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minus-squaretankplanker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-23 months agoSo this is obviously McDonald’s but manufacturing suffers a similar path: Make high quality and respected product onshore Get purchased by vulture capitalist Lower standards to increase profit Product is offshored to cover up falling sales Quality nosedives Once the customer base catches on sales nosedives Lower quality even more and brand becomes a joke Get purchased by mega conglomerate who collects brands like Pokémon Rival product gets made onshore by a small team who used to work for you See Doc Martin and Solvair or Hunter Wellingtons or any other of a large number of former halo brands. Filson is one going through this right now
minus-squareKiosade@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoWhy do they let step 2 even happen? Is it just that the creators don’t actually give a shit about their product/brand, and just want an easy, big pay day? Screw their employees?
So this is obviously McDonald’s but manufacturing suffers a similar path:
See Doc Martin and Solvair or Hunter Wellingtons or any other of a large number of former halo brands. Filson is one going through this right now
Why do they let step 2 even happen? Is it just that the creators don’t actually give a shit about their product/brand, and just want an easy, big pay day? Screw their employees?
Money. The answer is always money.