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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?

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Adidas. McDonald's. Starbucks.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

There's a bunch I know when I see them, but not many I can think of right on the spot. Apple, Liquid Death, and Celestial Seasonings are a few I can think of though. Apple for a million reasons; LD because I just find their whole campaign insanely obnoxious and everywhere I look and I hate that people are paying ridiculous prices for plane ass water in a can; Celestial Seasonings because it's straight up an actual cult.

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I try to avoid all the brands that still work in russia because I don't want to fund the terrorist state

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Blue Bell. They killed people with their listeria negligence.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Dell Microsoft Roku Sony Briggs & Stratton Duracell

All of the above companies have failed me for the Last. Time. Admiral Piet. We're done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

MS make a decent mouse as it goes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've been using Logitech trackballs since Clinton was president.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Most of Nestlé, of Lactalis...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Oh yeah fuck Nestle.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Müller (Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller), an unscrupulous European food company with ties to the radical right. There are plenty of alternatives, including regional ones.

Müller owns numerous prominent brands, especially in Germany and the UK, but also in other countries.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Most of them.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

Still, after all these years?

Always.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Samsung appliances or Samsung smart anything. SSDs are tolerable but I'd rather find someone else.

HP printers but they are especially bad so all HP.

Any device that requires a cloud connection, account, or specific app to work. Hard no.

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