My gosh, it’s Thursday again. Where does the time go? At least Thursdays are fairly easy days for me. I would imagine it’s everyone’s favorite weekday, or at least in the top five. Apparently, Thursday are quite good days for bars and taverns, particularly happy hours. People who just can’t quite make it one more day without a little assistance must tend to stop on the way home. It is also a big night for take-out. I would imagine for the same reason.
This year, this week, this Thursday may be an even bigger day out for folks who are trying to do their best to stick it to the big corporation who have been sticking it to the little guy. The economic blackout is to hit April 18-20. No purchases at any big corporate anything, buy local, buy small.
I am a huge proponent of buy local. Which is why I don’t understand these ‘blackouts’ like nobody shopping at Target since January. It makes for nice social media posts. “Store traffic is down again this week!” I don’t suppose anybody is checking to see if there is a corresponding decrease in associate hours. See, as far as the big corporations go, they really don’t care about foot traffic or gross sales, as long as net profit, stock price, and most importantly dividends go up. If they don’t make enough cash to make their dividend payments (and to pay their salaried employees), they simply take that money from the most convenient available bucket, usually the bucket that showers payroll dollars on the hourly employees. Less foot traffic = less sales and stock people. The little guys. So those big boycotts sticking it to the big corporations eventually just get little guys laid off.
Do I have a solution. I do indeed. Shop local. And boycott local. Do yu really want to make a difference and get someone to reconsider their support for Donny McScrooge and his merry band of Dingy Donny followers. Find a local business, florist, bakery, gift shop, restaurant, bar and tavern, dry cleaner, or what have you (maybe even the stray car dealership), who vociferously supports or supported the current regime and boycott them. They are the people who need to be convinced that if there is ever another election, the nice lady with the economic degree probably knows more about running a country’s economy that a part time golfer and business bankrupter.
Normally this is where I make some clever tie in with this week’s ROAMcare Uplift post. And it is a good one. So good that it doesn’t deserve to share space with such Debbie Downer content. And I can honestly say, I’m not feeling very Abrahamic right now. Read it anyway.
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You did it again…thank you for your on-point post this Thursday morning and the glimmer to get me smiling, despite the madness: “I would imagine it’s everyone’s favorite weekday, or at least in the top five.” A worthy message…reminder…and a smile. 🥰
Thanks Vicki. That you can keep smiling gives me hope. And I do hope I haven’t knocked Thursday out of the top five weekdays for anybody.
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It makes for nice social media posts.
That’s my cynical take on economic boycotts. I may join in with them less by design, more because I don’t buy much. Still if it gives some people a feeling of being proactive in light our current chaotic political environment, so be it. You do you, I’ll just be me as usual.
I think I am a lot like you in that I just don’t buy a lot. Not needing much means I can be a little picky when I decide where to go for it. I may not go out of my way no t shop somewhere but I definitely will go out of my way to intentionally shop somewhere. I suppose I’ve voted with my dollars for as long as I can remember.
Great advice Michael. “Donny McScrooge and his merry band of Dingy Donny followers.” Love the humor and the advice. Oh, so right. Yea, what would that “nice lady with the economic degree” know anyway. Ha, ha. Thanks for the smile when the news every day is oh so pitiful.
Smiles are free. You don’t even have to understand how the stock market and dividends and such work to enjoy one.
Feeling Abrahamic? My, my, dear friend, you are wise beyond your years. I appreciate your words because you say what so many feel but are unwilling to share because it might make others irritated. I love your authenticity–your rants are real. Way to go, my friend.
Oh Dayle, if I stopped doing anything because it might irritate someone, I’d never get started. Not that I’d intentionally rabble rouse. I just want to make sure people have thought things through. Not like the 32% who didn’t last November.
Makes perfect sense. Thanks, Michael!
Thank you Wynne. Perfect…surely not. Sense…maybe not. Needed before I imploded…absolutely!
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