There are plenty of individual restaurants and fast food places that I avoid because of crappy customer service. I won't shop at certain clothing stores because they use their customers as billboards. There's a small, privately-owned clothing store in a mall here that I won't shop at because the owner has racist hiring practices. I try not to buy products from a very large corporation that's flooding the market with GMOs and is actively resisting legislation that would require them to identify those foods. I'm thinking of boycotting a certain meat company because of the way their workers are treated.
I firmly believe that consumers matter, and that we vote with our dollars. It's hard to know who to trust, but once it's been proven to me that something is wrong I won't accept it. less

Abercrombie & Fitch, and American Apparel are the only ones I can think of at the moment! I didn't list Hooters because even if their business practices were better I wouldn't eat there just because their model doesn't appeal to me.

Edit: Almost forgot Milanoo and their many, many puppet sites! less

Walmart, Chick-Fil-A, Hooters, and now (sadly) Old Navy and their affiliates.

Walmart, because of their horrible business practices. Sure, they treat their actual U.S. employees like crap, but they also source products from factories like the one in Bangladesh that burned down with the doors locked, killing over 100 people, and the shrimp supplier in Thailand who was essentially using slave labor. How do you guys think they can profit off such low prices? less

Abercrombie & Fitch, and American Apparel are the only ones I can think of at the moment! I didn't list Hooters because even if their business practices were better I wouldn't eat there just because their model doesn't appeal to me.

Edit: Almost forgot Milanoo and their many, many puppet sites! less

oh yes, those stores are just so far away from my wheelhouse. Not a political issue, but their clothes will NEVER look good one me or fit with how I want to look.

Let us not mention how much I avoid Home Depot...I NEVER get any help there (probably because I'm a short girly girl in my 20's). But short girly girls need home improvement stuff too! I shop at some of the smaller local hardware stores and get great service.

Also, shoe departments in mall anchor stores. Another place I don't get service (do people just don't think I have money? because I do!). I need a shoe store that keeps all it's boxes out for me to go through, like DSW. less

Similar discriminative hiring (make sure to send in a full body photo with your resume!) and racist hiring practices. More here! I used to avoid them because of all the sexual harassment allegations made about the company CEO/founder, but they've all been dismissed. less

I refuse to do business with AT&T, because of their unwavering support of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), their opposition to net neutrality — and the way they treated an elderly relative of mine when she had a dispute with them over some of the charges on her bill.

I agree about "avoiding" as opposed to outright boycotting, for the most part. I don't buy gas from Exxon or Mobil, because of the way they handled the Valdez spill — but I have bought gas there on a couple of occasions when I was running on fumes in the middle of nowhere. less

I am a vegan so I boycott everything with animal products, so I guess in effect I boycott companies that offer very few if any vegan products, such as Jello, Coach, Nestle, and Outback Steakhouse.

I prefer not to go to places that have refused to provide health care to their employees under the new laws, such as Applebees.

I don't buy from companies like Hollister or Abercrombie and Fitch that have racist, ableist, chauvinist, and fat-phobic policies that ask for "girls next door" or whatever and require women who work there to follow tons of stupid appearance rules.

I am now boycotting Disney because an intern was raped there and posted her story, which is that Disney did absolutely nothing.

Overall, it's very easy for me to boycott these things and I don't even think about them unless asked, and then I have to really think. Applebees and A&F were never on my favorites list so it was pretty easy to avoid them when I deemed them to be evil. less

WHOA thank you for the heads up about Disney. Some places I can't afford to boycott (Walmart, as much as I hate to support them, is the most affordable store in my area for pretty much everything - we don't really have a choice) but Disney, after pulling something like that, is definitely on my shit list. less

Thanks for all the replies, everyone! I didn't know a lot of these and it's nice to know now, but I am too lazy to find all this info on my own, hence the discussion Actually it's not all laziness, I have a difficult time following the news because I get upset & that is the last thing I need, so I avoid it, especially when it's about stuff I can't control. At least this info helps me choose where not to use my money, something I can control. less

The alleged rape happened after he took her and her children on a free tour of the Magic Kingdom, according to arrest records.

Disney spokeswoman Andrea Finger said Thursday that Brookins had been placed on unpaid leave pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.

The sheriff's sex-crimes unit is trying to determine if Brookins used his "Friends and Family" discount to book bargain-rate rooms for other women and used his employee pass to provide them with free admission to Disney theme parks.

"Our investigation into Mr. Brookins is looking into whether he has made similar offers to other guests," sheriff's spokesman Jim Solomons said Thursday afternoon. "We want to make sure there are no other victims."

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He's been arrested, placed on unpaid leave and is being investigated by the company; how is that "nothing"?

(oops that was supposed to be a general reply, not a reply to no-nita) less