Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | business, shopping, news, boycott, vermont, eat-shit-big-box-stores!
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | business, news, boycott, vermont
Quoted:In Brattleboro, Vermont, for example, Home Depot opponents in 2003 encouraged their neighbors to stay away from the new Home Depot when it opened. Home Depot called that boycott "bizarre...at the least this is most undemocratic." A group called BrattPower created a three part campaign: (1) to convince Home Depot not to set up shop in Brattleboro through a vigorous petition and educational campaign; (2) failing that, to encourage the greater community to continue to buy local while boycotting Home Depot; and (3) to be working for changes in the regulations and laws of the town government so as to prevent box store development in the future. "We do not need, or want, nor do we intend to support a Home Depot in Brattleboro," the group said. That vigorous 'Boycott Home Depot' campaign paid off this week, creating one of the 'underperforming' stores on Home Depot's hit list.
Wournos | Shared With: Everyone - May 10 2008 | news, business, sustainability, vermont
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