Is Your Product Designed To Screw Your Customers? -- WTF? Episode #49

WTF? is a daily web show for small business owners and entrepreneurs who want to learn how to naturally attract customers and get the FAME and FORTUNE they deserve.

This episode is about calling out companies that do things that hurt their customers. Leave a comment and tell us your experiences where a big company creates a product or service in such a way that it's actually bad for their customers. Lead in toys from China, MSG in Goya products and so many other things.

Stay safe and stay classy. Have a great weekend.

Comments

[Adam Dudley]

¿Qué hay de café Starbucks con el más alto contenido en cafeína?

[Toni]

Well, I don't have any MSG stories but I loved your episode! You guys are great and so much fun to watch!

[Paul]

There are TONSs of companies polluting their customer bodies and minds. How about all the soft drink companies pushing aspartame (there are over 92 different health symptoms associated with aspartame consumption) and the super sugar called high-fructose corn syrup.

[Rachel Young]

Here’s a little more ‘science’ for ya regarding aspartame, saccharine, sucralose, cyclamate, and acesulfame K.

As it stands, saccharine presently carries a government mandated warning label that it is known to cause cancer in laboratory animals (you’ve prol’ly seen it on the side of a Mr. Pibb can).

Aspartame is broken down in the body to wood alcohol, subsequently broken to formaldehyde, a fixative and a known carcinogen (cancer causing agent). Formaldehyde is then broken down into formic acid, which is the same strong caustic used by fire ants to administer their sting.

You might also wanna Google "Sodium Lauryl Sulfate" (aka SLS), sodium nitrates (“Sodium nitrate is used as an ingredient in fertilizers, pyrotechnics, as a food preservative, and as a solid rocket propellant, as well as in glass and pottery enamels; the compound has been mined extensively for those purposes.” (Source: Wikipedia), or propylene glycol.

Chances are, you're eating plastic more often than not. Last time we went to the grocery store, my dh and I were gonna get some filet minon wrapped in bacon (prepackaged this one time). It had SLS - the stuff they use to make FLOOR DEGREASER as a "wettening agent".

Yikes.

It may cost a bit more to shop at Whole Foods, but knowing whats in your food can add years to the life of your family members! ALWAYS READ THE LABEL!

[Roy Penrod]

Great show, guys! So many businesses think it's all about getting the coin out of someone's pocket, but building a sustainable business is about providing value. We live in a crazy world these days.

Roy