What Party Does Your Retail Dollar Support?

[athelind]

Blue Christmas

This hooks in neatly with cargoweasel's recent comments about Economic Activism.

Comments

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

Hrm. They fail to note other things that the retailers do for the community beyond political contributions.
Sears is heavy Republican donator, something that puts them in my good bucket though is that Sears pays the difference in salaries and maintains benefits for their called-up military reservist employees.

http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/sears.asp

*shrug* I'd just be biased against utilizing just one thing to determine at which retailer I spend my money.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

They do point that out in their documentation, that this is just an early example and they will be going into more detail about each company's practices.

[tikaani.livejournal.com]

They have a lot more work to do, since it's claiming "2004 donations" yet lists "Tricon Global Restaurants" as a donator, a company which hasn't existed since 2002.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Tricon changed their name to the much friendlier sounding Yum! Brands but they're still the same company.

[tikaani.livejournal.com]

Reasons aside, they've been giving money for two years under another name, been operating as such, doing SEC reporting as such, but this list doesn't have that? That's all.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that clearly invalidates the entire effort. Why should they even bother?

[tikaani.livejournal.com]

*sigh* I never said it invalidated their effort, It just points out they obviously have a lot of work to do before one could even consider it accurate.