Buyers threaten to boycott Home Depot - This is why
Several customers have said that they would no longer do their shopping with the retailer.
Home Depot manages to attract a wide variety of customers. While your averageHome improvement buyers could be looking for something as simple as paint or basic tools, the retailer also managed to gain something from cult with novelty articles like Skelly, his beloved12 -foot skeleton decoration. But these eclectic offers may not be enough to keep all Home Depot customers, as some buyers are now threatening to boycott the company. Read the rest to discover what stimulates this controversy.
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Home Depot is no stranger to the wrongs.
Home Depot faced his just part of controversy.
In September, buyers were upset to findMore locked products in retailer stores. Home Depot confirmed that he had followed high -risk products and lock them in the hardest affected areas to prevent retail flight while it works to test "solutions more suitable for customers and high Technology "to stop the display flight.
The previous month, some customersI started to demand this Home Depot stops selling invasive plants. According to a change.org petition which has nowNearly 70,000 signatures, Home Depot sells at least 23 plants officially listed as invasive species in many states.
And in November, Home Depot was one of several retailers who had to draw certain portable generators from the stores. AReminder was issued After 24 people lost their fingers due to a major security problem with the product.
From now on, the popular domiciliary renovation retailer faces another type of controversy.
Buyers threaten to boycott.
Home Depot is back in hot water - and this time, customers threaten to stop shopping in retailer stores. Calls to a boycott against Home Depot wereGrow on Twitter In the past few days, due to a link between the company and the recent block against the relief of the student debt,Nowsweek first reported.
"I used to prefer @homedepot vs @lowes. More home depot for me,"A user tweeted On November 27, amassing more than 350 likes. "I still have a child at university and another next year."
"Buy Lowe's instead,"John Anthony Castro, the CEO of Aitax.com,Tweeted on November 25, winning more than 500 likes. Another user shared a similar feeling on November 27,Tweeter: "I take my business to Lowe's. #Boycotthomedepot."
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The co-founder of Home Depot is linked to a trial against the reduction of the student debt.
By CNBC, presidentJoe Biden announced herLoan delivery plan to students In August 2022, but he has not yet concluded, due to two high -level legal proceedings. One of these combinations is supported by the Job Creators Network Foundation, a conservative defense organization founded byBernie Marcus, which is also the co-founder of Home Depot.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
"Did you know that the Network for non-profit of Home Depot, Bernie Marcus, is the group of Texas behind the judgment of the bill on the cancellation of Biden's student debt?" A Twitter user published on November 23, stimulatingCall for boycott. The tweet has collected nearly 7,000 likes and more than 6,000 retweets.
On November 10, a Federal Judge of Texas decided in favor of the trial supported by Marcus - who was presented by two complainants who were not eligible for the total amount of pardon of student loans - toBlock Biden's plan, the appellant "unconstitutional", reported CNBC.
After this decision,Founder of the foundation of the job creators networkElaine Parker said: "The court properly ruled in favor of our request and judged the BidenIllegal student loan program. ""
The company has moved away from its co-founder and opinions.
Regarding the company, however, there is no association between its co-founder and the retailer. A spokesperson for Home Depot saidBetter life that Marcus was no longer involved in the company.
"Our co-founder left Home Depot over 20 years ago, and his opinions do not represent the company," the spokesman said in a statement.
Marcus retired from Home DepotCompany in 2002, according to the Associated Press, and this is not the first time that Home Depot has responded to similar reactions surrounding the political contributions of its co-founder. Last month, the retailer was also faced with calls for a boycott after Marcus contributed to a political action committee (PAC) of the candidate for the Senate of GeorgiaHerschel Walker.
"The company did not contribute to this campaign. The contribution came from our co-founder Bernie Marcus, who left Home Depot over 20 years ago," replied the official Twitter account of Home Depot to a Tweet on Walker's contribution.
In 2019, the company gave a similar response after Marcus undertook to support the then president Donald Trump offer for re -election. "As a standard practice, the company does not approve the presidential candidates ", Home Depot spokesperson Margaret Smith said in a statement at NPR.
