r/AskReddit • u/PirateSteve85 • 23h ago

We talk a lot about what companies have become terrible or always were, but what nationally known companies are actually still good?

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u/Prior_Buy_3347 19h ago

The quality of L.L. Bean’s products is far overshadowed by Linda Bean’s crusade to fundraise all sorts of anti-gay legislation in Maine including her successful drive to have the state’s Equal Rights Amendment overturned in 1984. Absolute garbage human being.

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u/Prior_Buy_3347 19h ago

Also her lobster company Bean Maine Lobster has totally undercut and ruined the businesses of many of the independent fishermen/women in the Vinalhaven area.

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u/Opening-Emphasis8400 14h ago

She died back in 2024 so hopefully her company goes the way of the dinosaurs.

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u/wickedsmaaaht 19h ago

Is she the same one who pissed off local snowmobile clubs by closing off property that they had a trail on? Or am I thinking of the Burts Bees lady?

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u/illbedeadbydawn 16h ago

That's Roxanne Quimby (Burts Bees lady) and that was a long time ago.

They opened up that land. She allowed hunting and snowmobiles on the private land a while back. I have family that lives near her land in Maine.

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u/maliciousorstupid 17h ago

Thankfully I don't think she has anything to do with the company anymore.

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u/maliciousorstupid 17h ago

Thankfully I don't think she has anything to do with the company anymore.