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A Trump voters message to retailers: Keep your mouths shut about our president

The Washington Post ^ | February 25, 2017 | Abha Bhattarai

Posted on by 2ndDivisionVet

Mary Carson picks up her leopard-print tote bag and tugs on her leopard-print scarf.

Im just going to do a little bit of business, the 77-year-old says as she walks into Neiman Marcus at the Tysons Galleria in Northern Virginia and asks for the manager. He appears in a pinstripe suit and shakes her hand.

Im very disappointed in whats happened with the Trump line, she tells him. I hate to do this  Im not a real activist  but I learned a long, long time ago that you cannot mix business and politics.

The manager listens patiently.

Carson, who worked in marketing before she retired, pulls out her Neiman Marcus credit card and prepares to give it back. It was the obvious thing to do, she says, once the retailer stopped carrying Ivanka Trumps jewelry line on its website a few weeks ago.

If the company feels like they can hurt the daughter of a president by doing something like this, thats mean, said Carson, who voted for Trump. I feel very strongly about that.(continued)



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TOPICS:

Business/Economy

Conspiracy

Politics

KEYWORDS:

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Excellent. There needs to be more of this all over the country.



To: 2ndDivisionVet

77-year-old teaching the left the price of being stupid.



by 3 posted onby Vaduz (women and children to be impacted the most.)

To: blam

Cut up their credit cards and send them to the CEO. If you don’t have one of “their” credit cards get one, cut it up, and send it back to them unused.



by 4 posted onby unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

A wise old marketing professor told my class that any business thinking about injecting itself into politics should ask two questions: 1) How many new customers will the decision bring in? 2) How many current/prospective customers will the decision drive away? Based on his 20+ years of research and consulting, he averred that the second number was always larger than the first.



To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mary Carson is an American. I do not care what party she might be affiliated with. All the lefty radicals in business who have been trying to hurt the Trump family because president Trump defied all odds to win the election....are mean spirited and hateful. Thats mo way to run a business unless you want it to fail. Let them all TANK!



To: 2ndDivisionVet

These businesses should announce that it values all their customers no matter what their politics and, in keeping with the great American tradition it will not allow politics to spoil their relationship with their customers.



To: blam

We are doing our part. See Tagline And to the Wife: No Oscars for you !



by 8 posted onby A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT Mexico nba NFL PepsiCO Kellogg's)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

My wife and I were frequent purchasers of Budweiser products prior to the Superbowl. We have not spent a dime on Budweiser products after viewing their Superbowl ad and will never do so again. I figure they’ve cost themselves at least $150 so far just from me. I know that’s not much to them, but it’s something.



by 9 posted onby KevinB (Barack Obama: The best example in history of the dangers of affirmative action!)

To: KevinB

Yuengling porter. Sigh. Good stuff. Trump supporter, too.



by 10 posted onby combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! And please, God, bless the USA again.)

To: Arm_Bears

Even if the Ivanka’s items aren’t selling, they can reduce or eliminate orders without the public “virtue” signaling. They went out of their way to brag that they were too moral to sell anything named Trump.



by 11 posted onby KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)

To: combat_boots

I don’t drink beer but I just bought yunghling ice cream at walmart



by 12 posted onby cyclotic (Republicans Are without excuse. Flood the Resolute Desk with sane legislation.)

To: Candor7

All the lefty radicals in business who have been trying to hurt the Trump family because president Trump defied all odds to win the election....are mean spirited and hateful. Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!



by 13 posted onby GOPJ ("Acting' is the art of lying convincingly. Outside of Hollywood that's the skiill of 'conmen'.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Neiman Marcus. Ah memories. When I was a young teen I remember riding the bus from Ft. Worth to Dallas... there was no Neiman Marcus in Ft. Worth. We wore jean shorts and I may have been barefoot. I often was back then. We went into the store and were greeted by the clerk who treated us like the princesses that we were. We tried on clothes all afternoon, bought nothing. I remember trying on a $300 jump suit which was I’m guessing the total amount of our mortgage plus grocery bill for six. Always treated with respect because it was possible that our daddies were millionaires. Then after we moved to KCMO I found out that here if you want any respect in a store (esp. on the Plaza) you had to really dress up. I sort of lost interest in shopping as a recreational sport at that time.



by 14 posted onby Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.Â (Blaise Pascal))

To: 2ndDivisionVet

Yeah, but FUWP.



by 15 posted onby jacknhoo (Luke 12:51; Think ye, that I am come to give peace on earth? I tell you, no; but separation.)

To: 2ndDivisionVet

The funny thing is that Bezos who owns Amazon and a large chunk of the Compost carries all the Ivanka Trump items. Amazon also carries dozens of Trump t-shirts, mugs and other merchandise. He is apparently a good enough businessman not to alienate half his customers. Warren Buffet is a libtard who owns jewelry stores and real estate companies but is smart enough not to mouth off at possible customers. Michael Jordan said white folks buy sneakers, too. Some of these companies who stopped carrying Ivanka Trump are likely being run by second or third generation family members who always had a cushy life and believe they can always do and say as they choose.



by 16 posted onby angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)

To: Arm_Bears

Of course



by 17 posted onby samtheman (Imaginary news. Square root of negative news.)

To: Arm_Bears

” How many current/prospective customers will the decision drive away?”

This must have happened a long time ago because this is not being taught today. This is not PC.



To: unixfox

I wish I had a credit card for Hollywood to cut up.



To: 2ndDivisionVet

Liberal Stooges aren’t the only ones who can boycott.



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