Buy Nothing Day Analysis

Ayham Z. Abbas Amy Cook ELP*078*01 February 20,2017 Buy Nothing Day In the article, "Buy Nothing Day" Scott Harris is talking about some people who are attempting to change the philosophy of consumption in North America. The most significant day for those people is Buy Nothing Day. On this day, these people have the decision to stop spending money on this day. Also, this day takes place in November every year and it overlaps with the beginning of the busiest shopping time of the year in North America. This idea first happened was in Vancouver, Canada, in 1992. As well, Scott Harris is asking does this day change the shopper's behaviors? Scott Harris gives an example to one of the organizers of this day Tyler Collins, who thinks that there is

He tries to use a different way that he thinks that it’s a good chance to increase awareness so his staff tells the customers that today is Buy Nothing Day and we’d be happy if they didn’t buy anything from the store. Also, they told them that it’s your choice. Scott Harris states that some activists feel that Buy Nothing Day doesn’t decrease the high rate of consumption. As well, they believe that stopping people from shopping just for one day every year doesn’t accomplish much. Also, he gives another example of, Laura Bercovtiz who has confirmed Buy Nothing Day since its beginning and is concerned about being misunderstood by such critics so she offers another way which is Buy Nothing Christmas. Finally, Scott Harris talks about the three different examples of activists that having the same goal which is trying to encourage ethical consumption. Overall, this article has three main ideas of this article; A lot of people don’t know what goal of this day is to make the customers think differently about

Buy Nothing Day should be replaced with 365 days of ethical consumption. A whole year wherever customers build deliberate choices regarding the purchases they do and the outcome of those purchases that will affect this world we tend to live in. Only purchase merchandise that is created by corporations that offer their staff a wage and safe operating conditions. In my opinion, we should keep working to spread the idea of this day. So, we can have another day called Buy Nothing Black Friday, but, the people who like this idea don’t think that they can keep shopping the other 364 days just because you think that this idea is for a single day. Also, the problem with Buy Nothing Day is it’s like Black Friday it’s just one day every year So, most people are looking for some good offers on that day that’s why we will see some people still do shopping on that