LOL! Are you kidding? Warren Buffet has done a LOT more for left-wing causes than the executives at Gillette have ever done.
You don’t think Gillette plants have “contractors that pour through its gates with Trump stickers and TEA Party stickers on their trucks?” OF COURSE they do. I bet the great majority of Gillette employees are as insulted by that ad as you and I are.
Yes the corporate world will take note to the reaction to that ad. It already is when Gillette is concerned... As 5 years ago or so, they had no effective competition, now they do. This is why they tried (and won’t try that again!) the “toxic” ad—as an (idiotic) attempt to appeal to a new market.
Protest, complain, by all means. But boycotts have never changed many minds. When you cease being a customer, you cease influencing a company.
But you’re close to my point. Gillette is the hot item right now. To buy a Gillette product is to wear a Che Guevara shirt. Boycotts are effective. Even a weak in percentage boycott of the NFL was noticed in the corporate world.
Another thing about Duracell is that their AA and AAA batteries are made in America at marginal stay-in-business level of profit. But just imagine, unlike the smaller 9-volt market that was recently outsourced, we’re still making some popular batteries right in America.