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What companies will you never give another dollar to?

What happened that put them on your blacklist?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

CVS and Walgreens.

Walgreens pulled out of selling certain reproductive health items in numerous states even though they would have been an ideal test case and certainly could have absorbed the costs of litigation.

CVS fucked up my meds years ago during a period i was cash pay, and then doubled down on the error and expected me to pay for it. Basically, extended vs immediate release, and $100 va $1.

Never did get an apology, or even an admission that the paper scrip said immediate release.

My employer unfortunately insists on using them as a PBM but that doesn’t mean i need to buy drugs from them.

They did another thing a few years prior that angered me deeply, but that’s neither here nor there. Something something “the law requires…” and the law verifiably did not require that behavior or process.

Also, you can bet your ass that I will never give one unnecessary dime to Express Scripts. Without disclosing too much, they have a monopoly on a thing that’s got some regulations around it, and I’m stuck with them for fulfilment. Doesn’t mean I’ll ever give them a penny voluntarily.

Seriously considered switching to a different formulation of the same long term med just to avoid them, but it didn’t make sense for my use case. Doing so would just have put me back in Come Visit Satan’s clutches anyway.

[–] NewPerspective 7 points 11 months ago

Most of them

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Applebee's. They wanted to screw their employees during COVID.

And their food is mediocre.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Microsoft.

To be fair I only have given them money (indirectly) once buying a gaming laptop with preinstalled windows.

There are lots of others of course, but who knows which brand is actually Nestle or Lactalis etc.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

There's a database of Nestle owned companies on f**knestle.art if you want to quickly remove a handful of secretly-Nestle products from your life.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Not that I have progressed enough financially yet to be in a position to buy a Tesla Model S, it's gone from a dream car to something I'd be ashamed to own because of being disillusioned by who Elon Musk is over the past few years.

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[–] badbytes 7 points 11 months ago

T-Mobile was pretty awful, and stuck me a big cancellation fee when I left. I had been with them for +15yrs. Never would i return

[–] morphballganon 7 points 1 year ago

Any company with an ad that makes me wait or click more than once.

[–] rockitude 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

US Airways. They left me stranded at a layover and I nearly missed my grandfather’s funeral. When I asked to be rebooked after waiting three hours in line, they offered me a 10% off coupon for the airport hotel; no refund or credit for the incomplete flight. I eventually found a flight out. It was $2000.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Very, very few. I figure that all large companies are awful in one way or another; the only difference is whether we know about it or not.

I prefer to shop locally when it’s an option. I like feeling as if my business genuinely matters.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m boycotting Sabra hummus until Israel gives us a motherfucking ant-colony-level Hamas bunker under that hospital. We were promised a whole ass command center and got a wack ass video of one hole. I want to see the secret lair.

[–] ShittyBeatlesFCPres 6 points 1 year ago (5 children)

/s for anyone concerned. I condemn Hamas super hard.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

None. I'm not rich, I don't have the luxury of straight-out boycotting any particular company. If I could, both Amazon and Walmart would be top of the list. And I'm sure many others.

Hell, I've been wanting to finally delete my Facebook account for years now, but Facebook marketplace is apparently the ONLY place I'm ever going to be able to sell anything. It's the only reason I still have the account. I have long since delete all posts, photos, and literally any other data that they would let me delete, aside from marketplace posts and associated messenger conversations. Used to buy and sell constantly on Craigslist for many years, now I haven't been able to successfully sell a single item in at least the last 2-3 years. Letgo was a decent one for a while, until the app got bought by, and then shut down by, OfferUp. And the OfferUp people are basically con artists (use shady methods of boosting the number of "active" listings, in order to artificially inflate the value of their company). It has been nearly impossible to sell, or even BUY anything on OfferUp, after several years of trying to make user of the app.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

Nintendo, EA, Blizzard, Epic, Huawei.

[–] Thcdenton 6 points 11 months ago

Sony, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Blizzard/Activision, EA, Every car company (I only buy pre 2010 cars). I could go on but you get the idea. Modern megacorps are fuckin gross.

[–] Heavybell 6 points 11 months ago

EA, Ubisoft and Blizzard are kind of on my soft-blacklist, if that counts. My greylist, I guess you could say. I can't say 100% I'll not give them money in future, but I don't want to. And they make it so easy to boycott them because they aren't making anything I give a shit about.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Shell ExxonMobil

Netflix Spotify

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[–] livedeified 6 points 11 months ago

Netflix Paramount Chick-fil-A Hobby Lobby

.... and whoever else seems to be run by bigots or ad pushers

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Facebook and Elon Musk's companies (both's effects on global society are way more egregious than other tech companies,) pretty much any company that wears faith on their sleeve

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

HBO, because of the last two seasons of Games of Thrones. I can't get over how easy the Night King was defeated and no more ice babies.

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