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AMAZON.COM PRESSURED TO DUMP TRUMP: Meanwhile, Macy's is tanking since it cut ties with the Donald
WND ^ | 5/10/2016 | JOE KOVACS

Posted on 05/11/2016 9:14:36 AM PDT by BlackFemaleArmyColonel

Amazon.com, the popular online retailer, is reportedly under pressure from shareholders to stop selling products associated with Donald Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for president.

According to the New York Post, a group claiming to represent 1,500 Amazon shareholders has asked CEO Jeff Bezos to end its marketing of Trump shirts, hats, ties and other products promoting the Trump campaign.

“This isn’t about politics: Donald Trump’s misogyny, racism and outright bigotry are dominating the political news cycle,” shareholder group UltraViolet said in a letter to Bezos.

The letter noted the continued presence of Donald Trump products “poses a risk to Amazon’s reputation.”

A spokesman for Amazon, which holds its annual shareholder meeting May 17, declined to comment to the Post.

(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: amazon; amazoncom; boycott; ecommerce; macys; retail; trump
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To: SoFloFreeper

or does Jeff Bezos want his WaPo banned from White House press briefings in a Trump Administration?


21 posted on 05/11/2016 9:41:37 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

It’s a simple answer Amazon, go with them and your business suffers (starting with me), stand up to them and you’ll be a hero, which will reflect in your bottom line.


22 posted on 05/11/2016 9:42:18 AM PDT by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: rhoda_penmark

I bought two of those quite a while ago and not too long ago when going through junk, I opened the box. I didn’t realize the connotation when I purchased it. In the burner they went.


23 posted on 05/11/2016 9:44:18 AM PDT by Maudeen (Sinner Saved by Grace)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

My family uses Amazon a lot. If they do this they will never see another order from us.


24 posted on 05/11/2016 9:44:51 AM PDT by anoldafvet (they're not immigrants, they're criminal aliens)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
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Trump's "Art of the Deal" is currently #68 on amazon.com. It is #1 in business biographies.

The bigots and free speech opponents calling for book banning are wrong.

25 posted on 05/11/2016 9:46:21 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

If Bezos is smart he wont take the bait and let it blow over. Why pee off about half or more of your customers for some PC crapola. Shut up and sell.....Walmart is smart in that they dont delve into the PC nonsense. Don’t mix business with politics unless politics is your business.


26 posted on 05/11/2016 9:46:26 AM PDT by tflabo (truth or tyrrany)
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To: 1Old Pro

I doubt they carry the “official” Trump Hats.


27 posted on 05/11/2016 9:47:06 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

How Fascist of them.


28 posted on 05/11/2016 9:47:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Bezo’s is a whore for cash, he won’t cut off a revenue stream... let someone else take the risk, prove it makes money and then crush them and take over the business? Sure... but he won’t cut off cashflow.


29 posted on 05/11/2016 9:48:25 AM PDT by HamiltonJay
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

That’s 1500 Amazon shareholders who don’t understand anything about business and who don’t mind reducing the value of everyone’s shares as well as their own in pursuit of a selfish political agenda. Or, put more succinctly, idiots.


30 posted on 05/11/2016 9:49:11 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: anoldafvet

Some times I wonder how people even leave their homes each day and get anything done. The research alone to find out who to buy a bag of carrots from must take weeks to complete.


31 posted on 05/11/2016 9:49:17 AM PDT by CityCenter (By the waters of Babylon, there we sat down, yea we wept...)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
a group claiming to represent 1,500 Amazon shareholders

How many shares do they control - 1,500? Also note the underlined.

32 posted on 05/11/2016 9:51:39 AM PDT by Oatka (Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

Let’s do the math. 10M votes for Trump and climbing. Likely to clear 12M. VS 1,500 in this ultra-left Ultraviolet group. That’s a ratio of 8,000 to 1. Amazon would be insane to side with this group.


33 posted on 05/11/2016 9:54:51 AM PDT by Flick Lives (One should not attend even the end of the world without a good breakfast. -- Heinlein)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain

According to the New York Post, a group claiming to represent 1,500 Amazon shareholder

So, combined, they have about 1505 shares?

34 posted on 05/11/2016 9:58:26 AM PDT by IllumiNaughtyByNature (HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error)
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To: Kickass Conservative

They do, I bought one from Republican nation, get it in two days :)


35 posted on 05/11/2016 10:06:32 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
“This isn’t about politics: Donald Trump’s misogyny, racism and outright bigotry are dominating the political news cycle,”

Sorry, but your race card, sexism card and let 'em all in immigration card are all expired and non-renewable.

36 posted on 05/11/2016 10:06:44 AM PDT by JimRed (Is it 1776 yet? TERM LIMITS, now and forever! Build the Wall, NOW!)
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To: 1Old Pro

Thanks.

In my best Johnny Carson voice, “I did not know that”.


37 posted on 05/11/2016 10:08:35 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Hillary Clinton has killed four more People than Three Mile Island.)
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To: BlackFemaleArmyCaptain
I already buy as little as possible from Amazon because of their attitude toward the Confederate flag. There's something really, really uncomfortable when a provider of books, DVDs, and music decides to be a censor.

If they stopped selling Trump gear? Folks should be going to the campaign website and buying higher quality and made in the USA, and supporting the campaign at the same time. Seems to me that would help the campaign and hurt Amazon.

38 posted on 05/11/2016 10:11:51 AM PDT by grania
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To: winner3000

Just different divisions in Satan’a army. They may squabble among themselves for power, but they KNOW who their enemy is.


39 posted on 05/11/2016 10:14:27 AM PDT by chesley (The right to protest is not the right to disrupt.)
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To: Maudeen

“I bought two of those quite a while ago”

I’ll bet you got yourself a Chia Obama too. :-)


40 posted on 05/11/2016 10:21:05 AM PDT by rhoda_penmark
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