Just some additional advertising for todays boycott.
European here. So how did this go yesterday? News coverage?
this post was submitted on 28 Feb 2025
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The AP ran an article on it
No impact. Every where I went was busy as fuck all day yesterday.
Eh. By what I've read this was more 'practice' for a week long blackout. People don't seem to understand though that those goods are needed period and all it will do is create a weird spike in supply/demand before and after the week/day. General focused boycotting on non-essentials is impactful, but one day? You're just going to go out and buy the day before or after. That doesn't even create a blip for suppliers.
I don't get this plan.
Even if people don't shop one day, they will buy postponed items next day.
You are organizing the wrong thing, you need to build a platform and a troll farm.
As someone said in a different thread, it’s a first step in gauging support for a broader effort. It gives a sense of how effective getting the message out is, and how many people join on.
Well, seeing as I only found about this yesterday night, I'd say getting the message out hasn't been very effective...
There is no way for anyone to gauge this. Retailers won't release this data
That misses the point. Directional support is all that’s needed here as a start.
Well, how'd everyone do? I had to order some magic cards so I stayed up until midnight to do it lol. I also need to replace a pvc pipe under my kitchen sink so that waited until today and I've been getting water from the bathroom...
It was easy for us as we have cut out a lot of consumerism to begin with so we are not the best household for it. Would be interesting to hear if folks who are the type getting deliveries every day stopped for yesterday.
I heard buying local is fine so we got some sandwiches from a local restaurant, but other than that, we just stayed in. So success on our parts I think!
I see no problem with that. The taco bus down the street isn't a part of the oligarchy, ya know
I didn't know about it. Tried to pull into Kroger after work and couldn't find a parking spot. I'm going to say it is likely even the stores didn't know about it. Ended up saying forget it, skipped dinner and picked up something from the mom and pop liquor store instead. That about sums up America for me right now
I "broke" about 8pm ET to donate to Ukraine. I know we were boycotting Visa/Mastercard too, but after yesterday's shitshow I felt like solidarity was worth more than my boycott.
Otherwise, it was fine. I've already been heavily limiting my spending since the inauguration anyway, after admittedly overspending at the end of the Biden term to prep for impending tariffs.
I didn't know about this and still participated by accident. What I'm trying to say is that if 1 day counts as boycott I'm severely concerned by the overreliance the general public has on those companies.
There's an ever growing chance shit like this just functions as pressure release psyops because it makes people feel accomplished while doing fuck all as everyone buys more the day before or the day after.
What people -don't want to- understand is that for it to hurt the corporations, it's got to hurt all of us. Either we give up things entirely like streaming and luxury goods or we do a general strike that costs millions of people their jobs or prompts a fascist crackdown.
The only good ways out of this spot were decades ago. Every path forward is miles of broken glass because of how propagandized a majority of this country is. Everyone wants to blame Trump or Republicans, but Democrats have spent at least 30 years with Clinton's 3rd way dems (gay tolerant Reaganites) pushing the Overton window right.
http://politicalcompass.org/uselection2016
Hilary's policy was assessed as farther right than Trump's. Obama basically handed the Heritage Foundation everything they wanted.
These bullshit one day strikes aren't going to save us and neither are the Democrats simply because if they were interested in preserving democracy, they wouldn't have been slow walking us right for decades.
MIT lecture from 2014 about oligarchy controlling everything already: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzS068SL-rQ
I was gonna say. I go out and buy something about once a week.. I realize I'm not the norm but for a single day to matter to most people blows my mind.
I work at a Costco in Western Canada. Today (28th) was a little slower than slower than normal, but well inside the normal ups and downs we see. All of us are curious to see if the 1st is busier to make up for it.
If anyone is interested this was apparently started by a group called The People's Union. I get that 1 day isn't that impactful in the grand scheme of things, cuz it's not. But it's about organization. It's about coordination.
Everybody will just buy more shit tomorrow. Are you people afraid of going into the streets?
Who organizes this shit????? Can I learn about this ahead of time so I don't see the post literally at 10:30 on the night of the same day??
Like literally
Do you know about the nationwide general strike on March 14th?
Why are strikes planned on days I need to travel? /s
Who's organizing it? Is the UAW involved? Last time I heard, plans for the next general strike including nationwide unions were set for 2028
Until I see the UAW, USW, AEU, ASFCME, or CAW get involved it's not a general strike. Keep up the effort, but to anyone actually organizing these things you need to get large labor unions on your side. Otherwise no one will notice.
There's also a national protest on march 4th, check out !50501@piefed.social for more info!
Subscribed! I didn't know 50501 was on the Fediverse
I think it's a grassroots effort here, as 50501 seems to only be targeting mainstream social media according to their website.
ive seen this promoted all over the place for weeks
Huh, guess I need to tweak my Lemmy feed then
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It's good people are doing something, but I can't help but feel it would be way more effective if it was a sustained boycott of targeted businesses. Not buying anything for a year is impossible, but not buying anything from one particular store for a year is possible.
Could you imagine the dread corporate would feel if they saw Banana Republic get boycotted for 2025 and looked at the boycott schedule and their name was listed under 2026?
Yup. One day of no shopping means the big corps just weather a day of lower purchases and the next day people will be buying the stuff they skipped out on friday. It's hardly a noticeable blip to them.
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you don’t have all the cards!
Without any replacements, this boycott isn't going to last. We should be promoting alternatives with the blackout too. Costco isn't available everywhere.
Organising is now just posting the day of
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