Do you ever avoid certain companies / products and if so why....

[Lovin_It]

I hate starbicks (I've posted loads about this) but I also avoid certain companies too. I an trying to be an 'ethical consumer'.

Anyway I avoid Nestle for its irresponsible marketing of baby milk formula Baby Milk Action

I also avoid Essofor doing more than any other company to sabotage international action on climate change (and for being a top donor to George Bush)

Website: www.stopesso.com

Just wondered what companies, if any, you avoid

Thanks for posting

 

[pucci_mama]

why do you avoid starbucks? Care to elaborate?

 

[crepebacksatin]

i don't do starbucks, because i'd rather give my money to a locally-owned coffee shop.

same reason why i try to avoid most chain stores all together

 

[Diorling]

I love how yours are for noble reasons while mine are super shallow...

Louis Vuitton - I just dont agree with thier logomania, or thier design aesthetic.

Gucci - Same as Vuitton.

Rolex - Same as Gucci, Vuitton.

Uhm...That's about it, Im the ideal consumer, make it pretty and Ill buy it. Only if it isnt LV or Gucci.

 

[marcj]

frito-lay!!! lol

 

[angela xx]

Sephora, at least I try to.
I can tell that because I'm pretty young, they think that I'm only coming in to use the samples and not buy anything, so they never bother to greet me, ask me if i need help, etc. where as they are allllll over the older looking customers
So, MAC's eating all my money noww

 

[kanita]

I don't eat chocolate. One of the most hypocritical things someone can do.

 

[marcj]

oh and i will also not get anywhere near american beer... its has to be cusquena from peru for me!!

 

[greeen]

ahahahahahhaah Frito Lay

ehm..I tend not to shop at Aldo and Nine West cause I don't wear leather and I'll only see pretty shoes that I won't try on or wear. They have canvas/man-made shoes from time to time but I just won't go in.

 

[MJCouture]

frito-lay!!! lol

hahahaha.

 

[Curious]

Tupperware...

because I put myself through college waiting tables and the b*tches from the tupperware convention didn't tip worth jack!

(but seriously.. I buy rubbermaid.. can't shake it)

.. and I'll come back with fashion related tidbits

 

[Curious]

And that quickly

laredoute - not worth the hassle - 9 times out of 10, it's crap.

 

[FashionGrrrrl]

BLUENOTES!!

Not that I bought their cheap crap anyway but they were recently selling a men's t-shirt that said "No means have aNOther drink". I honestly don't care that they apologized and removed it from their stores, the fact that it was there in the first place tells me that the company is run by a bunch of sexist dipshits who are willing to take this current attitude of young women being nothing but objects waaaaaaay too far. It's not even remotely amusing, I can't even understand how the t-shirt made it to production.

 

[pucci_mama]

Okay-- places I avoid- Primak, it's a British really really cheap chain store, we are talking sweatshops cheap, I'm not into the whole buy-and-throw-away mentality either.

McDonald's, Burger King, Pizza Hut- Ew, does this even need an explanation?

 

[StellaMare]

H&M and other even cheaper clothing stores in general. Everytime I go in there and look, the terrible quality and the trendiness factor makes me feel a little bit sick. I get put off of shopping from being in there.

I don't eat at any hamburger places and haven't for years. Partly because I don't like the taste of meat, partly because it's gross.

 

[Beautiful Stranger]

Agreeing on the fastfood. I also "avoid" yoox cause i never had a truly good experience. Buying a xs-sweater that fitted me like an xl, white jeans who turned out to be cream cords, tie for 35 $ and later got a tax-bill for 65 $.. Same thing with a rather inexpensive Furla watch. Two cashmere-sweaters, HUGE tax-bill for like 150 $. etc

 

[woodenhouse]

For a long time I wouldn't buy anything at the Gap.. notorious for their sweatshop use... though *supposidly* they have cleaned up... Still, i've only bought one thing in the last five years from there and it was a RED campaign sweater

Wal-Mart.. although when my brother was living in NY he didn't have much money at all and had to buy stuff at Wal-Mart.. so I understand that for some people it's necessary.. since its so cheap... but if I'm fortunate to not have to support such a place then I won't..

Fast food restaurants.. ALTHOUGH i have gotten coffee at mcdonals before.. it was really late and the onyl thing open and I needed coffee and it was horrible. I don't support the fast food industry because of their herding the cattle on precious rainforest land because its cheap.

Lovin it, like you, I try to be as aware as I can as a consumer. Although i'm hardly where I think I should be! I buy less.. but I still buy more than I need and not always from places where I am sure my product wasn't made in a unethical way. I love the "organic" movement in clothes, as it is great for the environment, but I wish there was more emphasis put on unethical laber, sweatshops, fair trade, etc. So many people just don't know what they support by buying their nike shoes (etc.)

i love vintage.. never can feel bad about recyling clothes!

 

[tangerine]

I now avoid all companies and products, because I have spent too much money and now I'm broke.

 

[chaneladdict]

I refuse to go to Best Buy. Their products are crap, and they don't really repair things when you send them in with their silly repair plans

 

[PrinceOfCats]

I don't eat chocolate. One of the most hypocritical things someone can do.

All that is known of the hypothetical 'someone' posited is that they exist and they eat chocolate. Therefore, the hypocrisy must lie in a contradiction between chocolate and existence?


Some call it larceny but I prefer to think that I no longer subscribe to the money system because I'm an anarcho-syndicalist.