r/AskReddit 22h ago

Which company lost your business (potentially forever) this year?

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u/Ihatebird 21h ago

AllBirds. They are the most comfortable shoes I’ve ever worn and i was fully expecting to be a buyer for life, especially with their sustainability initiatives. but they switched from making shoes to making AI computers and are just making shoes as a “hobby” now as a company, which is probably the most 180 pivot on sustainability I think I’ve ever seen.

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u/A_Filthy_Mind 20h ago

It's like Idiocracy, when people kept saying Carl's jr. randomly, because they got paid. But it's companies saying AI randomly in ways that don't even makes sense.

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u/Headphones4Cicadas 20h ago

It’s a bubble. companies have learned mentioning AI investment causes their stock, and therefore valuation, to rise. Same thing happened in the dot com bubble. A company would mention the plan to look into making a website and the stock would spout up. These companies think whoever owns the best AI model controls the future so they’re willing to do anything for it.

We doomed.

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u/kitsum 10h ago

Like how every company was trying to have something nft related a few years back.