It's a sad fact that huge corporations are greedy and will not stop at any length to fill the pockets of their shareholders and that means exploiting labourers, damaging the environment and ruining the chances that many potential brands have of success unfortunately.
Since becoming a blogger, I've come across many small and independent brands that I'll be continuing to support. As long as bloggers are giving a platform to these smaller brands, I'm hoping things will be good for them.
If you ask me, the real problem is that small companies (beauty or not) will always be bought by the larger corporations at one point. (If they are really good). We are living in the world of corporate mergers, which is the worst thing that can happen to us as consumers or as simple employees.
This is sad but true. I like to seek out and support niche products/smaller brands but it does become increasingly difficult and also the fact that in any department store, all the brands are basically owned by two companies.
I was reading the article about price fixing in France on www.beaut.ie last week. I just wish that someone in the UK would take this issue seriously. I liked the grey market products that Superdrug and T J Hughes used to sell because they were such good value. Sadly T J Hughes have gone bust and my Local Superdrug no longer seems to sell grey market stuff. Do small beauty companies need to follow traditional routes these days. I find that I am shopping less and less on the high street and more on internet and local shops. First came across Butter in my hairdresser's shop and my local garden centre does a roaring trade in smellies from Bronnley.
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It's a sad fact that huge corporations are greedy and will not stop at any length to fill the pockets of their shareholders and that means exploiting labourers, damaging the environment and ruining the chances that many potential brands have of success unfortunately.
Since becoming a blogger, I've come across many small and independent brands that I'll be continuing to support. As long as bloggers are giving a platform to these smaller brands, I'm hoping things will be good for them.
If you ask me, the real problem is that small companies (beauty or not) will always be bought by the larger corporations at one point. (If they are really good).
We are living in the world of corporate mergers, which is the worst thing that can happen to us as consumers or as simple employees.
This is sad but true. I like to seek out and support niche products/smaller brands but it does become increasingly difficult and also the fact that in any department store, all the brands are basically owned by two companies.
I was reading the article about price fixing in France on www.beaut.ie last week. I just wish that someone in the UK would take this issue seriously. I liked the grey market products that Superdrug and T J Hughes used to sell because they were such good value. Sadly T J Hughes have gone bust and my Local Superdrug no longer seems to sell grey market stuff. Do small beauty companies need to follow traditional routes these days. I find that I am shopping less and less on the high street and more on internet and local shops. First came across Butter in my hairdresser's shop and my local garden centre does a roaring trade in smellies from Bronnley.
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