Ask Lemmy

I go by more of a criteria than a list. This criteria is followed personally but fits even more at my own workplace in the protocol. The criteria is really just things like "these businesses do not follow courtesy", things like GoodWill, Autism Speaks, and Catholic Charities. There's a charity ranker that has listed Catholic Charities as the top charity almost three years in a low. That's on the blacklist too, we've known better all along. I can give a much larger list if asked.

It's one thing to treat your people like fools, it's another to run on gifting by members and still do it.

Superstore/Loblaw's and really any and all big box grocery store in Canada. They fixed bread prices and are colloquially known as the "Bread Cartel".

The only one I truly boycott to that extent is Wal-Mart. It's just so incredibly easy. There's always another place to get the thing.

I think it's easier to say which ones haven't made my blacklist

Several local (but national chain brand) furniture stores.

So many reasons. One had better quality furniture on display than what they sold by a long way. Another tried to give me not one but two firm mattresses instead of medium and lie to me about them. Yet another got caught out blatantly lieing to my face about delivery times and procedures.

All of them had great customer service right until the point that they had our money and then completely treated us like garbage afterwards.

Sodastream because they were built on Palestinian occupied territory before they moved facilities back to Israel to avoid the bad press.

Spence Diamonds because they have the most annoying advertising and diamonds are bullshit carbon anyways.

Advertising being horrible is a huge red flag that your business is somewhere I won't be going at all. Car dealerships giving away gold bricks, hot dogs, telling you they are your friendly neighbor, giving away trips or extras with every purchase means those things are all baked into the price already and you are spending more then elsewhere.

(not only have none of these companies made any effort at improvement, they’ve consistently gotten worse as time goes by – remember one comedian commenting “the bar was on the ground and y’all brought shovels”)

Caledonian Sleeper who carefully wriggled out of paying a refund on a booking cancelled by the March 2020 C***d lockdown.