Comments on: Don’t Buy Their BS, and Don’t Buy Their Stuff

By: Procrustes

Procrustes — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:49:02 +0000

Well, one conflict I have when I go to my family home is that Wal-Mart has a monopoly there. It’s very difficult to go anywhere but there (when you need something and you live way outside city limits). And I generally dislike giving money to that place.

By: vjack

vjack — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 12:17:58 +0000

Good post! I think that we often fail to consider that where we do and do not spend our money is one of the simplest and most effective forms of activism. When I run across an atheist who says, “I hate everything that Chick-fil-A stands for, but their food is so good I just can’t resist going there,” I shake my head in disbelief. It is called will power, people!

By: Cat

Cat — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 13:29:11 +0000

There is a big difference between Christians and Mormons, just saying.

By: State of Protest » Should We Boycott the Brainless?

State of Protest » Should We Boycott the Brainless? — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 19:13:45 +0000

[...] advocated boycotting stores that support evangelical right-wing fundamentalist entities,1 and I firmly believe in doing everything possible to remove the taint of religion from the [...]

By: CM

CM — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:25:46 +0000

Hobby-Lobby International(RC) and Hobby Lobby (Craft) were founded the same year about 2
or 3 months apart in the 60s (i think!), the copyright office had no way of
knowing who named their store first at the time, so they allowed it. Hobby-Lobby is indeed a physical store, and started out that way.

By: Eric

Eric — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 10:02:03 +0000

Eric

Thanks for the post. I couldn’t agree with you more.

By: absinthium

absinthium — Sun, 23 Dec 2007 14:47:06 +0000

Oh, Hobby Lobby… How you makes fools of us all. I’m kind of surprised Site-X is able to use the name “Hobby Lobby.” I wonder if it’s because they’re a website and not a chain of grossly overpriced craft material warehouses.

I had a friend who worked as an assistant manager of a Hobby Lobby. He hated the store and their wacky Christian ways so much he actually encouraged me to steal from them every chance I got. Apparently none of the stores have video cameras in them, and he told me I could basically rob the place blind and no one would ever notice.

Now I’m not saying to GO OUT AND ADD TO THE COMPANY’S SHRINKAGE AS SOON AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE, or anything like that but it is an alternative to simply boycotting them.

By: Procrustes

Procrustes — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 18:12:50 +0000

The nice thing about living in this time period is our ability to access a great number of services online that we would have not had knowledge of prior to the Internet. This allows us to avoid local monopolistic retailers and gives us greater control over our spending. It also provides us with more information in an instant than we could have acquired on our own — it’s a network of people, each with a little bit of information, added together to create an amazing encyclopedia of the world. With these tools, we ought to put more thought into where our money goes, and we should investigate and disseminate information that we’ve gathered about these organizations and retailers.

By: Bryan (2Spider2)

Bryan (2Spider2) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 06:56:22 +0000

Hobby Lobby is an ultra major hobby retailer. They are in my town, my girlfriend’s down, the town north of us, et cetera.

Hobby Lobby does not only close on Sundays, but also closes every night at 8 – well before the rest of the town. They use old fashioned technology for pretty much everything. The prices are sky high, and they rarely have anything that any guy would want. It’s pretty much a women store. They have a few aisles of models, but the vast majority is for sewing and knitting type stuff.

Again on the technology – For such a huge corporation, I am surprised that they still use the very old fashioned registers in which they have to look through a book often times to figure out a price.

Something also important to know is that Hobby Lobby holds a monopoly on the hobby/craft section of my city and many others. It is simply impossible to compete, and I think that since absolutely no other hobby stores are around, that that’s why there prices are so ridiculous high.

One good thing about them is that they have no return policy. They will take anything back, or at least that’s the way it was.

Now that you’ve mentioned this connection between them and Christianity, I see a parallel between them and my old store: Super D.

On your list of overtly ridiculously Christian companies should be them. They are a Wal-Greens like pharmacy that was bought out by an uber-rich guy that owns USA Drug, Ike’s, Super D, and some other one. They close every Sunday, and as I expect is the case in Hobby Lobby, were INCREDIBLY terrible towards their employees. The store’s district manager said things like “That endcap isn’t sexy enough”, and was well known for his sexist remarks.

Both Super D and Hobby Lobby have incredibly old, dirty stores with very high prices (if you went into both of them, you would see what I mean – they have the same dirty feel)
Both Super D and Hobby Lobby use extremely old technology.

I’m wondering if Hobby Lobby is as abusive to its employees as Super D was to us… I don’t know, but I’m certain that I will think twice before going back in there thanks to you. I appreciate it a lot.

By: Mutha

Mutha — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 01:58:48 +0000

I feel sick, good thing I’m not into “scrap-booking”.