Should "Timmy's" be boycotted? By: Lard Tunderin Jeezus (53 replies) November 22, 2009 - 12:11amOne soup and sandwich at By: RevolutionPlease (Nov 24 2009 - 7:59pm) You said it Catchfire! By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 7:57pm) You don't necessarily taste By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 24 2009 - 7:57pm) There was a Tim's near the By: Boom Boom (Nov 24 2009 - 7:43pm) Yes, because the By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 24 2009 - 7:36pm) The point is that everyone By: Catchfire (Nov 24 2009 - 7:31pm) I once worked for a house By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 7:11pm) You have an odd idea of By: Unionist (Nov 24 2009 - 5:58pm) you know who loves Tim By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 5:53pm) The last TH donut I had was By: Boom Boom (Nov 24 2009 - 4:56pm) Sunny Canuck wrote:I don't By: Catchfire (Nov 24 2009 - 4:41pm) Boom Boom wrote:
TH's makes By: Unionist (Nov 24 2009 - 4:59pm) I don't understand how a By: Sunny Canuck (Nov 24 2009 - 4:18pm) Canadians love Tim Hortons By: Catchfire (Nov 24 2009 - 10:18am) I'm drinking a Tims at the By: Caissa (Nov 24 2009 - 8:37am) TH's makes terrible coffee! By: Boom Boom (Nov 24 2009 - 8:14am) Because they make great By: nussy (Nov 24 2009 - 7:02am) Some years ago I worked near By: Diogenes (Nov 24 2009 - 3:44am) She (Margaret Mead) was By: Boom Boom (Nov 23 2009 - 4:36pm) Thanks Boom Boom! This By: Catchfire (Nov 23 2009 - 3:00pm) Good post, Catchfire. By: Boom Boom (Nov 22 2009 - 10:19pm) BB, I went to a talk by By: Catchfire (Nov 22 2009 - 7:14pm) "row to hoe".......love By: susan davis (Nov 22 2009 - 7:08pm) Getting elected to high By: Boom Boom (Nov 22 2009 - 6:56pm) E.Tamaran wrote:
The Left in By: Lard Tunderin Jeezus (Nov 22 2009 - 5:47pm) G. Pie wrote:
FM, so you're By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 22 2009 - 5:52pm) FM, so you're saying that my By: G. Pie (Nov 22 2009 - 4:21pm) I hate Timmy's coffee, By: Boom Boom (Nov 22 2009 - 4:17pm) Individual consumer choices By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 22 2009 - 3:59pm) Why do you think consumers By: G. Pie (Nov 22 2009 - 3:50pm) Well, boycotts are targeted, By: Catchfire (Nov 22 2009 - 3:20pm) E.Tamaran By: G. Pie (Nov 22 2009 - 3:10pm) The Left in Canada doesn't By: E.Tamaran (Nov 22 2009 - 3:02pm) Absolutely. Couldn't agree By: Frmrsldr (Nov 22 2009 - 12:25am) Boycott them because their By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 22 2009 - 12:25am)
- Catchfire wrote: BB, I went By: triciamarie (Dec 11 2009 - 9:26am)
- especially the fried green By: nussy (Dec 11 2009 - 8:50am)
- You're clearly behind the By: Lard Tunderin Jeezus (Dec 11 2009 - 8:21am)
- My coworkers and I By: Mick (Dec 11 2009 - 4:32am)
- For a boycott to be By: Islander (Nov 24 2009 - 10:43pm)
- as per my war canoe analogy By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 9:19pm)
- Absolutely FM - sometimes I By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 9:08pm)
- saganisking wrote: Eating By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 24 2009 - 8:47pm)
- Frustrated Mess wrote:Anyone By: Boom Boom (Nov 24 2009 - 8:43pm)
- Eating healthy meals doesn't By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 8:40pm)
- I may be a bit nonsencical By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 8:35pm)
- I often find there is this By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 24 2009 - 8:29pm)
- RevolutionPlease wrote: One By: Boom Boom (Nov 24 2009 - 8:24pm)
- I can't tell if you are By: Catchfire (Nov 24 2009 - 8:19pm)
- Yes, the food you make at By: Frustrated Mess (Nov 24 2009 - 8:16pm)
- Whole foods are saganisking. By: RevolutionPlease (Nov 24 2009 - 8:09pm)
- Are Ichyban noodles healthy? By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 8:02pm)
- it's true their food isn't By: saganisking (Nov 24 2009 - 8:00pm)
FM, so you're saying that my decision not to spend any money ever at Chapters has no impact upon them? How could that be? I agree that I'm not changing the world (and I agree that for a company the size of Chapters one person's boycott has minimal impact) but my support of independent bookstores is still worth doing.
I'm not saying that at all. I applaud your personal decision and encourage you to be a principled consumer to the extent that within our culture you must be a consumer before all else. What I'm saying is that the impact is not such as to curb the operating model of these highly profitable retailers. Wal-Mart, for example, once did a market profile where they identified what they called "conscientcious objectors"--people who just wouldn't shop at Wal-Mart. They represented a significant market, maybe, but not the very profitable market Wal-Mart could maintain at mucher lower costs without changing any business practices.