The problem of woke corporations has gotten much worse over the last decade. Many of us find ourselves feeling we must patronize or invest in these corporations because we perceive there are no alternatives.
One approach, of course, is to buy local– from small businesses with which you are familiar. That is perhaps the best way to deal with this problem.
But how do we systematically evaluate the larger corporations? One attempt has been made by an organization called the 1792 Exchange. It is not perfect, but it is a helpful attempt. Their work is found here.
The 1792 Exchange ranks corporations as being lower risk, medium risk or high risk of demonstrating woke corporate bias.
I have attempted to identify those they rank at lower risk to help readers understand and appreciate the corporations out there who might be less problematic. Again, this rating system is not perfect, but instead is a starting point. I divided into categories:
Retail Businesses/ Brands
Academy Sports and Outdoors
American Greetings (cards)
Barnes and Noble
BJ’s Wholesale Club
Costco
Crocs
Dillard’s
Dollar General
Dollar Tree
Foot Locker
Genuine Parts (is NAPA auto parts)
Hanes
Champion
Hobby Lobby
Interstate car batteries
Lowe’s Home Improvement
LG Electronics
Michelin Tires
New Balance shoes
Newell Brands (lots of brands)
O’Reilly Auto Parts
Office Depot
Polaris
Publix grocery stores
Puma
Revlon
Rite-Aid drug stores
Sherwin Williams
Staples
TJX (includes TJ Maxx, Homegoods, Marshall’s)
Tractor Supply
Wayfair
Computer hardware
Acer
Asus
Lenovo
Automobiles/ Trucks
Hyundai
Kia
Penske
Volkswagen
Auto Nation
Carvana
Internet Web Browsers
Brave (which I use, and think is a better choice)
DuckDuckGo
Trash
Waste Management
Healthcare
DaVita Dialysis
LabCorp
HCA Hospitals
Banks
First Citizen’s Bank
Gasoline/ Convenience Stores
BP
ExxonMobil
Marathon
Valero
QT (QwikTrip)
Home Builders (national)
DR Horton
Lennar
Pulte Group
Travel
AAA
Investments
Apollo Global Management
Blackstone
Franklin Templeton
The Timothy Plan
Food/ Beverages/ Restaurants
Archer Daniels Midland
Chick Fil-A
Jason’s Deli
Wendy’s
Anheuser Busch In Bev
Keurig Dr. Pepper
Land O’Lakes
Phillip Morris
Tyson Foods
US Foods
United Natural Foods
Del Monte
Internet Service Providers/ Cell phones/ Media
Spectrum/ Charter Communications
Cox Communications
Patriot Mobile
Spotify
Telegram
Liberty Media (Includes Sirius XM, the Atlanta Braves and Formula One motorsports)
Odysee video platform
Rumble video platform
Nintendo
DISH Network
Insurance
AAA
Aflac
Allianz
American Family
Auto Owners
Berkshire Hathaway
Bright House
Cincinnati Financial
Farmer’s
Genworth
Humana
John Hancock
Mutual of Omaha
New York Life
Northwestern Mutual
Pacific Life
Principal Financial
Sentry
Transamerica
WR Berkley
Western and Southern
Zurich
Other Energy Companies
Dominion Energy
Energy Transfer
Enterprise Products
Kinder Morgan
NextEra
Occidental Petroleum
Plains All American
Southern Company
TC: Thanks for sorting out all those firms . I noticed that the 1792 Exchange ranks Jeff Bezos’ Amazon as high risk. Too bad they have such a large share of the retail market.
Fortunately, the list provides some alternatives– Barnes and Noble for books (I also like Christianbooks.com); Wayfair; Dillard’s; Lowe’s Home Improvement; even Dollar General and Dollar Tree.
Also Homegoods, Marshall’s, TJ Maxx, Office Depot, Staples, Costco, BJ’s, Foot Locker, Academy Sports and Outdoors, Tractor Supply.
Thanks for this list. I’m looking for a new bank and found a few nationally which contribute to conservative causes but they are out of state.
The big surprise on this list is Land o Lakes which I have avoided ever since they removed the Indian maiden from their packaging.
Lynn, First Citizens is definitely an option. But this 1792 Project will not include the smaller local and regional banks. Some of these might be good options in this area. Many folks do their banking with credit unions, and there are several in our region. But I definitely would stay away from Truliant. (The smaller local and regional banks and the credit unions might be best from the standpoint of avoiding the traps associated with a digital currency and the social credit system the dark forces want to implement.)
TC: How about Navy Federal Credit Union ?
I don’t know, Fred. You would think that would be among the best; but it seems everything has changed over the last decade or so. Do you have experience with it?
Yes. I just opened an account with them. Good customer service other than that I don’t know if they are woke. I think it is the largest credit union in the world.
It would seem they would be unlikely to be woke, but the way things have deteriorated in this country, well, all bets are off.
Please tell me more about this. May I ask you a question?
Sure, ask…
I enjoyed reading your piece and it provided me with a lot of value.
I’d like to find out more? I’d love to find out more details.
Click the link for this project. You can search for their assessment of large companies in which you might be interested.
The articles you write help me a lot and I like the topic
Please provide me with more details on the topic
The details are found by clicking the link, “1792 Project” on the right side of the main blog page.
You helped me a lot with this post. I love the subject and I hope you continue to write excellent articles like this.
Sustain the excellent work and producing in the group!