Yes absolutely. Does silently boycotting stores for this reason actually accomplish anything? If you boycott a store because you are against something or other that they do or don't do but you don't tell them you are boycotting or why, you don't complain, you don't protest, you don't justify it, etc., how much good are you really doing? The goal is for them to change their practices, not for them to go out of business or continue with the status quo or whatever. If they notice business is going down but they don't know why, how will they know what to fix? If you write a letter saying, I am opposed to your such and such policy and therefore I refuse to shop in your store until you change it, that's cool, but otherwise I can't see how it would make a difference. YOU may feel better, but it won't do a thing for the store. IMHO.
Anyway I agree 100% with Ray. Target is just so much better than Walmart in every way that it's not worth avoiding them over this. I personally think they shouldn't bother with a pharmacy in general, there are enough CVS's around, but that's besides the point. It's not ideal, but you need to pick your battles. At least I do. > > > Good, because I was getting a little weirded out by how dangerously > close that was getting to an abortion debate. For me, Target does > enough good things for their communities, through environmental clean- > up, orphanages in Minnesota, community playgrounds, etc... to make a > pharamcuetical ethics issue seem somewhat minor in comparison. It's > not like they own the only place to get medicine in town. > > I'll take Target with a weird phramacy than any Wal-Mart, with its > censored music and movies, long-standing disregard to the > environment, community welfare, employee benefits and a decent living > wage. > > Every large company does *something* weird that is bound to annoy > *somebody* - through Chick-fil-A's refusal to be open on Sundays, > Giant restricting access to condoms in some stores, Channel 7 moving > operations to a union-free state to keep from paying their staff as > much as they had been, to every single major construction project in > the region hiring subcontractors with illegal immigrant day workers. > > As for net neutrality...poop. > > - Ray Bradley > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Something is new at Yahoo! Groups. Check out the enhanced email design. http://us.click.yahoo.com/SISQkA/gOaOAA/yQLSAA/vzIolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/weingartenchatters/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
