What Party Does Your Retail Dollar Support?

[athelind]

Blue Christmas

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

Comments

[rikoshi.livejournal.com]

Wow, I'm happy to see that I coincidentally seem to lean towards Blue-oriented retailers. This pleases the Rikky.

[cargoweasel.livejournal.com]

Awesome. I only knew about costco already. This is a great resource.

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

I'm disappointed in all those nice restaurants, but I think Chick-Fil-A is all the boycott I can handle. Hooray for Arby's and their Chicken Bacon Swiss.

[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.

[pathia.livejournal.com]

The long term goal is to help reduce corporate money from politics; this is not a geographical boycott.

By...shopping with companies that give shitloads of money to Blue instead of Red?

I would think you'd want to shop with companies that don't give to EITHER party to accomplish this goal.

[hedgegoth.livejournal.com]

*nudge* i need your snail addy please - email to scott at urbandragons dot com?

[bfdragon.livejournal.com]

I'm not really sure how much that puts me at ease, it seems to give less confidence in the democratic party then it does make me want to shop there.. oh well.

Interesting the difference of scale between the two, it's usually much higher on the red side. It is interesting that the Democrats get more money from oil companies (Though I guess you don't have to pay for what you already own).

Social Conservatives in thongs?

[jeffxandra.livejournal.com]

The Limited Partnership including Victoria's Secret contributes mostly to Republican party?