consumer boycott.pptVIP

Consumer level boycott: a group of consumers refusal to have commercial dealings with some organization or countries in protest against its policies Mainly caused by ethnical hostility ,unreasonable pricing or social responsibility problems 1.unreasonable pricing A group of consumers refuse to do consuming because of the unreasonable high pricing until the supplier cuts down the price. Example: if we feel that the canteen food pricing or the net fee is much too high for us, we consumers can organize each other to refuse to buy them until the school agrees to lower the price reasonably. 澳大利亚媒体比较价格后号召消费者抵制本地网站Australia media call for consumer boycott to local online store Because of the high cost of human resource, rent, electric power Australia taxes and regulations, the goods sold on the Australia local online stores are obviously higher than that of America. For instance, a Cannon scanner in Australia costs $600 while $300 in America on Amazon. Wage in Australia per hour is $15.51 least while $US7.25 in America by federal law. The high pricing compared with America make Australia consumers call for boycott to local stores. But if it’ll be successful, it remains to be a problem due to irrevocable facts. 2.social responsibility problems Consumers resist products because they lack social responsibility and obligation problems ,eg. Abusing labor, abusing animals, poison containing to customers. 1 .Abusing labor: America media, Employee Protection organization call for boycott of I phone and I pod because its foreign working condition and poor payment and treatment eg.富士康FOXCONN is exposed to the public, which made the Apple’s public image hurt badly. 2 .abusing animals A lot of companies raise Animal testing and animal rights problems including Boots, British Heart Foundation, Estee Lauder, Herbal Essences, Iams, Johnson and Johnson and Nestle. Some cosmetic company products are resisted by consumers because of their light regard to the poor animals. 3 .poi