Five Products Facing Consumer Backlash

Wallet Pop:

Consumer history is littered with products, gadgets and items that consumers love to love, only to later hate them. Remember margarine, the Atkins Diet and Barbie, to name a few?

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[Lynda Lopez]

02:43 AM on 02/05/2011

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[JScott]

11:56 PM on 02/04/2011

C'mon only 5?

[JNo]

08:24 PM on 02/04/2011

Plastic shopping bags were a godsend for the *consumer*? Surely you mean for the retailer. No consumer asked for cheap, flimsy plastic bags that cut off the circulation to your fingers when the contents are heavy or if you have to walk distance carrying them. Items can't be packed upright well because everything just flops around in a bag with no side support. As for cheaper, did the price of any of the items contained in the plastic bags go down due to the savings in using plastic? Not mine. Sturdy? Some yes, but some are thinner than weak coffee and start to stretch or else separate on the bottom, especially if you accidentally poke a hole somewhere. Then retailers created a market for shopping bags by marketing something...sturdier and more comfortable to carry. Huh. 'how bout that. What was every so bad about brown paper sacks?

[brooklyncitizen]

09:59 PM on 02/04/2011

I really like the paper sacks.

[Conk]

11:49 AM on 02/04/2011

Bottled water was just a trial balloon to test us. To see if we'd be sucker enough to pay for water. It worked, as people are now accustomed to paying for something essentially free. The powers that be know that a critical shortage of clean water is heading at us like a runaway train. The West of USA is drying up. Waters are poisoned all over the world. Get ready, water is about to get very expensive!

The super rich are buying up all available aquifers all over the world. The Bush family owns around 900,000 acres of them in Paraguay.

[JScott]

11:56 PM on 02/04/2011

It's not really free, but it is cheaper on your water bill.

[FunGuy13]

11:23 AM on 02/05/2011

You are correct and I believe the story of what is happening to the buying up of clean water sources around the globe by huge multinational corporations is a bigger story than oil. The fact that you can get a can of Coke in sub-Saharan Africa and not access to clean reliable source of water rings ominous for the rest of the world.

[logicanada]

03:13 PM on 02/03/2011

Until states start to penalize corporations (snicker) for polluting water sources, bottled water is here to stay.

[Rich Alossi]

02:09 PM on 02/03/2011

What's wrong with Atkins? Sugar is killing us. "Low-fat" foods, as pointed out in the article, simply replaced the fat with sugar and starch. Saturated fat and cholesterol aren't the culprits in the rise of obesity.

I follow a whole-foods-low-carb approach, myself.

[Rayme]

12:19 PM on 02/03/2011

I was buying bottled water to avoid the fluoride in my tap water. I finally did the math and realized that I was spending several hundred dollars a year on bottled water and on top of that, I found an article that many bottled water companies use tap water and they don't always do a great job of filtering the water. So I did a lot of research and purchased a Berkey, it was money upfront, but going forward, it'll cost me about 5 cents a gallon to turn tap water into good clean filtered, fluoride free water. I no longer add the plastic from water bottles to the environment which is a bonus.

[mrcontinental]

12:37 PM on 02/03/2011

Smart move. Congrats on waking up to the scam.

[jmichaelmunger]

01:13 PM on 02/03/2011

Why the fear of Fluoride, if I may ask?

Have we seen "Dr. Strangelove" a few too many times or adopted the teachings of the "John Birch Society"?

Just kidding... sort of.