I just felt the need to pop in for an updated review of a store that I really liked for fun bed,…read morebath and beyond stuff. They've been closed here throughout Covid and I was looking forward to their return. However the company announced they were closing 60+ stores not long ago and just recently made another announcement about pulling products from their inventory for political reasons .
I'm not a fan of politically motivated corporate nonsense under any circumstances. If it's a Mom & Pop or family owned operation then I am much more inclined to be more sympathetic, from a free speech perspective, and I'm not weighing in, pro or con, a specific issue here. However I am exercising my constitutionally protected rights of free expression, speech, and assembly by writing this post, speaking my mind and not gathering at one of their stores.
I have read exhaustive arguments of Citizens United and other legal free speech arguments, as it relates to corporations, going back to the 1800's and understand that those entities are broadly protected for their expressions but I just personally disagree with its practice.
I'm leaving out professional sports and news outlets and entertainment entities because it would be easier to list the ones that I don't have on my list of no-go's joining Dick's, Marriot, Hyatt, Lyft, GrubHub, Starbucks, Papa John's, Time Warner, T-Mobile, Kohl's, K-mart, Wayfair, Sephora, Forbes and more but the one that I have long missed the most Ben & Jerry, that one stung a little :-)
Bottom line: My list is long fluid but Bed, Bath and Beyond is the latest sad addition.