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Specsavers

healthcare

46 😐

Is Specsavers Ethical?

Specsavers is not that bad

Specsavers is a British optical retail chain that has been accused of defrauding government COVID pay assistance and engaging in tax avoidance ^[1]^[2]. The company also uses potentially harmful and exploitative sales targets ^[3].

Alternatives to Specsavers

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9 alternative companies tagged: healthcare

Mytos

healthcare

85 🥰

Mytos is a British biotech startup which creates systems to automate human cell manufacture, with the potential to underpin breakthroughs in drug discovery and cell therapy [1].

Philips

electronics

12 👺

Philips is a Dutch company that has engaged in price fixing [1], failed to meet medical manufacturing standards [2], paid kickbacks to encourage referrals to its machines [3], sold faulty bottles exposing babies to microplastics [4], concealed information about deadly manufacturing errors [5], and produced faulty respirator machines that killed over 300 people [6][7][8][9].

CVS

healthcare

7 👺

CVS is an American pharmacy chain that accepted kickbacks for prescribing drugs [1] and contributed to the opioid addiction crisis [2][3][4][5][6]. The company also negligently induced abortion in a woman undergoing IVF [7][8].