Looking for a backpack and wondering.
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3 monthsProbably. Anecdotally I can say that I have an Eastpak backpack that served me well for the last 15 years, and still does. However I’ve recently been shown this beautiful website, which I think fits this community pretty well:
https://www.worseonpurpose.com/p/your-backpack-got-worse-on-purpose
Granted, they even kind of say, that Eastpak is still good, and I also couldn’t recommend other brands.
- sit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish3 months
Insane, eye-opening read. Thank you
This is the pattern. Acquisition. Cost optimization. Quality decline. Warranty narrowing. Brand equity extraction. And eventually, divestiture.
It happened to your backpack. The same playbook is running right now on your power tools, your boots, your sunglasses, and about a dozen other product categories where a company you trusted quietly got absorbed by a corporation you’ve never heard of.
