Don't shop at WalMart, Home Depot & Circuit City!

Instead shop at Costco, Walgreen & Barnes & Noble.

http://www.choosetheblue.com/main.php

We need more choices I know - but we need to take a stance where we can to show that supporters of evil should not be supported by their real base - the retail store shopper! I'm going to commit to drive 15 miles to the nearest Costco so I can avoid WalMart and Target (I'm so sorry to see Target almost as bad as WalMart)...

family wasn't full of reich-wing whackos, I mean . . . their "beer" (so-called) just sucks.

In my case, Kansas City's Boulevard India Pale Ale!!! Their porter is also EXCELLENT. Oh my goodness, I'm thirsty!

My KC favorite! :woohoo:

:toast:

Redhook ESB, but Yuengling Lager will always be my first love.

It's a good tasting light beer!

and I used to love Molsen now they are the same company.

feel like I just lost a loved one.

If they were the only blue brewery, I'd quit drinking beer.

:(

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:hi:

Is there a blue alternative to Home Depot?

I'm not sure about them.

was mostly blue. Much nice to shop there too.

I looked at www.buyblue.org, and they have Lowe's listed as Red. They did say that they were pretty politically inactive last election, but in the past, they were 100% Repuke. If they are actually blue, or even neutral now, I'll happily shop there instead.

Some of the info on Buy Blue and Choose The Blue is conflicting. I'll have to look into it more.

It's so fun to walk around and dream...
They have a great selection of ceiling fans too. Before Lowe's I had no idea you could buy one for more than $30.
Duckie

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Those are buying cooperatives, not chains--the stores themselves are independently owned. That's about as close to a blue home repair store as you're gonna get.

Lowe's is redder than Home Depot.

They also treat their employees worse, at least in this town--as of the last orientation class, 45 of our number quit working at Lowe's to come to work for Home Depot because Lowe's treats their people like shit.

Bed Bath and Beyond is also Blue.

on the computer hardware side, while HP, IBM and so forth
give way more to democrats...

they are also outsourcing high value jobs as fast as they can.

hmmm...

although another aspect to this is Costco gives employee benefits
and good jobs while selling us very cheap stuff and Wal-mart is
busy obtaining social services subsidies in order to keep their
wages below poverty and literally pulled a store out of Canada
just to union bust.

Amazon outsources, Powell's books in Oregon does not.

on the computer hardware side, while HP, IBM and so forth
give way more to democrats...

they are also outsourcing high value jobs as fast as they can.

Find a local store or get a really good A+ book and build your own. It's no where near as hard as people think it is.

www.buyblue.org


Nice ranking system there.

this is War..no more giving my money to any red corp.

That way, I'll shop there.

http://www.choosetheblue.com/main.php

http://www.buyblue.org/alphalist.php

There are others out there, but it's a start!

Those are good links:)

when you see--as I did one day--a arthritic oldster, eighty five or so, clumbsily setting up the cookie sample tray one day

That means nothing.
Duckie

Costco is Blue. Shop there.

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Economic Activism and Progressive Living Group

We could use a few more people to post there. :) Check it out

We do need to pay more attention to this issue on a daily basis...

Fox News, a company that shills endlessly for the right-wing, is "blue".

It has the best food prices in my area and it carries a lot of items I can't find in the other supermarkets.

That was my point.

Wal-Mart, yes.

Fox News, yes.

Home Depot, never go there anyway.

Not Target. Not gonna happen.

Fox is Blue! You've got to have that one wrong.

BRAND: Fox News
PARENT COMPANY: News Corp
DEM DONATIONS: 61%
REP DONATIONS: 39%
DEM $$$: $689,549
REP $$$: $434,224

http://www.choosetheblue.com/main.php

Go To: Choose The Blue > Entertainment and News > Television Networks

I think that is a bullshit ranking, to be blunt about it--they give seven hundred grand to the dems, but give MILLIONS to the GOP, in the form of favorable propaganda stories, puff pieces, and apologetic news "readers" (not reporters, certainly!)--you couldn't find enough cash to pay for that kind of syrupy coverage. THEN, they ice the cake with their broadcasting arm--showing provocative programs, slutty reality shows, edgy cartoons, and minority-centered sitcoms, all to drag the blue voters over to their corner.

On their cable news arm, they decry sleazy TV, and on their entertainment arm, they DEFINE sleazy TV.

Hypocrisy in Action--that's Faux for ya! Keep clicking!

most likely the repukes pay THEM for their "fair and balanced" reporting.

in the GOP.

I'm still not going to buy their shit because, well, it's shit.

and its amazing how much money one can save!! because when i used to shop walmart i bought crap i never needed and bought by complusion..because it was there...now i shop and watch for deals at drug stores and other stores..and i actually save alot of money that way!!
when i see a deal at other drug stores for laudry detergent i buy 5 ..and paper towels etc i buy at costco..
but i swear i now save alot of money not going to walmart...i used to never get out of wal mart for less than 200.00 and now..that money is in my pocket for other things!!

one can waste alot of money at wal mart!!

besides..i think they are fascist..and slave workers...i find i am happier when i get a better deal elsewhere..

fly

I would always go to those supercenter ones. I always bought WAY more than I needed because everything was right there. See I'm lazy and hate running errands, so now I pretty much only buy food for my family. My kids have enough crap and should be spending more time outside or inside learning something.

Now can somebody give me a reason to stop shopping at Target? It's not as bad as my Walmart habit was, but damn they have nice things for the price.

So many of the grumpy right-wing people where I live go to WalMart - even if Target also has more RW contributions, it still is a much nicer place to go...

Haven't been to WalMart in 1 year and 4 months - woohoo!

:woohoo:

Let's celebrate! I don't know when the last time I was there was... Quite a long time ago...

We all know how big those stores are and what people purchase there, right? Well, the store near where I live has eliminated all but one cashier. The other checkout is scan, bag, and pay yourself. The other 4 spots where the cash registers used to be are completely gone, so this is not a temporary situation. With the upcoming spring gardening and fix up season, the lines will be going to the back of the store.

It might actually be a good idea to evaluate a company in more ways than donations.

As someone who's worked for costco, I can tell you most of management is generally pro-republican.

Is whether they treat employees as human and, to me this is important, how they treat the environment and whether they sell/make things made in USA.

This is what you need to do. A comprehensive evaluation of a company must be done (usually by those who have experience on the inside) in order to evaluate who that company truly supports.

There are companies that on the outside look one way, but on the inside it's a WHOLE different story...

It's easy to hate WalMart and their politics though. It's easy to be turned off by Home Depot and their "patriotic" mumbo-jumbo hung from the rafters. I hate shopping at Circuit City anyway - it's just a stupidly designed store. I can only use the shop blue sites as a reference - there is more information on "open secrets' if you need to investigate the type of donations and whatever other information is available. It's better than doing nothing as the Dems have been for how many years?

is just to shop from individuals (i.e. ebay) or small local stores. Granted, you may do business with republicans but more than likely they won't be giving anything near what a large corporation could.

I buy almost everything except food from either ebay or small stores. I can't count how many years it's been since I've actually bought something from a place that has more than one store.

Ebay requires shipping sometimes, and I only ship with UPS because I've also worked there and I know it's a solid democratic pro-union company that treats employees very well. In order for me to consider a company truly democratic I need far more convincing than some donation record.

Ebay, or small retailers whenever I can.

Here's how I operate (when I truly have a choice):

There was a guy who used to go to this restaurant/bar I hung out at. He used to go on and on with the RW talking points at the bar - and he was a 42 year old letch who was dating one of the teenagers who worked at his ice-cream shop (she was of age by the time he dated her). He recently opened a nice restaurant nearby - but I will NEVER go into it. I will NEVER buy ice-cream at his shitty little ice cream shop too. That's what I call politics of choice... I apply the same principals to others I meet locally. The RW nut who owns a home building outfit? NEVER will se my business...

some companies (such as sears) have started selling on ebay. Usually the companies are the ones with 10,000+ feedback.

I often won't do business with the ultra-large Ebay businesses - they are usually hawking off junk anyway.

at any of those places anyway, and never will. Fortunately, there's a Walgreen's and Barnes and Noble right near me. I don't know about Costco, though, I'll have to check for the nearest one here.

I go to Costco, Target, Lowe's. I really don't buy electronics all that often at all, so that's not a problem.

I shop at Whole Foods.

I used to shop at Home Depot, until I read that they support Repubs in a massive way.

Guess what...I can find everything at the smaller stores nearby, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I'm not supporting a giant corporation.

Actually a gardening item that I really needed, Home Depot didn't have. My local hardware / country store did!!

I don't go to Wal-mart, so I'm left with K-mart and Target - when I absolutely have to.
Also, there are no "blue" grocery stores in my town, either. Stuck with Kroger's.

:(

Our "great shopping expierences" are at MallWart (which I refuse to go into) or Kmart, which is 45 min. away. Needless to say, the RiteAid gets my business for tp and sundries. Internet shopping is great out here in the boonies.
We do have a locally owned grocery so I shop there as much as possible.

It sucks. We need one.

The big mega-stores seem to do more destroying of communities than anything.

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

There was another site like the one you'd linked to and it claimed Borders donated more than B&N to Dems. (both are blue, Borders is just a little more blue.)

in the theaters either. Don't join CURVES exercise place and don't eat Papa John's Pizza. ALL RW donors. Buy CITGO gas ONLY..if you can. :hi:

its an apolitical electronics retailers. Its pretty fun to shop there too since they're always having good specials and sales. Service is on the low end though.

The only time we purposely drive north of the river is to shop at Costo and Fry's. They're both north of the Colorado River in Austin. But South Austin is the really blue part of Austin. We supposedly will be getting a Costco in South within the next two years. I can't wait.

Sonia

We have a Fry's.

So are their cups!

but it's a good company and heh, heh, created here locally. (I say that laughingly because it's not really local anymore)

I've written them and been told to enjoy SB coffee on the 20th of the month when they serve fairly traded coffee. A chain that big and blue stands at a portal to making the whole nation understand the importance of fairly traded coffee...yet they serve it only one day a month until it runs out.

What a waste.

And they overroast their beans.

i'm so glad, they are right on the corner and have some good deals on stuff

too bad about Target though... But most anything I can get at Target I can usually find at the thrift store

and since K Mart stood behind Martha Stewart, they're still on my list too.

pharmacists to steal and not fill birth control and morning after pill prescriptions.

I boycott anything with Wal- in the name: Wal-Mart, Walgreens, and Waldenbooks

Little local pharmacies are a better choice.

I've refused to shop at Walmart for years and as off November of last year Home Depot and Circuit City were both off my approved list. Barnes and Noble was added at that time. I've been a fan of Costco for a long time and when I need to go to a big drugstore, I always go to Walgreens, though I try to get most prescriptions filled at a small family owned drugstore here.

They aren't by any means an evil company. They do good things for the communities they're in, they aren't abusive or monopolistic, and they're one of the few companies capable of challenging Wal*Mart for local markets.

Home Depot, never mind being red, is one of the worst corporate criminals in the country. They have a horrendous record of accidents in their stories, causing injuries and deaths to customers and workers. And they've apparently decided to factor the cost of settling lawsuits into their bottom line, rather than spend money on fixing safety hazards.

Bobby Kennedy Jr. and Mike Papantonio did a segment on this on "Ring of Fire" radio a few months back (I can't find the exact reference).

The Atlanta Business Chronicle did a good series of exposes about Home Depot in 2003 -

http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2003/07/21/editorial1.html

http://www.responsibleshopper.org/

Information on companies and how they treat their employees, the environment, and more.

I thought someone said SEAR'S was red. I can't remember for sure.
I buy CITGO cause Du'ers say to, but I am not sure why. It is actually a cent or two cheaper here and there are long lines. I'm not sure if it is saving the penny or so, or buying blue, but I always have to wait for a pump to open up.

Best Buys and Circuit City are the only 2 real electronics retail stores in the area. I used to be a BB person, till, I got screwed on a rebate and found out they charge restocking fees on returned items. What are we to do?

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the Houston Press did a story about them. They are very labour unfriendly. I back my union brothers. Women need to picket some of the pharm pricks. That would get their attention. I will not shop at CVS if they deny women's right to safe birth control.

But at times I'm forced to go to Home Depot because local lumberyards and Lowe's just don't have the selection of home improvement stuff I need.

...even though I have to drive 15 miles to get there!

I need the paint and other supples for construction projects!

Big, Bad Houston has plenty of shopping options.

You call Palo Alto rural? :grr: Wait... is OSH blue or red?