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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

NICE!

Boycott McDonalds

Boycott Intel

Boycott Starbucks

And whenever you see Dates that have origin country "israel" in the supermarket, take a box and put it back on a different shelf.

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Making the minimum wage worker who stocks shelves have to put back the boxes you misplace isn’t going to win the war.

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 8 points 6 months ago

Hey hes a job creator. If the stores too neat they'll start downsizing staff.

[-] lukewarmtuna@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The idea is that once it's moved by customers to a different section, the store will treat the product as bad and toss it out. Yes you're right more work for the minimum wage guy who has to throw it out now, but the idea is that enough loss on that specific product and the manager may stop ordering that/those brands all together. They might not realize the products are related to Israel, just that the other brands are still selling, so by happenstance, the Israeli dates look inferior due to perceived customer purchasing habits. Eventually they may not be ordered anymore and that affects the parent company in Israel.

It's a really long game, but that's what I gather the goal of that specific protest would be.

[-] trougnouf@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

That's not how it works anywhere I've heard of (and I've lived in the USA and Europe and worked in an American grocery store). Maybe if it's a refrigerated product in the US (or vandalized somehow), but that's not the case with dates.

[-] lukewarmtuna@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

Not saying that is actually how it will play out, I agree with you that it only actually happens to refrigerated or frozen products (that get discarded when misplaced). That's not to say it doesn't also happen to shelf stable products too and we don't know about it, but I think that is unlikely.

I was just clarifying what I interpreted the original commenters intentions behind said protest would be, not that it would be effective. I believe the interpretation that it's just about messing with low income workers to be not quite what the intention was.

[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world -5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Just like those poor minimum wage McDonalds workers being the true victims of pro Palestinians 😔

If it happens enough store chains will tend to see a pattern. McDonalds sure did.

[-] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago

Put it in the freezer with the chicken.

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