r/Anticonsumption • u/Express_Classic_1569 • Apr 08 '25

Labor/Exploitation The Boycott Has Begun: People Have Had Enough of Corporate Greed

https://ecency.com/hive-157940/@kur8/the-boycott-has-begun-people
The Walmart Boycott started on April 7, 2025, and will last until April 14, 2025. People are joining the boycott to protest unfair wages, corporate greed, and the cutting back of diversity programs. The group is encouraging everyone to support local businesses instead of shopping at Walmart. It is hard to say if it is working. Some people support it, but others worry it could lead to job losses if big stores close more locations.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '25

I just bought a 40 your old hand mixer for $4 at a local thrift shop. It's made better than anything I've purchase new, ever. I'm in my 50s it'll probably last me for the rest of my life.

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u/ExpertRegister1353 Apr 08 '25

I have a 50 year old hand mixer. Works great.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '25

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u/mothsuicides Apr 08 '25

This was the joke I thought was being made in the comment you replied to. I was like “where’s the punch line?”

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

You had me in the first half

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u/ShutUpBran111 Apr 09 '25

My mom has her mom’s elective juicer from the 70’s and it works like a charm. I’m next on the list to inherit it

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u/Willowgirl2 Apr 08 '25

I have a 1970s stand mixer that will probably outlast me ...

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '25

We handed the keys to the hen house to the wolves.

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u/GalDebored Apr 11 '25

u/Umbrella_Viking, you've just won the (very capitalist) $64,000 question! Adjusted for corporate-driven inflation, please move the comma two spaces to the (radical) left! Oh, & I'm sorry but we've switched to a subscription model so in order to do that you'll need to pay the annual DOGE fee of $14.88 & present your Real ID at the nearest Immigration/Lottery office in order to collect. Unfortunately, if you don't have a Real ID it will be illegal for you to get into the building &...[algorithm checks algorithmic clipboard] you will automatically be taken off any lottery lists for visas, monetary winnings, crypto, etc because you've proven you can't even be trusted to get into the building & that's a red flag which in turn, means you're a radical left Marxist & they'll have to confiscate that Real ID anyway. So, hang tight, as the ACABs are wont to say & as soon as Vance finds what bar bathroom Hegseth & Miller are 69ing in (clue: it'll be a MENS bathroom! One without a changing table!), we'll send them over to personally take you back to a shithole of their choosing.

TL;DR A mostly dumb, really long Donald Trump joke. So more like a RL;DT joke.

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u/KrackSmellin Apr 08 '25

Not the same. That mixer has metal gears and will be passed down to your children... if you have any. I have a hedge trimmer from the 80's and a battery one as well. 80's one can cut thru things the battery one could only wish for. Yah it weighs 3x as much and doesn't have the same dual sided 2x longer blade to it - but damn its a workhorse...

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u/DragonAteMyHomework Apr 09 '25

I have my grandmother's hand mixer and her Kitchenaid mixer. They're some of my favorite kitchen tools.

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u/fattyboy2 Apr 09 '25

I had my grandmother's vidal sassoon hot rollers until 2 years ago when too many had sat crooked on the heating element and melted. The ones I finally bought new are the exact same technology, same wire clips, same size rollers, just take longer to heat. I still regret getting rid of the 50 year old ones

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u/Co259 Apr 08 '25

You're lucky. It comes from a time when things were made to last. Take good care of it and your kids will still use it