What is your favorite Blue Company?

[dhinojosa]

Poll question: What is your favorite Blue Company?

A "Blue Company" is a company which donates to progressive campaigns instead of conservative campaigns. For more information visit buyblue.org

So, which of the blue companies is your favorite?

[Deja Q]

1. Borders

[Blue Belle]

2. I thought Gateway was red...

I'm happy to stand corrected.

[aden_nak]

3. Electronic Arts shouldn't be on the list.

They may donate blue, but the way they mistreat their employees (and even their programming and designing talent) makes them look bloody red in my book.

[Jon_da_brockman]

5. Heh, first thing I thought of

when I saw that list, "EA is blue? could have fooled me."

[aden_nak]

13. Got this off of Penny Arcade today, in fact.

http://www.gamecloud.com/article.php?article_id=240

[malmapus]

9. YAK at EA

Plus the way they buy up rights to games then shut them down, they're practically the Microsoft of gaming lol.

[Pacifist Patriot]

4. The Gap is Blue?

I thought I knew some people years ago who were boycotting them because of their labor and sourcing practices.

[derby378]

10. "Working in the Gap, sewing up crap"

They do have some great clothes, but they'd be even better if the workers who sew them were paid decent wages.

[ohio_liberal]

12. I didn't know it was blue

Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic are all owned by the same company, right?

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Caribou Coffee!!

Go there every Friday with my daughter to "bond". :)

[lady lib]

7. Costco.

Also Barnes & Noble and Toyota.

[TomClash]

8. Any company with excellent labor, consumer and environmental policies

is my favorite in my book.

[AndyTiedye]

11. Starbucks May Be Blue, But...

There used to be a coffee shop across from my office. It was nice and
friendly, had plenty of room to sit down, people liked the coffee and
it had free internet access.

Then Starbucks wanted to come in, and got the landlord to evict the
existing coffee shop so there would be no competition. They don't
even using the old coffee shop's space (that is still empty).

Everyone is making coffee in the office now.

[geniph]

14. Jim Sinegal of Costco is showing how it should be done

...how a company can pay its workers a decent salary, bring its customers good quality products at reasonable costs, not screw its suppliers, and still be profitable, albeit not absurdly, inflatedly profitable. He takes a very reasonable salary himself, instead of paying himself millions, as the CEOs of most comparable companies do. His executives don't make millions either. He concentrates on customers and employees rather than stock prices - and Wall Street bitches bloody murder about that, too.

When I found out the way Costco was run, and how they treat their employees, I cut up my Sam's Club card and reinstated my Costco membership, even though Sam's Club was far more convenient to us geographically. We've never regretted it for a second, either.