> because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews Well one of the things big brands - especially in th

> because you could just pick high-quality products from smaller manufacturers by looking at user reviews Well one of the things big brands - especially in the consumer products industry like the one I work in - do quite religiously is product testing during research and a lot of q/a during manufacturing to eliminate as far as possible risk of safety issues. We sometimes take competitive products through the same tests and while what some of the small producers sometimes produce wouldn't be illegal, we'd never run with those standards. Bigger competitors tend to be largely fine.