Do you boycott?
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And of course the propiretor could go right to any item you inquired about....AnyOpen Bins
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donbosco
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gtyellowjacket
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That's actually a somewhat recent development after the parent company divested the brand. November of last year. Somewhat of a success I guess as the boycott did take hold and people bought alternatives. On the other hand, the goal is to get Israel to change policies through economic pressure. Just causing a company's brand to devalue enough that someone else buys them without policy change doesn't really get there.
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Strauss divests stake in Sabra US hummus venture to PepsiCo for $244 million
Food manufacturer sells holding in joint venture after declining sales, amid fierce competition and an uptick in the anti-Israel boycott campaign in the US
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"Food manufacturer sells holding in joint venture after declining sales, amid fierce competition and an uptick in the anti-Israel boycott campaign in the US"
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I no longer watch football since learning about CTE. I think it's immoral for me to take pleasure watching people ruin their lives, and of their families' lives, for my entertainment.
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I wear nothing with corporate logo unless it is free. Why would anyone pay for the opportunity to be a walking corporate promotion.
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In class I have asked, rhetorically and not directly of someone, how much they were paid to wear a corporate logo? I keep that discussion light of course as it is nigh impossible to always wear shoes without some sort of logo embedded. Baseball type caps are also pretty ubiquitous. That usually leads to a discussion of allegiances to brands, teams, entertainers, places, and organizations and can get pretty interesting.
I try pretty hard to be aware and not wear corporate logos myself but I do represent teams (I wear Carolina gear pretty regularly as well as the free T-shirts that the school where I work hands out) and occasionally I will wear a shirt with the name of a place.
Of course T-Shirts are often timestamps in history for us so they are also bound up in memories. I've got a Nike brand Carolina shirt that I got at a UNC-Louisville game in 2015 (Carolina won 72-71) that I attended with an old housemate of mine. It has sentimental value. I don't think I've worn it in public in quite a while just the same.
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It’s virtually impossible to find athletic wear of any kind without a corporate logo embedded on it. Other than that, I won’t buy clothes with a corporate logo on it, with the one exception being Banana Republic tagless polos. They have a small “BR” in the upper lefthand corner on the chest area that’s relatively hard to see. I’d prefer they didn’t have it, but they are the most comfortable polos, so I often wear them when I need to wear a collared shortsleeved shirt.In class I have asked, rhetorically and not directly of someone, how much they were paid to wear a corporate logo? I keep that discussion light of course as it is nigh impossible to always wear shoes without some sort of logo embedded. Baseball type caps are also pretty ubiquitous. That usually leads to a discussion of allegiances to brands, teams, entertainers, places, and organizations and can get pretty interesting.
I try pretty hard to be aware and not wear corporate logos myself but I do represent teams (I wear Carolina gear pretty regularly as well as the free T-shirts that the school where I work hands out) and occasionally I will wear a shirt with the name of a place.
Of course T-Shirts are often timestamps in history for us so they are also bound up in memories. I've got a Nike brand Carolina shirt that I got at a UNC-Louisville game in 2015 (Carolina won 72-71) that I attended with an old housemate of mine. It has sentimental value. I don't think I've worn it in public in quite a while just the same.
Tar Heels Take Down No. 5 Louisville, 72-71 - University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina upends No. 5 Louisville 72-71 behind a Marcus Paige basket with nine seconds left.goheels.com
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So Polo is a style rather than a brand...or is it like Xerox and a brand that has come to represent a thing?
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It’s sort of like xerox, but it is also a style now. Brands other than polo actually refer to their shortsleeved collared shirts made from knit fabrics as polos.
Here’s a history lesson:
