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30-07-2004, 07:54 AM

In article 0oRNc.177875$IQ4.133533@attbi_s02, "Warren"
wrote:

Don't buy from Home Depot if the stuff they have is junk.

Home Depot has a better grade of lumber than Lowes because Home Depot
is intentionally less careful about the source of their lumber. I'll
settle for a couple extra chinks in a board if I can be better assured
Lowes isn't also encouraging the clear-cutting of old-growth, & paying
off a right-wing government to let them get more of it. Sometimes the
choicest cut for the lowest price is NOT the better choice if it was
carved off someone's child.

and since neither sells lumber longer than 16 ft (or whatever), buy your lumber at lumber yards.

Don't buy from
Home Depot if they're too expensive. But if you're not buying from
Home Depot because the CEO is a Republican, you're not accomplishing
anything.

Effectiveness of boycotts varies, but your statement in general is
incorrect. If enough of the public is alarmed that the founder & CEO
is buying legislation to permit clearcutting of the national forests,
& stopping the funding of OSHA so that workers & customers continue to
be injured & killed (two things Home Depot has gotten from Bush), if
enough people won't shop there because of that, there will be changes
to get the customers to return.

-paggers

Think things through before boycotting. What are you *trying* to
accomplish, and how does this fit in with what you *could* accomplish
if you're successful, and what *will* happen if you're only partially
"successful". Also consider that calling for boycotts has become so
prevalent that these calls are now falling on deaf ears. Calling for
a boycott is now like calling wolf.

neither will get you a wolf

If a successful boycott really
has a chance of getting the desired results before causing too much
collateral damage, then do it right. Organize. Spend some money
promoting it. Be professional. Don't think that "send this e-mail to
all your friends" is going to be a useful tool to promote your
boycott.