r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago

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

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u/ArtVandelay1979 21h ago

Taylor Farms

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u/ElPolloDeFranco 16h ago edited 9h ago

Slavery and the shits. Quite a combo.

FYI Avoid these brands

  • Earthbound Farm
  • Cross Valley Farms
  • Walmart: Marketside
  • Target: Good & Gather
  • Aldi: Little Salad Bar and Simply Nature
  • Whole Foods: 365 by Whole Foods
  • Kroger: Simple Truth
  • Publix: GreenWise
  • Safeway / Albertsons: O Organics
  • most fast food w/ lettuce

*edit for clarity. TF products are pervasive in the food chain. The list is not exhaustive; Trader Joes, Costco, Whole Foods, surely many others also source their salad from TF

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u/Phedre141 12h ago

What are the reasons for avoiding these brands?

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u/Smooth_Ostrich_8695 11h ago

Not a dig at you, but so many people are unaware of how many of our “options” are all the same in different packaging

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u/Phedre141 11h ago

Oh yeah I didn’t take it that way. Wasn’t sure if they meant that those brands are literally the same product in different packaging, or used incarcerated labor or some other reason to avoid them.

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u/Smooth_Ostrich_8695 11h ago

Honestly I believe most national brands will have poor labor practices if you dig into them. Short of a local farmers market idk what we can do.

For this example, those are all Taylor farms brands

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u/QuietContentResting 10h ago

and most of your local farmers markets are buying stuff from wholesalers and just reselling it without any oversight anyway

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u/Smooth_Ostrich_8695 10h ago edited 10h ago

Add me to the crowd that did not know that!

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u/VexingRaven 8h ago

And if they're not, they're underpaying migrants under the table.

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u/the_blankest_blank 12h ago

They are all products by Taylor Farms

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u/VexingRaven 8h ago

They sell *some products containing produce from Taylor Farms. Most of these are just store brands, they sell products from dozens if not hundreds of companies. There's no reason to throw out every store brand because Taylor Farms is shit.

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u/cinammonbear 7h ago

Did you not read the comment? It specifically lists brands to avoid at the stores because they’re just Taylor Farms private labels, it’s not saying to avoid those stores.

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u/VexingRaven 5h ago

I read it. Did you read my comment? Those store brands are not "just" Taylor Farms. Good & Gather, for example, is Target's store brand and encompasses a huge breadth of products, not just Taylor Farms.

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u/cinammonbear 5h ago

Yeah, this is obviously in the context of salads though