Charlie Self, who composed the list, says:
Here’s the extracted list of Big Box companies that don’t allow armed creeps in the door. I think it’s great. My feeling is that if you want to shop fully armed, move to Somalia. These are the good guys.
These business DO NOT ALLOW armed civilians into their establishments:
A & P
AMC Theatres
BB&T Bank
Bloomin’ Brands (Outback Steakhouse, Carrabba’s Italian Grill and others)
Brinker International (Chili’s and Maggiano’s)
Buffalo Wild Wings
California Pizza Kitchen
Carmike Cinemas
CBL & Associates Properties (Shopping Malls)
CBS
Chuck E. Cheese’s
Cinemark Theatres
CNN/Time Warner
Comcast/NBC Universal
Costco
Forest City Enterprises (Shopping Malls)
General Growth Properties (Shopping Malls)
Goodyear
Groupon
hhgregg
Hooters
Howard Hughes Corporation (Shopping Malls)
IKEA
Jack in the Box / Qdoba Mexican Grill
Jo-Ann Stores
Macerich (Shopping Malls)
Modell’s Sporting Goods
Paragon Theaters
Peet’s Coffee and Tea
Regal Cinemas
Simon (Shopping Malls)
Southern Theatres
Sprouts Farmers Market
Square
Sterling Jewelers (Kay, Jared, Shaw & others)
T.G.I. Friday’s (and all Carlson Companies)
The New York Times Company
Toy’s R Us / Babies R Us
US Bank
Value City Furniture
Waffle House
Walgreens
Whole Foods
Hat tip to Han Broekman for sharing Charlie Self‘s list
Oh, OK Dorothy Schwartz. Never heard that myself, but makes sense 🙂
I guess the term was used a few years ago and I haven’t heard it lately. But it’s a company with liberal policies, left-leaning.
Okay, so heading to Costco (which also has going for it that it is a “blue” company and treats its employees well) and Whole Foods.
Dorothy, what’s a “blue” company?
Oh :p
I read that Charlie made up the list, didn’t see (my bad) that you said it came originally from gun nuts.
Han Broekman I thought I said that three different ways in my post. Did I make a hash of that?
Thanks for sharing Han Broekman!
The list was originally a list of stores that some gun nuts wanted to boycott. Charlie Self extracted the list and put a positive spin on it. Do go shop there. Do NOT boycott these stores.