Resources: Shop for Change
Let’s withhold spending from major corporate retailers who are colluding with authoritarian power. Instead, let’s highlight and redirect resources to locally owned shops and national retailers that share our values. Below are great stores you can patronize instead of businesses such as Amazon, Home Depot and Target.
Indivisible Mid-Pen Member-Owned Businesses
Reach and Teach – Books, Toys, and Gifts An immersive hands-on indie bookstore in downtown San Carlos offering books, STEM/STEAM toys, brain teasing puzzles, cooperative board games, green/eco-friendly products, and handcrafted fair trade gifts from around the world. Everything in the shop is focused on peacemaking, gender equality, diversity, and sustainable living.
Clocktower Music Clocktower has everything for the music lover in your life – instruments, lessons, rentals, repairs, music books and more. Be sure to check out their gifts section with music-themed ornaments, mugs, scarves, t-shirts, socks and totes.
The Reading Bug The Reading bug’s motto is “Your Family’s Store for Books and More.” The Reading Bug has always been about creating experiences that bring families together and promote a love of literacy. The Reading Bug’s staff is dedicated to their mission and delights in matching the perfect books to each reader that comes through our doors.
Recommended by Our Members
“The Minocqua Marketplace“ Save Democracy with your Wallet.” After Trump was elected in 2024, Minocqua Brewing Company formed this marketplace as an “economic collective” where progressive consumers can support progressive small businesses.
Ace Hardware (A Great Alternative to Home Depot!) There are five stores in the area. All are locally owned and Indivisible-member approved.
Local Retailers
REDWOOD CITY
A Little Green Plant Bar
Fireside Bookstore
Hidden Haus Tattoo
House of Humor
Sports Basement
BELMONT
Made out of Dough (bakery)
Lanardi’s
Slice House
Toto’s
MENLO PARK
Kepler’s Books
Penzeys Spices
Cheeky Monkey Toys
Feldman’s Books
Cafe Borrone
Little Sky Kitchen
Lutticken’s
SAN CARLOS
Birder’s Garden
Diddams
Hallmark
Lark Laurel Street Arts
Nordic Nest
Therapy
Unseen
20+ Inclusive National Retailers
Criteria include to be on this list include: no authoritarian-linked leadership; inclusive policies; and a positive environmental record.
APPAREL/SHOES
Adidas
Levi Strauss & Co.
Gap/Old Navy/Banana Republic (Gap Inc.)
Ridwell
Uniqlo
Under Armour
BEAUTY & PERSONAL CARE
Ulta Beauty
Bath & Body Works
CVS
Walgreens
e.l.f. Beauty
BOOKS/GIFTS/STATIONARY
Bookshop.org
Barnes & Noble
Paper Source
GENERAL RETAIL/DEPARTMENT STORES
Nordstrom
Kohl’s
Macy’s
Bloomingdale’s
Costco
TJ Maxx/Marshalls/HomeGoods (TJX)
JCPenney
Belk
GROCERY
Sprouts Farmers Market
HOME GOODS, FURNITURE, KITCHEN
IKEA
West Elm
Williams-Sonoma
Pottery Barn
Crate & Barrel
Wayfair
The Container Store
Sur La Table