Boycotting all businesses do not work, simply because few can agree upon who is actually the bad guy…
Except,
Canadians boycotting US products out of visceral anger, and EV buyers boycotting Tesla,
well that is simply the all-American way
of BUD-LIGHTING with passion and your pocketbook.
There are many businesses I hate, loath and despise.
I don’t boycott them, I do not patronize them - unless choosing not to buy from them costs me inconvenience.
By Freeze you mean stuffing a freezer full of Girl Scout cookies 
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Girls do have a few booths tomorrow outside grocery store, so as long as people are not boycotting groceries, all we need is them just not to spend alllll their money in the grocery store and save some for on the way out.
Absolutely … we bought 72 boxes of Thin Mints one year. You freeze them and move them to the refrigerator as needed or straight from the freezer in an emergency.
Well, it started yawn
I had my 2nd Amazon sale of the year last night… only sales of any kind so far this year.
This morning, Feb 28th, I have spent $44.40 at the Circle K for gas and $5 at Walmart on a 2 liter of Zero Sugar Mountain Lighting and a box of Cheez-it.
Sorry to those who might be die hard into this blackout. I’m weak.
It probably didn’t help that I watched the entirety of Zero Day (limited series on Netflix 6 45 min or so episodes) last night so I’m kind of a nihilist this morning.
Here in the middle of the blackout, the morning started with falling on black ice, couldn’t even see it and down I went.
As far as sales we had a good day yesterday, third largest amount on Amazon for February.
We just went on the board (had a sale) at 10:30est an FBA one. Not odd to have no orders in the morning though.
So far more impact from falling on the black ice, than from the blackout. Though it ain’t over till its over.
My sales are down about 30% today; correlation/causation? We’ll see tomorrow
Sold 2 items so far.
We are now up to about 1/4 of our normal Friday sales on Amazon at 12:20est.
Plus a few sales on our own brands websites. All normal so far.
Yes, the problem with this is, such a small window to sample. Could be a dozen reason sales are up or down on any particular day.
Not seeing any impact here. Yesterday was better than Wed, today looks like an avg Friday.
Hope you didn’t hurt yourself too bad.
Everyone be careful out there. One of my best friends fell on ice at his house 5 years ago, broke his neck and is now a paralyzed from the shoulders down with very limited use of his arms / hands. Tragic. 3 small children.
Was the picture of health beforehand.
Ice is no joke. I’ve fallen down the 12 stone steps leading up to our house more than once because of ice. They freeze fast because they are elevated and you can’t even see it if they ice up. Ever since this happened to my friend, I grab the railing like a 120 year old person and lower my center of gravity to ensure I don’t fall.
Per a snippet from the NYT
“Spending fell 0.2 percent in January, led by a drop in spending on cars and other goods. Economists had expected a 0.2 percent increase overall, after a 0.8 percent increase in December. Adjusted for inflation, spending dropped by 0.5 percentage points, the sharpest monthly drop in almost four years.”
BSR and category ranking are steady or improved, but sales still down 30%
The sky is a bit too close for comfort
mAkE E-cOmMeRcE gReAt AgAiN
Finally saw a mention of the blackout today on a normal people’s website. WMUR the local ABC affiliate.
They identified the small group which started it and its goal. They identified other small groups which joined in and their goals for it.
I suppose if someone did not frequent the parts of the internet which are populated by these groups, no one would have seen this before, And it is also probable that if one agreed with the goal, they would join.
Other than this, I have seen no information on this other than on SAS and Next Door, and the Ebay forums, this morning.
I doubt we will know if this actually had any effect, but if it makes some people feel they are doing something which affects what they care about - why not.
I placed some Kindle book orders this morning. Will probably order something else this afternoon.
Certainly, not motivated by anything that Bezos has done recently to recognize where his self-interest is. He is what he has always been.
Well, I’m doing better today than yesterday.
But that’s a bar so low that a snake would have trouble getting under it…
It is mid afternoon on the 28th. I have had no sales on Amazon so far.
But the honeydo list is now much shorter. My wife is happy.
The cats have been petted more. The are ha…err they are complaining less.
We should do this more often.
Maybe we sellers should start a national catch-up-on-maintenence day. It would just happen to coincide with the blackout. ( People who have never owned/run a business would not get it 
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Really? There have been articles on AP, CNN, NPR, USA Today, Washington Post(!), and Time, just to name some I’ve seen. I think plenty of people must have heard about it by today. Whether they’re interested or not is another matter, but word certainly has gotten around.
Sorry I do not read any of those biased sites, only those which share my views or are read by real people.
There is always a bias. We cannot expect to eliminate biases. The best we can do is balance them.
I look at the usual suspects: WSJ, CNN, AP, etc. I also read Al Jazeera and Sputnik International.
In one more desperate attempt to get the discussion back on topic: it is worth noting that neither Al Jazeera nor Sputnik deigns to mention the blackout.
They both understand that the peasants are revolting.
This is also my approach, inculcated by my ancestors.
In order to successfully parry this or that blow, one must first have a high degree of confidence that they KNOW what the opponent is thinking at that given point in time.
From my own point of view, it seems that it’s decidedly difficult to achieve such a degree of confidence if one simply ignores personally-distasteful inputs to the equation.
