{
  "id": 466258,
  "title": "Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/10/not-your-imagination-from-backpacks-to-food-consumer-goods-are",
  "topic": "business",
  "section": "Business",
  "published": "2026-08-10T12:00:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "The Guardian US",
    "slug": "the-guardian-us",
    "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/10/consumed-consumer-goods-quality"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed? When Keyana Sapp, 31, went shopping for a new backpack, the brands he remembered as a kid were just not the same. He researched the companies, from North Face to JanSport and Eastpak, and soon realized they were all owned by the VF Corporation after a wave of acquisitions in the 2000s.…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}