What's the alternative to Walmart & Target?

[graywarrior]

I've been boycotting Walmart for the past 6 months, and recently I've started doing the same to Target.

But where in hell do you go to get paper towels, toilet paper, toothpaste, etc?

COSCO is too far away for me, I despise Dollar Stores. Where does everyone here shop?

[Hawkeye-X]

1. Unionized grocery stores? n/t

[Lex]

19. Kroger is a unionized grocery store

if I recall correctly.

[FSogol]

2. Costco and Kohls are a pretty blue.

Check out buyblue.org

[helderheid]

4. Costco absolutely!

[IronLionZion]

9. What makes you think Kohls is blue?

http://www.buyblue.org/directory/80

They look apolitical to me. :shrug:

[FSogol]

22. My bad. Had them mixed up with something else. n/t

[Kazak]

3. I usually use Albertson's...

They're probably not much better than Walmart or Target, but at least they give a percentage of what I buy back to my church (UU), so that's where I usually end up. No Costco stores anywhere near me.

[loveable liberal]

5. anywhere else.....

[noahmijo]

6. Overall you're just hunting for the lesser of the evils

Every single major grocery chain out here (Safeway, Fry's Albertson's) donates to Republicans almost exclusively, however at least they are unionized and they respect their workers (I worked at Safeway when I was 16)

Unless you have a Costco or a Kohl's you're stuck with having to go with Republican heavy or Republican light.

[MadisonProgressive]

7. I go to my local Pick-N-Save grocery store

[TheDebbieDee]

8. What about K-Mart? Aren't they pretty blue??????

The K-Marts that are left, that is!

[Lex]

20. Yes. KMart is blue.

It's a good alternative.

[Armstead]

25. Aren't they famous for the Blue Light Specials?

Just a coincidence I realize, but still...

[tsuki]

10. Well, I bought a bidet seat w/a blow dryer, and use rags and

tea towels which I wash.

[leveymg]

14. Not sure Costco carries that particular item. n/t

[MercutioATC]

29. Costco does, however, carry caskets:

http://www.costco.com/Common/Search.aspx?whse=&topnav=&search=casket&N=0&Ntt=casket&cm_re=1-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search

and, for those of you who prefer to be cremated, urns:

http://www.costco.com/Common/Search.aspx?whse=&topnav=&search=urn&N=0&Ntt=urn&cm_re=1-_-Top_Left_Nav-_-Top_search

[napi21]

11. I buy my paper products and toothpaste etc. at Kmart.

They still have really slow cashiers, but they usually have what I'm looking for and my husband used to work for the SuperK as a meatcutter. They treated their employees decent. None of the terrible and illegal crap you hear about WM.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

12. What put you off about Target?

[kahleefornia]

13. yeah, I thought Target wasn't so bad...eom

[davikim]

15. target allows their

pharmacists to not sell the morning after pill if they choose not to
based on religious reasons. Big bummer, used to love Target...

[graywarrior]

16. Yeah, there's a Planned Parenhood protest here on Tue nite

in front of Target. I got a shitty email response from them when I questioned their policy regarding their pharmacists personal beliefs affecting their decisions to fill prescriptions. So, I'm boycotting them.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

17. I think I'd need a little more in the negative column before I

wrote off Target. Appreciate the info.

[Lex]

21. Target gives a buttload of money to the Repukes too.

They are not Dem friendly.

$36,380 to Democrats
$181,060 to Republicans
$0 to Others
$217,439 in Total Contributions

http://www.buyblue.org/node/1963/view/summary

[CottonBear]

24. Denying women birth control is all the negative that I need. n/t

[Bjornsdotter]

26. Ditto, ditto and ditto

I will never cross their threshold until they support all forms of birth control.

Cheers!

[MountainLaurel]

33. Same here

We should also remember that this is only the beginning: The next part of the agenda is to deny antidepressants, since "those folks should just be praying harder and stop being so selfish," or denying drugs to AIDS patients because "they brought the disease upon themselves for their sin of homosexuality."

[demnan]

18. Try K-Mart

At least you'll be giving Martha Stewart a hand, and she gives to Democrats.

[CottonBear]

23. K-Mart. One accessible by (walking) sidewalk or biking from my house!

Also, there's a Dollar General store across from my house too.

[Armstead]

27. Got any local independent businesses left in your town?

I try to buy as much as I can from the locally owned hardware store, grocery, etc.

Unless it's ridiculously more expensive for an item, I consider it a way to support the local economy.

When they don;t have something I need, I'll resort to Wally World or one of their ilk. But at least I can go with a clear conscience if I at least try the local stores first.

[no_hypocrisy]

28. I second that. I've seen the warehouse stores and the malls destroy

Main Street stores. I fight back by trying to shop locally whenever I can.

[SmokingJacket]

30. Hemp underwear!!

http://www.rawganique.com/bikinis.htm

There's no place in my town to buy basics without committing a sin. It's Walmart (evil), Target (apparently pretty evil too), the local big grocery chain (owned by repubs) which only carries socks now, no undies, or dollar stores (chinese slaves, which is probably the case with the other places too).

You can't boycott EVERYWHERE. I'm a pretty fair seamstress, but I don't have time in my life to sew my own undies. As it is I'm probably the only person I know who mends her own bras!

I'll go to Target, and drop a note in the suggestion box about the pharmacy -- I wouldn't use their pharmacy anyway.

When I'm RICH I'll order all my stuff from POLITICALLY PURE places!

[prole_for_peace]

31. no k-marts or costcos in my area.

household and personal care items are just too expensive at kroger. and the locally owned grocery stores are WAY too expensive on everything. i guess it would be a good diet. i couldn't afford to eat.

[Catherine Vincent]

32. Dollar stores, Family Dollar, Big Lots etc.