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Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same.He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporati…

Originally reported by The Guardian Business


Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same.He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporati…


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