A friend in ILink saw this and sent it to me there... I thought it might
be equally interesting to folks here... :)

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Hi Nancy!
Saw this article and thought you might be interested:


https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/small-grocery-chain-has-best-r eputation-of-any-us-company/ar-BBUtW6c?ocid=NL_ENUS_A1_20190310_9_1

Small Grocery Chain Has Best Reputation of Any US Company

Amazon.com is not the most admired company in America. Neither is Walt
Disney or Apple, which often top the most admired lists. The honor in a
major annual poll done by Harris goes to the modest-sized grocery chain Wegmans. It was founded in 1916 and has only 98 locations.
The Harris study, which has been renamed the Axios Harris Poll 100 this
year, is two decades old. For the 2019 results, it questioned 18,228
people in the United States. The research covers what Harris describes
as the "public's top of mind awareness of companies who either excelled
or faltered in society." The companies covered by the study have to be
visible enough for a set number of Americans to have an opinion based on
the Harris methodology.
Wegmans bested some of the most well-known companies in the country. It
had a score of 83.0 based on the Harris yardstick and moved up from the
second position in the 2018 study. It replaces Amazon, which was in
first place last year. Amazon had a score of 82.3 in the 2019 survey.
While Amazon has quickly become one of America's largest retailers,
Wegmans is the 54th largest retailer in the United States, according to
the National Retail Federation. Wegmans is not a stranger to lists of
companies with good reputations. It was in second place in the Fortune
"Best Companies to Work For" list for 2018. It has been on the list
since 1998.
Another reasonably small company was third on the Harris list.
Patagonia, which makes outdoor clothes, had a score of 81.4. Another
small retailer, L.L. Bean was in fourth place with a score of 80.7. It
has only 55 locations. In fifth place, Disney had a score of 80.4. It
was followed by regional grocery store Publix, which has 1,250 locations
and a score of 80.3. In seventh place, Samsung has a rating of 80.0,
followed by Procter & Gamble with a grade of 79.8. Microsoft was in
ninth place with a rating of 79.7. Rounding out the top 10, Sony had a
score of 79.4.
Several major companies saw their ratings take a nose dive. Nike dropped
23 places to 35th with a score of 76.0. Tesla plunged 39 spots to 42nd
with a score of 75.4 Target fell 23 positions to 72nd place with a
rating of 69.9. McDonald's dropped 29 positions to 88th with a score
of 63.7. Facebook dropped 43 positions to 94th with a score of 58.1.
Several other companies saw a positive change in their reputation
scores. Samsung rose 28 places and Sony climbed 21 spots. 21st
Century Fox rose 21 spots to 53rd place with a score of 73.4.
At the very bottom of the list, the U.S. government was in 100th
place with a score of 48.6. Just above it, cigarette company Philip
Morris had a rating of 49.4 and the Trump Organization had a score of
50.1. Sears was in 97th place with a score of 52.3.
Tech companies, in general, did not do well, with the massive drop in Facebook's rank and drops in Google and Apple. "For two years in a row,
the public has ranked data privacy as America's most pressing social
issue, and consequently, it's no surprise that tech giants perceived as egregiously mishandling users' personal information had severe
reputational losses," said John Gerzema, CEO, The Harris Poll.
Wegmans is among the smallest companies on the Harris list, and the U.S. government is last, proof that in terms of reputation, size does not matter.

Rank Brand Score Change
1 Wegmans 83.0 + 1
2 Amazon 82.3 - 1
3 Patagonia 81.4 + 6
4 L.L. Bean 80.7 +11
5 Walt Disney 80.4 n/a
6 Publix 80.3 + 2
7 Samsung 80.0 +28
8 Procter & Gamble 79.8 +12
9 Microsoft 79.7 + 2
10 Sony 79.4 +21

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Interesting that Publix also made the top ten.... :)

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