We don't want to accept any advertising that is inimicable to our legitimate business interests. The Media Foundation is considering legal action to protest network censorship of its message. The annual observance now has supporters in Canada, the US, Ireland, England, South Africa, New Zealand and the Netherlands. Previously held on September 24, it has been moved to the first day of Christmas shopping to more directly confront the obligatory consumerism of the season. A series of incidents demonstrate that, in some establishments, consumers have been discriminated against because of physical appearance, apparent socio- economic status, skin colour and even the circumstances surrounding their birth.
Discrimination also occurs in department stores, coffee shops and saunas.
In one poorer neighborhood, stores were accused of refusing credit to residents or accept their checks. Several years ago, a Korean woman won an anti-discrimination suit in the Supreme Court after being refused entrance to a spa on the basis of her nationality.