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In reply to the discussion: Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown calls for Burger King boycott over planned Tim Hortons deal [View all]Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)39. There is an app (Android) ...
That lists companies social behavior (maybe it includes tax dodging companies, too).
Buycott - Barscanner Vote
Description
Buycott Barcode Scanner helps you vote with your wallet so you fund causes you care about and avoid funding those you disagree with.
Featured as ABC News & Salon.com app of the week. As seen on NBC, FOX, CNBC, MSNBC, and covered by Forbes and Huffington Post.
● HOW IT WORKS ●
✓Join campaigns to help causes you care about and commit to supporting the companies on your side of the issue, while avoiding those that oppose your position.
✓Scan product a product barcode and Buycott will find out what company owns that product (and who owns that company, ad infinitum).
✓Buycott will determine whether you're avoiding or supporting the scanned product.
✓Using this information you can now vote with your wallet
● FEATURES ●
☆ Using the bar code scanner, look up the ownership structure of any product and trace it all the way back to its parent company with our interactive family tree diagram.
☆ Offers a variety of contact data for companies and brands, so you can easily inform them of your decision to support or avoid their products.
☆ Barcode scanner scans all major retail barcodes (UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN8, EAN13, etc).
☆ Super fast barcode scanner ensures you don't spend extra time at the store.
☆ Create your own campaign from buycott.com
☆ Make decisions quickly so you can ultimately vote with your wallet
Buycott Barcode Scanner helps you vote with your wallet so you fund causes you care about and avoid funding those you disagree with.
Featured as ABC News & Salon.com app of the week. As seen on NBC, FOX, CNBC, MSNBC, and covered by Forbes and Huffington Post.
● HOW IT WORKS ●
✓Join campaigns to help causes you care about and commit to supporting the companies on your side of the issue, while avoiding those that oppose your position.
✓Scan product a product barcode and Buycott will find out what company owns that product (and who owns that company, ad infinitum).
✓Buycott will determine whether you're avoiding or supporting the scanned product.
✓Using this information you can now vote with your wallet
● FEATURES ●
☆ Using the bar code scanner, look up the ownership structure of any product and trace it all the way back to its parent company with our interactive family tree diagram.
☆ Offers a variety of contact data for companies and brands, so you can easily inform them of your decision to support or avoid their products.
☆ Barcode scanner scans all major retail barcodes (UPC-A, UPC-E, EAN8, EAN13, etc).
☆ Super fast barcode scanner ensures you don't spend extra time at the store.
☆ Create your own campaign from buycott.com
☆ Make decisions quickly so you can ultimately vote with your wallet
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Ohio Sen. Sherrod Brown calls for Burger King boycott over planned Tim Hortons deal [View all]
Omaha Steve
Aug 2014
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Let's Make The App Positive And Identify Those Companies That Are Truly American......
global1
Aug 2014
#24
Same here, but will now start boycotting Tim Horton's also, which I use to enjoy. nt
Snotcicles
Aug 2014
#16
Thanks, knightmaar.. the last time I was in Canada in 2005 in the Novia Scotia area
Cha
Aug 2014
#83
reveal of pinkslime use, hardly any muscle meat in cheap'beef' ended my fastfood days.
Sunlei
Aug 2014
#29
Good point. Ah sir...would you like your burger with or without neurodegenerative disorders?
BlueJazz
Aug 2014
#43
You are trying to conflate local sales tax with corporate tax. This is called tax inversion
FSogol
Aug 2014
#51
How is the poster "trying to prevent DUers from talking about a boycott" ?
former9thward
Aug 2014
#65
I am such a fan of Sherrod that I have, in fact, retroactively joined
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Aug 2014
#20
There have been many reasons to not give Burger King our money prior to this.
stillwaiting
Aug 2014
#35
State and Local Sales Tax does not equal Corporate Tax paid to the Federal Government.
FSogol
Aug 2014
#53
"BKC will continue to pay all of our federal, state and local U.S. taxes." -Burger King FB page
laureloak
Aug 2014
#63
Of course they'll pay all the ones they LEGALLY owe. Which will be a LOT less.
NYC Liberal
Aug 2014
#75