I applaud the efforts by minorities and others to boycott the businesses which immediately pulled back DEI initiatives. Walmart, Target, Amazon are some of the major companies which pulled back DEI programs at Donald Trump's beck and call. Walmart actually stopped their DEI hiring practices a month before the election. I guess the CEO and no doubt its mostly white and male corporate board could not contain themselves, anticipating the black woman would not win. Unfortunately, as we all know, Kamala Harris lost.
I am finding boycotting not as hard as I thought it would be. Walmart which was once a weekly thing with me is not missed at all. Their prices were too high anyway. Instead, I now shop at smaller businesses. Now consider, if such small businesses support Trump, those companies still lack the power and influence as the aforementioned. Therefore, it is a better strategy to put more money into the smaller businesses which have less lobbying pull.
There are very few Targets where I live, and I rarely shop there anyway. Sustaining from Amazon has been the hardest for me, yet I can find a lot of things on Ebay now to meet my needs. I am not sure where corporate Ebay stood with Trump, but most of the sellers on its platform are small businesses or simply individuals trying to make a living.
Please note the slap happy tariffs Trump is implementing are going to effect the "big three" (Walmart, Target, and Amazon) tremendously, and a significant portion of the businesses across the United States. Prices are going to skyrocket soon. Stock up at these smaller business while you can because we are going to get hit with a punch of low supply and high demand. Several economists are predicting smaller businesses relying on imported goods will face bankruptcy and closures.
I have no problem shopping smaller grocery stores for food supplies as opposed to Walmart. Aldi stores are a good candidate to transfer over your food purchases. I used to go to McDonalds regularly, but that immediately ended right after election. Do I miss McDonalds? Not at all, for it was always about convenience for me, and never really its food--save maybe a Big Mac.
However, there are many people who are disabled, or who may be living in a rural community; where they have no choice but to go to a Walmart or Target. Those in such a predicament with limited options have to do what they must. In such situations purchasing from the big three is completely understandable. The best strategy is if you must meet your basic needs through the monopolies, go to other businesses for your non-basic needs: such as makeup, hair products, etc. Every person's situation is different, but in the end, the key is to buy less. Particularly in these trying times.
And without further ado, I have a compilation of pro-Trump businesses which donated to the conman's campaign below. I am sure there are many other business out there worthy of mention here, but for now, this is just a basic list of well known companies.
1800Flowers.com ACE Hardware Act Floride Alamo Rental Cars Allegiant Air Amazon Anthropologie Arby's Arizona Diamond Backs ArmorAll Ashley Furniture Auto Zone Bacardi Bali Underwear Baskin and Robins Bausch + Lomb Big Heart Pet Brands Bike Athletics Blue Bell Boost Mobile Brooks shoes Buffalo Bills Buffalo Wild Wings Buick Cadilac Carls Jr. Champ Clothing Charmin Cheverolet Chiquita Brands Chobani Yogurt Cinnabon Cincinatti Financial Conair Coors Beer Cuisinart Dairy Queen Dean Foods Dirt Devil Discount Tire Dole Foods Dudley Sports Dunkin' Donuts Enterprise Rental Car Exxon Farberware Florist.com Folgers Free People Fruit of the Loom Fruit Bouquets.com Frys Electronics GMC GNC Garmin Sports Products Geico George Forman Grill Grey Goose Hanes, Hardee's Helzberg Diamonds Hendrick Motorsports Hershey Products Hobby Lobby Home Goods Hoover Vacuum Horizon Bank Jimmy Dean Keller Williams Realty L.L Bean Land o Lakes Las Vegas Sands Leggs Pantyhose Los Angeles Angels Maidenform underwear Marshalls Martins Famous Pastry Shoppes McDonalds Meow Mix Miller Beer Milwaukee's Best Beer Mobile Molson Motorola My Pillow NAPA Auto Parts New Orleans Saints NY Yankees Norwegian Cruise Old Dutch Foods Omni Hotels Oreck Vacuums Papa Johns Pepperonis Playtex Procter & Gamble Public Storage Publix Purdue Farms Rayovac Schlotzsky's Shell Oil Sierra Trading Post Slumber Land Smucker's Products Soma Intimates Sonoco Spalding Stanley Black and Decker Hardware Star Furniture Stiletto Tools Tampa Bay Buccaneers The Popcorn Factory Tito's Vodka Toast Master Tractor Supply Turtle Wax Urban Outfitters Vanity Fair Paper Products Walmart Wendy's Wonder Bread Wow Cable Wynn Resorts Young Brands | |
