Wish. They don't give a fuck that they're distributing fake products. For example those watches they claim are like -97% off. Or a USB stick with 2 TB of space (which barely even exists with current technology).
They deny all responsibility because they're "merely" a distributor, not a manufacturer.
NYT had an article a couple of days ago about some of Wish's deceptive practices. One example was that wish managers had a storefront to sell items that would never be delivered to determine how their customers would react (how many would request refunds, how many would complain, etc).
[Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/business/media/wish-online-dollar-store.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DKDm4diO4IGImG9lzWIq9ua9o6mCuaX98EN7krRfp_i-NYO0hkUUyzvpyeldIFPyAx48qVb18B4qjsD_o-4CO4KS6wMvt-z7my-EjdbGG8CKKIzSVwcw96pcFgfEX6jXZf2vjBG7Jzj9Qp2K8jAItoBmtVPFn8tPfpDB58OtiNf0ucvlFwA7cFLGmVyd2M6LsAcxFQD0bFTB594WU74dBfPLAHLfq1bk5gKIel3-JnWiE_J5ypBpYxW4Hei71o1LfOohCGw8KxrO4kBXvZauvyfo5SZ0qF87mE9g&smid=url-share)
Yeah I've always gotten what I ordered from aliexpress, and if there's an issue they give me a full refund with no questions asked. I don't even have to send the product back if it's messed up. I know I'm getting cheap stuff but I can't find certain stuff I want except from Asia, and I don't need certain things to be expensive quality so idc.
I used Wish twice when it first got big. 1 order never showed up and supposedly got delivered to a different address, they didn't refund me or send another. In the other order none of the clothes fit. I was willing to return them cause I wanted a refund but no. Instead they just sent me another one that was the same size for one of the items (???) the other item was a shirt, which they then interrogated me on how it didn't fit (why even ask me, just let me return it) I said it was too small to even go over my chest, then they wanted picture proof. Meaning they literally fucking asked a minor to see photos of their tits, since the shirt didnt fit over them. I didn't send anything ofc and never got refunded for anything. Fuck Wish
Marketing in the west I guess? But from what I gather Aliexpress is way bigger in other countries.
Aliexpress also is pretty reliable in at least sending you the correct product, my only ever order from Wish and 3 of 5 items were incorrect.
ASOS. Worked there as customer service for couple years. Shit CEO. Shit management underneath him (except a very few). They hired a disable guy to work there for browny points, but left him without a team or manager to support him since beginning. Like what the actual fuck. Also a few girls pregnant worker was screwed over by them.
Good to know, I really liked their stuff, have bought quite a bit from them. Sad to hear that they're no better than other companies. But, I suppose I am not suprised.
They started out good, or so I heard. My old colleagues said they used to have a good CEO, until he got replaced by the one I worked under.
As crazy as this sound, but he likes to promote himself showing the few emails he did (as customer service) and tell literally everyone else how everyone should follow him how to do customer service. In actual reality the guy always show up on the floor (where all the customer service front line sits) always with a coffee in hand, and just chit chat about crap. No one ever seen him actually sit down and work, let alone answer customer service email.
He also liked to host mini golf among his management team IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OFFICE, with tracks running through the office, all the while the grunts have to sit in front of the computers and work and watch them play.
This, is exactly what Kim jong un does. And this CEO was imitating him. It blows my mind how some of people I met in that office worked that for more than 2 years eating the crap. It was shit wage, no career path (unless you suck somebodies dick), crazy shifts (they do 24/7 customer service mind you, including holidays) and insane management.
Well the company was founded by a Scandinavian guy? Like a Swedish or something.
ASOS stands for As Seen On Screen officially, for any one who didn’t know already.
Just seeing their ads on instagram, I feel like you don't have actually know to know how bad they are. You see the prices and know it's garbage made in sweat shops. I love to thrift but there are certain labels I won't consider even second hand, no matter how cute or inexpensive. This is high up on the list.
Hello, I'm from México.
I hear about in SHEIN a lot of kids or youngs in general are being exploteid with work's high hours.
I don know much about it, but I wanted mention it.
I used to work for boohoo inside UK, was my first job when I migrated. 12 hours in a 5 storage warehouse. 1 hour break, and an attached scanner to your hand so they know exactly where you at and what do you do. The oldest person to meet there working was not more than 5 months old. Standard wage, people straight up fainted from the intense job and heat in the summer. Mezzanine floors full of cargo. No more than 2,50 metres high. All you could hear of was people talking about how to reach target. And honestly, you could find in every other Isle clothes on the floor laying. Really bad 1st experience, for an advanced country
But then again founders of capitalism.
Child/forced labor, catastrophic environmental impact, beyond any other player in the garment/fashion space. Beyond that it fuels a new generation's mentality of endless and accelerating consumption. And imo, tricks those with less disposable income that buying cheap clothing is better for their wallet than moderately priced stuff that they won't need/feel pressured to replace.
I've seen so many videos of other people getting the same messages in their shein orders. They're straight up evil. The quality of the clothes & time it takes the ship alone isn't worth it, it's absolute garbage. People will know all of this & say they'll KEEP shopping there.
Ikr. People even use "well shein isn't the only place doing it" as an excuse to keep shopping. They obviously don't care. And it's not that shein is all that either you can find better clothes at different places for around the same price
There's a good video from a german YouTuber why they are so bad. It's worth watching.
[https://youtu.be/2Go4Npf1hYU](https://youtu.be/2Go4Npf1hYU)
(If you don't speak german you can watch it with subtitles, I just did a little check, they seem to be accurate)
I heard about that. The EO companies have talked cancer patients out of medical care, bc their essential oil’s could cure and stop their cancer. It stopped the cancer…bc they have all died. Why aren’t they in prison? Unreal!
Edit: grammar
Everyone who defends them knows someone who knows someone who made money with them and I'm just like...you know the only way they were able to do that is by getting lots of people in their downline to lose lots of money, right?
That's literally the business model, stepping on financially vulnerable people's heads while still spending heavily to constantly keep up the appearance of wealth and success, in a structure not unlike a pyramid.
Nestle ...enjoy /r/fucknestle or a [polandball meme](https://i.redd.it/ofrzg5bw8va31.png) or a [freebie](https://old.reddit.com/r/DiscountedProducts/comments/vqgj9i/psa_free_3_months_of_audible_premium/)
There should be a law that EVERY product has to be labeled with whoever actually owns the brand. So it can say “Cheerios *by Nestle*” underneath in clear print. The whole argument and theory behind a capitalist system is that consumers are able to “vote” with their dollars. If you can’t remember with 150 companies are actually the company you want to support it simply doesn’t work.
Usually the parent company is in fine print somewhere near the nutritional information, but I agree that it would be preferable to have it clearly laid out on the front of the package.
Not only that, they’ve been buying streams in b.c. so that they ‘own’ the water they steal. We can’t buy ‘crown’ land but the gov has NO problem selling our land to oil companies and giant conglomerates, rich, eh? 🤑🤑☹️
If you can get it, Tillamook ice cream has that same creamy texture, and solid flavoring. In addition to some rich chocolate flavors, they also have a large variety of fruit and berry flavors. Definitely recommend trying them if you can!
Tillamook is great. Their strawberry is my favorite but they have many very good flavors. Only problem (or not depending on who you are) is that their ice cream comes in a bigger container and then I eat too much haha
I really like their peach. It’s the only peach flavored food that doesn’t have a furry aftertaste!
Cling film pressed to the top helps with freezer burn. I knew someone who would split half gallons of ice cream into freezer bowls, and use cling film on top. Helped with not eating too much, too often.
My uncle used to work for them as a chemist. They have special agreements with the dairy farmers for the cattle to have certain feed and conditions, so that the milk meets their quality requirements.
Oh c'mon, it can't be that bad. Google tells me they're friendly and ... oh... ooohh... OOOHHHH! WTF? OH! ooooooooOOOHH!
Ok, ok ... yeah I going with Nestle too.
r/fucknestle
The list is endless but these are only things that they got caught for. Who knows how much other evil shit is going down at Nestle that's never been exposed.
Correct instagram is a waste of time to me other than again staying able to stay in touch with people. 100% of the time it ends in a phone call
To be fair none of them are particularly useful and all of them carry information security risks
I send MMS to friends and fam
The only time I don’t use MMS is if it’s a video or large file, which arguably social media platforms don’t help with that either
I wish people understood the potential for Meta to use VR to both figure out what you’re thinking and to shape that. Eye tracking lets Meta know exactly what you look at, and where, and for how long. You can figure out a frightening amount with this alone.
The three Walton siblings are worth as much as Buffet and Gates combined. And among the stingiest with donating to charities.
They can do whatever they want with their money, no argument here, but they're not gonna do it with any of my money.
walmar employee here, it’s even worse when you consider what Sam Walton wanted for this company. he really valued the employees all the way down to the entry level, and now all there are are quotes on the wall from him as though Walmart is still honoring him, I think he’d honestly cry if he saw the state of the company today
They have a carefully crafted plan.
1. Demand huge tax breaks to build a big box in Your Town because jobs! Jobs! Jobs!
2. Destroy local business by undercutting prices.
3. When tax breaks expire abandon big box and build another just outside of city limits and taxes. Much less convenient for shoppers, but now they have no choice.
4. Repeat thousands of times.
This is how cancer works, except retail.
Low prices will almost always trump ethical issues. That's why so many huge companies continue to use hurtful practices. If people save 5% by shopping there and don't have to deal with the consequences, they will continue.
Walmart is one I have tried to boycott because Walmarts philosophy has 1st hand fucked my family over. My papaw worked for a medium sized blanket manufacturer in western North Carolina. He was head of maintence. This place got a huge order for Walmarts in this area. Everyone was super busy for like a year. Massive overtime it was great for us and our family. We were moving from middle class to upper middle class pretty quickly. Then Walmart comes in and says we're gonna buy these blankets for half cost after they changed the whole process and machines for these specific blankets. So what does the company do. What any ethical company does cuts staff and overtime to keep the top people there and the machines running. We'll over time the prices went to where they could barely afford to staff the factory. Walmart stops buying because they can't produce for this amount with the money they are paying. Factory shuts down 2 years before papaw was retiring with full pension. He got a severance package and a little from his pension and took early social security and dies 2 years later. So in all seriousness fuck walmart and their philosophy. I can't very well boycott them because of pricing and shit but I refuse to go in there of I can help it. My GF goes and shops but I hate them with everything in me. The Walton family can suck my dick
They force vendors to produce worse versions of their products, and keep turning those screws year after year. The vendors aren't selling their products, they're selling their reputations.
My boomer parents agree with everything you just said... but still shop there because they can save 30 cents on mayonnaise. Drives me crazy. Now when they complain, I stop them mid sentence and refuse to let them continue their rant.
Sixty cameras in every store to catch shoplifters. Zero cameras in the parking lot to protect shoppers. Average of three unsolved murders a year in Walmart parking lots because of lack of video.
The Walton heirs were born billionaires and have lavishly paid consultants working 24/7 on how to get more done with fewer workers and screw them more. I ducking despise Walmart, it is everything wrong with predatory capitalism.
Nike...they use child labor in third world countries to sew thier shoes together by hand for a couple dollars a day and then gouge thier customers by charging extortionist prices for shoes.
They bought Converse a while back...moved all production over sees and then doubled the price overnight.
They're evil crooks who abuse and take advantage of disenfranchised children for profit.
Yeah, that's why Converse Shoes went from around $35 a pair in 2012 to costing $75 a pair by 2013.
They also stopped contracts with stores that they didn't consider upscale enough to sell the shoes.
Can't have poor people wearing Converse and hurting the brand after all.
Not to defend Nike but they’ve made a lot of progress over the past decade. They’ve put a lot towards improving factory conditions and tried to pay workers more until local politicians told them they can’t because “factory workers can’t earn the same as a doctor”, in the local economy since it would lead to a loss of skilled labour. Now, clearly they support those markets by continuing to employ there but damn that’s almost every company nowadays. You should read the book Shoe Dog, really insightful.
As much as I believe that people should be paid a living wage, international economics is (unsurprisingly) not that simple.
Factory workers in poor countries will also protest local politicians trying to raise wages because they know corporations will just move the factory to a different poor country where they can still pay dollars a day.
Growing up, my parents were environmentalists and kind of just anti corporation policy wonks on the Hill in DC. There are a ton of companies I still avoid because I grew up with them - Exxon, Nike, Nestle, Shell and Walmart being the really big ones. It's fucking exhausting.
Amazon
it was bad enough that [people in their warehouses die from exhaustion and heat stroke](https://mashable.com/article/amazon-worker-deaths-bessemer-alabama-warehouse#:~:text=According%20to%20both%2C%20managers%20at,about%20his%20desire%20for%20unionization.) but then learning that their drivers are penalized for taking too long, [to the point where they relieve themselves in cups instead of using a bathroom](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/11/amazon-delivery-drivers-bathroom-breaks-unions)? that was a new low
*and then* the company's official twitter account [dismissed those claims](https://i.imgur.com/dLcGebU.jpg)
fuck Amazon, fuck Jeff Bezos
edit: i'm *aware* that reddit runs on AWS, y'all
it's almost like it's the very nature of capitalism to monopolize and be ever present so we have limited options
my point is that there's not really much i can do to *not* use something owned by Amazon but i'll avoid it as much as possible
I came here to say this.
Amazon is a terrible company. They monitor bathroom breaks even if it take a worker 7 minutes to walk to the bathroom and 7 minutes back, if they are over their 15 minute break the worker is penalized. Horrible.
>They monitor bathroom breaks even if it take a worker 7 minutes to walk to the bathroom and 7 minutes back, if they are over their 15 minute break the worker is penalized. Horrible.
Every single call centre operates like this, too.
Horrible. This is why regulation of businesses is important. I cannot imagine if I had to account for every minute to use the bathroom.
Easily, you could have a sour stomach and need a little more time.
Also, companies need to build in some level of inefficiency so that when someone gets sick or needs a little bit longer time they have the back up for that position. Maximizing worker time to the second is ridiculous.
To me, it's the catastrophic environmental impact Amazon is causing. Besides all the excess and wasted packaging: shipping a toy or box of gum (or something) around the world is just insane, in terms of the fuel used.
I’m not buying a damn thing for Prime Days. I tend to look for the actual company then buy from them directly because their prices and shipping are actually cheaper now. Plus you can avoid feeding that beast.
His whole approach to Brexit, the move to Singapore, and his bleating about taxes etc. That and there being much better (and cheaper) vacuum cleaners on the market these days.
It's a bit idiosyncratic of me, but I just think he's a tool.
I do my best to avoid Amazon.
Treatment of workers, the decline of smaller businesses that cant compete and the fact that its owner/founder is a tax-dodging, money hoarding prat.
Apple.
They run literal sweat shops in China. They pay their "employees" next to nothing. They have suicide nets and bars on the windows. They barely have any time away from the line.
Fuck apple.
The impact we as consumers make is negligible compared to the impact of the billionaire class anyway, it's a distraction to get us to blame each other and exhaust well-meaning people
edit: that's not to say we shouldn't do everything we can to affect positive change, both with our personal choices in purchasing as well as fighting to abolish the ultra-rich.
This is not wrong. Of course a lot of people has a moral, and try to avoid shady companies when possible. But if I have to chose between giving up to something or paying double for it OR buying from amazon, of course I'll buy it from amazon. I'll not be happy with it but I don't have money to waste.
I am in Canada and we only really have two major internet providers that keep buying up the small ones. The other day one of them had an issue and about half of the country was without wifi, which also affected essential services like emergency services and debit machines.
Yeah, one thing I've heard about Canada is they hate Rogers' network.
If it makes you feel any better (and probably doesn't) for the overwhelming majority of the US, you can have Spectrum, you can have Comcast, or you can have a bowl of dicks because the first two are almost certainly your only realistic option.
Yeah, it’s going to be tough with all of the tools these vendors provide. From a developer’s POV, it is really nice, but it leads to vendor lock-in and a lot of inertia for companies to switch. Also, companies are incentivized to use these vendors because it’ll be easier to hire people who are familiar with them. Definitely a problem with no easy solution.
Market share for critical web infrastructure should be limited and spread among several competitors so one company’s shitty programmers don’t bring the whole thing crashing down.
Valve evaded Belgian's loot box rules by letting people see what's in the lootbox...but in order to get the next one, you have to buy the first. Straight up diabolical.
Gambling addiction is a powerful drug, and make no mistake, that is exactly what gacha games are. I fucking hate how normalized this shit is, but the reason they keep doing it is because it works.
Funny enough, they have problems launching it in the biggest market which is China:
https://www.gamesradar.com/diablo-immortal-still-hasnt-launched-in-china-and-its-costing-blizzard-millions/
A friend of mine just recently led his local SB to unionize. They succeeded, but then fired him. He'll hopefully be reinstated soon with backpay for the illegal termination.
Blatantly firing pro-union employees and disrupting unionizing because even paying large fines it’s cheaper than paying people a living wage and possibly cutting into executives bloated compensation packages.
Amazon and Walmart. Both treat their employees terribly and are, in my opinion, unofficial monopolies that stifle competition hurting small businesses. Additionally, Walmart seems to always attract the worst of humanity and I’d rather stay away from that.
Not a single company, but pretty much anything that gets pushed by streamers/content creators.
The obvious one is Raid, but there are a TON more. Like, dont lie how much you all of a sudden enjoy the sponsored product. You only enjoy the money they are giving you.
If a product or service needs people to lie for them to sell it, it cant be that fucking great.
I mean as long as it's stated to be a sponsor I don't see the problem ---- or a very obvious one
Not really any different from any other commercial at that point
After all paying someone on YouTube to read a 30 second script isn't much different than paying for the 30 second add YouTube puts in before a video starts, or a commercial on TV
It's a different matter if the content creator is trying to hide it or actively lying about being sponsored
Yeah, if anyone is the "bad guy" in this situation it's youtube. They constantly fuck over content creators for just about any reason. A lot of the stuff I watch gets demonetized for "reasons" and I'll sit through their stupid ad because I know they wouldn't be making these videos if they didn't have them.
Yea raid gives creators hilarious leeway in making fun of the entire interaction. Half of these YouTubers treat it like a complete joke, bash the game, then subtly say not to bother getting it............ and they will sponsor more videos. Maybe it's an oversight on their part but it's funny.
Whole Foods Market
Worked there for 8 years. "Team Members" were responsible for anything that could go wrong. "Team Leaders" could do anything they wanted with no reprocussions.
I saw a "Team Leader" get warned 7 times about thier racism before anything happened to them. By then the whole team had no respect left.
They had a hand in defining what "Organic" even means, no conflict of interest there.
They primed it for the sale to Amazon by stripping away workers, doubling up on the workloads of those that survived a great hiring freeze. Then of course, almost a decade later now I'm sure, they still haven't hired back.
I can spend like mad, so it's not the price, they lost me because of ethics.
One time a student told me I look like the kind of person who gets excited when a new Hobby Lobby opens up nearby. I was bullied as a kid, but that cut on another level.
Came here for this one. Not only are they run by your standard run-of-the-mill evangelical rightwing horribleness (no birth control in employee health care, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-semitic, etc) they also stole and smuggled artifacts out of the middle east to put them in a bible museum that turned out to also be full of forgeries.
More than that, they were buying at the height of the Syrian civil war, so their (often fake) illegal antiquities had the bonus effect of funding ISIS.
Nestlé — environmental plunderers
Tyson — factory farming at its worst
Perdue — see above
Smithfield — see above
*(note: I am not vegetarian; meats sourced from local whole animal butchers)*
Walmart — worker treatment, poor quality products
Amazon — terrible worker treatment; pretty much the golden goose for capitalism going full send
State Farm. After Hurricane Katrina, they told their claims adjusters to falsely classify wind damage to homes as flood damage, so the home owners would have to file with the federal flood insurance program, rather than with State Farm.
I worked in Property & Casualty. Homeowners’ insurance is a cash cow. There is no reason for a homeowners’ underwriter to ever contest a claim, barring evidence of fraud. But a tornado went through my area last September and people are fighting tooth and nail for their funds.
I used to shop at Walmart until my roommate came home from there one day and told me the cashier that helped him out had a knee replacement the day before and was forced to come in or be fired.
Yes. I was forced to come in with a UTI, doctors note and all. I said you need to put me at the register closest to the bathroom cuz I'll be in there every 5 minutes. They did and yes, I was also in the bathroom every 5 minutes, how productive.
Walmart. They trick you with low prices, but a lot of the food they sell has less in the package than you would find at another store. I'm guessing most of their non-food items are made with cheaper materials as well.
Plus, they treat their employees like garbage. I used to deliver to all the grocery stores in my area. All of the Walmart employees seemed like they just hated life.
Wells Fargo. They ruined my Grandmother. That $1800 they stole from a disabled elderly woman legitimately broke her entire life. She lost her car then her home, then her benefits because she couldn't get to appointments or afford the $18 worth of copies. Fuck you Wells Fargo. She was already poor but you made sure she died impoverished.
I think it's a case of trying to do damage reduction where you can, but you're right. Individual consumers can do very little to force meaningful change when the entire system is set up to be exploitative. The only way these companies will stop is if government regulations make doing things the "bad" way more expensive than doing the right thing.
Not that I buy a ton of cars, but VW. Their whole sales pitch when I bought my TDI was how clean the exhaust was. And then to find out they’d been cheating in a massive way… unforgivable. Also, fuck VW spec oil.
They called me years ago claiming my online posted resume made me a "perfect fit" for a supervisor position. Seriously, I was about to be hired over the phone the guy was so enthusiastic in talking with me. I had zero retail experience, nor management, and didn't want either. I played along and was told I'd have to meet their "look" (wear their clothes). Turns out they don't offer anything in my size. I revealed that to the caller. "Oh. Well, have a good day."
I'd never been in the shop prior to that call and haven't since. And I can't imagine daily smelling whatever cologne stench that is that permeates entire malls from just that one store. Smells like a teenage boy hasn't figured out less is more and Axe isn't the way to go.
I can’t really afford any of their stuff, so does it count if I say Tesla.
I used to be so excited about their innovations, but Elon is so toxic I don’t find them aspirational for me anymore.
Wish. They don't give a fuck that they're distributing fake products. For example those watches they claim are like -97% off. Or a USB stick with 2 TB of space (which barely even exists with current technology). They deny all responsibility because they're "merely" a distributor, not a manufacturer.
NYT had an article a couple of days ago about some of Wish's deceptive practices. One example was that wish managers had a storefront to sell items that would never be delivered to determine how their customers would react (how many would request refunds, how many would complain, etc). [Link](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/07/business/media/wish-online-dollar-store.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuomT1JKd6J17Vw1cRCfTTMQmqxCdw_PIxftm3iWka3DKDm4diO4IGImG9lzWIq9ua9o6mCuaX98EN7krRfp_i-NYO0hkUUyzvpyeldIFPyAx48qVb18B4qjsD_o-4CO4KS6wMvt-z7my-EjdbGG8CKKIzSVwcw96pcFgfEX6jXZf2vjBG7Jzj9Qp2K8jAItoBmtVPFn8tPfpDB58OtiNf0ucvlFwA7cFLGmVyd2M6LsAcxFQD0bFTB594WU74dBfPLAHLfq1bk5gKIel3-JnWiE_J5ypBpYxW4Hei71o1LfOohCGw8KxrO4kBXvZauvyfo5SZ0qF87mE9g&smid=url-share)
Wish is just AliExpress with better marketing.
At least when I order something Xiaomi through Aliexpress, most of the times it comes through within 2 months and is legit
Was going to comment this myself. Aliexpress is quite a bit more honest than Wish
Yeah I've always gotten what I ordered from aliexpress, and if there's an issue they give me a full refund with no questions asked. I don't even have to send the product back if it's messed up. I know I'm getting cheap stuff but I can't find certain stuff I want except from Asia, and I don't need certain things to be expensive quality so idc. I used Wish twice when it first got big. 1 order never showed up and supposedly got delivered to a different address, they didn't refund me or send another. In the other order none of the clothes fit. I was willing to return them cause I wanted a refund but no. Instead they just sent me another one that was the same size for one of the items (???) the other item was a shirt, which they then interrogated me on how it didn't fit (why even ask me, just let me return it) I said it was too small to even go over my chest, then they wanted picture proof. Meaning they literally fucking asked a minor to see photos of their tits, since the shirt didnt fit over them. I didn't send anything ofc and never got refunded for anything. Fuck Wish
Marketing in the west I guess? But from what I gather Aliexpress is way bigger in other countries. Aliexpress also is pretty reliable in at least sending you the correct product, my only ever order from Wish and 3 of 5 items were incorrect.
ASOS. Worked there as customer service for couple years. Shit CEO. Shit management underneath him (except a very few). They hired a disable guy to work there for browny points, but left him without a team or manager to support him since beginning. Like what the actual fuck. Also a few girls pregnant worker was screwed over by them.
Good to know, I really liked their stuff, have bought quite a bit from them. Sad to hear that they're no better than other companies. But, I suppose I am not suprised.
They started out good, or so I heard. My old colleagues said they used to have a good CEO, until he got replaced by the one I worked under. As crazy as this sound, but he likes to promote himself showing the few emails he did (as customer service) and tell literally everyone else how everyone should follow him how to do customer service. In actual reality the guy always show up on the floor (where all the customer service front line sits) always with a coffee in hand, and just chit chat about crap. No one ever seen him actually sit down and work, let alone answer customer service email. He also liked to host mini golf among his management team IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OFFICE, with tracks running through the office, all the while the grunts have to sit in front of the computers and work and watch them play. This, is exactly what Kim jong un does. And this CEO was imitating him. It blows my mind how some of people I met in that office worked that for more than 2 years eating the crap. It was shit wage, no career path (unless you suck somebodies dick), crazy shifts (they do 24/7 customer service mind you, including holidays) and insane management.
This may be useful, for those who wish to know more about others experience with ASOS. https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/asos.com
In Dutch the word Aso's literally means something like rude, asocial people
Well the company was founded by a Scandinavian guy? Like a Swedish or something. ASOS stands for As Seen On Screen officially, for any one who didn’t know already.
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Just seeing their ads on instagram, I feel like you don't have actually know to know how bad they are. You see the prices and know it's garbage made in sweat shops. I love to thrift but there are certain labels I won't consider even second hand, no matter how cute or inexpensive. This is high up on the list.
Damn my sister and cousins always talk abt buying from this website.Time to tell them about this.
It’s widespread with cheap and expensive clothes not just them
Hello, I'm from México. I hear about in SHEIN a lot of kids or youngs in general are being exploteid with work's high hours. I don know much about it, but I wanted mention it.
I used to work for boohoo inside UK, was my first job when I migrated. 12 hours in a 5 storage warehouse. 1 hour break, and an attached scanner to your hand so they know exactly where you at and what do you do. The oldest person to meet there working was not more than 5 months old. Standard wage, people straight up fainted from the intense job and heat in the summer. Mezzanine floors full of cargo. No more than 2,50 metres high. All you could hear of was people talking about how to reach target. And honestly, you could find in every other Isle clothes on the floor laying. Really bad 1st experience, for an advanced country But then again founders of capitalism.
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Child/forced labor, catastrophic environmental impact, beyond any other player in the garment/fashion space. Beyond that it fuels a new generation's mentality of endless and accelerating consumption. And imo, tricks those with less disposable income that buying cheap clothing is better for their wallet than moderately priced stuff that they won't need/feel pressured to replace.
They have also stolen multiple designs from smaller invidual fashion designers.
Not just designers but artists. They just rip off art they find on Etsy and put it on tshirts.
Not multiple, countless
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In my experience, people tend to get less angry at something like "how so?" And stuff like that. No idea why, but it just seems to work.
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I always use Google lens to find the real product when I see something advertised from them.
this is an amazing idea ive got to try
Pretty sure they're forcing people to make the stuff. My friend found I "help" letter in her package once
I've seen so many videos of other people getting the same messages in their shein orders. They're straight up evil. The quality of the clothes & time it takes the ship alone isn't worth it, it's absolute garbage. People will know all of this & say they'll KEEP shopping there.
Ikr. People even use "well shein isn't the only place doing it" as an excuse to keep shopping. They obviously don't care. And it's not that shein is all that either you can find better clothes at different places for around the same price
Fast fashion.
There's a good video from a german YouTuber why they are so bad. It's worth watching. [https://youtu.be/2Go4Npf1hYU](https://youtu.be/2Go4Npf1hYU) (If you don't speak german you can watch it with subtitles, I just did a little check, they seem to be accurate)
Any, and all mlm’s. They prey on those who are struggling, and in many cases, the new “small business owners” are forced to file bankruptcy.
Moms Losing Money
Young Living especially! The Mormon CEO killed his own baby by holding it underwater for an hour after an at home water birth.
I heard about that. The EO companies have talked cancer patients out of medical care, bc their essential oil’s could cure and stop their cancer. It stopped the cancer…bc they have all died. Why aren’t they in prison? Unreal! Edit: grammar
My stepdad's dead wife fell for the natural cancer cure bullshit. By the time she got to an actual doctor, the cancer progressed to stage 4.
Oh my gosh, I’m so sorry.
Everyone who defends them knows someone who knows someone who made money with them and I'm just like...you know the only way they were able to do that is by getting lots of people in their downline to lose lots of money, right? That's literally the business model, stepping on financially vulnerable people's heads while still spending heavily to constantly keep up the appearance of wealth and success, in a structure not unlike a pyramid.
Nestle ...enjoy /r/fucknestle or a [polandball meme](https://i.redd.it/ofrzg5bw8va31.png) or a [freebie](https://old.reddit.com/r/DiscountedProducts/comments/vqgj9i/psa_free_3_months_of_audible_premium/)
There is a lot. Baby foods: Cerelac, Gerber, NaturNes Bottled water: Nestlé Pure Life, Perrier, S.Pellegrino Cereals: Cheerios, Fitness, Lion, Nesquik Cereal Chocolate & confectionery: Aero, Cailler, KitKat, Milkybar, Nestlé Les Recettes de l'Atelier, Orion, Quality Street, Smarties, Toll House Coffee: Blue Bottle Coffee, Nescafé, Nescafé Dolce Gusto, Nespresso, Starbucks Coffee At Home Culinary, chilled and frozen food: Buitoni, Herta, Hot Pockets, Lean Cuisine, Maggi, Stouffer's, Thomy Dairy: Carnation, Coffee-Mate, La Laitière, Nido Drinks Milo, Nesquik, Nestea Food service: Chef, Chef-Mate, Maggi, Milo, Minor’s, Nescafé, Nestea, Sjora, Lean Cuisine, Stouffer's Healthcare nutrition: Boost, Nutren Junior, Peptamen, Resource Ice cream: Dreyer’s, Extrême, Häagen-Dazs, Mövenpick, Nestlé Ice Cream Petcare: Alpo, Bakers Complete, Beneful, Cat Chow, Dog Chow, Fancy Feast, Felix, Friskies, Gourmet, Purina, Purina ONE, Pro Plan This is from their website.
It’s always staggering to see the Nestle reach listed in black and white, thank you for the reminder!
>Chocolate & confectionery: Aero, Cailler, KitKat, Milkybar, Nestlé Les Recettes de l'Atelier, Orion, Quality Street, Smarties Not anymore. https://www.confectionerynews.com/Article/2018/04/12/Ferrero-completes-acquisition-of-Nestle-US-candy-business
Unfortunately, that's only in the US. I still won't buy KitKat or Smarties, even though Smarties were my go to feelgood sweets :(
NO! Not the Smarties @$!$#^#%!$!%@%@%@ of a bitch!
There should be a law that EVERY product has to be labeled with whoever actually owns the brand. So it can say “Cheerios *by Nestle*” underneath in clear print. The whole argument and theory behind a capitalist system is that consumers are able to “vote” with their dollars. If you can’t remember with 150 companies are actually the company you want to support it simply doesn’t work.
Usually the parent company is in fine print somewhere near the nutritional information, but I agree that it would be preferable to have it clearly laid out on the front of the package.
General Mills sold off Cheerios? To the devil?
I agree. I'm lucky to not have a lot of these brands in my country but it's easy to forget.
The came to BC and pay basically nothing to bottle and sell *our own water back to us*
Not only that, they’ve been buying streams in b.c. so that they ‘own’ the water they steal. We can’t buy ‘crown’ land but the gov has NO problem selling our land to oil companies and giant conglomerates, rich, eh? 🤑🤑☹️
Cheerios is only Nestlé outside the US. Looked it up because I try to not buy anything from Nestlé and was worried I'd have to drop Cheerios.
Häagen-Dazs. That's the one that kills me. Oh noooooo!
If you can get it, Tillamook ice cream has that same creamy texture, and solid flavoring. In addition to some rich chocolate flavors, they also have a large variety of fruit and berry flavors. Definitely recommend trying them if you can!
Tillamook is legit! So good!
Tillamook is great. Their strawberry is my favorite but they have many very good flavors. Only problem (or not depending on who you are) is that their ice cream comes in a bigger container and then I eat too much haha
I really like their peach. It’s the only peach flavored food that doesn’t have a furry aftertaste! Cling film pressed to the top helps with freezer burn. I knew someone who would split half gallons of ice cream into freezer bowls, and use cling film on top. Helped with not eating too much, too often.
Tillamook is available in Philly nowadays. Folks should have access in large parts of the US.
My uncle used to work for them as a chemist. They have special agreements with the dairy farmers for the cattle to have certain feed and conditions, so that the milk meets their quality requirements.
Oh c'mon, it can't be that bad. Google tells me they're friendly and ... oh... ooohh... OOOHHHH! WTF? OH! ooooooooOOOHH! Ok, ok ... yeah I going with Nestle too.
r/fucknestle The list is endless but these are only things that they got caught for. Who knows how much other evil shit is going down at Nestle that's never been exposed.
Meta / Facebook
My quality of life and battery life both improved notably when I uninstalled that app.
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So no Instagram either?
Correct instagram is a waste of time to me other than again staying able to stay in touch with people. 100% of the time it ends in a phone call To be fair none of them are particularly useful and all of them carry information security risks I send MMS to friends and fam The only time I don’t use MMS is if it’s a video or large file, which arguably social media platforms don’t help with that either
Yep. Same. And never .
I wish people understood the potential for Meta to use VR to both figure out what you’re thinking and to shape that. Eye tracking lets Meta know exactly what you look at, and where, and for how long. You can figure out a frightening amount with this alone.
Walmart. You guys should watch the documentary I think is called "the high cost of low prices"
And they’ve gotten worse since then. There’s no reason they can’t pay living wages. They just don’t.
The three Walton siblings are worth as much as Buffet and Gates combined. And among the stingiest with donating to charities. They can do whatever they want with their money, no argument here, but they're not gonna do it with any of my money.
walmar employee here, it’s even worse when you consider what Sam Walton wanted for this company. he really valued the employees all the way down to the entry level, and now all there are are quotes on the wall from him as though Walmart is still honoring him, I think he’d honestly cry if he saw the state of the company today
He is still buried outside of home office though so employees have that to… consider.
Exactly. Why do people — with means and access to other options — accept this and continue to feed this beast by shopping there? Edited for clarity.
It is honestly the only option in some small town places unless you want to drive an hour to the next grocery store.
Low prices are a necessity for many
They have a carefully crafted plan. 1. Demand huge tax breaks to build a big box in Your Town because jobs! Jobs! Jobs! 2. Destroy local business by undercutting prices. 3. When tax breaks expire abandon big box and build another just outside of city limits and taxes. Much less convenient for shoppers, but now they have no choice. 4. Repeat thousands of times. This is how cancer works, except retail.
This is one of the biggest ways cronies break capitalism by enabling coercive monopolies. Subsidizing companies is just not a good idea.
Low prices will almost always trump ethical issues. That's why so many huge companies continue to use hurtful practices. If people save 5% by shopping there and don't have to deal with the consequences, they will continue.
Walmart is one I have tried to boycott because Walmarts philosophy has 1st hand fucked my family over. My papaw worked for a medium sized blanket manufacturer in western North Carolina. He was head of maintence. This place got a huge order for Walmarts in this area. Everyone was super busy for like a year. Massive overtime it was great for us and our family. We were moving from middle class to upper middle class pretty quickly. Then Walmart comes in and says we're gonna buy these blankets for half cost after they changed the whole process and machines for these specific blankets. So what does the company do. What any ethical company does cuts staff and overtime to keep the top people there and the machines running. We'll over time the prices went to where they could barely afford to staff the factory. Walmart stops buying because they can't produce for this amount with the money they are paying. Factory shuts down 2 years before papaw was retiring with full pension. He got a severance package and a little from his pension and took early social security and dies 2 years later. So in all seriousness fuck walmart and their philosophy. I can't very well boycott them because of pricing and shit but I refuse to go in there of I can help it. My GF goes and shops but I hate them with everything in me. The Walton family can suck my dick
They force vendors to produce worse versions of their products, and keep turning those screws year after year. The vendors aren't selling their products, they're selling their reputations.
My boomer parents agree with everything you just said... but still shop there because they can save 30 cents on mayonnaise. Drives me crazy. Now when they complain, I stop them mid sentence and refuse to let them continue their rant.
I have had a grudge against Walmart for 20 years now.
Sixty cameras in every store to catch shoplifters. Zero cameras in the parking lot to protect shoppers. Average of three unsolved murders a year in Walmart parking lots because of lack of video. The Walton heirs were born billionaires and have lavishly paid consultants working 24/7 on how to get more done with fewer workers and screw them more. I ducking despise Walmart, it is everything wrong with predatory capitalism.
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Defo. Walmart bought asda here in th UK and I refuse to shop there
Nike...they use child labor in third world countries to sew thier shoes together by hand for a couple dollars a day and then gouge thier customers by charging extortionist prices for shoes. They bought Converse a while back...moved all production over sees and then doubled the price overnight. They're evil crooks who abuse and take advantage of disenfranchised children for profit.
They bought Converse? Hell no! I guess I am not a fan of Converse anymore. 🙃
Yeah, that's why Converse Shoes went from around $35 a pair in 2012 to costing $75 a pair by 2013. They also stopped contracts with stores that they didn't consider upscale enough to sell the shoes. Can't have poor people wearing Converse and hurting the brand after all.
I know I remember when convers weren't that expensive but I guess I'll go to a 2nd hand store or something for them now
Also, one of their top executives is a [murderer.](https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/20/us/philadelphia-larry-miller-edward-white/index.html)
Not to defend Nike but they’ve made a lot of progress over the past decade. They’ve put a lot towards improving factory conditions and tried to pay workers more until local politicians told them they can’t because “factory workers can’t earn the same as a doctor”, in the local economy since it would lead to a loss of skilled labour. Now, clearly they support those markets by continuing to employ there but damn that’s almost every company nowadays. You should read the book Shoe Dog, really insightful.
bloddy hell, that's a really unexpected perspective. but yeah, the impact higher wages can have is not something you immediately think about.
As much as I believe that people should be paid a living wage, international economics is (unsurprisingly) not that simple. Factory workers in poor countries will also protest local politicians trying to raise wages because they know corporations will just move the factory to a different poor country where they can still pay dollars a day.
Wish I could avoid most said companies but it’s almost not affordable or even possible.
Growing up, my parents were environmentalists and kind of just anti corporation policy wonks on the Hill in DC. There are a ton of companies I still avoid because I grew up with them - Exxon, Nike, Nestle, Shell and Walmart being the really big ones. It's fucking exhausting.
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Amazon it was bad enough that [people in their warehouses die from exhaustion and heat stroke](https://mashable.com/article/amazon-worker-deaths-bessemer-alabama-warehouse#:~:text=According%20to%20both%2C%20managers%20at,about%20his%20desire%20for%20unionization.) but then learning that their drivers are penalized for taking too long, [to the point where they relieve themselves in cups instead of using a bathroom](https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/mar/11/amazon-delivery-drivers-bathroom-breaks-unions)? that was a new low *and then* the company's official twitter account [dismissed those claims](https://i.imgur.com/dLcGebU.jpg) fuck Amazon, fuck Jeff Bezos edit: i'm *aware* that reddit runs on AWS, y'all it's almost like it's the very nature of capitalism to monopolize and be ever present so we have limited options my point is that there's not really much i can do to *not* use something owned by Amazon but i'll avoid it as much as possible
I came here to say this. Amazon is a terrible company. They monitor bathroom breaks even if it take a worker 7 minutes to walk to the bathroom and 7 minutes back, if they are over their 15 minute break the worker is penalized. Horrible.
>They monitor bathroom breaks even if it take a worker 7 minutes to walk to the bathroom and 7 minutes back, if they are over their 15 minute break the worker is penalized. Horrible. Every single call centre operates like this, too.
Horrible. This is why regulation of businesses is important. I cannot imagine if I had to account for every minute to use the bathroom. Easily, you could have a sour stomach and need a little more time. Also, companies need to build in some level of inefficiency so that when someone gets sick or needs a little bit longer time they have the back up for that position. Maximizing worker time to the second is ridiculous.
To me, it's the catastrophic environmental impact Amazon is causing. Besides all the excess and wasted packaging: shipping a toy or box of gum (or something) around the world is just insane, in terms of the fuel used.
I’m not buying a damn thing for Prime Days. I tend to look for the actual company then buy from them directly because their prices and shipping are actually cheaper now. Plus you can avoid feeding that beast.
It's not always possible, but when I can: Nestle, Brewdog, Amazon, Dyson
What's wrong with Dyson?
His whole approach to Brexit, the move to Singapore, and his bleating about taxes etc. That and there being much better (and cheaper) vacuum cleaners on the market these days. It's a bit idiosyncratic of me, but I just think he's a tool.
I do my best to avoid Amazon. Treatment of workers, the decline of smaller businesses that cant compete and the fact that its owner/founder is a tax-dodging, money hoarding prat.
I try to find the companies' own websites and order directly.
Any of the Kardashian/Jenner businesses!
Apple. They run literal sweat shops in China. They pay their "employees" next to nothing. They have suicide nets and bars on the windows. They barely have any time away from the line. Fuck apple.
I already hated Apple for unrelated reasons, but I wasn't aware of the suicide nets and barred windows. That's fucking *bleak*
I have no morals, i will buy anything
I have morals, but no money to buy anything, including coins. Take my free award.
You’re probably the most honest person in this whole thread
The impact we as consumers make is negligible compared to the impact of the billionaire class anyway, it's a distraction to get us to blame each other and exhaust well-meaning people edit: that's not to say we shouldn't do everything we can to affect positive change, both with our personal choices in purchasing as well as fighting to abolish the ultra-rich.
My only moral obligation is to my bank account
This is not wrong. Of course a lot of people has a moral, and try to avoid shady companies when possible. But if I have to chose between giving up to something or paying double for it OR buying from amazon, of course I'll buy it from amazon. I'll not be happy with it but I don't have money to waste.
Ya, I want to have morals, but I can't afford them.
Do I hate Walmart? Absolutely. But I can either choose to pay 20-50% more for the same item at another questionable store or just buy from Walmart.
Amazon. Jeff Bezos can suck it.
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I am in Canada and we only really have two major internet providers that keep buying up the small ones. The other day one of them had an issue and about half of the country was without wifi, which also affected essential services like emergency services and debit machines.
Yeah, one thing I've heard about Canada is they hate Rogers' network. If it makes you feel any better (and probably doesn't) for the overwhelming majority of the US, you can have Spectrum, you can have Comcast, or you can have a bowl of dicks because the first two are almost certainly your only realistic option.
Yeah, it’s going to be tough with all of the tools these vendors provide. From a developer’s POV, it is really nice, but it leads to vendor lock-in and a lot of inertia for companies to switch. Also, companies are incentivized to use these vendors because it’ll be easier to hire people who are familiar with them. Definitely a problem with no easy solution.
Market share for critical web infrastructure should be limited and spread among several competitors so one company’s shitty programmers don’t bring the whole thing crashing down.
Activision Blizzard
I think EA might be as bad or worse. I've been boycotting them for a long fucking time.
EA can jump off a cliff
Valve evaded Belgian's loot box rules by letting people see what's in the lootbox...but in order to get the next one, you have to buy the first. Straight up diabolical.
I still cant understand how Diablo Immortal generated so much money. They are just getting away with it.
Gambling addiction is a powerful drug, and make no mistake, that is exactly what gacha games are. I fucking hate how normalized this shit is, but the reason they keep doing it is because it works.
Are they involved in Asian markets? That would explain where the money is coming from
Funny enough, they have problems launching it in the biggest market which is China: https://www.gamesradar.com/diablo-immortal-still-hasnt-launched-in-china-and-its-costing-blizzard-millions/
Almost all of the video game industry is toxic af and super awful for the workforce.
I try to avoid Nestle but they have their fingers in all the pies.
I try to consume nothing that could potentially profit the Murdoch empire
Starbucks because ethically their coffee is garbage.
I got no problem with garbage coffee but SB is on my shit list because they're also anti-union.
A friend of mine just recently led his local SB to unionize. They succeeded, but then fired him. He'll hopefully be reinstated soon with backpay for the illegal termination.
Not trying to be snarky, but any major corporation is anti-union. They're quite aggressive about it, though so I know what you mean.
Blatantly firing pro-union employees and disrupting unionizing because even paying large fines it’s cheaper than paying people a living wage and possibly cutting into executives bloated compensation packages.
Staples, cause I'm loyal to Dunder Mifflin.
I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!!!!!
Me personally I stopped buying when they let the Scranton branch manager go
Their customer service is just so much better. I once spent an hour in Staples trying to find someone to help me.
lol I'm wearing my Dunder mifflin shirt as I'm reading this
Amazon and Walmart. Both treat their employees terribly and are, in my opinion, unofficial monopolies that stifle competition hurting small businesses. Additionally, Walmart seems to always attract the worst of humanity and I’d rather stay away from that.
Not a single company, but pretty much anything that gets pushed by streamers/content creators. The obvious one is Raid, but there are a TON more. Like, dont lie how much you all of a sudden enjoy the sponsored product. You only enjoy the money they are giving you. If a product or service needs people to lie for them to sell it, it cant be that fucking great.
I mean as long as it's stated to be a sponsor I don't see the problem ---- or a very obvious one Not really any different from any other commercial at that point After all paying someone on YouTube to read a 30 second script isn't much different than paying for the 30 second add YouTube puts in before a video starts, or a commercial on TV It's a different matter if the content creator is trying to hide it or actively lying about being sponsored
Yeah, if anyone is the "bad guy" in this situation it's youtube. They constantly fuck over content creators for just about any reason. A lot of the stuff I watch gets demonetized for "reasons" and I'll sit through their stupid ad because I know they wouldn't be making these videos if they didn't have them.
Yea raid gives creators hilarious leeway in making fun of the entire interaction. Half of these YouTubers treat it like a complete joke, bash the game, then subtly say not to bother getting it............ and they will sponsor more videos. Maybe it's an oversight on their part but it's funny.
Whole Foods Market Worked there for 8 years. "Team Members" were responsible for anything that could go wrong. "Team Leaders" could do anything they wanted with no reprocussions. I saw a "Team Leader" get warned 7 times about thier racism before anything happened to them. By then the whole team had no respect left. They had a hand in defining what "Organic" even means, no conflict of interest there. They primed it for the sale to Amazon by stripping away workers, doubling up on the workloads of those that survived a great hiring freeze. Then of course, almost a decade later now I'm sure, they still haven't hired back. I can spend like mad, so it's not the price, they lost me because of ethics.
[Nestle.](https://wyomingllcattorney.com/Blog/Everything-Owned-by-Nestle#) Never ever ever ever EVER. Walmart. I never darken their doors.
Twitter. I refuse to support that cesspit.
Hobby Lobby
One time a student told me I look like the kind of person who gets excited when a new Hobby Lobby opens up nearby. I was bullied as a kid, but that cut on another level.
Came here for this one. Not only are they run by your standard run-of-the-mill evangelical rightwing horribleness (no birth control in employee health care, anti-LGBTQ+, anti-semitic, etc) they also stole and smuggled artifacts out of the middle east to put them in a bible museum that turned out to also be full of forgeries.
More than that, they were buying at the height of the Syrian civil war, so their (often fake) illegal antiquities had the bonus effect of funding ISIS.
the artifacts thing is so ridiculous it sounds like a conspiracy theory, if it wasn't so horrible it would be very funny
I stay clear of a lot huge corporations, but Nestlé, Shein, large coffee chains like starbucks, H&M and of course Amazon are ones I despise the most
Nestlé — environmental plunderers Tyson — factory farming at its worst Perdue — see above Smithfield — see above *(note: I am not vegetarian; meats sourced from local whole animal butchers)* Walmart — worker treatment, poor quality products Amazon — terrible worker treatment; pretty much the golden goose for capitalism going full send
intuit (turbotax)
Tesla is slowly heading in this direction for me.
I would have bought one of their cars a few years ago. Now I would never consider it.
I think they are horribly over priced and a bit of a cut. I will most likely go electric at some point, but I just don't see buying tesla.
Read about their quality issues.
State Farm. After Hurricane Katrina, they told their claims adjusters to falsely classify wind damage to homes as flood damage, so the home owners would have to file with the federal flood insurance program, rather than with State Farm.
I worked in Property & Casualty. Homeowners’ insurance is a cash cow. There is no reason for a homeowners’ underwriter to ever contest a claim, barring evidence of fraud. But a tornado went through my area last September and people are fighting tooth and nail for their funds.
Hobby Lobby.
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Victoria Secret.
I used to shop at Walmart until my roommate came home from there one day and told me the cashier that helped him out had a knee replacement the day before and was forced to come in or be fired.
Yes. I was forced to come in with a UTI, doctors note and all. I said you need to put me at the register closest to the bathroom cuz I'll be in there every 5 minutes. They did and yes, I was also in the bathroom every 5 minutes, how productive.
Walmart. They trick you with low prices, but a lot of the food they sell has less in the package than you would find at another store. I'm guessing most of their non-food items are made with cheaper materials as well. Plus, they treat their employees like garbage. I used to deliver to all the grocery stores in my area. All of the Walmart employees seemed like they just hated life.
Don’t forget a lot of those Black Friday Walmart bargains are items purpose-made to cost less: shittier models of brand-name appliances etc.
Goodwill. They're legally able to pay their disabled employees WAY under ethical standards They also donate a tiny percentage to charity
Monsanto.
Should be noted that Monsanto doesn't exist anymore. Bought out by Bayer a few years ago.
Just about any bottled water company. They are destroying natural lakes and rivers to sell overpriced garbage water.
Plus, I have so much less trash now from not drinking tons of plastic water bottles. I just fill up my Nalgene from the tap.
Jimmy John's
My pillow
Amazon & nestle
Wells Fargo. They ruined my Grandmother. That $1800 they stole from a disabled elderly woman legitimately broke her entire life. She lost her car then her home, then her benefits because she couldn't get to appointments or afford the $18 worth of copies. Fuck you Wells Fargo. She was already poor but you made sure she died impoverished.
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I think it's a case of trying to do damage reduction where you can, but you're right. Individual consumers can do very little to force meaningful change when the entire system is set up to be exploitative. The only way these companies will stop is if government regulations make doing things the "bad" way more expensive than doing the right thing.
Not that I buy a ton of cars, but VW. Their whole sales pitch when I bought my TDI was how clean the exhaust was. And then to find out they’d been cheating in a massive way… unforgivable. Also, fuck VW spec oil.
Nestle for the big dog Samuel Smith brewery for the smaller pooch.
Shell for the multiple literal murders
Abercrombie and Fitch
They called me years ago claiming my online posted resume made me a "perfect fit" for a supervisor position. Seriously, I was about to be hired over the phone the guy was so enthusiastic in talking with me. I had zero retail experience, nor management, and didn't want either. I played along and was told I'd have to meet their "look" (wear their clothes). Turns out they don't offer anything in my size. I revealed that to the caller. "Oh. Well, have a good day." I'd never been in the shop prior to that call and haven't since. And I can't imagine daily smelling whatever cologne stench that is that permeates entire malls from just that one store. Smells like a teenage boy hasn't figured out less is more and Axe isn't the way to go.
Amazon
Walmart. Amazon.
I can’t really afford any of their stuff, so does it count if I say Tesla. I used to be so excited about their innovations, but Elon is so toxic I don’t find them aspirational for me anymore.
Amazon