# What are some of your favorite "companies"? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382 "2012-04-30T02:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Win\_Place\_Show](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/win_place_show/32/13469_2.png) [@Win\_Place\_Show](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Win_Place_Show)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/1 "2012-04-30T02:42:46Z")
this might mean someone you frequently use, but don’t necessarily ‘like’, per se’ (i.e. Walmart)… or it could mean a company you like, but don’t necessarily use (i.e. the St. Jude foundation) Mine include: Toyota - I’m a big fan of their 4Runner Titleist - more psychological I’m sure, but I always seem to hit them better Southwest Airlines Anheuser Busch - i.e. Bud / Bud Light Google - why anyone else (yahoo, etc) even has a search-engine is beyond me Chase Bank - they’ve always done right by me Home Depot - can’t really explain why I prefer them over Lowe’s Facebook Amazon Chili’s - as far as mid-level chains go, they always seem reliable Kohl’s ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/2 "2012-04-30T02:54:54Z")
LL Bean. Good quality, classic styles, great value and good customer service. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/3 "2012-04-30T03:28:04Z")
The [Hudson’s Bay Company](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson%27s_Bay_Company), founded May 2, 1670. North America’s oldest commercial enterprise. It’s 342nd birthday is this Wednesday. It must be doing something right to be in business that long. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/4 "2012-04-30T03:32:28Z")
Bookmans is the company I have the most respect for. ---
**Author:** ![Rachellelogram](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rachellelogram/32/8689_2.png) [@Rachellelogram](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rachellelogram)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/5 "2012-04-30T05:53:11Z")
I agree with Chase bank. And although I don’t really like what Walmart does to small business, their groceries got me through some lean times back in college. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/6 "2012-04-30T06:10:26Z")
[The Funny Company.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KahtXeLgyW8) Ah, the memories. ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/7 "2012-04-30T12:30:10Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > LL Bean. Good quality, classic styles, great value and good customer service. Agreed. My dad likes to tell the story of when my grandfather ordered gloves from them. In the early 80’s, my grandfather lost his right hand, so when he needed new gloves, he always just threw out the right glove, because he had no use for it, and you can’t really donate one glove to Salvation Army/Goodwill. Someone had told him that LL Bean makes good gloves, so the next time he needed a glove, he called them up (being before the internet and all, and not living near their retail store in Maine.) Figuring he’d be nice and only order the one glove he needed, and save LL Bean some money, he told the person taking his order that he only needed a left glove, as he had no right hand, but was glad to pay full price so long as the glove was of good quality. The customer service agent then said that since he was paying for two gloves either way, why don’t they send him two left gloves so they would last twice as long? So from then on, he would always say that LL Bean was one of the last company’s to treat their customers right, and always bought gloves from them, though obviously only half as often. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/8 "2012-04-30T13:06:15Z")
> [@bouv](#): > > So from then on, he would always say that LL Bean was one of the last company’s to treat their customers right Sounds like they didn’t treat him right—they treated him left. ---
**Author:** ![markdash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba8739/32.png) [@markdash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markdash)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/9 "2012-04-30T17:11:12Z")
People like to give Comcast a ration of shit, but I’ve had nothing but good experiences with them, and only about 3-4 internet outages total in more than 10 years. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/10 "2012-04-30T17:21:34Z")
Giant Eagle - a Ohio/Pennsylvania grocery store chain. They may not be the cheapest grocery store around but they do have a huge selection with some pretty unique stuff, they have good deals if you look out for them, they have cool services (salad bar, ready-made food, dry cleaner, bank, child care), they have the good self checkout lanes (that are actual lanes and not those useless single-bag stations), all of the folks at the pharmacy at my local GE are top-notch and their customer service is generally good. On top of all that, they give you off gas if you use their affiliated gas station Get-Go, and you get off food when you buy gas there! My grocery store makes me happy. Weird, I know. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/11 "2012-04-30T18:14:07Z")
Maui Jim. Their sunglasses are expensive as hell, but they’re backed with an extremely generous repair/replacement policy and excellent customer service. ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/12 "2012-04-30T18:41:39Z")
\*\*Microsoft Standard Oil/Exxon-Mobil Walmart Apple\*\* has been one hell of a story as well. I just don’t think their product line is as important or as influential as the three above. Others disagree. Second-tier: **Coca-Cola Boeing ATT Smuckers**\* \*Makers of **Jif** creamy peanut butter, my #1 favorite brand of anything in the world. Except, possibly, for diet coke. The day my doctor says “In order for you to spend any more quality time on this planet, you must give up the Diet Coke and the peanut butter” is the day my life, the enjoyable part of it, is officially over. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/13 "2012-04-30T19:14:47Z")
> [@Shagnasty](#): > > LL Bean. Good quality, classic styles, great value and good customer service. Agreed, and also Land’s End. Zappos treats you right, too. ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/14 "2012-04-30T19:29:05Z")
LL Bean American Express Amazon Costco ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/15 "2012-04-30T19:51:13Z")
Well, this doesn’t apply to most people here, but Canadian Tire is a great store. ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/16 "2012-04-30T20:02:02Z")
Hobby Lobby. The Sun Times Newspaper. AT&T. ---
**Author:** ![Agent\_Foxtrot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9fc29f/32.png) [@Agent\_Foxtrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agent_Foxtrot)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/17 "2012-04-30T20:18:53Z")
Wegman’s Trader Joe’s (I worked for them… they treat their employees very well.) Adobe Honda Chick-Fil-A (They could double their revenues by staying open on Sundays for the church crowd, but they’re sticking to their beliefs. Say what you want about their political agenda, I admire their integrity.) I really, really want to say Google, but based on their privacy issues and complete “F-U” attitude toward their loyal users lately, they’re off my list. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/18 "2012-04-30T20:24:14Z")
Zippo: “It works, or we fix it free.” 'Nuff said! ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/19 "2012-04-30T20:39:41Z")
Also Starbucks. ---
**Author:** ![Philster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/13edae/32.png) [@Philster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Philster)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382/20 "2012-04-30T21:17:40Z")
WalMart BoatUS Firebirds (steakhouse; small chain) Buffalo Wild Wings Dodge Vehicles Lenovo (formerly IBM laptops) Trader Joes Whole Foods And… my number one favorite company: Under Armour. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-some-of-your-favorite-companies/620382.md?page=2)