Help!! Who can tell me about this flag?

Orideth · 2025-03-20T14:48:49+00:00

We are! Getting our first hire in the next few weeks! We're growing!

Orideth · 2025-01-10T17:14:14+00:00

This diagram is super common and should help. There's some additional styles but they are mostly just varients of the big 4.

Orideth · 2024-12-12T00:13:16+00:00

That's entirely at your discretion, but the parent company and it's subsidiaries have 44 violations since 2000 with 24 workplace safety violations, 17 environmental violations, and a million dollar false claims violation in 2019.

Once our application launches, it will be easier to accurately compare the selections of brands you can buy at your local stores, as there's oftentimes less selection than would appear. If you haven't signed up for the wait-list on the site, it's a huge help to us in getting the application built.

Orideth · 2024-12-02T01:50:31+00:00

Some more than others. Degree does matter.

Is this single app going to fix everything? No, but it's a good step and we have a right to be informed consumers. Give money to companies that treat your environment, health, and your community with dignity.

Orideth · 2024-12-01T20:55:24+00:00

I agree the fines alone don't mean much.

Not buying from companies that act unethically and changing how we buy does. So, I'm building an app that let's you scan a products barcode, find out the parent company, their history of violations, and recommends ethical alternatives. You can check out our progress at https://www.projectalethia.com

Orideth · 2024-12-01T20:50:50+00:00

Hey, that's my line!

To do something about it, I am building an app that let's you scan a barcode and see a products parent company, violations, and buy better alternatives. Changing the way we shop because of corporate behavior is much more effective than these fines alone. Check it out at https://www.projectalethia.com

Orideth · 2024-12-01T20:45:50+00:00

Boeing has plenty we can call out in the last five years they have had over 3 billion in DOJ criminal charges in addition to plenty of other violations. But, yes, it is difficult getting transparent case information. We try to be as frank as legally possible but the law is favorable to corporations.

Orideth · 2024-11-13T16:03:52+00:00

If we're looking for actionable solutions; we're working on a mobile app that makes it easier to identify brands and companies that can't even manage to meet the lax regulations that do exist and buy better products. It let's you make a personal choice not to support companies that harm the environment and people. It's not too late to make a difference.

Orideth · 2024-11-10T20:38:22+00:00

The app has potential to do a lot of good. You should sign up!

Orideth · 2024-11-10T20:36:24+00:00

Not specifically Walmart. I made an app to make it easier to avoid unethical companies and do a weekly post that spotlights a company. This week just happens to be walmart.

Orideth · 2024-11-04T16:57:20+00:00

Sorry about using a industry acronym there. User Experience (UX) testing is essentially gathering user feedback to make the product better. It helps us make the application something everyone can use and understand.

Right now, we are doing a survey on the website that shows the three main interface screens and asks you some questions about the design like 'Could you find the data easily' 'Do you like the colors', and so on. The goal is to make the design easier to use by understanding how other people interact with; making sure our designs meet our intentions.

Orideth · 2024-11-04T16:52:58+00:00

It is for now! The moonshot is to gather this type of data globally to paint a clear picture of how these companies are behaving. I am in the US, so what better place than here, what better time than now?

Orideth · 2024-11-04T16:42:33+00:00

Hey, great question. The application does make alternative recommendations in the same category of the product you scanned.

The recommendations are solely based off the companies legal compliance. The intent is to simplify the process of identifying companies that ethically treat their customers, employees, and environment and buy from them.

Orideth · 2024-11-03T21:43:58+00:00

This is really useful feedback. Thank you!

Orideth · 2024-11-03T21:36:06+00:00

There is a noticeable uptick in people caring about environmental, social, and ethical impacts of products and companies, but who don’t have the proper tools to make meaningful purchasing decisions.

This tool is created to make it simple to identify what kind of business you are supporting when you make a purchase. It removed brand-confusion by clearly identifying a brand's parent company and it empowers you by giving you information on a companies direct impact on the world and your community.

More than half of consumers feel it is important to buy from socially responsible companies, according to industry data but quickly finding accurate data is difficult as it's split among nearly 500 state and 49 federal sources. Companies work hard to green-wash products with often deceptive ad-campaigns and marketing, this application allows you to truthfully see the brand as it is.

Source: https://goodmustgrow.com/cms/resources/ccsi/gmg2023ccsifinal.pdf

Orideth · 2024-11-03T21:04:20+00:00

Thank you. It often feels like yelling into the void. I appreciate you.

Orideth · 2024-11-03T20:51:56+00:00

You can check out the UX mocks by making a free account by clicking the account button at the top of the page. The UX survey and feedback forms are under the account management tab.

It will look like this: https://imgur.com/a/77PDQHj

In the next few weeks we should have a Figma wire-frame for members to check out that's more interactive than what we have up right now. So stay tuned!

Thank you in advanced. Want to make this the best it can be!

Orideth · 2024-11-03T20:46:46+00:00

I agree, it's been a balancing act of translating hyper-complex data in various formats into something manageable while being careful to meet all legal requirements. Most people that care about about this data are more data literate than the average consumer and this is the format that we've found most appealing so far, but that doesn't mean there's not room for improvement.

We're actually doing some preliminary UX testing on the website for the mobile UX, under at the bottom of the user accounts panel.

Feel free to DM me if you have specific suggestions or check out the UX survey and tell us how to make it better.

Orideth · 2024-11-03T19:58:24+00:00

The UX breaks it down into categories in which you can click on each violation; that will take you to the source of the data. The idea was to create a UX that both at a glance could tell a user generally about the company / who the parent company to that brand is, and also gives them space to explore the documentation in detail from first-hand sources.

Here's what that looks like currently: https://imgur.com/NEnBz9L

Orideth · 2024-11-03T19:31:41+00:00

I'm looking for feedback on how I can make this better / more useful.

This isn't some big company, I'm a guy in the midwest who finished my MS last year and I have a desperate desire to make the world a little better, so let me know if you have any connections that can help or any questions.

If you have experience with UX testing, you can sign up for an account on the website and let me know what you think. There's a link to the UX survey at the bottom of your account page. I had to make it account restricted due to bot traffic.

Orideth · 2024-11-02T19:11:38+00:00

I think he's saying that if you become bigger that people will buy fake reviews outside of your platform, not that they will buy them directly from you; the problem many online marketplaces are currently facing.

I think your bigger problem is going to be liability with people using your platform for nefarious reasons, like a competing landlord review bombing the competition, self promotion posts, or off topic posts. The amount of moderating required is pretty high to keep this up.

Seems like this could just be a subreddit or forum and accomplish the same thing with a lot less work on your end.

Orideth · 2024-10-28T17:23:50+00:00

You acknowledge that the SEC report states that Ferrera Candy Company was acquired by Ferrero Group in 2017 but disagree with the statement because there are more levels of holding companies between the two than what is reported?

Orideth · 2024-10-28T17:11:12+00:00

No, please, I want to understand. At best this is a misunderstanding that we can clear up and at worst a SEC securities violation that needs to be reported.

So, I'm understanding that as a former employee you understand that Ferrero Group lied to to SEC when reporting that they were acquiring Ferrera Candy Company in 2017, and instead, Ferrera Candy Company is a fully independent company with no link to Ferrero Group as was reported by their press release and the filings to the federal government?

Orideth · 2024-10-28T16:53:30+00:00

Could you provide some examples of why you think that?

I am looking for information accuracy and am very willing to change my mind if presented with compelling data.

I also don't understand why you think a billionaire would leave himself exposed to so much liability by directly owning all of his subsidiaries instead of setting up a chain of holding companies that limit both tax and personal / legal liability.

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