• VolcanoWonderpants@lemmy.today
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    8 months ago

    So I’m guessing a competing company bought a bunch of bad reviews at the same time. But how did the second person put it in a graph? Is he really that passionate about protecting Yankee Candle from slander, or are those review reliability things more advanced than I thought…?

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      8 months ago

      This was during the omicron surge I believe

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        8 months ago

        Ah, I didn’t look at the dates very closely, thanks for clarifying. I didn’t lose my smell after having covid, but I know others did, and I’d honestly forgotten about that symptom until you mentioned it. (Edit: it was actually @[email protected] who mentioned that. Sorry. It’s been a long day …

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          No worries man, I had just seen it before and recognized the context. I didn’t lose my sense of smell when I had covid either, but everything tasted awful. And idk if it’s related but now I get whiffs of random smells that are unlikely to be present and other people say they don’t smell, like gravel and metal. So weird.

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      8 months ago

      My guess is this is a covid spike after a holiday where many candles were purchased/gifted.

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      8 months ago

      Or maybe they had a bad batch or ran out of a particular ingredient and everyone eventually got those batches they thought they could pass off 🤷🏻‍♀️

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        8 months ago

        I think it’s so funny to imagine the boardroom Yankee Candle version of Mr Burns deciding to offload a bunch of crummy product during a covid surge. Ingenious

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        8 months ago

        Or maybe Yankee candles have a baseline error rate in their manufacturing, insufficient QA, and are more commonly purchased over the holidays. The charts show absolute number of reviews and only during the post-covid period. To be semi-meaningful it should show the “no smell” reviews as a percentage of all reviews and include pre-covid years as a comparison.