Television

If you ask me there's still work to be done.

Don't forget that Iger and the executives that made this decision to capitulate are still in their jobs.

not to mention whatever they were losing in ad revenue per episode.

Also, from Disney's POV the fixed costs for movies/shows are huge and the incremental cost for subscribers is very low. The lost subscribers come right from profit.

Starbucks has closed over 150 stores down after they got boycotted for the past year or two.

Target has been absolutely plummeting also due to boycotts of young adults.

Boycotts work great as long as there are enough people doing it. If a company loses customers on the scale of millions of people or high percentages of consumer base, it will impact them.

Kind of have to define "work" though. When it comes down to it, I don't know if it changes much in any progressive sense. But I guess a win is a win and maybe the line to toe is shifted or solidified for Disney.

Didn't Kimmel get back on air and sorta half-ass apologize? The whole thing reminded me of the bullshit where Jerry Jones made a show of taking a knee with his players while the anthem was NOT playing.

Did the boycott work, or did they do something that made it look like it?

I really hope many people never came back. Aside from the politics, US streaming services keep enshittifying for years now. Piracy provides a much better experience and is way more reliable long term.

Check your library for DVDs too!

Does it have all the cool bonus features and behind the scenes stuff that has become a relic of the past?

If you're computer savvy, look into Plex or jellyfin to create your own streaming service.

She is a legit journalist. I don’t know her personally but we have a mutual friend who tells me about her all the time. As far as I can tell from reading what she writes, she really knows her stuff.

Too many people shop there and got addicted to 2 day shipping. Covid sealed the deal

No.

People who live remote, like on the Pacific, or in the mountains rely on mail delivery to avoid driving 2-3hrs for shopping of any kind beyond their local, small, overpriced grocery. The elderly anywhere do the same, as do people who don’t drive.

Remember, we don’t have decent mass transit outside of major cities and even then many major cities are limited to buses which not many people actually like. Even then, mass transit has a haul/carry problem.

When was the last time you went to 8 different stores to find what you need? Do you even have 8 different stores near you that cover what you need? Stores have been closing. It’s faster, easier, and costs far less in time & gas to fill one online cart with socks, new tshirts of a specific style and fit, wasabi powder, Tylenol, a charger adaptor, coffee beans, a specific desk chair, loose leaf tea, a new ergonomic mouse, 100% cotton high thread count bed sheets in a color you like, specialty dog food, casters that don’t cost too much, shellac flakes, etc. You probably couldn’t fulfill that list wherever you live and the pieces you might be able to find involve more than one store.

The alternative to Amazon is Walmart. Their mail order system is good, for what is fulfilled by Walmart, and returns are easier than Amazon.

Win, right?

Wrong. Walmart is notorious for treating their employees bad, granted, not as bad as Amazon warehouses, last check. Worse, the Waltons fall off the radar on wealth because that wealth is spread across a family instead of one person. Collectively, they are worth $432 billion.

So they usually churn ~320K; so ~1.4m cancellations can be attributed to the Jimmy Kimmel fiasco.

Close to $18M/mo which is almost a quarter of a billion per year. That’s enough to get anyone’s attention.