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Stop exaggerating. I live in the UK and avoid all these brands with minimal impact - drinking fresh coffee ends up being cheaper than instant, there are plenty of supermarket and non-nestle brands of sweets, dog foods, water, soap etc.
You can't avoid capitalism, but a single company, even as big as Nestlé, is very doable. It just requires a bit of mindfulness when shopping
I drink fresh coffee, never instant, But look at the Coffeebrands in my image i posted before, the most Brands are from Nestle, not only Nescafe, Same with dog/cat food, Purina, Brekkies, etc .....all from Nestle, also a lot of white brands from the Supermarkets. It's not so easy as you say.
Yeah, I did look, most of them I've never seen before. Its a big list, but it covers a worldwide range of companies - most of them are specific to only a handful of countries. For dog food I can choose Harrington's, Pedigree, Butcher's etc, for sweets there's Mars, Haribo, Barratt etc - I really get the impression that you're thinking of the Big 11 companies, which are almost impossible to wholly boycott.
White brands are a different case, but I don't even bother with off-brands of stuff Nestle makes, so I'm pretty sure I'm safe.