What brand of anything-food, appliances, vehicles, stores or clothing have seriously gone downhill?

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Still Anecdotal

Our anecdotal information contradicts your info.
Which is typical? Don't know without seeing the numbers.
Jeans are still made of cotton, so dry cleaning is just silly.
Then cars, which DID operate on a planned obsolescence strategy, are WAY higher quality than 50 years ago.
Odometers didn't have a 6th digit. Now, somebody getting 250,000 miles on a car is nothing to be surprised over.
The whole manufacturing sector, worldwide has, by & large, adopted those same quality methods.
My experience through my career suggest that much of this concern is not solidly based on data, but is distorted due to a bad experience. We tend not to remember the things that worked out just fine.
And, the economics of replacement, as I mentioned in my first post, is ignored when something breaks at the most inconvenient time.