Do you shop at businesses that post political signs?

They will never let go of The War of Northern Aggression 🤣🤣🤣
Ask him if you can pay in Confederate dollars, then remind him who won the war. Sore losers for over 150 years!

I don't think that I have ever seen a political sign in a small business in my community. The closest would be the local pizza place that, halfway through the covid lockdowns, opened up and put up massive signs about not complying with unlawful mandates.

Small businesses struggle a lot here and have had some unique challenges thrown at them this summer which has caused more than a few to go out of business since June. I think supporting small business is important and I probably would still shop somewhere if they had political signage. The local pet store has a big sign up about offering free bibles and I roll my eyes at it but they're a good store, good employer, and take good care of their animals so the churchy/bible aspect doesn't make me feel like boycotting them simply because we don't share the same beliefs.

I'd take my business elsewhere.

In this current climate, going into a business that clearly announces their political leaning is just not something I am going to do unless I share their beliefs. 

I don't object to the signs because they tell me who I am supporting when I shop there. 

If it offends, I simply go elsewhere. I do not go to Hobby Lobby or chik fil a because of their company's beliefs. If a mom and pop store can't keep politics out of their business model and they go under, oh well. There is always Amazon.

I know that I probably eat at places that are owned by the hard right but still eat there. I just hope they don’t put up TFG signs. If I saw an actual TFG sign I would probably pass on doing business there at least until after the election. There are so many other options.

If someone feels strongly enough about supporting Trump to put a sign supporting Trump up in their business, I would not give that business my money. This is pretty Trump-specific (I wouldn't have cared about a Romney or Bush sign in the same way).

People can communicate what they want. I am not required to do business with them. There was a chain of restaurants near where I lived in SC that had antisemitic propaganda on the walls and I did not eat there.

I honestly cannot recall ever seeing a political sign on a business. Human rights signs, Pride flags, that sort of thing, yes. But political no...though I'm sure they're out there on occasion. If it helps I live in a large city than leans dark blue.

ETA: if a business had a trump sign on the window, I'd move along without going in. I don't typically have a problem with the "normal" Republican party, both friends and businesses. But trumpers are a while different animal.

I won't support a Trump business because the money I spend there, might actually be going to support Trump. Bush, Romney, McCain. Not a problem. I just don't think it is a good idea to mix business and politics.

I live in a very blue area, but we don't usually see any political signs at businesses, not even Democrat ones. But if I saw a Trump sign on a business I would absolutely never go in there. Anyone who publicly supports trump is telling me exactly what kind of person they are, and I want nothing to do with those kind of people. 

I actually first learned about Penzey's Spices because of a letter the CEO sent out after trump was elected. Someone posted in the Instant Pot group warning us to avoid Penzey's because of the CEO's critical comments about trump. Well that backfired spectacularly, and so many people replied to say "on my way to the Penzey's site to order some spices".

We actually have a house like that about three blocks from me. In our deeply blue area too! Signs all over the porch and the lawn, and the guy drives (too fast) through the neighborhood flying a trump flag and a confederate flag. The woman who lives next to him has several signs of her own pointing straight at his house...signs like "Save America, vote Democrat", and now a Harris/Walz sign. Personally I think I'd be afraid to be too much in the trump guy's face because I have no doubt he owns guns. 

Excellent point!  After living in the same house for 44 years before this move, I learned to be a kind, but somewhat surface topics only neighbor.  I wave, lend them something, ask after their family members and themselves, and attend the block parties.  I do not discuss religion or politics and I absolutely do not take sides between quarreling neighbors.  

My old next door neighbor had an ongoing war with the family on the other side of his house.  They were frequently complaining about each other or having screaming matches in the street.  They would report any possible violation to the city.  Basketball hoop placed in the street?  On the phone to the city to complain.  One of them even lined the top of their bushes on that side of their wall with thorned branches. The other neighbor complained to me about him trying to hurt her children with the thorns.  I just asked how he would hurt them if her children didn’t climb the wall and go into his yard?  She didn’t appreciate my lack of outrage.

And because I liked to be nice to everyone, I never voiced an opinion to either of the two families about their issues, and I was friendly with both.  I would politely listen to each of them because I figured they needed someone to vent to.  I would go to lunch with Lil and then later that evening find Leonard at my front door to complain about some new infraction by Lil, trying to get me to agree with his point.  

My aim is to be friendly but never really too tight of friends with anyone living close to my house.  If there is a problem, you can’t just sell your house and move easily.  My two neighbors fought for over 20 years!  I have no interest in living like that or next door to someone with such divisiveness.  I’m not getting roped in.

And I also won’t believe what one neighbor tells me about another if it is negative.  I know I have mentioned that several new neighbors told me to be careful and to stay away from my immediate next door neighbor.  And after meeting him and getting to know him just a little bit, he and I get along perfectly fine.  He keeps to himself a lot, which is fine.  But he saw me out front moving wood chips to my planter beds one Saturday and immediately came over and helped me by distributing wheelbarrows full of the chips into piles around the planters while I raked them even to cover all of the dirt area.  He saved me hours of work!  He told me to let him know when I will be doing the other side and he would come help me again.  And that is supposed to be the terrible grumpy guy on the block?  

I had noticed that the tall fence that was added between our two side yards had a gate in it.  I asked him if he had been really close to the previous owners of my house.  He had and he missed his friend a lot.  They used to do wood projects together.  I said that I was going to enclose that side of my yard and put in raised vegetable planters, but since he had his own entry gate, he was welcome to pop over and help himself to a few things when I get it up and running.  

At first he said no and that he thought I was going to have to do too much work by putting in a garden.  I assured him that the taste of home grown tomatoes and a ready supply of greens was worth the effort.  The following week he came over to say he had been considering my offer to share some vegetables and he was actually quite excited about it.  I have received the raised planter beds and will be assembling them this winter when I can work outside without melting in the heat.  He is, in my opinion, a perfectly nice neighbor and I am happy that I didn’t believe everyone who told me to avoid him.

But the avid Trumper with about 10 signs and the huge banner told me that I would end up having issues with them, even though I never talk politics with my neighbors.  They were just too aggressive with their display.  And your point about their owning guns makes me doubly glad I didn’t go look at that house for sale.

This is where I am as well. 

I gladly support local, small businesses. That said, I don't see many small businesses in my area with political signs.

I am quite happy to co-exist in my community with others who do not believe like I do (politically, religiously).  That said, if they had an obvious hate speech sign out towards anyone (even if it's against a group I don't like or support), I would not shop there or support them. 

My bestie had a solar install all set up with a local installer. She has some past religious trauma and the confirmation text they sent her ended with "god bless you". She cancelled the appointment immediately. Politics and religion really have no place in business if you want to succeed!

There is only 1 business that actively promotes Trump and no I don't shop there. Honestly I think it's really dumb for a business to air their political views.