Wait until they hear about why "weekends" exist.
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I wouldn't know, I've been boycotting them since they went tried to appeal to fascists.
I too am purchasing all my household items at Ben & Jerry's.
Seriously though. There isn't really a way to "boycott" all of these companies that have links to fascist. The fascist are doing the will of the capitalist/ruling class.
I can understand the sentiment. I stopped buying Coke products because of BDS. It was a major thing I use to purchase and once it was on the list I stopped. But it's not like Pepsi or Dr. Pepper are some beacon of anti-colonialism. It's just something I can avoid doing; while giving me no delusion that "ethical consumption" exists.
I guess I don't really disagree with boycotting Target. Maybe it's your "Coca Cola". I just wanted to vent my frustration with the uselessness of personal consumption boycotts.
I think all it does is make me/you feel like we are avoiding being associated with the system the fucks us over less than it does the rest of the world.
A system neither of us can avoid participation in.
The Target boycott actually has a lot of people behind it so it is having an impact.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/27/target-boycott-dei-new-ceo-leadership-change/
Same with other countries like Canada boycotting US products like Whiskey.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/brown-forman-jack-daniels-quarterly-sales-american-alcohol-boycott-canada-1.7619950
If you can't boycott personal consumption, what can you boycott?
It's a tiny form of resistance but it's resistance all the same, and if many people do it it can add up.
This is true, but we can try and reduce participation. That's why DIY is so strongly associated with the punk movement.
Grow some of your own food, even if it's just some herbs in a windowsill. Repair your clothes instead of buying new all the time. Make your own cleaning chemicals from vinegars and citric acids. Make your own toiletries.
None of this is going to bring down the system, but reducing reliance on it, adopted by many people in many different ways, goes a long way to reducing its power over us at least. If thousands, millions, of people adopt the mindset of "how can I do this myself or within my community" the billionaire oligarchs and their corporations lose a power over us that they once had.
There is no perfect solution to the problem of "the system" (i.e. capitalism) but while we're forced to live within it we can attempt to resist it all the same. Capitulation doesn't help at all, micro resistance at least does something.
"There is no ethical consumption under capitalism"
It doesn't even have to be a boycott. I just no longer have a reason to choose Target over Walmart, and Walmart is cheaper
Aldi and Costco are the way for most of the things I buy though
In many ways Walmart is worse that target. They specifically will go to a town, annihilate its local economy and leave as soon as it becomes slightly inconvenient to their profit expectations.
Not to mention the PR on search engines trying to tell people searching that Walmart is not a net negative for tax payers when a lot of their employees are on social programs. Of they are not paying the taxes, we are. Fuck them.
Edit: relevant video that applies to many big box stores: https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw