That’s fair - for birthday gifts for my kids’ friends, I can use Toys R Us’s limited selection as long as I remember to get the gift in advance.

But my own kids have birthdays coming up, and there are some toys I can’t reasonably get any other way.

Working full time and raising two kids, some convenience is necessary. Life is hard. I’m already making it harder by not going to Target, which is two minutes from my house and sells basically everything I need. I think that’s reasonable, especially since Target is the only one of those companies that’s actually likely to cave to a boycott. But I guess I stumbled into the wrong community to voice that stance.

Because it would be rude and would create negative social consequences for my kids and myself.

Even if it is like new, I’m not about to try to convince a suburban mom of that.

I’d love to support Toys R Us again, but they don’t have a very big selection. Those other options aren’t good for toy shopping. Kids want specific toys.

My own misgivings aside, I’m not giving a thrift store toy as a birthday gift.

It’s just not really possible to boycott all three of those. If my kids have a birthday party to go to, those are literally the only three places to buy a toy. That’s true for most of the things I buy, besides groceries.

So I boycott just Target. Target used to be the least shitty of those three. Except one or two rare occasions where it was necessary, they’ve lost months worth of my business.

If we can get just one retailer to turn around on their bullshit, then at least we’ll have one place to shop.