Bud, Target and now Chick-fil-a

[Oscar77]

Hollo:
I'm not seeing the issue in your links...................
The clothing colors are based on the favors (ie BBQ) they sell.

The Corporate Statements are the tamest I've read.

But you do you................. boycott away.

[def90]

Hollo:
I'm not seeing the issue in your links...................
The clothing colors are based on the favors (ie BBQ) they sell.

The Corporate Statements are the tamest I've read.

But you do you................. boycott away.

https://shop.chick-fil-a.com/?_gl=1*...DMzMi42MC4wLjA.

[Oscar77]

https://shop.chick-fil-a.com/?_gl=1*...DMzMi42MC4wLjA.

Exactly:
How is selling items in the same color as the various favors Chick-filet offers somehow a LBGQ etc deal?
I mean is BBQ or Sriracha sauce color some how connected to the LBQ etc movement?
What about "Garden Herb Ranch?"

[hollohas]

I said they were weird colors, not LGBT colors. I was questioning their business decision of selling CLOTHES as well as their new DEI mission and interest in commie social credit scores.

Question a company's marketing strategy as something that doesn't follow their own best practices and somehow that translates to boycott?

Try looking at this a little deeper than typical outrage/boycott/triggered/hurt feeling nonsense. Looking for actual conversations about the fact that so many companies continue to make these decisions regardless of the fact everyone knows they're not good for business. If these companies aren't interested in the health of the business, what are they interested in? If they do think they are good for business, what dipshits convinced them?

Chick-fil-A consumers simply don't care about social credit scores. Chick-fil-A customers don't care if the company's mission is DEI. They care about decent food and friendly service. Why are companies so interested in focusing on DEI and commie scoring when their customers don't give a shit about that stuff?

[Rooskibar03]

Try looking at this a little deeper than typical outrage/boycott/triggered/hurt feeling nonsense. Looking for actual conversations about the fact that so many companies continue to make these decisions regardless of the fact everyone knows they're not good for business. If these companies aren't interested in the health of the business, what are they interested in? If they do think they are good for business, what dipshits convinced them?

It's all about the corporate ESG score. 3 investment firms control over 20 Trillion dollars and represent 90% of the businesses that appear on S&P. (yes I know CFA isn't publicly traded). The ESG score applies massive pressure to a board, including mandatory reporting and requirements for diversity of the boards. Failure to bend the knee results in downgrading of stock, investment and capital restrictions, etc.

It's not about the customers, its about being able to do business.

[def90]

I said they were weird colors, not LGBT colors. I was questioning their business decision of selling CLOTHES as well as their new DEI mission and interest in commie social credit scores.

Question a company's marketing strategy as something that doesn't follow their own best practices and somehow that translates to boycott?

Try looking at this a little deeper than typical outrage/boycott/triggered/hurt feeling nonsense. Looking for actual conversations about the fact that so many companies continue to make these decisions regardless of the fact everyone knows they're not good for business. If these companies aren't interested in the health of the business, what are they interested in? If they do think they are good for business, what dipshits convinced them?

Chick-fil-A consumers simply don't care about social credit scores. Chick-fil-A customers don't care if the company's mission is DEI. They care about decent food and friendly service. Why are companies so interested in focusing on DEI and commie scoring when their customers don't give a shit about that stuff?

I don't think it's unusual at all (nor a bad business decision) for a company to sell swag that promotes their business. What does selling Tshirts have to do with building motorcycles yet Harley Davidson probably makes more money off of their merch than their bikes.

[Oscar77]

I said they were weird colors, not LGBT colors. I was questioning their business decision of selling CLOTHES as well as their new DEI mission and interest in commie social credit scores.

Question a company's marketing strategy as something that doesn't follow their own best practices and somehow that translates to boycott?

Try looking at this a little deeper than typical outrage/boycott/triggered/hurt feeling nonsense. Looking for actual conversations about the fact that so many companies continue to make these decisions regardless of the fact everyone knows they're not good for business. If these companies aren't interested in the health of the business, what are they interested in? If they do think they are good for business, what dipshits convinced them?

Chick-fil-A consumers simply don't care about social credit scores. Chick-fil-A customers don't care if the company's mission is DEI. They care about decent food and friendly service. Why are companies so interested in focusing on DEI and commie scoring when their customers don't give a shit about that stuff?

Sir:
I'll be honest, I'm not sure what your point is in this thread........... you're bouncing around alot in your allegations.

But be that as it may:

-If you want I can link endless companies that sell CLOTHES, despite the fact that they aren't clothing companies. So what.

-I read the DEI links you provided and they are lame in the scale of controversial positions, in fact the worst is they use the word "GOD." So what.

-If you want I can link endless companies that have discontinued products for one reason or another. So what.

I was in one of their stores yesterday and I got "decent food and friendly service," which is what, I guess, you want too.
So you made the mistake of jumping on their website and read some things you don't like.
Is that, in a nut shell, what this all about?

Because, again, their website is LAME on the controversy scale, you could really find ones that are FAR more exciting than Chicks.

PS:
Here.......... want to get upset about a company being too political?
Here:
Issues We Care About | Ben & Jerry’s (benjerry.com)

THEY ARE and want to be controversial and political.
Boycott them.

[3beansalad]

USAA is another private company no one seems to be talking about. They have a very detailed DEI page on their site.

[eddiememphis]

The Atlantic, of all places, has an article "THE DEI INDUSTRY NEEDS TO CHECK ITS PRIVILEGE".

So even the far left is seeing that DEI has gone too far.

I think transmania shall soon drop from favor having run it's course.


The link is to Apple news. The Atlantic is behind a paywall.

https://apple.news/A7aa_jmi3S9GFXvf7a5nTrw

News outlets such as The New York Times and New York magazine are publishing more articles that cover the industry with skepticism. And DEI practitioners themselves are raising concerns about how their competitors operate.

However, the worst of the DEI industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive. And even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush that began in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. A poor Black man’s death became a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations, as if billions in outlays, mostly among relatively privileged corporate workers, was an apt and equitable response.

[MED]

The Atlantic, of all places, has an article "THE DEI INDUSTRY NEEDS TO CHECK ITS PRIVILEGE".

So even the far left is seeing that DEI has gone too far.

I think transmania shall soon drop from favor having run it's course.


The link is to Apple news. The Atlantic is behind a paywall.

https://apple.news/A7aa_jmi3S9GFXvf7a5nTrw

News outlets such as The New York Times and New York magazine are publishing more articles that cover the industry with skepticism. And DEI practitioners themselves are raising concerns about how their competitors operate.

However, the worst of the DEI industry is expensive and runs from useless to counterproductive. And even people who highly value diversity and inclusion should feel queasy about the DEI gold rush that began in 2020 after the murder of George Floyd. A poor Black man’s death became a pretext to sell hazily defined consulting services to corporations, as if billions in outlays, mostly among relatively privileged corporate workers, was an apt and equitable response.

The crazy in the 60s faded out and this will too. The pendulum always swings back to center at least on the surface. The crazy will fade. The worry is the communist undertones in our country; the subversiveness is infecting everything; it is very much a cancer. Good to see that some people are calling out EDI for what it is.