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Nestlé, Red Bull or Starbucks: You can do without some products without feeling guilty. A Reddit survey provides the reason.
If you stroll through the shelves with your shopping cart, you may not even pay attention to which products you actually buy when working through your shopping list. Maybe it's because you hate going shopping for reasons and just want to get it over with quickly.
But before you grab a product, you may sometimes want to think twice about whether you should actually buy it or opt for an alternative. It's always worth checking the ingredients and the manufacturer again. Because you may be overlooking something that could harm you, or you may be supporting companies that may not represent your moral values. In a FragReddit survey, Redditor
Vierlierer
also asked which products people boycott and for what reasons.
Here are the most frequently mentioned ones listed for you:
1. “Fruit and vegetables that are imported from further away than the rest of Europe and things that are not at all seasonal. I find it absolutely perverse that there have to be strawberries at Christmas and apples from Argentina are on the shelves in October.”
-u/Puzzled-Pie9411
2. “Nutella, due to recipe change.”
-u/Heavy-Dig8903
3. “DuschDas (shower gel from Unilever). The price has almost doubled to €1.45 and at the same time the quantity has been reduced from 250ml to 225ml. While the own brands from Rossmann and dm still cost 55 cents and even have more content (300ml). Nobody can tell me that the ingredients in ShowerDas are so high-quality that a price four times higher would be justified.”
-u/silvrnox
4. “Clothes with large inscriptions (+ especially the brand). Am I an advertising banner or what?!”
-u/Lucas_Muggel
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5. “Nestlé, as far as it goes (unconsciously, unfortunately, you buy something from time to time) ... simply, in my opinion, a lousy company.”
-u/Puzzleheaded_Mud3606
6. “Anchorweed. For reasons.”
-u/Mf51077
7. “Those pre-packaged meatballs. There's a hundred people who fart in the smell for a living."
-u/feuerholzverleih1990
8. “Starbucks, I like coffee after all.”
-u/Number_113
9. “Red Bull because they are destroying football. As well as promoting extreme sports, whatever the cost.”
-u/bvbs09
10. “Games as a Service
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games are 99% trash and discounted by 50% after four months.”
u/Steckruebi
11. “Milka. They put alcohol in some of their mini cakes without clearly declaring it. “It made me so angry that I extended the boycott to all of their products.”
-u/Available-Shelter-89
12. "Walking shoes if the manufacturer believes women all really want to wear pink & purple."
-u/fluentindothraki
13. “Any stuff promoted by influencers.”
u/LysanderBelmont
Some answers have been shortened and/or edited for clarity.
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