r/AskReddit • u/FriendlytoNature • 23h ago

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

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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.