Shoppers Resources

SHOPPERS BOYCOTT

What is a shoppers boycott?

A shoppers boycott is a voluntary abstention from using, buying, or dealing with a retailer, company, or product as a form of protest or to express dissatisfaction.

It and be indiviual acting on personal choice where ti shop, and can also be a substantial collective, group effort to bring about change by withdrawing support in mass.

How does a boycott work?

A shoppers boycott works by you, other individuals or groups refraining from engaging with a particular entity, often due to perceived, racial profillin, raccism, discriminatory practices and or policies to target specific person, groups for unfair treatment compared to general standard of services.

This withholding of support aims to impact the target financially, standing in the community and influence company to address the concerns that led to the shoppers dissatifaction, complaint and boycott.

Why would I participate in a boycott?

Participating in a boycott allows you, either as an individual, along with other individuals to leverage consumer power to advocate for change in company practice and instore standard of service to specific persons or groups. It can prove a good way to express disapproval of certain actions, policies, AND values of a person to companies and brands to encourage shoppers that may consider shopping elsewher that aligns with more fair and equal standards of practices.

How do I boycott effectively?

To boycott effectively, make your dissatifaction and complaint clear to the company and inform what you intend on doing, depending on the severity you may want to spread awareness about the ongoing issue and or a single specific unacceptable incident, and encourage others to join. Social media is enffective to spread discontent, which may encourage other to support your cause and or even share their expericence too!

Collective action can amplify the impact of a boycott. Companies and brands wll take notice!

Are there alternatives to boycotting?

Yes, let your feet do the walking, explore alternative stores, services, or brands, seek out Black owned shops, stores online companies that could do with your support and value you as a customer without question and racial discrimination being a thing. Engaging in constructive dialogue with the entity in question, working with us towards positive change within the system is an additional ways to make a difference.

Is boycotting the only way to bring about change?

While boycotting is a powerful tool to empower you and more so when collective will make the companuy look up, it's not the only method  to effect change. Engaging in open communication, supporting other responsible businesses, that will value you and participating in activism or advocacy are complementary approaches to fostering positive transformations in Society.

Can a boycott be temporary?

Yes for sure, boycotts can be temporary and used as a means to prompt immediate attetnion, to get swift change or draw attention to specific issues, in this instance racial discriminaton of shopping while Black.

GIVE PRAISE, RAISE ISSUE OR COMPLAIN SURVEY

IT REALLY IS YOUR RIGHT TO CALL OUT RACISM AND PRAISE TO BUSINESSES WHERE DUE

When you see tangibly see the store you shop in has shown racism the exit, and presence of racism appears eradicated.

Join our Campaign for real change. Actioned by You - When YOU share your lived shopping experiences.

LET'S END RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN RETAIL AND SERVICE INDUSTRY

Shopping While Black has launched a new campaign in UK & Abroad to help stem and ultimately eradicate racial profiling and racial discrimination that's active and operating in retail and service settings.

Profiling is the recording and analysis of a person's psychological and behavioural characteristics.

Many intitutions are known to use racism in their profiling against Black people. Racial profiling is widely overtly as well as covertly operating throughout the retail and service industry in the UK, US and other countries. Retailers, services alike use this in a negative racial discriminatory manner. It's an egregious method to assess, and unfairly predicting Black people capabilities technique in retail, services settings, such as shops, stores, clubs, events and other retail spheres to assist in identifying susceptibility in carrying out acts of shoplifting, theft, in spaces without paying and other criminal behaviour.

Black people by retailers by large are seen to have a propensity to shoplift and profiled as such upon entering retail and service spaces. This prpensity for Black people to shoplift, theive is unfounded and purley based on racism and little else. Racial profiling Black people this way is viewed direclty from the eyes of racists and racist procedures.

Racial profiling and racial discrimination is illegally and unduly operating 24hrs a day to the detriment of Black shopper, retail customers and consumers.

Along with you, and retail partners we're building a future where the experience of shopping while Black isn't being seen as criminal first, the instant stepping into a store, moreso to be seen as a valued customer who too should enjoys equality and equity as a human and consumers right to shop without being racially profiled and discriminated against.

With your participation we are setting the scene where it is no longer accepted, BUT clearly made known it's unacceptable to automatically set a default position by the colour of customers skin that denotes a retail shoplifting risk.

We taking on the retail and service who racially profiles Black consumers as potential shoplifters first as criminal rather than worthy and valued customer with spending power

We should be able to rightfully expect retailers to treat us, Black shoppers as worthy and value us as customers

We want retailers and service providers to operate safe shopping spaces and not hostile settings for Black shopper only

We are entitiled to a shopping while Black experience on equal part to shopping while white experience as standard,

We demand UK, US and ALL retailers to operate a ZERO tolerance to RACISM.

SHOW RACISM THE FINAL EXIT

Use this form to share your Shopping While Black experience and to also feedback and share directly with Business you detail in your submission (on your behalf)

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