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   Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:43:26 JST Evan Prodromou

   One of my more ridiculous unconscious beliefs is that if I bring a reusable shopping bag into a store, and it's printed with the logo of one of their direct competitors, the workers in that store are going to be mad at me. It's ok to bring a hardware store bag into a grocery store, since they don't directly compete, but bringing the bag of a different grocery store is a direct affront.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:44:14 JST Evan Prodromou

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     It takes work for me to identify these weird habits and consciously change them.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:55:03 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Michael Downey 🚩

     @downey wow!

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     Michael Downey 🚩 (downey@floss.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:55:05 JST Michael Downey 🚩

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     @evan FWIW, Nike actively doesn't allow employees — or visitors — to wear competitors' products while on the property of their headquarters campus.

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     Mark Darbyshire (markdarb@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:55:21 JST Mark Darbyshire

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     • Cassander

     @drsbaitso @evan Me too! I know it's stupid but I still try to use the store's own bags (or non-branded bags) where practical.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:55:21 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Cassander
     • Mark Darbyshire

     @markdarb @drsbaitso I'm glad it's not just me!

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     Cassander (drsbaitso@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 08:55:22 JST Cassander

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     @evan I have exactly the same hangup! But it's "okay" if I have at least one of the store's branded bags.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Monday, 20-Jan-2025 23:28:49 JST Evan Prodromou

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     The fact that in my country each holding company operates a dozen or so "competing" brands makes this all the more ridiculous.

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_supermarket_chains_in_Canada

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     rndeon (rndeon@cosocial.ca)'s status on Tuesday, 21-Jan-2025 00:34:38 JST rndeon

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     @evan for us, the best-constructed and cheapest available bags for a long time were LCBO bags, so our concern isn't for the competitive feelings of employees, but instead their judgment on our lushness when we bring 5 LCBO bags into the grocery store