Ace Hardware Says It Is Selling Supplies To Pipeline Protesters

MSN.com ^ | 12/1/2016 | Woochit News

[AbolishCSEU]

The hardware store chain said a statement circulating on social media indicating it had stopped selling products to protesters had been “manipulated.” Despite social media reports and rumors to the contrary, Ace Hardware says that its stores have not stopped selling supplies to people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline. Protests in North Dakota have been ongoing for months.

[AbolishCSEU]

That's a shame! I would buy MORE at Ace Hardware if they DID refuse to serve the Pipeline Protesters.

[A CA Guy]

Ace is the place helpful to anarchy man!

Patronizing them: OFF.

[generally]

The headline seems a bit misleading. I assume that pretty much every local store sells to anyone who walks in. The store clerks are not likely to ask every potential customer if they are a protester.

I can’t fault Ace on this. At least not based on the info I have so far.

[arl295]

This is stupid, I would expect a business to sell to anyone who walks through the door

How would they even know they were protesters? Do you we need political tests to buy a screw driver now?

[central_va]

Why protest something that once completed is invisible an has a proven OUTSTANDING safety record?

[sharkhawk]

Of course they are selling to the protesters. Ace Hardware is a franchise, each one is owned by the local store, no way is a small businessman in rural ND going to turn away that much business.

[American in Israel]

Ace is being shaken down by the Marxist Mafia and is b not to blame. I will continue to shop there, and might even go there more often.

[Rurudyne]

Oh please!

They are ‘selling” to them.

Not giving to them.

[Opinionated Blowhard]

I wonder if the idiots in the Ace marketing department realize that probably 90% of their customers would be very happy if they stopped selling to the pipeline protestors.

[AbolishCSEU]

Can’t they just use wind and solar? Not some outdating technology like propane. . . /s

[AbolishCSEU]

Can’t they just use wind and solar? Not some outdating technology like propane. . . /s

[A CA Guy]

Protestor fast-foot farts?

[AnotherUnixGeek]

Despite social media reports and rumors to the contrary, Ace Hardware says that its stores have not stopped selling supplies to people protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Businesses should not be in the business of vetting the political views of customers. There's enough of this insanity on the Left, with hysterical CEOs announcing that they don't want to do business with Trump supporters.

[smokingfrog]

An employee who answered the phone at the Ace Hardware in nearby Bismarck said Thursday that the store had not received anything from corporate headquarters suggesting a ban on selling to demonstrators. The employee, who declined to give a name, said protesters had been in buying supplies all day.

[deport]

This time of the year up that way people need snow shovels, etc.
Sounds like a rumor mill story from who knows where.

[Alberta's Child]

Right — why is this even a story? LOL. If a pipeline protester walked in and wanted to buy $10,000 worth of hardware store merchandise, Ace would be damn foolish to send them out the door empty-handed.

[bigdaddy45]

Good grief. Someone comes in to buy a tank of propane. You expect the Ace Hardware man to ask then why they want it? I patronize them and will continue to.

[Ben Ficklin]

If Ace Hardware is selling stuff to the injuns, then it is likely that they are also selling stuff to the homosexuals.

[A CA Guy]

If the anarchist say what it is for I don’t support their damage. Beyond that I would not care too much.

[BitWielder1]

Why is ACE supposed to determine who can buy a legal product.
It's not like ACE is trucking crowbars (or whatever it is) to protesters in their camps.
It's not private businesses job to play police. We should not force them to.
Accusing innocent bystanders is a Liberal thing.