• Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    46·
    20 hours ago

    The no shopping seems weird to me when I mostly go to local breweries or friend owned bars or small independent coffee shops where the owners and workers are leftists (all my usual third places). Supporting local helps my community. If this lasted longer and many people did this, then it would have a financial impact on these places. If they closed, some corpo owned bar/brewery/coffee could come in and just take their spot.

    Can someone help me understand if protesting and hurting local is worth it?

    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world
      6·
      19 hours ago

      Nice that you have downvotes but no one had anything to say to you.

      I dont know personally but if i had to guess i would say it might be harmful to local businesses but thats the only way it can be harmful to the people it needs to be. How do you police which businesses are not corporate owned? Do we rely on good faith? Word of mouth?

      Plus i am not sure a business that cant afford to do without a day of business is doing very well.

      • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        15 hours ago

        It’s not nice that I have downvotes for asking a question I want to understand how hurting local businesses helps? Maybe I’m thinking about it wrong?

        For my local businesses that I go to, I know the owners. Technically that’s still good faith to make sure they’re not actually owned by a mega conglomerate that has 51% invested in them, but still.