As Twitchy reported, some are using the #GrabYourWallet hashtag to encourage a boycott of retailers that carry Trump-branded merchandise or do business with the Trump family.
Wearing Ivanka is putting on the Klan's White Robe & Hood-SHE Polishes His HATE #GrabYourWallet # mom #womenwhowork https://t.co/2AppZUTFE9
— os (@abctweet100) November 7, 2016
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https://twitter.com/ImaHillFan/status/797494848236486656
The initiative, spearheaded by co-founder Shannon Coulter, is gaining traction and even claimed its first victory last weekend when online retailer Shoes.com agreed to pull Ivanka Trump shoes and purses from its site.
.@shoesdotcom just became the first retailer to drop Trump products from their site based on #GrabYourWallet. ? ? ?
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) November 12, 2016
In case you missed it, today @shoesdotcom became the first retailer on the #GrabYourWallet list to drop Ivanka Trump products. ? ? ?
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) November 12, 2016
Fast Company reported Monday that “all Ivanka Trump products were removed from the Shoes.com warehouse last Friday,” but the company gave as the reason, “they were not selling well.”
Fast Company appears to have updated its piece with a screenshot of a tweet to the #GrabYourWallet co-founders confirming that Shoes.com was on board with the #GrabYourWallet effort.
However, as Coulter herself noted, that tweet seems to have vanished, and a search currently pulls up zero tweets from @shoesdotcom that day.
Oh thanks for this had not seen. They captured the copy of the deleted @shoesdotcom Tweet. @abctweet100 @zapher134
— Shannon Coulter (@shannoncoulter) November 16, 2016
Business Insider and Daily Hive both reported on the boycott effort; however, every embedded tweet, including five on the Daily Hive site chronicling the company’s initial resistance, has been deleted since. Here’s an excerpt of the Daily Hive piece:
So … what’s going on? The tweets captured by Fast Company and other media outlets suggest Shoes.com was, after some initial resistance, more than happy to assist the boycott effort, but their apparent deletion suggests something else.
For the moment, though, Shoes.com resides on the “nice” list.
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