What if everyone stopped shopping from Sunday to Wednesday every week until the war ends?

[liberaldemocrat7]

What if everyone stopped shopping from Sunday to Wednesday every week until the war ends? As people told me that one or two day boycotts won't work. Let's see if a 4 day boycott each week would put pressure on gas station owners, mall owners, store owners, etc. It would leave stores empty from Sunday through Wednesday and put extreme pressure on stores when so many people do business on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

Now I'm not talking about emergency Medical visits.

Would you stop shopping from Sunday to Wednesday until the war ends? Could you get your shopping done on Thursday, Friday and Saturday?

[superkia]

1. I dont think most Americans will change their habits and ways...

until the government rapes the constitution and makes them change.

[Missy M]

2. I don't understand what gas station owners...

mall owners, store owners, etc. have to do with the war or how it would end the war.

[Swamp Rat]

3. No, my family does most of the shopping from Monday to Wednesday.

I very much dislike going shopping on weekends, and almost never do.

[TwilightZone]

4. The net effect is still zero.

Unless overall spending is cut, the bottom line doesn't change.

[soothsayer]

27. ding ding ding ding ding! winner!

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

5. Nice Theory, Never Happen

1,000 Times better chance of impeaching and/or convicting King george, and you know how likely that one is.

[jobycom]

6. So people would spend twice as much on the other days. How's that going to help?

Hell, it would help most businesses. They'd cut back hours on the days no one came in, and save labor. It would suck for the employees, though. :(

[SoCalDem]

7. I've stopped shopping 7 days a week... for YEARS..

I manage to go to the store about once a month, and in between, I may go for milk & bread..:)

Until last month, it had been 4 years since I had been to our mall :)

[Mz Pip]

8. It's not the days

of the week that matter.

It's the bottom line. The days of the week that corporations make their sales matters little.

I'll be buying the same amount of gas on Thursday as I would be on Monday. Or food, or clothes or whatever.

Mz Pip

[TheWraith]

9. What makes you think that would do anything?

It's not like people's basic needs would go away, so they's still be shopping, just not on the same days. It's the same flaw as the silly 1-day boycotts, just extended. Besides which, what effect do store owners have on national policy? If you want to make a statement, get people to stop paying their taxes until the war ends.

[AndyTiedye]

19. Tax Refusal Doesn't Work. The IRS Just Gets 3-5x as much Out of You In the End

unless you have no assets at all.

[redwitch]

10. If it really was successful

you would help to put thousands of Americans out of work. Including me. We would lose our house and our oldest son would more than likely have to drop out of college. Let's not do that. ok?

[porphyrian]

11. Then everyone would just buy everything they need Thursday to Saturday...

...and retailers would save money on electricity by closing for half of the week. Lots of the people working retail would think it was awesome, because they would have lots of time to recover.

[Richard D]

12. Now, if a whole lot of people . . .

. . . stopped watching television, buying newspapers, listening to radio (other than Pacifica) . . . all week, everyday, along with a letter writing campaign to the media, that would probably have quite an effect.

[AndyTiedye]

20. Boycotting the Repiglickin' Media Makes a Lot More Sense. You Are On to Something There

[Richard D]

23. Combine that . . .

. . . with a total boycott of any company who advertises in pro-war media and any corporation or their affiliates who has any profit motive in the war industry. If enough people did this, it would get some attention quickly.

[Hamlette]

13. it makes more sense to swear off discretionary spending until the war ends

write down every cent you spend on a calendar. It's easier to save that way. Look back at the end of the week or month and figure where you can cut corners.

You'll end up with a few grand in the bank at the end of the year.

When you do spend, spend with local shop owners. Cut back on Christmas. If we all cut back 10% we could grind the economy to a halt.

[frazzled]

14. How about women withhold sex until the war ends ...

That was what Lysistrata got all the women to do, in the play by Aristophanes, to end the Peloponnesian War. I think it would get the job done much faster than not shopping.

[AndyTiedye]

21. Could We Apply that Only to Repiglickin' Men, Please!

[liberaldemocrat7]

25. That would only work with mixed marriages of Conservative men and liberal women.

If liberal women withheld sex from their conservative husbands you might have something there.

Conservative women won't withhold sex from conservative husbands

and damn sure that liberal women and liberal men in marriage won't refrain from sex.


But I got the inspiration for these boycotts I proposed, from Lysistrata in part.

[MonkeyFunk]

15. It would have absolutely no effect

in fact, businesses would love it! They could only be open 3 days a week and sell the same amount, saving tons of $$.

Your ideas on how to end the war are very strange, indeed.

[CelticWinter]

16. Cut your spending

in half, I have only because of a change in lifestyle, its amazing what you can do without. Most Americans dont want to be inconvenienced by giving up the "easy" life style. We hold the key though-- we could cripple the corporations if we wanted to give up some of our non-essentials. They know they have us by the gonads because no one wants to be inconvenienced, everything has to be at hand, no effort put into it, and if we want it buy it whether you can afford it or not.
SO do we let the corporations keep giving us the royal screw or do we do without for a few months to make a point. We hold the key to lock their doors.
Celtic

[StrongBad]

17. Since bills are paid monthly...

I would think that it would have to be at least a month before a business wouldn't be able to meet their debts from the revenue they take in.

Four days is still really nothing, especially since (as you even advocate) one can splurge and get everything one needs on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.

[AndyTiedye]

18. All This Would do is Put a Bunch of Retail Employees out of Work and Boost their Employers' Profits

What do you think this will accomplish?

The businesses will just cut back their hours.

You're still gonna buy the same stuff from them.

[skids]

22. Actually I thought the "rolling boycott date" was a good idea...

...but I think these terms might be a bit drastic.

Most boycotts fail. But more might succeed if they were an "every 10th of the month" campaign or somesuch, because one of the things organizers always doom themselves with is overestimating the ability of their outreach. Ongoing outreach might actually eventually work.

[gate of the sun]

24. it's good in theory

but americans are die-hard brainwashed consumers...........but I do think as the economy slows down some people might take notice if retail sale really lower.....I wish that your idea would work....we need to let everyone in congree know if they don't stop the war we won't vote for them.

[Freddie Stubbs]

26. Stores could save a lot of money by being closed from Sunday to Wednesday

[TygrBright]

28. I only ever shop on Tuesday and I'm not gonna change that -- it's Farmer's Market day...

...and I only like to haul the car out and drive around doing errands once a week.

Now and then we'll pick up something on the weekend if we ran out early.

I could do Wednesday to Friday, how about that?

diffidently,
Bright

[liberaldemocrat7]

29. ooops sorry about that :)

.

[Blashyrkh]

30. Boycotts only work when you actually buy less, not frequent the store less.

If you wanna boycott something, boycott some major corporations and buy some fruit/veg from a local market or something.

[EstimatedProphet]

31. Simply quit buying things if you want this to work.