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> It was illegal to send the Beanies because the same products were on sale in the USA. What kind of law is that? Who is that protecting except the profits of
by autoexec 3y ago
> It was illegal to send the Beanies because the same products were on sale in the USA.
What kind of law is that? Who is that protecting except the profits of specific companies? I know people got in trouble for importing quality chocolates because they were made by a company who sold the rights to sell chocolates under that name in the US to a different company. It didn't matter that the company authorized to sell them in the US also changed the recipe and used shit ingredients meaning that the products were no longer the same. Medications would be dirt cheap if it were legal for me to import them from other countries.
Weird how companies love to tell us that we'd better get used to the income and working conditions tolerated by employees in the poorest nations on earth because it's a "Global Economy" and they will source the cheapest possible labor and exploit the crap out of them, but the moment you try to buy their goods at the lowest possible price offered globally they'll drag you into court to stop it.
- danlugo92 3y agoIt's just greed, been happening since thousands of years ago.
- ceejayoz 3y ago> I know people got in trouble for importing quality chocolates because they were made a company who sold the rights to sell chocolates under that name in the US to a different company. Cadbury? I still get Flakes via Amazon. They ship from the UK in boxes marked "beauty supplies", which cracks me up every time.
- autoexec 3y agoYeah, that was it! If I were going to sell the rights to use my brand's name in another country I think I'd have to insist that they maintain the quality of the product so as not to damage my brand.
- Tade0 3y agoI think it might be deliberate on their part. As in: if they can get away with using shit ingredients in a region, they will.
- ceejayoz 3y agoBit of both. Hershey owns the license to the Cadbury name in the US, and they use a chocolate formulation that has a slight sour/spoiled/tangy taste. (The idea that they directly add butyric acid is a myth, but something in the process seems to generate it or something similar.)
- Freak_NL 3y agoEven the UK flakes seem to have gone downhill now that they are made in Egypt, much to the chagrin of Mr Whippy: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/26/cadbury-flake-now-too-crumbly-for-99-cones-say-ice-cream-sellers https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/may/26/cadbury-fla... (I just love news items so thoroughly rooted in a country's national habits.)
- Lio 3y agoKraft ruined Cadbury after their hostile takeover. Fuckers. They lied to get the deal done and then closed factories, dropped Fairtrade ingredients and dodged paying any tax in the UK as soon as they could.
- ceejayoz 3y agoDang it, I thought this was just down to the smuggling. That’s a bummer; I remember them being much creamier.
- wahnfrieden 3y agoThe allure of bureaucracy is walking into a vice