cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/25348904
What brands do you avoid at all cost? I don’t keep up with the news all that much, and many of the reasons to avoid something don’t make it there anyway. So I’m asking here to make a big list of things to avoid. It could be anything from bad security practices to really frustrating packaging. Working as a cashier myself, I definitely know there are plenty of brands I avoid purely on the basis that their product is a pain to stock.
On the flip side, what’s the alternative? If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?
Bayer: Used slave Labour in Nazi Germany
Infected Jews and used them for drug tests from concentration camps until they died.
Illegally pressure doctors to use their drugs off-label
Used US prisoners to extract blood products and sold them without testing infecting millions with hepatitis, HIV and AIDS all over the world. When they realised blood products were tainted, instead of destroying them they just sold them to Africa instead.
Surely a company that has done all this would be sued into oblivion, but thanks to the company being restructured multiple times it’s apparently too complicated to bring them to justice.
Blizzard
They fucked me over for not adhering to their real name policy on their account, and locked me out of games that I had owned until I would send a copy of my passport to them. Not for age verification, not for suspected cheating, but for making sure my name is my real name. Just because that’s their policy
Fuck you, you don’t need my real life ID for playing a goddamn game.
I vowed never to give any money to them ever again, and kept that promise. That’s around 10 years ago now. Such a shame, they (used to) make the best games. I love well produced, high polished takes on an existing concept.
I heard annoying Panini radio commercial once and swore to never buy one and so far I never have.
United Airlines.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_United_Express_passenger_removal
https://apnews.com/article/united-airlines-ceo-apology-e7754f237454390e3a5826be22d12b87
https://www.businessinsider.com/united-airlines-worst-customer-service-incidents-2018-3
Seems like you’re thinking mostly of things like grocery brands, but top of my hit list is Hasbro. They send Pinkertons after their customers and fuck over third party publishers. And they’re kindof making an Olympic sport of enshittifying their brands.