Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle

Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle by mrgordon on Thursday September 14, 2017 @09:20PM (#15253844)

brm hits the nail on the head. Their infant formula practices alone are horrible enough to boycott their entire business. For anyone that isn't familiar, they convince people in developing nations to switch to free infant formula so they stop breastfeeding long enough that they stop lactating and must purchase expensive formula instead. The mothers often can't make the formula hygienically either due to poor quality water or other unsanitary conditions so it can lead to many problems.

More info at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestlé_boycott#Baby_milk_issue

RIP Blue Bottle and long live Philz, Four Barrel, etc.

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Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle by scalesolved on Friday September 15, 2017 @05:46AM (#15255835)

It's absolutely disgusting, I struggle to comprehend how someone can be become detached enough to promote this as a strategy.

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Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle by jrimbault on Friday September 15, 2017 @06:42AM (#15256024)

It starts with good intentions I guess/hope ?

"They're so poor, some of them can't even lactate enough to feed their babies, we should sell them cheap formula so they can compensate"

Then the cheap formula becomes itself problematic because they hadn't realized that water itself was dirty and their cheap formula wasn't as good as the expansive one.

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Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle by lethargic_meat on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:03AM (#15255216)

I wonder how much this was a case of poor planning and how much actual corporate malice.

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Re:Nestlé Takes Majority Stake in Blue Bottle by kalleboo on Friday September 15, 2017 @03:24AM (#15255306)

Violations can be excused the first time, but after 40 years of malice, it's safe to say it's just evil.

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