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submitted 3 months ago by SethranKada@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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[-] kenkenken@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago
  1. Apple
  2. Meta (but actually it effectively avoids me, I not much avoid it)
  3. Nazi states (the new axis powers) affiliated brands when I can, especially for the tech companies.

If you avoid Pepsi, for example, what do you turn to instead?

Tea, probably.

[-] cwg1231@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 2 months ago

Amazon: I avoid them because of worker abuse and union busting. While prime shipping is convenient, planning around not having it comes pretty naturally. Just plan as if it’s not an option at all. This does require good internet search skills to find sites that sell what you’re looking for, but I can’t express how worth it the work is to get better quality products.

Starbucks: I avoid them because of union busting. I make most of my coffee and tea at home, it’s cheaper and better anyway. Otherwise, I go to a local cafe. My area has a lot of them, but even if yours doesn’t, try asking around.

[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Apple for their poisonous followership.

Canon for being assholes.

Microsoft for their shitty products that only survive due to the mass they have acquired during the years running largely unchecked.

Facebook/Meta/Twitterx/Tesla: see Apple.

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[-] TheBigBrother@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago
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[-] kowcop@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Honestly.. Google Play.. someone re-gifted my son a $20 Google Play card a few years ago, and I tried to buy something for him and realised the card was about 2weeks out of date, and after about 10 back and forwards with support, they wouldn’t honour it.. a trillion dollar company. I get it, but their cold indifference just seemed mean

[-] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

They didn't become a trillion dollar company by being nice. No mega Corp earns their billions by being an honorable company

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[-] CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 months ago

EA got my account stolen with 1200+ hours of playtime via fraudulent support tickets. That's why, I am not touching anything EA's involved with ever when they absolutely suck at account security.

[-] nickiam2@aussie.zone 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

LG, Nestlé, Coke-Cola, Amazon, TikTok, Temu, any big brand bank, ASUS, Johnson Outdoors brands (jetboil, scuba pro)

Edit:forgot Tyson foods and Hormel. Their fucking over chicken farmers.

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[-] blackstrat@lemmy.fwgx.uk 10 points 2 months ago

KwikFit fucked me over once 15 years ago and I'm never going back.

Apple is BS for losers.

Someone driving a Tesla I can't help but think of them sucking off Musk whilst being ass fucked.

[-] LavenderDay3544@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago
[-] DirigibleProtein@aussie.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Crowdstrike
Microsoft

[-] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Many store-brand foods because they're made with half garbage.

HP - their printers and subscription models pissed me off so much that I want nothing to do with them.

Apple - 'nuff said

[-] Mothra@mander.xyz 9 points 3 months ago

McDonald's.

I'm not much into fast food but if I'm craving a burger and chips I'll get it from a pub.

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[-] Poxlox@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago
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[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

Nestle

HP

Apple

Tesla

There are more but those are the first that came to mind that I don't have to go dig up a list.

[-] Supervisor194@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Dollar, Hertz and Thrifty car rental. Also Budget, but for different reasons.

Never use Dollar, Hertz or Thrifty under any circumstances unless you want to be fucked. Never prepay with Budget unless you want to be fucked.

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[-] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 8 points 2 months ago

HiSense - they make appliances and they're junk

All bottled water - no one needs them and it's plastic that's here forever

Temu - disposable shit

Bath and Body Works - the creators of microbeads (plastic) hand soap

Teflon - poisoned my town's water

Chick-fil-A - evangelist food, no thanks

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[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 months ago

Dell Microsoft Roku Sony Briggs & Stratton Duracell

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

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[-] NauticalNoodle@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 months ago

Apple & Meta. I try to boycott Amazon in lieu of other online sellers but I don't always succeed. All non-union Starbucks. The latter is the one that has impacted my life the most because I used to spend my days studying at Starbucks. I Struggle to focus and concentrate on formal work of any kind while at home. We do have two unionized locations in town. They usually don't have any sitting room left, though because they are so close to the university campus.

[-] JokeDeity@lemm.ee 6 points 2 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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