Which stores are boycotting the Rolling Stone Tsarnaev issue

[Pea-n-Me]

You can choose to support them for their decisions, or boycott them yourselves. It really doesnt matter to me.

I just want to list whos doing what, and where theyre based, if possible. (ETA Insults will be ignored.)

If you know of (verifiable) others, or know where some of these companies are out of, I can list them.

I can also list people and organizations if there's an interest, but will need help with compilation, and sources have to be verifiable (news articles).

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Rite Aid
Wal-Mart
KMart
CVS - RI
Tedeschi – MA
Walgreens
Stop & Shop – MA
Big Y -
Shaws/Star Market –
Foodies -
Roche Bros – MA
Cumberland Farms
7 Eleven – Dallas (company operated stores, they are urging franchisees to do the same)
H-E-B – San Antonio
BJ’s
Hannaford
Whole Foods (MA stores)
Giant Foods
Hy-Vee - IOwa (corporate request to independent owners not to sell)
Market Basket
Wegman’s – NY
Tops Friendly – NY
Giant Eagle
Marc's Grocery (OH)
Coburns (MN)
Fresh Market (Western States)
UMASS Dartmouth Campus store
We have also heard that Boston University's Bookstore won't be carrying but do not have confirmation
Northeastern University bookstore
UMass Amherst bookstore

 

[Planogirl]

I heard that Kroger still has them but they are not displayed and you have to ask for them.

I still find all of this silly on the part of the stores. If people don't want them they can not buy them while others who do want them should be able to get them as usual. It is of course up to the stores though and I support that.

 

[davedmaine]

Rite Aid
Wal-Mart
KMart
CVS - RI
Tedeschi – MA
Walgreens
Stop & Shop – MA
Big Y -
Shaws/Star Market –
Foodies -
Roche Bros – MA
Cumberland Farms
7 Eleven – Dallas (company operated stores, they are urging franchisees to do the same)
H-E-B – San Antonio
BJ’s
Hannaford
Whole Foods (MA stores)
Giant Foods
Hy-Vee
Market Basket
Wegman’s – NY
Tops Friendly – NY
Giant Eagle
Marc's Grocery (OH)
Coburns (MN)
Fresh Market (Western States)
UMASS Dartmouth Campus store
We have also heard that Boston University's Bookstore won't be carrying but do not have confirmation

So did you plant a garden?

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I heard that Kroger still has them but they are not displayed and you have to ask for them.

Couldn't verify, not an actual boycott. But sensitive nonetheless.

 

[anelson81993]

Rite Aid
Wal-Mart
KMart
CVS - RI
Tedeschi – MA
Walgreens
Stop & Shop – MA
Big Y -
Shaws/Star Market –
Foodies -
Roche Bros – MA
Cumberland Farms
7 Eleven – Dallas (company operated stores, they are urging franchisees to do the same)
H-E-B – San Antonio
BJ’s
Hannaford
Whole Foods (MA stores)
Giant Foods
Hy-Vee
Market Basket
Wegman’s – NY
Tops Friendly – NY
Giant Eagle
Marc's Grocery (OH)
Coburns (MN)
Fresh Market (Western States)
UMASS Dartmouth Campus store
We have also heard that Boston University's Bookstore won't be carrying but do not have confirmation

Hy-Vee has issued a company statement asking store management teams not to carry the newest Rolling Stones issue, but is not enforcing it as a company-wide policy. Hy-Vee stores are all considered independently operated, and each store has the authority to decide whether or not to carry it for themselves. For the most part, most of the stores won't carry it out of respect for the company's request, but some probably will still have it. I know the store I work at isn't carrying it.

Also, Hy-Vee is a Midwest chain. Corporate offices are in West Des Moines, IA.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Hy-Vee has issued a company statement asking store management teams not to carry the newest Rolling Stones issue, but is not enforcing it as a company-wide policy. Hy-Vee stores are all considered independently operated, and each store has the authority to decide whether or not to carry it for themselves. For the most part, most of the stores won't carry it out of respect for the company's request, but some probably will still have it. I know the store I work at isn't carrying it.

Also, Hy-Vee is a Midwest chain. Corporate offices are in West Des Moines, IA.

Got it. Thanks.

List updated

 

[goofyintoronto]

You can choose to support them for their decisions, or boycott them yourselves. It really doesnt matter to me.

I just want to list whos doing what, and where theyre based, if possible. (ETA Insults will be ignored.)

If you know of (verifiable) others, or know where some of these companies are out of, I can list them.

I can also list people and organizations if there's an interest, but will need help with compilation, and sources have to be verifiable (news articles).

RS disgusts me. I would never buy a copy of their magazine as long as I live. Im glad to see a lot of stores feel the same way I do!

 

[Planogirl]

You won't have to worry. A few of us tried to find a copy at some stores not listed and there isn't a copy to be found. This has very effectively kept anyone interested in seeing what the fuss is all about from being able to do so. I don't know what that says.

I watched all of the major network's news (flipping around as I do occasionally) and none of them mentioned this topic. I don't know what that says either.

Personally I'm done with the topic now. I find many, many aspects of this disgusting.

 

[WDSearcher]

You won't have to worry. A few of us tried to find a copy at some stores not listed and there isn't a copy to be found. This has very effectively kept anyone interested in seeing what the fuss is all about from being able to do so. I don't know what that says.

I watched all of the major network's news (flipping around as I do occasionally) and none of them mentioned this topic. I don't know what that says either.

Personally I'm done with the topic now. I find many, many aspects of this disgusting.

My guess is that some people are buying them out in batches in order to resell on eBay or similar. I'll bet there'll be quite a cottage industry at some point.

 

[thedonduck]

You won't have to worry. A few of us tried to find a copy at some stores not listed and there isn't a copy to be found. This has very effectively kept anyone interested in seeing what the fuss is all about from being able to do so. I don't know what that says.

I watched all of the major network's news (flipping around as I do occasionally) and none of them mentioned this topic. I don't know what that says either.

Personally I'm done with the topic now. I find many, many aspects of this disgusting.

Our Target had them sitting in the checkout lines.

 

[MinnieLovesMickey12]

I subscribe to Rolling Stone so I will be getting mine. It has not come yet.

I am not offended by it and do not plan on stomping my foot and canceling my subscription.

I believe magazines have a right to print anything they want to and we the consumer have the choice whether or not we want to buy it.

 

[phorsenuf]

Thing is though they will probably end up making more money because the retailers pulled them. If what was said in another thread that the retailers are bound to a certain delivery they cannot stop it and still have to pay for it whether they sell them or not. So RS is still getting their money from these stores sales. If you want to purchase a single copy of an issue from RS it costs $15.00 How many orders do you figure they will get from the people who could not buy one retail. I'm guessing an awful lot.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Not worried. Just determining which retailers will have more of my business in the future, just as I'm sure others will be planning which ones won't. To each his own. At least we know who they are. (I did notice that TX had a pretty good presence Planogirl.)

 

[goofyintoronto]

My guess is that some people are buying them out in batches in order to resell on eBay or similar. I'll bet there'll be quite a cottage industry at some point.

I wouldnt doubt it. I can totally see that happening.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Thing is though they will probably end up making more money because the retailers pulled them. If what was said in another thread that the retailers are bound to a certain delivery they cannot stop it and still have to pay for it whether they sell them or not. So RS is still getting their money from these stores sales. If you want to purchase a single copy of an issue from RS it costs $15.00 How many orders do you figure they will get from the people who could not buy one retail. I'm guessing an awful lot.

Here's how one news source explained it:

This stand by New England retailers may be mostly symbolic.

“The business risk? There’s very little because they generally don’t pay for magazines that they don’t sell,” said Michelle Manafy, an analyst at min, a magazine industry research firm. She says retailers that are boycotting this lone issue of Rolling Stone will only lose the small margin they get on sold copies.

And she doesn’t think the boycott will hurt Rolling Stone much either. Retail sales are not a primary revenue stream.

“What newsstand sales do for magazines is keep them top of mind,” she said. “But let’s face it, with this Rolling Stone situation, they are top of mind.”

It’s more about publicity. Rolling Stone’s managing editor Will Dana told NPR’s All Things Considered that retail sales were not a driving factor in the cover choice.

“It’s something you have to be mindful of, but at the same time, put out of your mind on a case-by-case basis, and you gotta just — you know, we really go with our gut on these things usually,” Dana said.

Rolling Stone’s cover of Tsarnaev hit some Bostonians in the gut. To hit Rolling Stone where it really counts, it’s not sales at the newsstand. Magazines depend far more on subscription and advertising revenue.

http://www.wbur.org/2013/07/18/rolling-stone-bombing-cover

 

[mjantz]

I was able to read the article on-line. IMO, it doesn't romanticize Tsarnev in any way. I think the cover shot works because we have a pre-conceived notion of how a killer should look. For those of us who live in areas with Muslim populations, he looks like the student in our child's history class or the kid we see bagging groceries at our local store. He doesn't look like the 'face of evil' & that's a good reminder that we can't always tell. After all, Timothy McVeigh was an all-American white boy who had served in the military.

 

[WDSearcher]

I went into my local CVS store today. While I was checking out, I asked the clerk about the whole RS thing and she said she hadn't heard anything about it. I explained it to her and she just shrugged and said, "no one said anything to us ... I just figured we had sold out."

 

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[Robinrs]

My guess is that some people are buying them out in batches in order to resell on eBay or similar. I'll bet there'll be quite a cottage industry at some point.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rolling-Sto...261249303773?pt=Magazines&hash=item3cd3ac04dd

SOLD for $500!

There are others up for sale that are donating to the victims. I hope it's not a scam but I doubt it.