7 Products That Have Gotten Worse Over Time
What products have gotten worse over time? Check out the 7 products that users mentioned with their feedback.
7.Social Media
Here are what a few users said.
“For so long the feed was a legit chronological sequence of nothing but real things your actual friends said. Now it’s like 40% ads, 40% suggested posts and reels from people and groups I don’t know and don’t follow, 15% reposts my friends shared, and 5% real things my actual friends said.
And even that 5% is no longer in chronological order, it’s fed to us according to how much and when the algorithm thinks we deserve a tiny morsel. Oh look what an interesting thought my friend had, 6 days ago….”
“I miss when it was just college kids. It was nice to see how many friends you had at different colleges.”
6.Outlet Malls
“Outlet malls. It used to be a place where you could find designer stuff for cheaper, but now most of it is just crappier stuff made specifically for the outlet.”
“It used to basically just be last year’s styles.
I remember going there as a kid and it was awesome. None of us cared if this season’s Ralph Lauren polo was an imperceptibly different shade of blue. We were just happy that we were getting a new Ralph Lauren polo. We took a trip to the outlet malls last summer and it was all garbage.”
5.Fast Food
“Fast Food used to mean cheap. Now McDonalds is the same price as Chipotle.
What are we paying for? Convenience?
In the 2000s, Panda Express and Panera Bread were just way too expensive. But their prices are now the same as everyone else at $15-20 per person.”
Another user had a strong opinion about KFC.
“Last three times I went for fast food at KFC, a local burger joint and Burger King they didn’t have the complete ingredients for my order (at 7PM, mind you) and while the taste is similar to pre-COVID, you can feel the quality of their ingredients is much worse and sizes are 33% less than before while costing more.
I won’t go back to any of those places unless absolutely necessary.”
4.Furniture
“I had ikea furniture that fell apart. Over time, I replaced it by ordering American made furniture from real wood. I have a birch bedroom set from Eugene, Oregon, Amish made mission style bookshelves from PA, and four solid oak dining chairs from a shop in Ohio. Some stuff in my house is from an antique store and a toy chest is “rock maple” that my parents got us in the early 1960s. I do have an Ikea TV stand (woo hoo) and a “Basset” mission style couch from the 1990s (the same model sofa actually appears in a scene in a Star Trek movie, so there’s no way I will get rid of it). All this stuff was ordered in small quantities over 30-35 years and in my dotage, I will not have to buy furniture again unless the house burns down. Shop carefully and slowly. You don’t have to get the goodies all at once.”
“I have a sectional I bought from Wayfair for like 500 bucks. That was my first mistake. Thing is made of cheap paperboard held together with staples. Not even nails or screws, staples. I’ve had to repair it once already and I have to again. Looking for a new couch instead.”
3.Jeans
“Lots of jeans are using a spandex mix to make them stretchy and more comfortable. You can still buy 100% Cotton jeans actually meant for work but they’re harder to find than you’d think.”
“I found some this fall at Target of all places. I bought as many pairs as I could afford because I’ve had trouble finding 100% cotton jeans.”
2.Streaming Apps
“I swear streaming apps have gotten worse and worse. Like the apps themselves are total s*** for some of them.”
“They were never good.
Across Roku, Playstation, and Xbox – all the apps suck in one way or another.
I guess when each service’s app is the only way to get the content is just has to be “good enough”.”
1.Rent
“Rent. Keeps going up with no additional added value”
“Cute house was for sale in my small town in Ohio. They were asking $77,000 and it sold. A few weeks later the same house was offered up to renters, with zero improvements or upgrades, for nearly $1,000 a month. Most landlords are criminals.”
What do you think of these products and their quality? Do you agree?
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