Posted on 11/30/2016 6:24:47 AM PST by rktman
Patagonia's Black Friday sales hit a record-breaking 10-million dollars... and they're donating all of it!
That amount is five times more than what the outdoor clothing and gear company expected to earn, but Patagonia is keeping its promise to give away the sales it brought in on one of the biggest shopping days of the year.
The 10-million dollars will go to nearly 800 environmental groups around the world.
The vice president of environmental activism at Patagonia says the company came up with the idea to help bring people together after a divisive presidential election.
(Excerpt) Read more at ktvn.com ...
A fool and his money are soon parted.
Their gear is very good but waaay overpriced. Cheaper to get EMS or REI store brands, I have EMS clothing that has lasted 20 years with regular use. MidwayUSA is great for hunting clothing, among other things.
I swear, I expected this to say “and their donating it to the recount effort.”
Watch “3 Billion and Counting” to see what the “Environmentalist” have done for the world.
Gazillons of mosquitoes have been spared an awful death by evil DDT. Good for the skeeters.
That pretty much tells you everything you need to know about Patagonia.
Pathetic.
I’m sure their factory workers in Vietnam and Bangladesh really appreciate that.../s
What a waste...
I like their clothing. It's not cheap but it is high quality. And their management has always been environmental loons.
Racist should become environmentalist. They have killed blacks in a quiet genocide.
I’m a me-first kind of budgeter. Living on a fixed income does that. I really object to overpaying for goods, especially from places that produce them with slave labor, and then having the money go for pet projects of the elite.
They’d be better served putting the money back into the design and materials.
Yup. Fixed income will do that.
I had an EMS nylon covered foam sleeping pad for 35 years until mice shredded part of it for their nest.
No thanks .. pretty fair gear, but overpriced x3.
I liked it, but the problem with it was me knowing that people would see that little rectangular "Patagonia" label and brand me as a poseur, which might have been an accurate assessment, at least at the time.
So I sliced that tag off of it and continued to use it for several years. I felt much better about it with the tag gone.
At Patagonia, the only the position considered more prestigious is vice president of social justice.
I never knew about this company , and so I went to their website. The page starts with you having to watch a video of land threatened by oil.
Good grief.
Just another way to redistribute the wealth and also gain some new ideological customers. They may also lose some. idiots
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