them
"Sir/mam, this is a Walmart. Your loss of business is literally a rounding error in pur profits."
"...Also all the other local stores were run out of business so there's no where else to shop."
"Those side road weeds sure look tasty."
"And I'm not paid enough TO care."
As someone who worked retail for a long time, I relished these moments... Their righteous indignation would snap me out of my ennui, and I'd love watching their face when I'd respond, "OK, bye", or give them no reaction whatsoever.
You have to appreciate those moments in retail because the rest of the time is pretty awful.
25 years ago I worked the registers at Target. One day at the back end of a pre-christmas lunchtime rush, this woman snidely remarks that I should be scanning faster. I bluntly told her that if she wasn't happy she could simply shop elsewhere. Shocked she threatened to complain to my manager, I simply pointed to thr front dedk and said "go ahead".
I still have my written warning in a box somewhere. Completely worth it lol
How ever would you find another minimum wage job?
I’ve definitely boycotted companies, but try to make sure my reasoning is sent as high as it can, and even then try to direct it to the company itself rather than whoever I have on the phone.
I'm a big fan of leaving accurate Google maps reviews. Then it actually hurts their business.