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dnuggett wrote:Bad news. I can't collect the receipts and send the letter due to a business relationship my company has with AMC. Sorry to have jumped the gun.

I appreciate your efforts anyway.

However, I am still pretty convinced that a steady trickle would be just as effective, perhaps even more so, than a single large collection. Anytime someone writes a letter or calls a business or a politician, etc - it always represents a larger group of customers. I read a statistic one time about how many 'constituents' a single call represented to a congressman or senator. Now that number will be different to a business and, of course, even different to a national, statewide, or local business.

We can't know how many people they will scale it up to represent, but it will be more than just one. So if they continue to get a steady stream, or even just a trickle, from cities around Texas - it will mean something to them. It would be a continual reminder.

dicion wrote:1) Their signs are non-compliant, and the few times that I have had to go there, I carried past them.

Agreed - and no mention of this should be made to HQ. But like you, many do boycott them because whether compliant or not, they are attempting to post.

dicion wrote:2) If the corporation really is that anti gun, we should just boycott them
This is what I do. I don't go there. The only time I have, is when I'm given a gift card to there that can't be used anywhere else

The only problem is that, admittedly, we are not a huge group and they are doing just fine without us. So without communication, they really don't even know. To me, a 'silent' boycott, while preserving your our own piece of mind, does nothing to change the culture. In other words, as a general rule - I do not boycott a business without communicating it to them.

dicion wrote:3) Better to save up all of them over the course of a year, and mail them all in at once. Bigger impact than one-offs
Even better would be to have everyone on this forum save them for a year or so, and all mail them in together.

That could go either way. I box of a few hundred would certainly make a statement. But if we could be consistent enough to be a steady stream, it might serve as a constant reminder - like Chinese water torture. So yeah, I could go either way on this.

But thank you for replying!

The thread about the Taco Cabana that changed it's sign, possibly because of customer communication, seems to have sparked some hope that some business will listen. Several people have ordered a stack of the TSRA cards:


But, I am sure that various AMC theaters around Texas have gotten stacks of these over the years. They are a big organization and this policy seems to come from the top down. So this got me thinking ...

It's one thing to say that this policy is costing them $$$$ - it's another thing to prove it to them. What if instead of giving the local theater a card we try the following:

Everytime we go see a movie a another theater, mail the ticket stubs to AMC theater headquarters with a quick note explaining that AMC theaters did not get our business because of the anti 2A policy. If you buy snacks, try to save that receipt as well and send it also - or at least give them an estimate of the snacks purchased. Then it's more than a veiled threat that this policy is costing them money - we are showing them direct proof.

Here is their corporate address as listed on their website:

AMC Entertainment Inc.
P.O. Box 725489
Atlanta, GA 31139-9923

And they promise:

AMC will respond to your letter in a timely manner.

I know, its a long shot. But what a victory it would be to slay this giant ...