Boycott

:This page is about boycott as a form of protest. For other uses of the word boycott see Boycott (disambiguation).

Application and uses

A boycott is normally considered a one-time affair designed to correct an outstanding single wrong. When extended for a long period of time, or as part of an overall program of awareness-raising or reforms to laws or regimes, a boycott is part of moral purchasing, and those economic or political terms are to be preferred.

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Most organized consumer boycotts today are focused on long-term change of buying habits, and so fit into part of a larger political program, with many techniques that require a longer structural commitment, e.g. reform to commodity markets, or government commitment to moral purchasing, e.g. the longstanding boycott of South African businesses to protest apartheid already alluded to. These stretch the meaning of a 'boycott'.

Related Topics:
Commodity markets - Moral purchasing - South Africa - Apartheid

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Another form of consumer boycotting is substitution for an equivalent product; for example Mecca Cola or Qibla Cola also the call to avoid Costco.

Related Topics:
Mecca Cola - Qibla Cola - Costco

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Today a prime target of boycotts is consumerism itself, e.g. "International Buy Nothing Day" celebrated globally on the Friday after Thanksgiving Day in the United States. Another example of a modern boycott is the blacklisting of the country band The Dixie Chicks after one of the members made a derogatory political comment about President Bush. Many country music stations in the U.S., most of which

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Consumerism - International Buy Nothing Day - Friday - Thanksgiving Day - United States - Blacklist - The Dixie Chicks - President Bush - Country music - U.S. - Clear Channel

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The ongoing mergers and acquisitions, leading to forming oligopolies and monopolies, effectively control the supply chain, and there is a plethora of various product names from the same company where the manufacturer is not immediately obvious, leads to substantial limitations of consumer choice. For example, there are many restaurants worldwide where the choice of soft drinks is effectively limited only to products of Coca Cola Corporation, making the boycott of this subject rather impractical.

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Merger - Acquisition - Oligopolies - Monopolies - Soft drink - Coca Cola Corporation

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