Products / companies with which you're fed-up?

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I've already mentioned, on other threads, the shrinking cans of tuna-fish, and the increasing circumference of toilet paper rolls (thereby, less toilet paper); but, my newest "problem" is with the actual size of eggs----like, when I purchase "extra large", and the yolk is only a little larger than the size of a quarter!!

What about YOU? Got something sticking in your craw?

Um, Amazon.com is number one on my list. While its pricing is great and products are good, its fulfillment workers need to discover bubble-wrap and other forms of padding material. The iconic Amazon purchase arrival is essentially a raw chicken egg and an unabridged Oxford Dictionary battling it out in a very large, and otherwise empty, box for the last 2,000 miles.

Next on my list would be Comcast.com (a.k.a. Xfinity). This business is its own worst enemy. Same with any GMO-related business. We are wise to you all ... THAT'S why you are failing.

Further down my list is the medical and pharmaceutical industries who make demands of their paying customers; think about that fact for a moment ... we pay them, but they force us into decisions about which we are neither informed nor grant consent. I can't wait for the economic bubble that is hovering over this hostile industry to burst. Then, we will see medical doctors and their camp followers holding signs at freeway exits, too.

Lastly, for now, I put cable-television broadcasters. Everybody know that the highest-rated cable channels enjoy fewer than 300,000 viewers. Most cable channels enjoy fewer viewers than that. In other words, the programs that everyone considers to be the most popular and most viewed, are actually watched by fewer than one-tenth of one percent of the U.S. population. It is a scam, a hoax, a lie; no wonder cable-TV rates are shyrocketing, their audience is dwindling. Even judicial courts have determined that news media is legally just "entertainment." We the People are beginning to figure that out, too.

Anyone remember when Reese's cups were actually big? I swear that they get smaller and smaller each year. Like only the "jumbo" ones are really worth eating now, the standard ones are tiny!

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Rogers, a Canadian telecommunications monopoly. Every interaction with this company from hell has been negative and a stressed filled headache. Every bill has to be disputed, every service they have ever offered is just a complete f*****g disaster. The customer service is the worst imaginable. They don't even have a management that you can complain to anymore. The turn over rate at Rogers is apparently extremely high. Their cable tv interface is the biggest steaming pile of s**t. Windows Media Center on my computer back in 2002(?) makes the Roger's Nextbox look like an absolute joke which it is. They have not realized that most people who speak English prefer to have their menu's in alphabetical order, and apparently Roger's engineer's cannot even conceive of an idea like including a search function on their guide/DVR.

I remember standing in line at a Roger's local service store and this old lady beside me said she just couldn't take it anymore, that Rogers was going to kill her with a heart attack from the stress, sadly that wasn't an exaggeration. I am sure many Canadians would also put this company at the top of their most hated list.

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I love Geico and everything---I use them as my auto insurance company--but, sometimes, their commercials get on my nerves.

Comcast. My bill keeps going up & it went up a couple times rite after they said they increased my internet speed at no cost.

Oh, yeah, I hate Comcast, as well. I don't have them, but I HATED their excessively aggressive selling, way-back-when.

Also, I forgot McDonald's: They used to have a double cheeseburger on their dollar menu; then, it went up to a dollar, nineteen; then, higher----and now, even higher; it really ticks-me-off, cuz I used to be able to treat myself once-a-month, with a double cheeseburger and a small fry, now I don't because I feel they're taking advantage of people!

Walmart. First they gossip and than they start closing their stores.

I'm fed up with Nova Pharmacy they push you to buy a Generic brand of tablets and then when you need more they don't help saying "We don't have that brand here"

K Mart why can't they be like Target and have their checkouts at the front of their stores instead of in the middle you have to go searching to find where they are.

Wal-Mart pushed people to buy sectioned paper towels, and then once we got used to those, stopped carrying them; now, for the last several months, I've had to tear paper towels in-half, and anybody who's ever tried to tear a paper towel in-half knows it never tears properly / evenly.

Stores that change stuff around----there's a store near me, that does it, like, every month (even the employees can't keep-up with where stuff is, cuz they've been confused when I've asked them). I think I know why they do it..... they think the longer they keep you in the store (looking for the location of your usual product), the higher the chance you'll purchase something more; and, unfortunately, people don't stop going there, even when this ticks-them-off, cuz the store is convenient----and, one pays for convenience (sometimes, with money; sometimes, with "headaches").

All insurance companies, especially Geico and Progressive.

Atkins, I can't believe they're *still* pushing their stupid diet products. I saw an ad the other night where this smug female claims you don't actually eat slabs of meat and no carbs and then adds "And if you're in a hurry, and who isn't...?"

I just HATE it when I see or hear people say how they don't have any free time because they have so many important things to do that everyone else should give a crap about. It's like, "Ooo look at me, I'm so important to the world because I get up at 5 AM and get all kinds of things done. I only sleep 3 hours at night and every day I'm out rescuing people from burning buildings and stopping bank robberies and saving endangered species, and then I'm climbing mountains and skydiving, and after all that I come home and cook a hot nutritious meal for my husband and kids!"...

I've digressed. But yeah, it always makes me want to beat up a puppy whenever someone in a commercial says something like that. It makes me want to stomp on flower beds and scream at little children and then steal their candy.

The massive British supermarket chain, Tesco.

The following is going to sound like a farce but its seriously bugging me. They keep pulling items.

Everyone forms favorites in the things they like to regularly buy, right? Even NTs tend to stick to the same brand of bread, type of coffee, favorite cookies, preferred laundry powder or whatever.

Well my local Tesco, which happens to be one of their largest stores so it's not like physical shelf space is a problem, keeps deciding to no longer feature certain items or brands. I lost count at over a dozen in the first YEAR I started shopping there, the number of my personal favorite items they stopped stocking. Seriously, a dozen things I bought regularly got pulled in just one year. And this has continued over the next five years. I'm scared of feeling favorite-ie about anything now, as it will be pulled from under me.

When I ask them -- and I've asked on numerous occasions -- where the item went, I've been told no they're not stocking that anymore, and their official line is "At Tesco, we want to constantly bring new and exciting choices to our customers. " This was the response I got one time I emailed the company heads for the region.

What ever happened to the concept of brand loyalty, favorite purchases? They keep pulling some really good products, that I can't even find without going miles out of my way to another company. I've had to buy some things online at higher prices. They brought back ONE item I was begging them for, my coffee filters. But that's it.

I hate the coffee cups they give you at 7-11 and other such convenience stores. I'm not sure who thought it was a good idea to make the bottom flexible so it can act as a trampoline spurting coffee all over you when you attempt to move several inches with the cup in your hand. That REALLY pisses me off.

Cable companies seem to be a commonality. I hate how you have to call to ask for them to lower you bill when the "promo" ends. Why do I have to negotiate? About two years ago I switched from Optimum to Fios because of pricing (I've since gone back, and am about to go back to FIOS again in a few months). When I called Optimum to cancel, they had the nerve to actually pester me as to why I didn't call them first to negotiate. They actually even sent a rep to my front door on a Saturday! I asked them why I should have to play games. As a long time customer, why am I not offered competitive pricing by default? It's because they count on people getting too busy and not wanting to deal with it, and thus collecting the extra 60-80 bucks a month.

I long for the day a-la carte cable comes around. If it ever does. I only need like 4 channels. I'll pay 10 bucks each and still save a ton of money. I know many people have forgone it for other internet based services, but as a sports fan it's still not totally possible for me unfortunately.