The "check out protest" is real

[underpants]

The National Enquirer is a huge Trump supporter - ridiculous anti-Hillary covers during the campaign and (in)glorious promotion of Trump since. "Trump takes charge!" was the cover last week.

I'd read about the "check out protest" here on DU. Turning around the NE and any other pro-Trump covers at the grocery store check out aisles. Then about 3 weeks ago I noticed it at the regular grocery store I go to.

I do a lot of the day-to-day shopping for our house so I popped in to the Kroger to get this and that. Yep someone has been turning around the NE and other tabloids. I saw it 2 days ago at a Walgreens too. Someone around here apparently knows about it too.

Every trip gets a turn around from me now. It may seem trivial but hey, it's something.

BTW - the NE is printed here in the Richmond area or at least it was as of 10 years ago. From what I understood they are printed face down and anyone caught taking a glimpse is immediately fired.

[dhill926]

1. hell...why not...

I'm in.

[underpants]

5. Cool

[lastlib]

25. Wally-World has to be a target, too!

Target, too!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

53. Yes, why not? Great idea... I'm all in!

[lindysalsagal]

2. Are you saying that people flip the rag over to hide the cover page?

COOL!!!

[underpants]

4. Yes

As much of a joke as the NE is people do see it. I hadn't noticed it much until I heard of this - it tends to be the first tabloid (top left) in the checkout aisle. They probably pay (like end caps at grocery stores) for that spot.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. Dollar stores have them next to the checkout...we gotta hit those, too.

I don't go to stores much these days, but occasionally hit the dollar store and will keep an eye out.

[underpants]

8. Cool

[underthematrix]

3. This is very effective because this very petty

man is easily offended by such acts.

[underpants]

6. They live off of repetition

Repeat whatever the current lie/hoax/spin is. It works.

This is a way to limit the number of repetitions.

[No Vested Interest]

9. Ha! I turned one backwards today for the first time!

I'm not a confrontational person and don't talk or argue politics much.
But I loved this little piece of activism I took part in today.

[underpants]

10. ++++

[tosh]

57. My first time - on New Year's Eve in the grocery store,

I covered one up with the benign mag from the adjacent bin.

It gave me a pretty bad case of the giggles, made worse by my effort to suppress them.

The gentleman behind me did NOT give me away.

[riversedge]

11. I will have to remember to do the trunaround !! Thanks for the reminder

[Squinch]

12. I do love this. It's not only a way to hurt the sales of these rags, it is also a way to show

our allies going through those lines that we are not alone.

I saw complaints in the last thread that it makes work for the grocery store workers, but I asked a friend who works at my local store. They told me they work by the hour, so they may as well get paid for tidying the magazine racks at the end of the day as for doing something else.

I am doing it ALL THE TIME now!

[wryter2000]

13. I've been doing that for ages

Any time I see something ridiculous about the Clintons or Obama I turn it around. And not just the NE.

[montana_hazeleyes]

14. That's the exact cover I turned around.

And I held it up and said EEEEWWWW before I did .

[7962]

15. The story about firing is likely not true

I serviced equipment at 2 major printers of these magazines as well as several other tabloids & weekly news magazines. Theres no way for these to stay face down through the entire process. Many people will see the covers of all the different editions before they go out the door. Matter of fact, most are also put in the break rooms for the employees to read

[Johnathan146]

33. Do they also not realize how fast a printing press is?

You could never read it when it is printing anyway, so nobody can read it anyway.

There is a lot of work and a printing operation can be busy, with tight deadlines, so I imagine there are not just a bunch of employees sitting around reading the paper, there is too much work to do.

[meow2u3]

16. I did my part in my local supermarket

I saw the National Enquirer with its sordid headlines and what I did was as follows: turned around the NE and other pro-Trump covers at the checkout aisles; take a couple of copies of Vanity Fair; and put them over the inverted NE copies.

[TygrBright]

17. I did it just the other day at Walgreens. n/t

[Madam45for2923]

18. The Media also does not understand YET how gross Trump's photos are for many of us. Puke inducing!

[cwydro]

19. Oh good lord.

Seriously?

I can hear the French/German resistance fighters spinning in their graves as they laugh their asses off.

Turning tabloids around??? Seriously?

No offense to you underpants. You're one of my favorite posters.

But this is just plain silly.

[No Vested Interest]

34. You may be correct. But it sure feels good, without doing real harm to the

inventory.
It may also be silly for me to boycott the Koch-owned paper goods -toilet paper, napkins, paper towels, but that's my small finger in the eye to the Bircher billionaires.

[pipi_k]

36. Thank you... I thought

it was just me.

It's something I would expect from my 12 year old grandson and his goofy little friends.

[underpants]

39. None taken. Apparently I'm not the only one.

So....then there's that

[SHRED]

20. Me and the Mrs do it every time.

[SHRED]

21. Turn at least half of the stack around

Not just one.

[tom_kelly]

22. I did it last night at Publix

Picked up about 5 of them like I was reading the front page then put them back backwards. As much of a do-gooder that I am I was nervous too.

[cwydro]

43. Sooo. Resistance for you is ok as long as no one catches you, right?

What brave warriors we all are.

[Hekate]

50. So what is your alternative action in the moment?

In the moment, standing in a checkout line, staring at a photoshop of Malia Obama looking wasted as hell with headline saying she's now secretly in rehab...

Okay?

[cwydro]

54. I never notice tabloids.

I kinda think most people don't.

Those who do and those who believe the crap they peddle are going to buy them anyway.

[tom_kelly]

56. Do you have to judge people from so far away?

You know nothing about me. Times are shitty enough without people acting like Republicans right here on DU.

[cwydro]

62. Oh, because I call you out for being scared to stand up for what you believe in?

That makes me a Republican?

Welcome to DU.

Name calling is frowned upon here.

[cwydro]

63. "nervous" At turning a tabloid backwards.

Oh god help us.

[Cha]

23. I don't go to those stores or I sure as hell would. Anything

to keep the hate and lies at bay.

[LAS14]

24. It feels good to do SOMETHING!

[kimbutgar]

26. I did it on Saturday in Luckys

My husband saw me and said "you're not buying that trash" I said" look what I'm doing. He laughed when he realized I had turned the NE cover under another magazine.

[paleotn]

27. Small acts of protest do make a difference n/t

[MichMan]

28. If that makes you happy, go for it I guess.

Seems a little juvenile to me, but whatever floats your boat

I predict in 6 months the headlines will be anti Trump and someone will post here how they are making sure to move them where they are always visible.

[alfredo]

67. I used to move bibles and other such books to the fiction section.

[Guilded Lilly]

29. Yeah, I can embrace this wholeheartedly!

I'm sick of The Cretin's odious, sneering face.
RESIST (grin)

[leanforward]

30. Thank you

I can't wait to notice one and do the turn around.

[rzemanfl]

31. My Publix had an opaque plastic sheet covering them that said only

"NATIONAL ENQUIRER" so which way they faced was irrelevant.

[7962]

35. Some stores do that with mags that have "questionable" covers;

like Cosmo, which always has 50 more ways to have an orgasm plastered on the cover

[Nay]

32. I just saw this done today at the Kroger near Chippenham Pkwy!

[underpants]

38. Cool

[Henry Krinkle]

37. What if NE catches on to this childish nonsense

And puts Trump on the front and the back of their checkout rag?

[pipi_k]

42. Good question...

But the parent/grandparent in me thinks that the children would likely up their game by putting other magazines or whatever in front of the badnasty poopoo reading material they don't like.

[cwydro]

44. Lol!

"Bad nasty poopoo reading material"!

This is too funny. I'm just picturing DUers skulking in the aisles, nervously pretending to read the rags, then nonchalantly replacing them back to front while whistling bravely...patting themselves on the back as they leave the store...

Really, this is hilarious. No doubt it's having a YUGE impact on the tabloids' bottom line.

[pipi_k]

45. Hahahahah!!!

Meanwhile, back in Trumpville...

Lots of BAD people out there covering up my face on publications in the Walmarts and grocery stores of America!

I know who they are. They're bad people. I'll find them and SUE every last one of them. Especially the really BAD ones defacing my image in the Piggly Wiggly store in West Bumphuck, Tennessee. LOSERS! Bad people!! They won't get away with this when I'm president, I can tell you that!


— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 2, 2017

Uh, oh...he's really mad now!

[cwydro]

46. Omg. Too funny.

I'm going to the grocery store now.

I never even notice the tabloids usually, but I'm going to make a point of looking to see if the Tabloid Warrior Brigade has visited my local store.

Perhaps I'll even spot one lurking in an aisle...

[mahina]

48. Sing it Ani.

&feature=share

Maybe you're right. What local action are you taking that you would recommend?

We should learn from every opportunity.

[blue cat]

40. I'm in.

Love to enjoy life's little pleasures.

[dembotoz]

41. i routinely cover up right wing books at the costco

been doing that for some time now

[Hekate]

49. Oh yeah.I just stand there and read something else, then put it back on top of O'Reilly or whoever.

Bleah.

[Takket]

64. ever seen this?

[link:|

[mahina]

47. Appealing to the store manager to remove the poison

Works.
To the retort " I have no control over what we sell" say

"If you had a Good Housekeeping with a recipe that poisoned people, you would pull it off your shelves immediately.
This is poison and it is hurting this country. It is false and you should not be making money from it. That is wrong."
Works.
3/3 so far.

I showed them the pics I took of earlier weeks bullshit. No, Hillary Bill and Chelsea were not indicted last week. No, OBAMA"S CIA isn't full of "MUSLIM TERRORISTS" .

The Enquirer should stick to Elvis sightings and aliens.

The stores decide what they sell. Hold them accountable. We can do this one small real thing.

[Hekate]

52. Now that's a plan! Mahalo, Mahina.

Happy Activist New Year.

[mahina]

59. Aloha no Hekate. Imua kakou.

[milestogo]

51. Yesterday I was in line and saw "Trump restores dignity to the Oval Office"

on the cover of the National Enquirer. So I did my duty and turned it around.

[bdamomma]

55. I remember

there was a story about him his NY office just has all magazine pictures of him plastered all over his office, he doesn't think to highly of himself does he??

[Laffy Kat]

58. I went shopping with my adult sons in tow the other day.

And demonstrated the act directly to them. They are now turnover converts.

[underpants]

61. Excellent

[Takket]

60. funny story........

i ALMOST did this today lol

was in line and reaching for a mag to cover NE with, and at that very moment a cashier approached me and said she could help me on a different lane, so i took my cart and went into her line. will do my duty next week!

[forgotmylogin]

65. I actually did this the other day.

I turned a NE and a People Special Inauguration something or other with a cover Trump sitting on a chair in a "thoughtful" pose.

I wouldn't have done it had I not been forced to stand in line so long, but I had time.

I was a little nervous about it for some reason? I did it very subtly, picking up the top copy, leafing through like I was interested, then stuffing them back 'carelessly' the wrong way when the line moved a bit. Nobody seemed to care.

[brooklynite]

66. More slacktivism...

...silly behavior that makes you feel good and doesn't accomplish anything.

[Lucinda]

68. KNR