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What's the worst company ever. Period. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by sociablefish@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Nestle? Spectrum? Some random company nobody knows about?

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[–] Idefinitelydonotknow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Banana Republic is a term coined for all the countries where this company operated.

[–] JGrffn@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

As someone who lives in a banana republic that now has banana republic stores in its malls, this is a perplexing and sort of insulting end result, and I don't understand how the name of the store ever took off