{"id":77210,"date":"2026-08-10T07:56:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:56:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/not-your-imagination-from-backpacks-to-food-consumer-goods-are-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2026-08-10T07:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T12:56:11","slug":"not-your-imagination-from-backpacks-to-food-consumer-goods-are-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/not-your-imagination-from-backpacks-to-food-consumer-goods-are-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?<\/p>\n<p>When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same.<\/p>\n<p>He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporation after a wave of acquisitions in the 2000s. After a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ManyBaggers\/comments\/1s2fm5x\/vf_corporation_bought_jansport_north_face_eastpak\/\">Reddit post<\/a> he made about his discovery picked up traction, he started looking at other types of consumer goods \u2013 cookware, shoes, tools, clothing.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/10\/consumed-consumer-goods-quality\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed? When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same. He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they &#8230; <a title=\"Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/10\/not-your-imagination-from-backpacks-to-food-consumer-goods-are-getting-worse\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}