consumer boycott

In Britain, groups have tried to organize a consumer boycott of chocolate.

Second, it's hard to maintain a consumer boycott, especially when the goal is to punish the past rather than to influence the future.

One is a consumer boycott and another is a (voluntary or involuntary) fine.

A chain e-mail message then went around urging a complete consumer boycott of any purchases today, July 1.

The cocoa industry faced potential consumer boycotts and harmful legislation if the bill were to pass.

He stopped short of calling for a consumer boycott of stores selling grapes.

The consumer boycott, which included a growing number of schoolchildren, seemed to argue for a dolphin-safe policy.

So although the media often describe campaigns like the one against Nike as "consumer boycotts," that tells only part of the story.

A consumer boycott of cottage cheese in protest at dairy prices won widespread support.

What they most fear are mail campaigns threatening - though rarely delivering - consumer boycotts.

Without such programs, corporations might become vulnerable to heightened black demands backed by protests or consumer boycotts.

The ads called for a consumer boycott of Burger King to help save the rain forests.

Many politicians and ministers were openly hostile and several called for consumer boycotts.

Breen says, "the consumer boycott was a brilliantly original American invention."

Consumer boycotts have been important in demanding dolphin-safe tuna and union labor-picked produce.

Diamond dealers, cognizant of the hazing that the fur industry received several years ago, fear a consumer boycott.

We have used many nonviolent ways of trying to bring change, such as strikes, rent strikes and consumer boycotts.

If companies deplore consumer boycotts, they shouldn't practice business boycotts.

If a consumer boycott can be described as a way of taking a company's products hostage, then Heinz was unusually willing to pay the ransom.

But Asian workers would be aghast at the idea of American consumers boycotting certain toys or clothing in protest.

Two, remind the biker's takeout store or messenger service about liability laws and the possibility of a consumer boycott.

The company wanted to put a nasty and high-profile consumer boycott behind it and its distributors were eager to be seen as good corporate citizens.

Consumer boycotts are one answer.

A renewed consumer boycott of Nescafe was launched in Britain on March 15.

Consumer boycotts were recommended instead and teachers and students were encouraged to work together to develop an alternative education system.