#Activists: ‘We Ain’t #Buying it’ This #Thanksgiving Weekend

#Communityorganizers are calling for a mass #boycott of #bigboxstores and #onlineshopping on #BlackFriday through #CyberMonday.

https://wordinblack.com/2025/11/activists-black-friday-cyber-monday-boycott/

Halloween trick-or-treating - a drive-through neighbourhood:

Spoiler: Driving and idling (fossil fuel combustion), plastic decoration, sugar 'treats' and traps for native wildlife.

Haunted by the spectre of climate disruption and the prospect of an uninhabitable biosphere they drive to event spaces turning neighbourhoods into drive-through (commercial) amusement parks for Halloween and Christmas.

* "People drive from miles and miles to participate in destination neighborhood festivities. The same kind of dynamic has long happened with Christmas.Halloween has gone from a primarily walking holiday to a driving holiday."
Where Have All the Trick-or-Treaters Gone on Halloween? Destination Neighborhoods >>
https://www.collegetowns.org/p/where-have-all-the-trick-or-treaters

* "Research suggests about 30 percent of birds' nests may include human-made materials, posing a risk to nestlings. Halloween in Australia coincides with bird nesting season and birds are often looking for nesting material at this time of year, so there is the potential for these types of decorations to have a bigger impact here than in North America and Europe." >>
https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2025/10/21/halloween-in-australia-how-an-irish-tradition-became-a-uniquely-local-celebration.html

* Halloween on one Sydney street has grown so big it’s now sponsored
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/30/halloween-renwick-street-sydney-trick-or-treat-sponsored

* Australians will spend a record $500 million on Halloween this year despite the so called cost-of-living crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-31/halloween-australia-growth-displays-community-connection/105954120

#Halloween #plastic #decorations #pollution #sugar #cars #driving #CarBrain #DriveThrough #traffic #suburbia #neighbourhoods #BigBoxStores #walking #SocialMedia #commercialisation #festivities #Christmas #NativeWildlife #birds #entanglements #pollution #spectacle #culture #ClimateDisruption #NSW

Every time I look for something on [insert big box home store here]'s website in order to go get today, it's always something I have to order. Rare is the product that I need that, God forbid, is in stock at a local location. I can't think that what I want is so obscure that they don't want it taking up valuable space at their 50,000 sq ft facility. Is it too much to ask? I'm a simple man. I'm not asking for much. All I ask is to be able to find my need, drive to said store, and bring my item of choice home on the same day. No questions asked... except in which aisle I can find it. But NO. I can't have it today. My instant gratification is left wanting AGAIN.

I say NUTS TO YOU, BIG BOX STORE. I will have to LIVE with your inadequacies AGAIN! TYVM.

Ugh.

#woodworking #lowes #homedepot #menards #tools #rant #bigboxstores

#shopping #retail #bigboxstores

https://www.fodmapeveryday.com/12-big-name-retail-chains-closing-stores-in-2025/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into THE MIX @the-mix-JanetteSpeyer

Eye-opening. Frustrating. Enraging.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7-e_yhEzIw

#BigBoxStores #StrongArmTactics

Stop subsidizing #Walmart: https://youtu.be/r7-e_yhEzIw via #YouTube

#retail #bigbox #bigboxstores

Talking Headways #Podcast: How #BigBoxStores are Destroying the Fabric of #America

https://usa.streetsblog.org/2025/02/20/talking-headways-podcast-how-big-box-stores-are-destroying-the-fabric-of-america

I hate that I have to shop at Walmart sometimes, the destroyer of small town downtowns and local businesses. I hate that they had everything I had on my shopping list today. They had stuff my regular grocery store should carry but is always out of. And they carry the brand of precooked bacon my wife prefers.

#BigBoxStores #Walmart #FirstWorldProblems #MyPrecious