Do you often vote with your feet when shopping?

Walmart. Don’t like their politics or how they treat their workers. I also won’t go to Sam’s Club, for the same reason.

Usually it is a bone head employee that gets me to never return to a store. Lately though I have been spending every penny I possibly can in my own town to preserve the precious sales tax dollars we so desperately need.

@Cruiser Yeah, me too. I try to shop at the local mom and pop stores but there are just some things they don’t carry, ya know?

@palerider My town is large enough where it has everything I need. Things like clothers, groceries and gas often were often bought out of town due to convenience and proximity to where I am at, but now I plan my shopping trips to be in the home town.

No. If I were to boycott every store that bugs me, I’d have nowhere to shop.

I don’t buy from chain fashion stores because I dislike how they’re popping up all over the city. There used to be a time I hated that there weren’t any here because I could never find the stuff I saw in magazines, but now I am more interested in and more able to buy the clothes at smaller, more expensive boutiques, and there aren’t any!

Always. Commerce is a two way street. You don’t treat me or my community properly, you don’t see any of my cash. I just wish there was a way to apply that to the IRS.

Certainly. Sometimes. I haven’t set foot in J.C. Penney’s since the ‘70s, because they pissed me off.

@Adirondackwannabe Have you seen the proposed legislation called The Fair Tax Act?
www.fairtax.org

I was going to say a resounding “no”. Then I remembered that there is one particular SB that refuses to make my capo how I like it. I don’t often buy a seven dollar coffee, but when I do I prefer to have it bone dry, not soggy.

Shops that have music blaring at me or where staff pounce on me like vultures, “Can I help you at all sir…need any assistance with that sir….three bloody bags full sir!!!!” Mainly clothes shops that act this way. The staff been barely out of nappies they’re that young. Doesn’t stop from buying there though. I’m too defiant :¬)

There’s a little bakery around the corner that, one day, would not let me bring my son in the store in his stroller. The stroller had to be left at the door. I don’t know what they were thinking. My son was all over the place, taking down bottles of this and loaves of that, and I was so busy trying to keep him from destroying the place that I never did get anything.

I haven’t been back since, and my son is ten now.

It’s been ages since I’ve boycotted a store or chain for their practices. The last one was breakfast restaurant chain due to the rumor that they wouldn’t hire black people.

Usually, it is about service, and it goes in both directions. I will never buy a certain automobile brand again due to their inability to fix a problem no matter how many times the car was taken in to two different service centers. On the flip side, there is a gas station that is slightly further away than two others, but the owner and people who work there are always friendly and helpful.

I need to edit my answer above. I will never set foot in an Applebees. Terrible food and service every time I have eaten there. I understand this can happen on occasion with any restaurant, but every time? Only at Crapplebees.

Not often, but I do. I was unjustly fired from a local grocery store chain, and I haven’t been back.

@Dr_Dredd I can’t speak for Wal-Mart, but Sam’s (at least, MY Sam’s) treats people pretty well. Heck, they kept one guy even after he kept proving himself to be a massive liability. They finally eliminated him when he failed to call or show up for the fifth time.

this is a great-ass question, man. i know exactly what you and everybody feels in this thread. i’m a foodie. a chef. a cook. i have my fave stores and other grocery stores or markets i loathe.

what rattles my front-right grocery cart wheel is lack of produce or fresh items. shopping for spaghetti and no basil? want to make a pico de gallo and no fresh lime or cilantro? if a market does not have that “one” certain item, no matter how full my grocery cart is, i’ll abandon the cart in an aisle and start all over somewhere else.

and as far as clothing stores, i hate the dude or chick that suspects i’m up to no good. hey, i was cutting grass and just felt like dropping in at the last minute to pick up a nice tie for church. didnt feel like changing, so here i am. and i’m a choosy shopper, so i will be going back and forth comparing colors and patterns. i got cash in my pocket and instead of tracking me, you should be paying a little more attention to that nicely dressed person over there with the sharp trench coat.

@charliecompany34 rotflmao @ the lack of basil and cilantro for pico de gallo. i just stocked up on all that jazz in the past week.

Yes. I go into a store with a preconceived idea of what I am going to spend and if I don’t find it at that price, I leave.