Comment on What common American habits do people find quietly annoying?

• exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel like brand obsession, where the brand itself is a status symbol, is more of a European thing, especially the brands owned by LVMH (which they’ve successfully exported everywhere, including the Americas and Asia).

  There’s still a time and a place for brand/manufacturer as an indicator of quality or even corporate policy (cars, bicycles, certain electronics, certain functional apparel/shoes/equipment/tools), but those are the types of things where I’d still consider the brand even if it’s nowhere to be seen on the finished product.

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  • A_norny_mousse@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    There’s still a time and a place for brand/manufacturer as an indicator of quality

    Nowadays so many brands “known for quality” also have a low tier that is basically just as bad as the cheapo equivalent, but branded. Maybe there was a time when that would disqualify them from being a “quality brand”, but not anymore.

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    • starlinguk@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nestlé used to make three “tiers” of chocolate: continental Europe (decent), the UK (meh), the US (bad).

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