Worse On Purpose
Good Morning.
Center of my plate blog, if you have to read anything other than Good Morning, is this one.
Your power tools got worse on purpose. Your backpack got worse on purpose. Your glasses got worse on purpose. And just recently, your dinner got worse on purpose. This blog has done the research and tells you exactly which companies are responsible for it.
The pattern is something you might have distantly heard of but probably don’t pay much attention to. One company buys another, then another, then 75% of the industry. Once they own all the brands you love, they hire Chinese factories to make cheap stuff, and stick that logo on it. You think you’re buying an Eddie Bauer something (“Oh, I love that brand!”) but really what you’re buying has no relation to what you used to buy.
“Hmm, must have been a bad batch.”
Yeah, right. It’s worse on purpose. This blog has done the research, telling you why it’s not the same and how bad it is now. And also who’s left that does it right. I kinda have been looking for exactly this.
And here’s the ledger of brands he’s tracked so far. I hope you have a chance to take a look.
This is great. Thanks for bringing this to my attention.
I checked out the site today. I was shopping for shoes at DSW and was going to buy a pair of Clark’s, a brand I have considered to be pretty reliable and a good quality shoe. Well, the shoes I wanted were $70, seemed to be a good deal until I actually looked them over. The quality was absolutely horrible, worse than the worst Payless shoes. I was glad that I didn’t mail order them and had the chance to see them for myself to assess the quality. No shoes for me. Clark’s is on the watchlist, taken over by a Hong Kong company. What a shame!