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

submitted 6 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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[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Microsoft and Lenovo

[–] irreticent@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

I'm not that familiar with them; why Lenovo?

[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I avoid Nemix RAM, because the first time I bought a bunch of sticks from them, they had an 18% failure rate. I paid to ship the bad sticks back, and they sent me more bad sticks. Nemix said they worked fine, so I sent them the Memtest screenshot with all the errors. They didn’t want to pay shipping to replace them again, so I just returned them and got some Micron RAM, and it’s been working perfectly.

[–] jimp@lemm.ee 5 points 6 months ago

Coca-Cola, Nestlé, Starbucks.

[–] card797@champserver.net 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Blue Bell. They killed people with their listeria negligence.

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[–] PurplebeanZ@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

Sony

[–] t_378@lemmy.one 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Friggin' Spirit Airlines!

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[–] PsychedSy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 months ago

Epic Games until they continue developing UT4. Motherfuckers.

[–] Don_Dickle@piefed.social 5 points 6 months ago

Late to the apparent party but Phillip Morris . They own a shitton of food and pot licences.

[–] Vitaly 4 points 6 months ago

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

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Adidas. McDonald's. Starbucks.

[–] suction@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Tesla, Red Bull, Believe Music, Microsoft, Samsung, so many more I can’t think of right now

[–] viking@infosec.pub 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Coca-Cola, Apple, Samsung, HP.

My alternatives are none (water & coffee only), Android (OnePlus specifically for phones), LG/Toshiba for consumer electronics, Brother for printers and Dell or Lenovo for laptops.

Edit: Oh yeah and Tesla, not only because of Musk, I simply don't want to drive a tablet on wheels. I'm going for low-tech cars only. Some barebones Kia, Hyundai or Dacia.

[–] BassTurd@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Broadcom

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[–] SlamWich@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

Walmart, Amazon, Blizzard, EA, Apple, McDonalds, Then some of the mega brands when I can avoid them like Unilever, General Mills, etc

[–] ulkesh@beehaw.org 3 points 6 months ago

Tesla

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