irf77, you are right, consumer will just transfer from place A to B. and yes, only the people who work for this company shall be directly affected.

question: if they lost their jobs, where will they go? back to their home countries? because of global crisis, looking for a job anywhere is very hard.

and who are indirectly affected by all of this? the family and the extended families of the laid off workers. so before you do boycot companies, think hard first.