S/O Duggar sex abuse: TLC sponsors to boycott

[mcsangel2]

Someone provided a list in the other post, via FJ, but I noticed that post was from February. Cheerios was on the list, but of course General Mills has already pulled out. This is a list compiled yesterday or so that some people on TLC have been using to leave messages on their FB pages:

Ace Hardware
Party City
Arm & Hammer (cat litter)
King's Hawaiian
Cortizone 10
Progressive Insurance
Kohl's (department store)
Choice Hotels
Firehouse Subs
Philadelphia Cream Cheese
Pure Leaf Tea
Walgreen's
Minute Maid ( part of the COCA COLA COMPANY!)
Payless Shoes
Beauty Rest Matress
Sherwin WIlliams
Frontline Plus

[heyjude]

No Hobby Lobby or Walmart?!

[mcsangel2]

May 24, 2015 13:25:59 GMT -5 heyjude said:

No Hobby Lobby or Walmart?!

Right?

Looks to me that Party City may be on the heels of General Mills on the way out, as they are responding to the posts on their page.

[Vespasia]

May 24, 2015 13:25:59 GMT -5 heyjude said:

No Hobby Lobby or Walmart?!

They know Duggar-ittes are already their customers, they don't need to advertise to them

[meshaliuknits]

I need Kings Hawaiian to be removed from this list. Bad.

[Miss Phryne Fisher]

We have a Hobby Lobby and I have never once seen a Hobby Lobby commercial. I just realized that.

I yell at the TV whenever I see an Ikea or a Dairy Queen commercial, the closest ones are many many hours away. Cruel.

Anyway, thanks for the list!

[nomad100]

May 25, 2015 7:16:09 GMT -5 susquehanna said:

I'm confused. 

I thought that TLC already pulled the Duggers from their schedule.

What are the demands of this boycott?

From what I understand, they pulled the current episodes but haven't officially cancelled the show.  

The boycott is to get the show off the air all together and forever.

[aurademystere]

May 25, 2015 7:23:07 GMT -5 nomad100 said:

May 25, 2015 7:16:09 GMT -5 susquehanna said:

I'm confused. 

I thought that TLC already pulled the Duggers from their schedule.

What are the demands of this boycott?

From what I understand, they pulled the current episodes but haven't officially cancelled the show.  

The boycott is to get the show off the air all together and forever.

This. Also, the Duggars are back on the TLC schedule on June 1st, so clearly they are hoping the furor will die down by then. If advertisers pull out, TLC will cancel the show.

[anodyne]

Choice Hotels and Payless are pulling their ads. Walgreens is monitoring the situation?

www.tmz.com/2015/05/26/19-kids-and-counting-advertisers-payless-walgreens-choice-hotels-josh-duggar-molestation-tlc/

[anodyne]

And a larger list I saw on FB


* CVS
* Walgreens
* Macy's
* McDonald's
* Panera Bread
* Philadelphia Cream Cheese
* Firehouse Subs
* Pizza Hut
* Pure Leaf Iced Tea
* Naked Juice
* BehrPaint
* Sherwin-Williams
* State Farm Insurance
* Allstate Insurance
* GEICO
* Benjamin Moore
* Wyndham Hotels and Resorts
* Choice Hotels
* King's Hawaiian
* Jimmy Dean
* John Frieda
* Kohl's
* Oscar Mayer
* Ricola
* Keurig
* Ace Hardware
* Arm & Hammer
* Listerine
* FRONTLINE Plus
* Minute Maid
* Party City
* Payless ShoeSource
* Crayola
* Lowe's Home Improvement
* David's Bridal
* Discover
* Disney

and ConAgra Foods. Brands include:

Alexia Foods
Banquet Frozen Meals
Bertolli
Blue Bonnet (butter)
Chef Boyardee
Crunch 'n Munch
DAVID Seeds
Egg Beaters
Fleischmann
Healthy Choice
Hebrew National
Hunt's
JiffyPop
Kid Cuisines
Libby's Table (Libby's)
Marie Callender's
Mueller's Pasta,
Orville Redenbacher's
P.F. Chang's (Grocery store items)
PAM Cooking Spray
Peter Pan Peanut Butter
Reddi-wip
RO*TEL
Slim Jim
Swiss Miss
Van Camp's
Wesson Oil
Wolf Brand Chili

[anodyne]

talkingpointsmemo.com/news/josh-duggar-tlc-advertisers

Catherine Thompson News
Advertisers Rush For Exits As Duggar Brand Craters
5/27/2015 5:00 AM EST


Several companies that advertise with TLC are responding to pressure from customers to pull ads from the popular show "19 Kids and Counting," after star Josh Duggar apologized in the wake of the release of a 2006 police report alleging he molested underage girls as a teenager.

TLC announced Friday that it had yanked all episodes of "19 Kids and Counting" from the air, but the network did not say whether the show, which is in its 10th season, would return.

As of Wednesday morning, at least nine companies that advertise with TLC had pulled advertising from episodes of "19 Kids and Counting" or announced that they would not advertise on the program in the future. One other company said they would take the allegations against Josh Duggar into consideration in the future.

General Mills

The food manufacturing giant was the first to take action after TLC pulled all episodes of "19 Kids and Counting" from the air. A company spokesperson told Hollywood news site The Wrap that the company had decided to drop the show from its advertising schedule.

Payless Shoe Source

The shoe store told concerned customers that it was working toward removing its ads from future episodes of "19 Kids and Counting":


Choice Hotels

The hotel chain told customers it decided to pull its advertising from the Duggars' show.


CVS

The pharmacy chain CVS tweeted at customers that it would not advertise on "19 Kids and Counting" in the future.

"While our current advertising campaign includes the TLC network, we have not and will not advertise during the '19 Kids and Counting' program," the company said.

Allstate Insurance

Allstate Insurance said it pulled its advertising from the program:




Pure Leaf Iced Tea

The company told customers on Facebook that it would no longer advertise on "19 Kids and Counting."

Behr Paint

The paint company said on Facebook that it did advertise on "19 Kids and Counting" but was taking steps to remove its ad spots from all future episodes of the show.

Walgreens

Walgreens pharmacies originally told customers on Facebook that the company was aware that "19 Kids and Counting" had been taken off the air and promised to "monitor the situation."

The company later said on its Facebook page that "in the wake of recent news, we are no longer advertising on the ‘19 Kids and Counting’ program."

Ace Hardware The hardware chain told customers that it was in the process of removing its ads from future episodes of "19 Kids and Counting."


H&R Block

H&R Block does advertise with TLC, although it said none of its spots are currently airing on the network. The tax prep company said it took the allegations against Duggar seriously but didn't commit to dropping its advertising from the show in the future:




Keurig

The coffee brewer manufacturer said on its Facebook page that it is not currently advertising on TLC and noted that the network was no longer airing "19 Kids and Counting."

This post has been updated.

[downtoearth]

May 27, 2015 10:35:01 GMT -5 anodyne said:

Keurig

The coffee brewer manufacturer said on its Facebook page that it is not currently advertising on TLC and noted that the network was no longer airing "19 Kids and Counting."

Um, so doesn't the above just read, "Keurig wasn't advertising on TLC and doesn't really seem to care or add relevance to this conversation."