Another Deli Down!

[Woodswalker]

Well I was in my favorite local deli yesterday morning and I kind knew they had right wing leanings because they almost always have Faux News on their TV. Well I went in yesterday with my son to grab breakfast and I glanced up at their TV and low and behold they have the My Pillow Idiot paused on the screen like it was some WW2 Nazi beer hall with Hitler's portrait hanging their. A TV background of the My Pillow Guy!!. This is now going to be the third local place I'll have to boycott. Just like two other local lunch eateries/pizza place that have Fox on their TVs. I'm running out of places here folks. What is wrong with these small business owners not realizing they're alienation alot of people who want to spend money in their places?? And being a mammal of rather generous proportions I do spend a fairly good amount of cash!

[Scrivener7]

1. Call them or yelp them and tell them why you are leaving them. It doesn't have to be beligerant.

It could just be "I've always been a good customer, but I don't like having politics shoved at me while I am eating. Food establishments should respect that wish in their customers."

[TheBlackAdder]

17. They seem to be the wurst of the wurst and will soon experience cuts down to the meat of the bone.

[PatSeg]

23. Yes, the business definitely should know

that they lost a customer and why. When it comes to good business practices, never mix business with politics or religion. You are sure to offend people and lose many customers. Keep that stuff in your private life or consider a different occupation.

[SCantiGOP]

26. Yelp may not work

My daughter knows of a restaurant in our town that had a notice of a van caravan to the January 6 rally at their entrance. The owners did go, although they didn’t go beyond the barricades at the Capitol.
I posted a Yelp review, pointing out that your patronage of their business would be funding the insurrectionists.
Yelp took it down, saying their restaurant reviews can only discuss food and service issues.

[Scrivener7]

41. The ambiance in the restaurant is a service issue.

[marble falls]

2. The VA hospital in Temple banned Fox in 2018. Hasn't been a fight in a waiting room since.

[MiHale]

8. I do believe that ban is across all VA establishments...

Used to be on in the Ann Arbor VA, Saginaw VA and the clinic in Oscoda now nowhere to be seen.

Best decision they made.

[The Wizard]

9. As a government funded institution

the VA cannot play political propaganda in public places.

[634-5789]

3. Yelp them. Best way to communicate with the owners. Worked for me!

[634-5789]

5. THIS:

Go back in, and do this. To block or restrict access to a channel:
Press menu, and then select Apps & More > Settings > Parental Controls to display the Parental Controls screen.
If Parental Controls are disabled, enable them.
Navigate to select Modify next to Modify Parental Restrictions and press ok to display the Parental Controls screen.

[left-of-center2012]

22. Sure

Go into a private business and change the settings on their TV ?

okie dokie

[FoxNewsSucks]

27. Done it MANY times.

Usually I just delete Fox from the channel lineup so the TV skips over it. It's quick to do.

I don't go into their private offices, or their homes, to change anything. It's the PUBLIC tv being shoved into customers' faces, where I am paying to be.

Personally, I'd like to see tv's banned from public places. Even when I am on a solo road trip, I'd rather sit at the bar to eat and either talk to others there or just read something, or just get a small table for myself. We don't need a damn TV everywhere we go.

[left-of-center2012]

28. "Done it MANY times"

okie dokie

[FoxNewsSucks]

34. Better than leaving BS propaganda playing.

Fox and rightwing Hate Radio are a big part of the reason this country is in such a bad place.

[634-5789]

29. Yep. Did it at the Tire store and my Doctors. And I'll continue. Public service!

[left-of-center2012]

30. uh huh

[FoxNewsSucks]

36. One really wonders about such a defense of having RW hate on public TVs

being forced onto the public.

I change it, if they won't. I got a universal remote app & the USB dongle for my phone from Amazon. Best thing I ever got for getting rid of Fox on public TVs

Turning off the likes of Hannity, Ingram, and Field Marshall Carlson is indeed, as you said, a public service.

[left-of-center2012]

38. Bye

[Skittles]

40. there's really not much to wonder

ya know?

[Icanthinkformyself]

6. I have a suggestion.

Exercise your economic power and take the opportunity to spend more quality time with the kids. Go to the market, buy the ingredients and make pizza at home.
PS, make sure you advise the businesses why you are boycotting them. Post it on their social media page(s) so the community knows. The power of the purse is a vital tool we must learn to wield, and, in effect, use the tools of the oligarchs to fight back.

[fwvinson]

13. I make the best pizza. Cheese is the key.

[The Wizard]

7. it's on to attract

onanism practitioners.

[FoxNewsSucks]

37. Yeah, they just can't get enough of that.

[DFW]

10. No such thing here. I guess we're lucky.

Of course cafés and delis usually don't have TV or radio running here anyway, and Fox was denied a license for a German language station here, since ant-Nazi laws are still on the books. The only laws restricting free speech here are the ones forbidding Nazi propaganda or anything deemed uncomfortably similar. Murdoch apparently qualified.

[paleotn]

20. That had to sting.

Banned from the largest industrial power in the EU. German good sense I suppose. Been there, done that, ain't going back.

[DFW]

21. The radical right is trying for a comeback here, but there are not many takers

Here in Germany, you can steal $5000 from an old lady in broad daylight and break her walker into little pieces, and they will only give you a slap on the wrist, ask you to give it back, and say, "now, now gotta behave!" But actively using Nazi-like propaganda is one of the few non-firearm-involved crimes here that WILL get you jail time.

Fox didn't put up much of a fight. You can sue the German government, but you can't sue the German Constitution.

They had a brief, temporary revenge, when Trump selected Richard Grenell to be his ambassador to Germany. Grenell arrived saying he was here to promote far right ideas and organizations. Sly as always (MAN will she be missed!), Merkel didn't refuse his credentials and send him home right away. But she DID have him watched like a hawk, and he made little to no headway with his quest. The German press tore him a new one daily, and didn't last long here.

[paleotn]

33. Glad Germans aren't falling for AfD....

like Americans have for our right wing populist nutters in the GOP. It seems they're popping up all over the west. They may be organic and not Russian grown, but Putin certainly isn't upset about it.

[DFW]

39. Merkel was far too smart for them

The guy who repaired our phones recently was a Syrian immigrant who spoke fluent German. The doctor who gave me my Moderna booster shot was a Syrian immigrant who spoke fluent German (and decent Romanian and Italian).

She knew they were coming no matter what, and made assimilation a huge part of her program. It didn't work for all of them by any means, but it DID work for enough of them for Syrian success stories to be found all over western Germany. That took the wind out the sails of a lot of AfD activists who want to rail against letting the Syrians in. Their poor showing in the last election reflected this.

Whether or not the new coalition will be as clever in outwitting the rightist extremists remains to be seen. Merkel certainly left them a blueprint, but they have to be smart enough to follow it, and for that there is no guarantee. Many German politicians have a built-in "we know better" gene (even a typically German word for it: Besserwisser), that too often turns out to be false.

[NJCher]

24. oh, so that's what it takes

Nazi laws on the books. Cheebus.

Fox was denied a license for a German language station here, since ant-Nazi laws are still on the books.

At least the Germans can learn from their mistakes, however, world-shaking and devastating as they may be. We don't seem to learn anything, nor are we capable of learning from others.

[DFW]

32. Worse, yet

We ARE capable. We choose not to.

[ShepKat]

11. happy to know !

I love when they show who they are. I want to spend my money appropriately and spending there would not be on my list. Home made food is better for ya anyway. Home made is still best. Always will be. Cheaper too

[Escurumbele]

12. What is wrong with all those small businesses failing to understand the GOP doesn't care about

small businesses?

Talk about shooting yourself on the foot...Can't cure stupid.

[Escurumbele]

14. Just call the establishment anonymously, you don't have to tell the whole World about it

You don't need to post anything, and least of all go into the establishment to change their TV settings, after all whether you like what is on their TV or not, it is THEIR TV and they can have anything they want on it, even if it makes them loose customers.

My DR used to have Fox news every time I went there, and I don't go too much to the Dr, she says I am her worst patient because I can go three years without a visit...anyway, I told her that having Fox on every day made a political statement that many of her patients would not like, including me...Guess what? she now has the DYI network, or whatever it is called.

[AllaN01Bear]

15. tv be gone .

https://www.tvbgone.com/
turns off any tv. somone may bitch about it but a good device i think. even turns off jumbo trons .

[sarcasmo]

16. Had the same problem when I lived in West Michigan.

Political signs in front of many small business properties. Waiting rooms TV with Faux news on.

[Riverman100]

18. when I worked for sears

They had a tv in the electronics dept set on fox noise. I had to complain to HR to get them to change it. I used the logic of why would you piss off half your customers? It worked.

[Cryptoad]

19. Sounds like u had fore warning,,,,

why are u suppporting these people withur $$$$????

[multigraincracker]

25. I like to wear my

Obama Hope t shirt to places like that.

[Freddie]

31. DH used to drive by a deli-type restaurant

Near his work. Always wanted to go there for lunch until they put out the TFG signs during the election. Nope. Couple months ago the place was destroyed in a mysterious fire. Hopefully the sign cut their business. Such a pity.

[FoxNewsSucks]

35. Let them know.

If the owner is a hardcore nutjob, it won't change anything and that's the cue to not go back and tell others to go elsewhere. I have often made note in reviews about the TV in restaurants, waiting areas and hotel breakfast rooms. Just suggest something "everyone might like", such as the travel channel, food channel or weather. A lot of places will do that when it's pointed out.

I complained to the front desk about Dobson's shitty "focus on the family" show being on in the breakfast room, the next day it was on a local channel, and every time I've stayed there since then it was on the local channel. If they're not allowed to change it, then ask management. Once you've made the polite effort up the ladder, if that doesn't work then mention it in reviews.

I once reviewed an otherwise fun bar w/ good food, left a great review about the atmosphere, food and service and worked in "but at dinnertime, few things are as stomach-churning as having a tv over your table with Trump's writhing maw going non-stop". The owner must have complained because my review was gone for a couple weeks, but then they put it back. We went in again, it was still on the TV so I let them know I wouldn't be bringing my group back.

If nothing works, and it's somewhere like a gym that you want to continue going to, there are universal remote apps for your phone. I got the USB dongle from Amazon for $10, it plugs into your phone's USB and functions perfectly most places. I've noticed that the average person never notices what channel the tv is on, they just mindlessly stare at it. If a tv is on Fox, I'll change it during a commercial, and that takes care of it.