Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump
Le boycott: French customers shun McDonald’s, Coca Cola and Tesla to protest against Trump
France has been urged to shun Maga America as #BoycottUSA hashtag spreads, but teenagers say they can’t afford to join the action
Just do long as they don't flock to Nestlé
Nestlé is a Swiss company. Given how much they have their fingers in the global food production and trade, i wouldn't be surprised if McDonalds and Coca Cola also source some of their ingredients from companies affiliated with Nestlé
It's about breaking habits.
And that can be difficult, especially if it's not a conscious habit. I noticed that when I canceled amazon and audible and chatgpt, etc.
How is ChatGPT already such a habit? What are you people prompting about all day? I am genuinely curious.
It turned into my replacement of Google for shallow questions.
I now use leChat which has less intelligence but more crisp unemotional up to date information.
I also use it for most texts as spellcheck or feedback.
Right now I'm using it as a step by step guide to figure out why I am failing to install Ubuntu on wsl to try it out. Not quite working yet though.
I believe it but reporting was done based on a single internet survey with self reported answers.
Ifop study for NYC.eu*** ***conducted by online self-administered questionnaire from 14 to 17 March 2025 among a representative national sample of 1,000 people, representative of the French population aged 18 and over.
If it was a random representative sample, what difference does it make that it was conducted online?
I was wondering how did they measure economic impact this fast, hence I was interested in the source of this claim. People lie in surveys and say things that make them look better, even anonymously. A lot of modern speech is aspirational in general - we say things we want to be true but aren’t necessarily true, wishing them into existence.
Of course they're free to not join, but I struggle to understand how McDonalds can be the cheapest alternative? I don't think it is at all here in Sweden at least, not even close.
Yup. As a French dude I don't see how what they say is true. Typical teenager bullshit to me. You can get much better food for less. On top of the list, students have access to unviersity restaurant where based on income you can pay 1 to 3.30 euros for a complete meal.
I guess these guys also spend a lot on bars in the evening.
Yeah, didn't give any money to McDonalds in years, but it's not because I'm boycotting. It's just bad,and there are better alternatives everywhere
Yup. Local street food has always been cheaper than McDonald‘s. There might be exceptions to the rule but generally speaking theres a local restaurant nearby that‘s cheaper and serves better food than any big American fast food chain. Some people just have bad habits.
Here's an idea, how about we all just stop using anything that involves a corporation if we can help it.
Unless it's one of the good corporations like Costco.
On the rainy Grands Boulevards in Paris on Friday, the branches of McDonald’s and KFC were doing brisk business.
There was little sign of “le boycott” – a movement among French customers to reject American brands and products made in the US, in protest at Donald Trump’s trade tariffs and anti-Europe rhetoric.
McDonald's - I (don't) like it. 🍔 ☹️ Coca Cola and Tesla too ☹️ ☹️
I find it no longer difficult to avoid McDonald's - not cheap as it used to be and we have alternatives for same price or a couple of euros more. Mdco is no longer fast to prepare food. They also have reduced size of burgers (big tasty that use to be larger has now the same size of a big mac).
3 simple things that everyone can do.
1. Use Mozilla Firefox as your default browser
Avoid Google Chrome, Apple Safari or Microsoft Edge.
Mozilla Firefox is an amazing open source, privacy-focused and secure browser.
2. Don't give your data to facebook
Why are you telling Meta your gender, your date of birth, or the city where you live ?
Facebook doesn't need to know any that. The more information they have about you, the more money they make. If you still use facebook, go to your profile right now. Delete these informations. It takes 30 seconds.
Remember to also visit Facebook privacy settings. So many don't do that.
https://accountscenter.facebook.com/ads
Do not allow "personalized advertising"
3- Install the uBlock extension
uBlock is an incredibly powerful Firefox extension
It is designed to block invisible advertising trackers that gather data about you. But it also eliminates a significant number of ads. That makes browsing the internet significantly faster.
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This is super basic stuff. It takes 2 minutes.
I have actually gone a lot further. But I wish more people did the basic stuff.
