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What's your list of banned brands? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 50 points 3 months ago (1 children)

chik-fil-a…

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Huh, haven't heard that one before. What did they do?

I've never been to one, so continuing that isn't much of a bother to me anyway

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The chain's owners regularly donate to anti-LGBT organizations. They used to do it through company donations, but after being called out for it they stopped donating through the CFA corporation, but still donate privately to the same organizations.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Good enough for me, I'll avoid them in the future.