Posted on 07/02/2014 5:18:18 PM PDT by yongin
Facebook and Twitter are on fire. I haven’t seen people so angry about anything since the 2012 decision on Obamacare. One item of interest: people announcing boycotts of Hobby Lobby and confidently predicting that it will soon be out of business.
If you are among those hoping for the rapid demise of the company, I have bad news: The boycott is almost certainly going to fail. Almost all boycotts fail, but especially those staged as proxy battles in the culture wars.
Most boycotts fail because most people just don’t have the intensity to keep them up. In 2003, folks were promising to boycott French products such as Dannon yogurt over the country’s stance on Iraq, but Dannon is still on the shelves and seems to be selling well. (Losing market share to the Greek invasion, to be sure, but as far as I know that has no political content other than the love of a creamier, richer taste in your fermented dairy products.) A few years later, liberals were going to boycott Whole Foods because … well, I don’t remember what the CEO had done, but I’m sure it was something. Whole Foods is also suffering — from increased competition in its core business. The boycott seems to have had little to no effect.
It’s just hard to maintain that sort of intensity when you’re busy and vacation is coming up, and Mom needs help with her computer, and yes, honey, I’ll stop on the way home and pick up more yogurt. For all but the most bitterly partisan of partisans, motivation eventually gives way to more pressing concerns such as convenience.
Culture warriors face two additional problems:
They tend to want to boycott places they never shopped at in the first place.
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LOL but true.
I remember one boycott which worked. In 1977 or 1978, Southland Life and their 7-11 stores started selling Playboy magazines and the Christian community went bonkers. With in two or three months, Southland Life backed down and took them totally off the racks in 7-11s, and as far as I know, never returned.
yeah that reason I always wait for Hobby Lobby cirular
You have to be able to know how to do something useful in order to boycott someone like Hobby Lobby, and if you know how to do something useful, you probably don’t care who pays for your $10.00 packet of birth control pills.
The great social media dustoff has had one positive benefit for me personally...
Closet Leftists masquerading as my friends have outed themselves, their hate visible for all to see.
No invites to the mead hall will be forthcoming.
Hobby Lobby got tons of Mega-good publicity out of this battle. The creeps never shopped there anyway.
Doubtful the “boycotters” ever patronized HL.
There’s a Chick Fil-A across the street from our Hobby Lobby.
A Chick Fil-A sandwich & a trip to HL’s frame department to buy a display case for my collectible handguns.
Wish I knew a liberal to tell this to. Steam coming out the ears would result.
Their website won’t give you an accurate view of what a store is like.
For instance, they have a very good selection of home décor accessories and seasonal décor. At Christmas it is positively enchanting, and their sale prices are impressive.
Yes. To the adolescent left, unprotected sex without consequences is an entitlement.
Hobby Lobby is a great place. Lots and lots a neat stuff. Best place to get ideas for a class project.
“I will shop at Hobby Lobby and buy something I don’t especially want.
...just to make a point.”
I’ll join you. There’s a H.L. not too far from me, I’ve never been in it but am going to stop by there tomorrow and most likely buy a few things.
Yep. They made the mistake of angering the people who actually bought their music.
there is more wallets on the right than the left.
Dixie Chix are gone
Lipton ...who?
people vote with their wallets.
Dixie Chicks have a website but no news and no upcoming concerts.
Leftists demand we stay out of their bedrooms ... and demand we pay for everything that happens therein.
He who pays the piper calls the tune.
I’m sure Hobby Lobby will get along just fine, boycott or no boycott.
Thank you!
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