Corporate autopsies on the brands you trust. Who bought them, who gutted them, and what's still worth buying.
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In 1980 it was one store in Austin, and when a flood wiped it out the next spring, the customers and the unpaid staff showed up with mops and brought it back. The founder spent decades turning that day into a philosophy: take care of your workers and your community, and the profits follow. Then Amazon paid $13.7 billion, pulled the buying into headquarters and started scoring all 510 stores for unionization risk.The full breakdown drops Wednesday 6/24. Subscribe to get it in your inbox.
An ode to Pirsig: What quality is and how it is degraded.
One buyout firm quietly collected Pyrex, Corelle, Instant Pot, and Oneida. Farberware is a name on a 200-year lease. And the pans still worth buying.
A final seat cost £83 at the last Euros. FIFA is charging £3,119 for this one.
How the things you buy get worse, who profits from it, and how to tell before you pay.
It started as a flooded little store the neighbors bailed out by hand. It became an arm of Amazon that scores its own workers on how likely they are to unionize.
Dozens of brands, five or six owners, and a fridge built to quit just after the warranty does.
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