My favorite shop for buying electronics, Mediamarkt, will maybe lose a customer. I am not sure about this, because I have no idea of the impact this will have, if I stop buying there.
The prices are not always that low, but they have a big choice of products. And important, they have quite a good guarantee… [With is anyway a matter of at which branch you buy, as the [dutch] MediaMarkt shops are all franchises.]

A dutch/belgian journalist, Hans Knoop (dutch only), did find out (okay, repeated after some German journalists), that it’s founder, Otto Beisheim, started his company with SS-money. Money that was confiscated and stolen in WWII, mostly from Jews.

Question is whether my not buying at MediaMarkt contribute to stop this company? If I would succeed, together with others, to bring that company down, how many people will lose their jobs?
I am sure that about 99,99% of the personel didn’t know anything about it’s founders dark past.

And: IBM wasn’t very clean too. Maybe not that personally dirty as this Beisheim-guy, but still…

Am I judge, or will the Almighty be their judge?!

LINKs : Otto Beisheim Wikipedia EN / Wikipedia DE

LINKs [german] : MediaMarkt / Metro / Makro NL / Saturn / Hansa / Kaufhof

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