Posted on 05/30/2013 12:28:07 PM PDT by Student0165
A small Nebraska gun shop has decided to buy its ink pens and post-it notes somewhere else after they said Staples rejected their entry into a marketing contest because they are in the firearms business.
Travis Vonseggern and Bill Jackson own Maple Creek Gunsmithing in Fremont, Neb. The store offers gunsmithing, guns, ammo, and firearms training.gunsmith
They recently entered the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest – hoping to win a $50,000 marketing campaign for their small business. But a few days later, the men received a rejection email:
“We’re sorry, but your small business entry into the Staples PUSH It Forward Contest has been rejected for the following reason(s): Entry contains content that promotes alcohol, illegal drugs, tobacco, firearms/weapons (or the use of any of the foregoing); promotes any activities that may appear unsafe or dangerous; promotes any particular political agenda or message; is obscene or offensive; or endorses any form of hate or hate group.”
More at link (sorry, I'm not sure if I could post the entire article).
(Excerpt) Read more at radio.foxnews.com ...
Want to bet they sell box cutters? Hey, just checked and they do!
http://www.staples.com/Staples-Box-Cutter/product_506873
We all know box cutters have NEVER been used for nefarious purposes ..... /S
Goodbye, Staples.
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Yet it is illegal to refuse to photograph a same sex wedding.
Figure that.
Except gun shunning.
Did and done, only by message on Staples' website, "contact us", right after I read the story.
>>>Well heck, my list of boycotted stores will soon leave me with nowhere to shop, we need conservative stores to spring up to fill the gap.>>>
It’s getting kinda hard out there to know where to shop and even what to buy. But the sacrifice is worth our freedom. Staples will go down the same street at Penny’s.
Lots of online places like Amazon stomp Staples on price. Yes, you pay shipping. But in most cases there is no sales tax.
I go to Staples to compare/research models/price, etc. Then I order online.
I will have to hunt more and grow more at home heh, you’re right though, standing up for our rights is very important.
Thanks...I will do my part to see Staples dry up and blow away.
Do they also ban business’s and people for using their First Amendment rights to? Or just the Second Amendment rights? I guess Staples has seen the last of my business needs, which are many.
They may be about to learn a very hard and timely lesson: a lot of the 47% they’ll be left with as potential customers don’t buy office supplies because they don’t work. LOL!
Material that is inappropriate, indecent (including but not limited to nudity, or pornography), sexually explicit or suggestive; unnecessarily violent, profane, obscene, hateful, tortuous, derogatory of any ethnic, racial, gender, religious, professional or age group, (including using words or symbols that are widely considered offensive to individuals of a certain race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or socioeconomic group).
Don't do that.
Write "VOID" across the card with a magic marker purchased elsewhere, MAIL it to them and tell them why you no longer choose to do business with them.
LOL!
Oh the irony. They are engaging in the same hateful behavior they are attacking!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
Nobody ever claimed that they are MENSA graduates,
LOL!
Stuck in a hole due to stupidity, and now digging faster.
Great move, morons.
Ping
Actually, that says that you can’t sell material that is “derogatory of any ... religious ... group.” If Muslims claim that selling Bibles is derogatory of Islam, then maybe they get you on that, but the rule itself does not prohibit religious products per se.
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