Companies That Were Involved In Atrocities

[Mr.Bill]

I've been doing the Walmart boycott for about 8 years, or so now..

90% or so of the crap they sell is made overseas... 23% or so of their employees makes so little in wages they can qualify for food stamps!

Fvck em.

[Aaron]

I definitely do boycott walmart with regards to 99.9 percent of my consumer dollars. I use it essentially as a convenience store... really only contribute patronage when there is simply no other sane option

[exploited]

I just don't get why people go to WalMart when you can go to Costco and feel good about it.

[Aaron]

And not Huffington Post good about it,... literally good about it. Costco is literally a good corporation.

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[Professor]

I see no reason to boycott the company in the OP. After all, a "company" doesn't make decisions or take actions. Companies don't make things. People do. If the people who made the bad things are no longer there, and the new people are not making bad things, why should I not partake?

Just curious, what makes Costco a good company? Seriously, I'm interested.

We have a Sams and a Costco here in New Orleans. The general patron of Sams is a much nicer person, in my experience. They get out of your way if they see you coming. They say excuse me if they need to get by you. Basic stuff like that. But, go to Costco, and they expect you to move out of their way (even if you are on the right side of the aisle, or are obviously looking at something).

Basically, I go to Sams, not because I like Sams better, but because I like the patrons better. But, if Costco were better for the community/society somehow, then I'd consider going there.

So, why are they better?

[exploited]

They pay great wages, they are fairly environmentally conscientious for a big warehouse type place, they have great HR policies about bullying, discrimination, etc... And they do all this without being required too.

[Professor]

[The Dharma Bum]

US Companies like Freeport McMoran mining operations are behind the genocides in Papua New Guinea.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genocides_ ... West_Papua

100,000s of thousand have died, maybe more it's hard to say because the area is so remote and many tribes there are literally completely uncontacted by modern civilization. Human beings are being hunted like animals there now as we speak. Something like is fully as devastating as what occurred in Rwanda, but since it's in the name of our own industrialization we don't look at it that way.

However, the numbers of casualties are comparable.

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