• megopie@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    7 months ago

    On a related topic to weird hippie products.

    I really hate the changes that Tom’s of Maine has made since they got bought out. They stopped packing their toothpaste in metal tubes and went to plastic, and they separated their deodorant in to “male and female” lines, and it’s been getting hard to find their unscented deodorant. They got bought out a while ago admittedly, but the changes have been coming on faster lately.

    Like, the new ownership is trying to make them more competitive with other brands, but I always liked them for what made them different from the other big brands and it drives me up the wall how often such good products get ruined by the companies being bought out.

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        7 months ago

        The crazy looking food, itself, has decent reviews, but the owners of Gentle Giants used to run a puppy mill disguised as a dog rescue from what I have found about them.

        There are quite a few bad reviews about the puppy mill from the mid to late 2000s. Like this one for example.