Wayfair Customer Boycott

Niraj Shah and Steve Conine CEOs

Three weeks ago, Wayfair employees discovered that the company sold $200,000 worth of furniture to BCFS, one of the Trump Administration’s migrant concentration camps estimated to be detaining up to 3,000 migrant children. In response, 547 employees signed on to a letter demanding that Wayfair’s leadership take accountability for profiting from the suffering of migrants and their families. They asked the company to cease all current and future business with migrant detention camps, establish a code of ethics to prevent such sales from ever occurring again, and to donate the profits from the aforementioned sale to RAICES, an organization that specifically addresses the suffering caused by ICE and Border Patrol. When Wayfair’s leadership rejected the demands in the letter, hundreds of employees walked out and rallied again around their initial demands in a massively attended protest in Copley Square which gained national attention.

Since then, Wayfair has taken zero action to address its employees’ demands, even after receiving a second petition of over 500 names. Beyond a donation to the Red Cross — a charitable organization that has nothing to do with the humanitarian crisis at the border and detention camps — Wayfair has shown that the vocal outcry over its complacency in the cruel treatment of migrant families and the clear, feasible demands of its workers and customers like us means little compared to a profit of $86,000. But even though Wayfair has taken no action, its employees have continued fighting, and now we are joining them.

It is now time for us as Wayfair’s customers to declare our support for Wayfair’s workers and to decry for ourselves the company leadership’s refusal to reconcile its business with the migrant detention complex. In its initial rejection of the employees’ demands, Wayfair leadership cited “the importance of respecting the diversity of thought” among its customers as cause for supporting the sale to BCFS. As Wayfair’s customers, we cannot allow our continued business with the company to be used as an excuse for its intolerable practices. For this reason, by signing below we pledge to boycott Wayfair until it adheres to the demands of the #WayfairWalkout.


To: Niraj Shah and Steve Conine CEOs
From: [Your Name]

As Wayfair’s customers, we cannot allow our continued business with the company to be used as an excuse for its intolerable practices. For this reason, by signing below we pledge to boycott Wayfair until it adheres to the demands of the #WayfairWalkout.

We demand that Wayfair cease all current and future business with migrant detention camps, establish a code of ethics to prevent such sales from ever occurring again, and to donate the profits from the aforementioned sale to RAICES, an organization that specifically addresses the suffering caused by ICE and Border Patrol.