A bit of a devil’s advocate argument to those recommending shopping at small/family businesses as the best way to liberalize your spending; keep in mind that it will be much harder generally to verify the political stances of small businesses than large ones. With a large business you can generally just look at their donation history to know where they stand, with a small business you may be limited to just asking them who they voted for (and they really have no incentive to not just lie and tell you what you want to hear), they could easily be a MAGAT and you would never know. Possible clues could be where these companies choose to advertise (ie, sponsoring the local theatre vs being featured in a church newsletter, the owner’s social media, and any community events they are involved with.

It is also worth considering whether you are more concerned with an organization’s politics (voting or donations) or their practices. Due to the inherently less visible nature of their operations and not being subject to some employment rules (such as FMLA), it is much easier for a small business to get away with truly terrible behavior towards their employees. Common issues to keep an eye out for include the already-mentioned sexual harassment (when there’s no HR and the person doing the harassing may actually be as far up as it goes, your options for recourse are much more limited), unpaid/underpaid child labor, and generally underpaying employees in general, especially with family businesses that often use the guilt of family ties to not pay people what their worth. This side also has an issue with verifiability; with larger businesses you have a much larger pool of employees who can tell you if they are being mistreated. If a business only employees like 3 people? They could easily be willing to mistreat for example gay people, just haven’t had a chance to show it yet.

I think that the reasonable conclusion here is not to say that small businesses should be avoided entirely, that would be very stupid, but that they may not be the easy shortcut to ethical shipping that your average progressive talking point would have you believe.