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

submitted 4 months ago by SethranKada@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

I try and not support many corporate brands, and buy local produce and meats.

It's easier to avoid problem companies by not buying any of the millions of cheap snack foods that are basically just repackaged corn syrup and starches.

[–] hal_5700X@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (6 children)

Gillette. Due to their toxic masculinity ad. Why are they talking about that stuff? I went to them for shaving stuff, not for a talk about toxic masculinity or whatever. The good thing about the ad. It got me into safety razors. They're way better then cartridge razors. So thank you, Gillette. For making me stop using cheap plastic razors.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

If it's the ad I'm thinking of, I actually kinda liked it. But I definitely agree with you on the safety razors. Better shave and better for the planet. Don't buy plastic cartridge razors, you're getting ripped off and needlessly contributing to the plastic problem. Now if only I could find blades that a 100 pack didn't mean 20 plastic 5-packs of blades, but it still is a lot less waste than a cartridge razor.

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[–] m3t00@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

at&t, comcast, tobacco co's

[–] LemmyHead@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Mostly anything USA since I was 12-15 years old. Israeli too since many years ago.

Coca cola, apple, google, Intel CPUs

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 1 points 4 months ago

Most of them.

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