Some customers and businesses are boycotting Wayfair until the company apologizes for the apparent sale of mattresses destined for a border detention camp for children.
Wayfair is facing negative backlash after employees protested the company's apparent sale of mattresses destined for a border detention camp for children.Wayfair sold mattresses and bunk beds to a charity group that manages some of the camps along the Southern border.drew backlash and calls from some customers for a boycott after employees protested the company's apparent sale of $200,000 of mattresses and bunk beds destined for a Texas detention camp for migrant children.
Jenny, a preschool teacher from Eugene, Oregon, who asked to withhold her last name, said she canceled a Wayfair order she had placed just half an hour earlier after seeing news of the protest on Twitter. She didn't want to be fully identified for fear of public backlash. She said she was flooded with messages from people saying they would also cancel their orders or stop purchasing from Wayfair until it issues an apology.
Online merchandise company Stands said it would join in the boycott: "until you reevaluate your supply chain, we will no longer be purchasing from you," it tweeted.
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