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?
Nestle to start
I’ll have to edit and add to this as I remember since I didn’t write a list beforehand
Edit:
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Nike, Kelloggs,
mine is everything from https://leave-russia.org
Uline starting today. Just learned the Uihlein family is a major Trump donor.
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.
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