51 Petty Business Boycotts People Have Kept Going Out Of Pure Principle And Spite

Wells Fargo. They put our rent check through twice, causing everything else to bounce. They wouldn’t refund any of the $200 of NSF fees, even though they’d send us an email that they’d made an error. The email saved us with our other 1st of the month bills pays, but heck them forever. This was around 2002.

I went to a department store that I shopped at a fair bit. As I was in the change room I heard two associates outside saying “you better check her when she comes out.” I immediately got dressed, handed them all the items, most of which I planned to buy, and told them I’d never shop there again. That was twelve years ago and they went out of business in June.

Kohl's. They refused to price match their website, even though their signs at the register stated they would. Even the manager refused. Won't go in one. Won't even return my Amazon stuff there. I hope they go out of business.

The butcher a couple of streets away from me.

I arrived with the goal of buying some pork cheeks.

There were 3 people in front of me. But 5 people ended up being served before myself because a couple of "regulars" arrived and started casually chatting the staff and ended up being served mid chat.

When my turn arrived there was literally a big pile of cheeks on top of the counter. An absolute tower of them. I asked for some and they told me that they were all sold out.

I frickin' hate these places where you're either a part of this weird club or you're treated bad.

The Dairy Queen by my house. The employee very quickly hit the "add tip" button while I swiped to give herself a 20% tip. It was only about $2 but still - that's stealing!

Salvation Army.

AT&T, charged me $45 bucks for a collect call to home that was under 3 minutes in 1997. I never paid the bill and will never do business with them again.

In 1984, I was at Denny's and was served a sausage that had clearly been bitten prior to service (the ragged end showed that it had been reheated after the attack). I showed it to the waitress, who treated me like a salad-roach scammer. I have not been back to any Denny's since.

KFC is d**d to me.

Back in 2020 I ordered a coffee via kiosk, they told me they can't prepare it because their machine is broken, I said no problem and asked for a refund, they said they cannot refund me because I used kiosk. ???

I left a negative review on google maps, they reached out to google and made them delete the review.

I promised myself to never ever step my foot in any KFC ever again, it's become a bit of a meme my gf jokes about often that we see strange empty lots when we pass by a KFC.

EA games. They need to stop.

Facebook / Meta / whatsapp. I'm in Europe and everyone uses whatsapp. But ever since cambridge analytica I've sworn off anything meta - and whatsapp is part of that. Most important people are on signal and the rest is through sms, or just not.

20 years since a contractor’s van overtook me in a dangerous spot while speeding. I’ve never used their services and never will.

Red Robin. Has to be 13 years now. Coupon for a free birthday burger with purchase of another meal. Let the server know before I even ordered that I had the coupon. When the bill came I was charged for both meals. I told the server and she said that the burger was a seasonal item that didn’t work with that coupon. Manager backed the server. Okee doke. That used to be a go to easy place with groups of six or more. Haven’t been back since.

Never been to a Chick FIL a and I don't think I'm missing much.

Bank of America. Once worked at a company that had that BoA as a client. They were awful.

Subway fired me for putting too many olives on a sandwich l. Haven't been back in 15 years.

Soup Peddler in Austin. I’ve been boycotting them for 23 years because they told their customers the website I built, like used my name, was causing order delays. Only problem was they moved to a different website made by a different company 2 months prior. They couldn’t even be bothered to apologize.

A bar in Virginia Beach called Croc's. They didn't pay my band in 2012.

Local Mexican restaurant. Went to use a gift card i was given for Christmas, the following August. Was told they switched gift card systems and had no way to tell how much gift card was worth. Told me to call a 1-800 number. Left the food since it was a pick up order and have never been back. Been 9 years. Always refuse invites to go out there.

BP. I will drive to E to avoid them because I’m still mad about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.