Two huge American retailers just offended a hefty segment of their customers. Best Buy and Levi Strauss are both staring down the barrel of customer boycotts. All it took was a liberal political stance on the Rittenhouse case.
Customer relations nightmare
While these woke liberal companies are focused on the feelings of their workers and associates, they’re thumbing their noses at every conservative customer.
As soon as they learned the Kenosha, Wisconsin jury would uphold the constitution and rule of law, they immediatley called in counselors and social workers to console their distraught employees.
After the unthinkable happened and Kyle Rittenhouse was officially declared not guilty on every single count, liberals started melting down like snowflakes.
As Daily Mail reports, “Following the news that the teenager was acquitted, the two companies sent out memos telling their employees that counseling was available, with Levi’s offering sessions with a ‘racial trauma specialist’ to ‘encourage healing.'” One outraged customer after another complained on social media.
Forgetting that the customer is the one who needs to be happy, Best Buy “sent a memo from the company’s Chief Inclusion, Diversity & Talent Officer Mark Irvin, who encouraged those affected to ‘take advantage of our mental health services, including the Life Solutions counseling services.'”
They will be shipping cases of Play-Doh around to the stores this week.
Slammed on social media
On the customer side of the controversy, Americans “took social media to slam the companies and their woke response to the ruling, with some threatening to boycott their stores and cancel orders.”
Something about the progressive stance really cheeses some folks off.
“@BestBuy is actually offering counseling to employees for the jury getting the verdict in the Rittenhouse trial correct.
They just lost a long standing customer in me,” wrote one disgruntled conservative.
Another posted “@BestBuy just found out about ur memo on the Rittenhouse verdict to ur employees, in response I cancelled the $2500 Macbook on order n the appt to have stereo work done on my truck $1100 n there’s more like me.” Levi’s didn’t fare much better.
As one customer informed Levi’s, “The race for most woke company marches on and I can no longer buy 501s, which I have worn for 40+ years. These idiots destroy everything.”
Some were equally upset with both companies. It will be interesting to see if anyone follows through with it or if it’s only hot air.
