Businesses that you don't patronize on principle:

[AllTide]

Sonic - Terrible service and there is no consistancy in the taste of there food.

Barnhill's - (similar to Ryans) The one and only time I went to one, as I picked up my silverware rolled up in a napkin a roach ran out of the end. i got up and left.

Tires from Sam's - They would not make up a defected tire that was only 4 mo old. I now buy my tires from a local independant dealer, I get just as good a price, tons better service, free rotation and balance for life of tire and free road hazzard warranty I've used it twice no ?? asked.

Citgo - Same reason's as everyone else.

I try hard not to buy anything made in China sometime theres no choice.

 

[gerry dorsey]

pretty much anyone i consider an evil ubercorp.

-mcdonald's
-starbuck's....though i don't even drink coffee...i still hate them
-txu-texas energy company-i go with a smaller company....i may even pay a few more bucks a month...but i don't want to support the evil ubercorp.
-although i don't boycott walmart....i don't go there very often at all...viva target.
-for a man who hates evil oil, i'm surprisinly lax on who i will and won't buy from. i guess i just spread my money around so that noone benefits too much from me. i buy the cheapest.

 

[Bodhisattva]

I got a Sonic hot dog 12 years ago, bit into it, and a piece of bone exploded one of my teeth.

Ewwwww. Next time order the bone on the side.

 

[It's On A Slab]

pretty much anyone i consider an evil ubercorp.

-mcdonald's
-starbuck's....though i don't even drink coffee...i still hate them
-txu-texas energy company-i go with a smaller company....i may even pay a few more bucks a month...but i don't want to support the evil ubercorp.
-although i don't boycott walmart....i don't go there very often at all...viva target.
-for a man who hates evil oil, i'm surprisinly lax on who i will and won't buy from. i guess i just spread my money around so that noone benefits too much from me. i buy the cheapest.

Around here in corn country, the 85/15 gas/ethanol blend is the cheapest, so I'll buy it even though it's a subsidized fiasco. Though, I hear that this blend will burn up a 2-cycle engine because it burns too hot.

I patronize Starbuck's whenever my oldest daughter is in town. Father/daughter time (she's a Starbucks addict) trumps my own feelings about monopolistic businesses.

 

[ColumbusTide]

WalMart - they seem unlempt and way overcrowded ... I prefer Target and even the newly reborn KMart/Sears.

ExxonMobil - I think they are just evil on more levels than could be expressed here.

Chik-Fil-A - They have a right to their beliefs and I exercise my right not to support them.

Colonial Bank - do I even have to say why?

 

[Bodhisattva]

Chik-Fil-A - They have a right to thier beliefs and I exercise my right not to support them.

What are those?:conf2:

 

[ColumbusTide]

What are those?:conf2:

Don't want to start a great big political argument, but its owned by outspoken and strong supporters of the evangelical right. That works to their advantage with a lot of people, but not with an uber-liberal Buddhist like me.

 

[92tide]

Don't want to start a great big political argument, but its owned by outspoken and strong supporters of the evangelical right. That works to their advantage with a lot of people, but not with an uber-liberal Buddhist like me.

if only the golden wok could make chicken biscuits as good, i'd join you :biggrin2:

 

[Bodhisattva]

Don't want to start a great big political argument, but its owned by outspoken and strong supporters of the evangelical right. That works to their advantage with a lot of people, but not with an uber-liberal Buddhist like me.

I did not know that. There aren't too many Chik-Fil-As around my neck of the woods. I guess that's why I missed the political message. Eh, I'm not much on fast food anyway. More power to them, I guess. Whatever. I guess they're in league with the Domino's crowd.

 

[Bodhisattva]

if only the golden wok could make chicken biscuits as good, i'd join you :biggrin2:

LOL!

Bunch of chikin thumpers.

 

[ColumbusTide]

I did not know that. There aren't too many Chik-Fil-As around my neck of the woods. I guess that's why I missed the political message. Eh, I'm not much on fast food anyway. More power to them, I guess. Whatever. I guess they're in league with the Domino's crowd.

I left Domino's off my list. Their politics notwithstanding I don't eat there because it tastes like crap. I guess it is a matter of principle. I don't eat cardboard as a matter of principle.

 

[gerry dorsey]

if only the golden wok could make chicken biscuits as good, i'd join you :biggrin2:

or waffle fries. considering about 90% of the time i consider chik-fil-a it is inevitiably a sunday...they don't get too much of my money. they sure are tasty though.

 

[Bodhisattva]

Their politics notwithstanding I don't eat there because it tastes like crap.

Worst. Pizza. Ever.

 

[gerry dorsey]

I left Domino's off my list. Their politics notwithstanding I don't eat there because it tastes like crap. I guess it is a matter of principle. I don't eat cardboard as a matter of principle.

how do you even know the politics behind these companies??? wendy's could financially back satanism and i would never know.

 

[BAMA1979]

Toomer's Drug Store

 

[DiamondDust]

how do you even know the politics behind these companies??? wendy's could financially back satanism and i would never know.

Usually comes out in media or press about the company or some policy they implement. Blockbuster Video is another company that would fall under these lines. Wal-Mart is yet another.

 

[ColumbusTide]

how do you even know the politics behind these companies??? wendy's could financially back satanism and i would never know.

You didn't know? The Frosty is ground up puppies ... you heard it here first.

 

[gmart74]

I heard it was ground up nuns. They must be Liberals.......:biggrin:

 

[cbi1972]

You didn't know? The Frosty is ground up puppies ... you heard it here first.

Finally someone is offering that.

 

[gerry dorsey]

You didn't know? The Frosty is ground up puppies ... you heard it here first.

[insert mike vick joke here]