Oakland: Men’s Warehouse Says It “Stands With The 99%” And Closes Store In Solidarity With Strike, Occupiers Respond By Smashing Their Window…
Feel good story of the day.
(The Atlantic) — You’re gonna like the way you look protesting income disparity in Oakland; this Men’s Wearhouse store guarantees it.
Occupy Oakland has called for a city-wide strike and rally on Wednesday to protest income inequality, and several businesses, including Men’s Wearhouse and the Grand Lake movie theater, have closed their doors in support. Oakland Tribune reporter Matt O’Brien tweeted the above photo of the shuttered men’s clothing store.
The store’s decision will likely meet with approval from the corporate HQ: George Zimmer, founder and chairman of Men’s Wearhouse, has repeatedly donated to Democratic candidates in multiple election cycles, including progressives like 2004 presidential candidate Howard Dean and Rep. Barbara Lee (Calif.).
And here’s how the protesters responded:
Broken glass is shown at a Men’s Warehouse building in downtown Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Nov. 3, 2011 after a Occupy Wall Street protest earlier. Cleanup work is under way at Oakland’s city hall plaza the morning after a massive anti-Wall Street protest turned violent and chaotic. Graffiti is covering a number of businesses in the immediate area around Frank Ogawa Plaza, where thousands had gathered for a mostly peaceful protest Wednesday. Some windows also are broken, and debris is littering the street. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
HT Jay
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And just exactly how many Occupiers wear SUITS?
This is the dumbest move by any company, bar none.
Hell, “New Coke” was a better idea.
This is what you get when you pander to the ungrateful.
wow
Another few days, maybe by this weekend, we will see Oakland burning.
And I will laugh my ass off.
They deserve it.
I guess the College Kiddies are a little reading-challenged.
No surprise there.
Priceless!
I`m laughing too hard to make a decent comment. So I`ll just say..
LMAO x 100
It couldn`t have happened to a better store.
Dear Men’s Warehouse,
Thank you for making your position clear.
Here is my position….I will never do business with your company in the future. You are now on my list of “Never Step Foot Inside” companies. Congratulations! Mazel Tov.
Yours in those who take no shit,
The Public
Business suit company supports dirty, violent, hippies… good move.
What a fine show of solidarity, huh?
Well, won’t be shopping at the Men’s Warehouse ever again……I guarantee it.
Quite entertaining to watch liberals hoisted by their own petard, don’t you think?
Enjoy your Frankenstein’s monster lefties.
Ha!
Separate Reality: my thoughts exactly.
And considering that George Zimmer advertises low prices, I wonder how well his employees are paid and what their benefits are. Are they just Walmart employees with suits?
Watch Oakland burn to the ground. And watch people stay away from the city and not go there to do business. And watch businesses that weren’t burned out wither away and die. And watch Oakland’s tax base disappear.
And watch them blame it on the “rich.”
I’m with the 99% that have never stepped foot in a Men’s Warehouse. And now, I’m with the 99% that never will.
OWSers shop at a thrift store, or probably mom shops for them still…
No good ungreatful pigs i hope even more people turn against these hoodelums so they end up at the 1%
The”occupiers” are obviously being trained by the same criminals who instigated arab springs and muz riots all over Europe. Cops pretty much stayed out of the way only for the criminals to cause untold damage.
The cops I guess are not going to do much to prevent this from getting worse. And it will get worse. These people really do want to destroy the country and keep the commies in office come the next election. This is only a preview.
AND, as icing on the cake, shares of the Men’s Warehouse dropped 3.6% in one afternoon: http://x.vu/229289
I guess neither the 0.99% or the 1% were impressed with their obsequiousness
I wonder if this was a local decision and perhaps the main branch might not have been very pleased for the location to show solidarity. What a joke. If you’re rich you have to look like a slob like Moore and Roseanne.
BS stuff. The mens warehouse closed cause it was scared, and thats reasonable. But their sign was a bluff I bet lol
That’s what you get when you side with those who are fundamentally wrong and act like the NAZI movement.
You think Zimmer is going to maybe change his ways now that he’s learned appeasement is not going to work?
I will never shop at this establishment – EVER What an ungrateful company.
Well thats another store off my list.
But as a replacement, I added Sears for their support of our troops.
jewess:
Tigers can’t change their spots.
EPIC FAIL @ commie pandering, Man’s Warehouse.
Why would a company want to obviously and needlessly make the non-OWS customers mad. This is the most idiotic company move I have seen in a long time.
Sleep with the dogs and you wake up with fleas.
This is seriously one of the funniest things to come out of this “movement”. I used to support these people on the sole principal of American Protesting, but after causing millions of dollars in damage, raping women and children, and just having no goal with their “cause” I’m finally against them. F you OW#OccupyDesNuts
It’s just mind boggling AP without a shred of sarcasm claims it was a “mostly peaceful” protest.
Mostly peaceful, excluding a tiny minority of cracked heads, broken glass, trashed stores, burned businesses, the looting and the rape.
Now THAT is social justice for you.
They expect to stay under the radar, and the complaint MSM will oblige of course. I emailed them and voiced my disgust and that never again will they have my patronage. Everyone supporting these cretins will eventually regret it. Idiots.
I purchased my last piece of clothing from mens warehouse and find it really amusing to see a corporate giant sucking up to a street mob. I’m also going along wit
h the 99percent that never steps foot in MW again. sell the suits to the occupiers dumbass.
Lando Calrissian: “That was never a condition of our arrangement, nor was giving Han to the bounty hunter!”
Darth Vader: “I have altered the deal. Pray I don’t alter it any further.”
How does it feel, Men’s Wearhouse?
Who could have explained this better than Benjamin Franklin?
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Men’s Warehouse gave up their liberty for safety and that safety turned out to be all too temporary.
I don’t think I’ve ever shopped there — my blazers come from Goodwill — but shame on the Men’s Warehouse.
what do these people NOT understand about anarchists?
Ah! Appeasement. Working out swell for folks as it always does. The Oakland mayor, the New York mayor, this retail store. Yup, don’t face the reality, but live in a land of unicorns and appeasement and all the bad guys will love you and be happy.
We support your cause so please don’t wreck our stuff. How’d that work out for you, Mr. Zimmer?
The Occupunks are like AudrieII from “Little Shop of Horrors.” A drop of two of blood is soon not enough.
“!!!Feed me, Seymour!!!”
The OWS want to destroy america starting with the banks and then all buisnesses like all commie pigs do
Well, I agree with Separate Reality says: November 3, 2011 at 6:53 pm
and will never shop there again. I’ll wear hand me downs first.
Off topic…
Three days ago I had issues with Sirius Radio that came to a head.
Previously, they wrongfully shut of my receiver in the car and 3 weeks AFTER they cashed my check that was paid in full 30 days BEFORE my contract expired, and I still DO NOT have their service to this date….so after my 5th call to them to get them to repair the damage THEY did to my 42k vehicle (AKA no satellite service), I bitched and whined and finally got to a Supervisor and while I had him on the phone, contacted my accountant of the other line and promptly sold 12,000 shares of Sirius. I politely told the Supervisor Agent of Sirius, to get fucked and refund my $168 for the next year service that THEY CASHED as I would use the I-Pod connection in the car and satellite service could just expire.
If you think I have a check coming….think again. They said, I can CREDIT it to other units but hell no… they keep my money EVEN THOUGH NO SERVICE IS RENDERED!!!!
Point being….we are Americans! We do not take this shit! Fuck these companies Sirius, GE, and Men’s Warehouse.
Our power is not with guns and protest, but with the most powerful checkbook. We should all band together and single out these “fuck customer over” companies and do absolutely everything in our power to drive them into bankruptcy.
Just to keep it straight…I don’t give a shit about the $168 they are screwing me out of, it’s the principle on the thing.
the CEO of that company has always been a big lefty. i recall an interview he gave years ago where he bragged about being one of the rabble rousers during the Vietnam War protests.
@TKRC
Excellent! Now do you part by spreading the word to your friends to cease all future business with them.
That’s what happens when you run out of alligator food…….then they eat YOU!
This Is the Comprehensive List of Those Supporting Occupy Wall St.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-is-the-comprehensive-list-of-those-supporting-occupy-wall-st/
For cry out loud… its “they ask for it Oakland, California”.
That is awesome! Shocking that they didn’t steal everything in the store.
I am adding Men’s Warehouse to the list of places I will NEVER spend my hard earned money in.
Hmmm, wonder if Obammie or Obiden shop there since they get so much dough from Zimmy. Probably not, they would not be caught dead in a cheap ass suit from MW.
Neither would I and I’ll never set foot in a MW.
I remember the the 1951 version of “The Thing From Another World.” After the Thing (played by James Arness) had proven that it was not a friendly life form, Dr. Carrington believes that scientific discovery is more important than saving lives. He protects the Thing by sabotaging efforts to destroy it and even begins cultivating its seed pods. At the critical moment of the film, he reaches out to the Thing in a gesture of friendship and solidarity. For his trouble, the Thing tries to send him to Valhalla. The Thing simply did not care that the Doctor thought of himself as it’s friend.
How many times in history have “revolutionaries” turned on people who have tried to cozy up to them? How many times when the revolutionaries won, did they turn on members of their own ranks, when they no longer served a purpose? The French Revolution, The Night of the Long Knives, and Red Purges of the 1930s come to mind. You cannot control revolutionaries. They are monsters with a mind of their own. Just like the Thing, they don’t care about anyone. Men’s Warehouse could learn an important lesson from an old monster movie.
Yet another “big” bidnessman who’s a moron lib. Trump? Steve Wynn? They all give to the DNC. How stupid can you get? But it appears Mr. Zimmer is a special kind of stupid. He gave to Barbara Lee AND Howard Dean!
Does anyone that visits Zip’s site actually shop at Men’s Wearhouse? I haven’t stepped foot in one in eons. And, never will again! Going to BlueSky’s link to see what other establishments do not want my $$$.
lol. people are crying here cause of a smashed windows. if people have to sleep under bridges, they call it american freedom. man, your society is really fucked up. good that some want to change this shit, but it will be hard in your police state…
peace from europe
Psst! You guys want to buy some guns?
You try to appease the Nazis, the Nazis are gonna kill you anyway.
Men’s Warehouse sucks anyway. Their clothes are weak and sometimes barely last a month, their alterations take way too many days, and the management (at the one I go to) are violent idiots.
I’ve shopped there and I go to Men’s Warehouse almost exclusively when I need new suits, because it’s usually a no-BS kind of place that caters to guys like me.
No more. I sent them an email about it, also.
The mob runs on herd mentality.
Appease the beast at your own peril.
Close yes; Solidarity pure cowardice.
I’m thinking nobody smashed the window with the intent of stealing a suit to wear on his next job interview. Just a wild hunch.
I hope they go bankrupt
many businesses in downtown oakland and elsewhere around the city posted signs of ‘support’ and closed for the day. whole foods grocery dared to stay open and were heavily vandalized for their hubris and their customers were harrassed and threatened. the men’s wearhouse did end up with a broken window during the late-night melee but i can take no pleasure from that nor do i blame them for trying to protect their property, their employees, and their customers. that their CEO donates to dems does not matter one whit to me. some people support one party, some another, some neither, some both. it’s a waste of time and energy to shop according to the political leanings of any store’s owners.
european says:
November 3, 2011 at 9:32 pm
lol. people are crying here cause of a smashed windows. if people have to sleep under bridges, they call it american freedom. man, your society is really fucked up. good that some want to change this shit, but it will be hard in your police state…
peace from europe ……………………………. Let me school you ‘european’, if you don`t like Freedom and OUR American Culture take your smarmy ass back to where you came from. And also you have the FREEDOM to spout off nonsense on these threads because of American FREEDOM. Try that shit in any other Country and you would face harsh consequences. Not here though.So why are you here? Because you like our FREEDOM, the only Country in the world that offers it. You say ‘Police State’, how damn stupid are you? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_the_United_Kingdom
european says:
November 3, 2011 at 9:32 pm
lol. people are crying here cause of a smashed windows. if people have to sleep under bridges, they call it american freedom. man, your society is really fucked up. good that some want to change this shit, but it will be hard in your police state…
peace from europe
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I hope you enjoyed your 15 seconds of fame.
Time’s up now.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10220974 To you ‘european’ Ya hows that FREEDOM? DOLT
el polacko says:
November 4, 2011 at 1:18 am
“it’s a waste of time and energy to shop according to the political leanings of any store’s owners.”
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You couldn’t be more wrong. It’s one of the most powerful and effective protest actions a person can take.
el polacko says:
November 4, 2011 at 1:18 am Epic Fail! Why would anyone continue to support , companies, politicians, small business, etc. when they do not support the American way of life? It is people like you that are the problem and not the solution. You see, these Fleabaggers, should be standing on the steps of the Half White House. They are useful tools just like you sound to be.
Well, that worked out well for Men’s Wearhouse. Plus they are losing my business and probably a lot of other peoples business for standing with the Occutards. I have a feeling those folks will never shop there either.
Well played! – NOT!
Figure it out people.
They smashed the windows of a National Corporation who hastily erected signs of support in hopes of preventing the smashing of their windows.
Know you’re enemies.