Which US consumer brands in the UK can we boycott?
Which US consumer brands in the UK can we boycott?
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Gargamel

Original Poster:

15,956 posts

282 months

Yesterday (17:04)
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The power of the boycott is real, are you giving up buying any US brands?


Good Plan Ted

2,244 posts

252 months

Yesterday (17:44)
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Flying Boeing
Using Apple or Windows products .

Sporky

9,953 posts

85 months

Yesterday (17:51)
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Amazon. Both as brand and retailer.

Spotify.

Costco, but they're publicly anti-Trump. Same goes for Mattel.

Depends on your aim.

Halitosis

197 posts

78 months

Yesterday (17:51)
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Nike? Buy Adidas
Levis? Buy one of a million alternative brands
Starbucks? Go to Costa
The North Face? Buy Berghaus (or better yet Rab)
McDonalds? Go to Greggs
Apple? Buy Samsung
Tesla? Buy Seal
Cancelled YouTube subscription and closed accounts on Facebook and Twitter (not that I paid anyway)

Warhavernet

649 posts

8 months

Yesterday (18:21)
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Hold on, let's not be reckless, we might need to keep the yankees sweet, when they will bail us out, yet again, when we needlessly get involved in another European war.

Make mine a double Mr Daniels and a very large shaved cow in a bun.

Callerton

118 posts

69 months

Yesterday (18:53)
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Facebook.
X.

Sheets Tabuer

20,771 posts

236 months

Yesterday (18:59)
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Pornhub.

MikeM6

5,769 posts

123 months

Yesterday (19:06)
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Nah

Mr Penguin

3,883 posts

60 months

Yesterday (19:07)
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Sporky said:
Amazon. Both as brand and retailer.

Spotify.

Costco, but they're publicly anti-Trump. Same goes for Mattel.

Depends on your aim.
Isn't Spotify Swedish?

Carl_VivaEspana

15,628 posts

283 months

Yesterday (19:10)
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Gargamel said:
The power of the boycott is real
Only in the FT comments section.

JoshSm

2,829 posts

58 months

Yesterday (19:14)
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Sounds like another pointless token effort for some people to convince themselves they're doing something.

Like pissing in a wetsuit, they'll get a warm feeling and no-one else will know or care.

NerveAgent

3,758 posts

241 months

Yesterday (19:16)
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Mr Penguin said:
Sporky said:
Amazon. Both as brand and retailer.

Spotify.

Costco, but they're publicly anti-Trump. Same goes for Mattel.

Depends on your aim.
Isn't Spotify Swedish?
Yeh, Spotify is probably one of the only big tech companies you shouldnt boycott hehe

bigmowley

2,441 posts

197 months

Yesterday (19:27)
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The obvious one is Tesla as you get to have a go at two dheads in one hit. Otherwise not much. Which goes a long way to explain why trade tariffs work for the Americans. Sadly we need them a lot more than they need us.

Mortarboard

11,620 posts

76 months

Yesterday (19:28)
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Canada is doing it right - combined IS boycott with promote local.

UK could do with that.

(And perhaps actually use brexit f9rva change...)

M.

ucb

1,088 posts

233 months

Yesterday (19:29)
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Sheets Tabuer said:
Pornhub.
Regotered in Canada
Best to keep using it.....

DeadShed

8,817 posts

160 months

Yesterday (19:36)
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ucb said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Pornhub.
Regotered in Canada
Best to keep using it.....
But make sure you take a break from time to time. Claw hand rsi puts you at risk of typos.

Sporky said:
Amazon. Both as brand and retailer.
Unfortunately it’s impossible to avoid their most profitable product, AWS.

RichFN2

4,148 posts

200 months

Yesterday (19:37)
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Coca Cola
Pepsi
Ford
Netflix
Domino's
Disney
Snap-on
Stanley Black & Decker
GoPro
Goodyear
Foot Locker
Bose
Hilton

I'm not saying you should, just listing some other popular American brands.

Vanden Saab

17,127 posts

95 months

Yesterday (19:47)
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Looking forward to seeing all those boycotting US stuff closing their Pistonheads accounts.

NerveAgent

3,758 posts

241 months

Yesterday (19:53)
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DeadShed said:
ucb said:
Sheets Tabuer said:
Pornhub.
Regotered in Canada
Best to keep using it.....
But make sure you take a break from time to time. Claw hand rsi puts you at risk of typos.

Sporky said:
Amazon. Both as brand and retailer.
Unfortunately it s impossible to avoid their most profitable product, AWS.
UK/EU should give big incentives for local cloud providers whilst giving “talk” of future taxes/tariffs whatever on AWS/Azure/Gcp.

Big impact that most people won’t really understand.

Mr Penguin

3,883 posts

60 months

Yesterday (19:55)
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Sheets Tabuer said:
Pornhub.
Boycotting American companies is already a form of masturbation