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For those in the UK, if you'’re looking to boycott American big brands in the UK, here are some major ones to be aware of:

Fast Food & Restaurants

McDonald's

Burger King (owned by a Canadian-American company)

KFC (Yum! Brands)

Pizza Hut (Yum! Brands)

Subway

Domino’s Pizza

Five Guys

Starbucks

Supermarkets & Retail

Amazon (including Whole Foods and Audible)

Costco

Walmart-owned brands (formerly owned Asda, but still supplies goods)

Nike

Apple (Apple Stores, Apple Music, iCloud)

Foot Locker

Tech & Social Media

Google (Alphabet) (YouTube, Google Search, Android)

Meta (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp)

Microsoft (LinkedIn, Windows, Xbox, Office 365, GitHub)

Amazon (AWS, Twitch, Alexa, Ring)

Netflix

Consumer Goods & Fashion

Coca-Cola (Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Costa Coffee)

PepsiCo (Pepsi, Walkers, Doritos, Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade)

Procter & Gamble (Pampers, Gillette, Ariel, Head & Shoulders, Oral-B)

Johnson & Johnson (Neutrogena, Aveeno, Listerine, Tylenol)

Unilever (technically Anglo-Dutch but has a large US presence)

Financial Services & Other

American Express

Citibank

PayPal

If you're looking to avoid American-owned brands that originated in England, here are some you might not realise are American owned now...

Retail & Supermarkets

Boots – Originally British, now owned by the US-based Walgreens Boots Alliance.

ASDA – Founded in the UK, previously owned by Walmart (now owned by the UK-based Issa brothers & TDR Capital but still sells Walmart-supplied products).

Food & Beverage

Cadbury – Originally British, now owned by American multinational Mondelez International (formerly Kraft Foods).

Walkers Crisps – Founded in Leicester, now owned by PepsiCo.

Green & Black’s – Started in the UK, now owned by Mondelez International.

Ben & Jerry’s – A US brand but sold as "ethical"; owned by Unilever, which has a strong American influence.

Costa Coffee – Originally British, now owned by Coca-Cola.

Fashion & Beauty

The Body Shop – Founded in the UK, was once owned by L’Oréal (French), then Natura (Brazilian), and is now facing administration.

Dr. Martens – A British brand, but with significant American ownership stakes from investment firms.

Jack Wills – Originally British, now owned by Sports Direct, which has US ties.

Finance & Tech

O2 (Mobile Network) – Originally UK-based, now merged with Virgin Media (US-owned Liberty Global).

Arm Holdings – A major UK chip company, now owned by SoftBank (Japanese) but listed on the US stock market.

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I've also read that apparently it's a big hit to load up a virtual cart with all the stuff you'd normally get, and then abandon it. Instead of just a dip in sales for a day that's a different metric and it's tracked daily instead of like weekly or whatever frequency each company does for sales

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I hope this has an impact. All the troglodytes will still shop . . .

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Thank you for sharing this. I'm not going to do any shopping at all on Friday. I'm going to eat food that I already have at home. I've got all my meds on hand already. I'm planning to donate a little more to places I already do recurring donations - ACLU, SPLC, Second Harvest, our city's food bank, and the HypoPara association (rare, disabling disease that I have).

I'm also going to buy digital assets from neurodivergent and other disabled content creators who have helped me understand how society and culture disable people so I can better care for myself and advocate for my family and others. (I don't want any physical products because life is too overwhelmed and clutter.)

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A list of bad organizations that also sell in The Netherlands

Bacardi/Martini etc.

Chevrolet

Chiquita

Dole

Exxon /Esso

Fruit of the Loom

Hershey

McDonald’s

Papa Johns

Shell

Stanley / Black & Decker

Bausch & Lomb (brillen/glasses)

Ray-Ban brillen

GMC (General Motors)

Mobil

Spalding (sportarticles and clothing)

Turtle Wax

Proctor & Gamble (Ariel, Pampers etc.)

Coors beer

GMC auto’s

Motorola processors

Garmin (smartwatches, fietscomputers en andere apparatuur)

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thank you

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What I think would make this more potent is if we all cancel or subscriptions to things and sign out. A mass loss of subscribers at once may get their attention more profoundly.

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I agree and I've thought about this - what do I do about Netflix? Amazon Prime? Hulu? Realistically I'm always trying to get my family to drop these things because of the expense but I don't have any luck with it. If anyone has any ideas about working with family to reduce or remove these things I'd love to hear and pass that info on.

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Yessssss!!!!

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