Posted on 09/08/2018 3:29:38 AM PDT by marktwain
| Chip Bergh CEO Levi Strauss |
Citing a recent incident in which a customer was injured after the gun they were carrying was accidentally fired in a Levi's store, Bergh concluded that, "while we understand the heartfelt and strongly-held opinions on both sides of the gun debate, it is with the safety and security of our employees and customers in mind that we respectfully ask people not to bring firearms into our stores, offices or facilities, even in states where it’s permitted by law."Now, in concert with the Democrat party ramp-up supporting gun control for the 2018 midterms, Bergh has announced full support for political groups pushing for more and more restrictions on the exercise of Second Amendment rights. In concert with the Progressive left, he uses the re-branded term of "gun safety", as "gun control" has become used up and toxic. Some policies, different label. From fortune.com:
So today, on top of our previous actions, Levi Strauss & Co. is lending its support for gun violence prevention in three new areas.As is typical with those pushing more restrictions on the ownership and use of guns, words and facts are carefully changed in Orwellian ways. Take this phrase from Bergh's interview: "On an average day, 96 Americans are killed by guns" .
First, we have established the Safer Tomorrow Fund, which will direct more than $1 million in philanthropic grants from Levi Strauss & Co. over the next four years to fuel the work of nonprofits and youth activists who are working to end gun violence in America.
Second, I’m proud to announce that Levi Strauss & Co. is partnering with Everytown for Gun Safety and executives including Michael Bloomberg to form Everytown Business Leaders for Gun Safety, a coalition of business leaders who believe, as we do, that business has a critical role to play in and a moral obligation to do something about the gun violence epidemic in this country. I encourage every CEO and business leader reading this to consider the impact we could make if we stood together alongside the broad coalition of concerned parents, youth, elders, veterans, and community and faith leaders who are committed to shaping a safer path forward.
Gaydar is pegged to the max.
-—not new for Levi’s—they got on the anti-gun bandwagon nearly forty years ago (along with every other left wing California fantasy) and nearly broke the company-—
Collective corporate suicide. You can’t fix stupid.
I wonder if China tells these CEO’s “If you want access to our market, these are the political positions that we want you to take”.
If I am a Levi Strauss stockholder, I am cursing this idiot every way I can.
The only ones who can bring guns into stores are those who will shoot up.your customers...rob or kill store workers or cuhrazy scofflawa....all others keep.your guns away..who is levi strauss gonna call when someone does bring a gun into.the store anyway? Someone with a denim knife?
I didn't know Levis had stores. So, they don't want me there with a gun, but since a gun is an inanimate object, then it must be me they don't like. Well, I won't go where I am not wanted, and my gun and my money will stay with me.
Get woke, go broke.
Levis are overpriced anyway.
If they want to do something useful start making some of their clothing out of Kevlar.
I’ll bet a Kevlar lined denim jacket would sell.
Stopped buying Levi’s years ago when the became a LOT more expensive than Wrangler and Lee in Walmart...
If there was a firearm discharge in one of his stores, either accidentally, or out of stupidity...
To be sure there is a lawyer attached to every bullet, and with that comes liability court cases. I’m wondering if Strauss is just trying to avoid any future liability issues due to idiots walking around with guns strapped on.
There are MANY people who carry and they know what they are doing, but then again there are many people who really, absolutely, need training because they do not practice safe gun handling, I have seen it time and time again - Safe handling protocols, and proficiencies are lacking, if not totally ignored altogether.
Continous training and keeping current with YOUR method of self preservation should be a given, but is very often not the case at all.
I know. Levi strauss is robbing the public....you can get jeans of near quality for almost 1/3 of price of levi’s. Kiss Levi’s good bye.
This is going to be a tough one, Levi’s are the best jeans. sure you can get Wrangler and Lee’s cheaper, but they look like Wrangler and Lee.
Crap, I gotta sit down and think about this!
Levi has been anti gun ownership for years
Nothing new for them
It occurs to me that maybe these leftist run companies don’t realize something obvious to us. Do they realize how easy it is, truly easy, to abandon their products? Nike and Levi’s.... You come out in support of measures I disagree with, I’ll look at other products first. But when you come out in support of a leftist agenda I vehemently disagree with and believe is bad for my Country... I’ll never purchase your products again. The thing is, that’s no real sacrifice on my part. There are lots of alternatives to your products. I can decide you’re dead to me over morning cereal and never look back. Companies would do well to simply stick to the business at hand, mind their markets. But that’s not how lefties operate. To them it’s not enough that they hold their leftist beliefs. No, they feel compelled to not only evangelize them but also impose them on others. The very antithesis of “liberal” and diversity and tolerance and acceptance and all those other lies they cloak themselves in.
My local Walmart doesn't even carry Levis, but they do sell ammunition...
I’m not so sure it’s “suicide”. Nike saw a 31% increase in sales. A dip in their stock for a day and now it’s moving back up. Makes me sad to think that Americans buy something so anti American as Nike.
Levis does not really serve the farm/ranch/working man demographic anymore. They have ceded that portion of the market to Wrangler. They have gone, almost exclusively, into the urban and suburban fashion conscious market.
The interesting question is whether the urban hipster brand can survive untethered from the authentic working man root. Or will tomorrow’s hipsters shun Levis in favor of the still authentic Wranglers they seen worn by their auto mechanic, construction workers, and country cousins.
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