Kroger had this big campaign about how they were going to start recycling their plastic bags and had these displays in all of their stores where you could return your bags so they can be recycled. Within a week all of their bags got really super shitty. They're thin and rip easily. But that's ok because recycling. All of those big displays they had set up for bringing in your old bags disappeared within another couple weeks. It's been years and the bags are still shitty as ever. No one brings back their old bags. I think it was a bait and switch to just start using cheaper bags without dealing with a ton of complaints. u/CarmenxXxWaldo

I believe that 4Ocean, that company that sells the $20 bracelets and picks up 1lb of ocean trash per bracelet is (allegedly) a sophisticated drug smuggling ring. - Whos gonna investigate a company trying to clean up the ocean huh? - They have multiple boats that go out to sea and return full of "trash" every day, whats under the trash huh? They are purchasing a huge ocean going ship to "pick up" even more trash. This is a tremendous amount of money, ships like that are crewed and fueled for 25 grand a day minimum, not to mention that cost of building your own custom 110ft ship, how many $20 bracelets is that a day? - They transport the trash in enclosed box trucks from the boats for "processing" at private and walled off " 4Ocean recycling" centers instead of using municipal dumpsters. - Since the pandemic they have set up whole land based operations in Guatemala and Haiti employing hundreds of locals. I'm not normally a conspiracy theory guy, but just the plausibility of an ocean conservation bracelet company being a hundreds of millions of dollar front for drug smuggling is fun to think about. u/Sharkhottub

Not so much a conspiracy but Im 99% sure that the US government knows exactly who killed JFK and have way more information on it that they're letting on. u/Dibinem

They make shit pockets, or no pockets at all, for women's clothes in order to get them to buy bags and purses. u/powe3llmorgan

Government UFO cover up. I am no "little green men" nut, but there is some weird shit flying around in our atmosphere and under water and somebody knows more than we do. Either the government has invented technology leaps and bounds beyond what we thought possible, or we have visitors. Aliens? Future People? Interdimensional beings? No idea, but something is out there. u/who519

Not really a formal conspiracy theory, a fiend ascribes to the idea that banning abortion and poor sex education may also have something to do with the dwindling birth-rates and future lower-class labour force. u/IBEther

Many US politicians actively work for the billionaire class to remove healthcare, social safety nets, access to education to deliberately make us dumber, sicker, and poorer. The purpose is to create a workforce surplus where the people are fighting over horrible jobs that that allow more wealth to flow to the top. Not really a conspiracy since it’s actually happening. We just don’t know how much planning and collusion between the architects is going on… but it’s definitely going on. Solidarity amongst the working class is the only thing that can save us. If you vote for anybody that supports right to work legislation, you’re either an idiot, morally corrupt or just both. u/Sweaty-Feedback-1482

I do (kinda) believe the military found something in their Tsarichina dig, got scared, buried the excavation under tons of cement and covered it up. I don't think they found a prison-tomb of an alien, as some thinк, but they did find something that spooked them. u/gerginborisov

The real reason we in the US don't have free college education, free healthcare and the reason they want to limit access to abortions is because no one would join the military if we had them. You want an education? You want to be able to see a doctor? Knocked up your girlfriend and have no job prospects? Join the military. u/th7024

I firmly believe that a lot of the advertising and other tools for increasingly public visibility of cryptocurrency (in particular of bitcoin) were an orchestrated attempt by a relatively small number of people with massive holdings to draw in enough people that didnt understand what they were "investing" in to increase the available liquidity enough to facilitate the closing out of their positions without crashing the market as quickly or severely.u/OrphicDionysus

That there is a giant creature at the bottom of the ocean. u/melaninbaby03

We have several large Chinese buffet/restaurants in our town and I'm firmly convinced that they are money laundering schemes. There are always people there but they're not "busy" and I don't know how they could turn a profit knowing that margins are razor thin with any restaurant. u/ShortcakeAKB

Mother's/father's day was invented by hallmark to sell cards. u/RefrigeratorStatus96

Hair brushes are being used to launder money. I don’t know by who or why but hair brushes are an annual 1.4 billion dollar market. They cost like $20. I’ve got hair past my shoulders and I still have bought one hair brush in the past like 5 years. They last a long time. Who is buying the 1.4 billion dollars worth of hairbrushes each year. It doesn’t add up. u/TheHippieJedi

That Mattress Firm is a front of something else. There’s no reason for two of those stores to be directly across the street from each other. u/ThrowRA9615

That the worlds “elite” have a long term plan to make sure the poor and middle class no longer have ownership of property . They want everyone to essentially subscribe to life like the old company stores . Real , healthy food will also be prohibitively expensive. AI is only going to help make the non rich obsolete. u/rtrawitski

I am 95% sure Princess Diana's death was not an accident. u/Ok-Autumn

There was a cover-up at Roswell. No way in hell did that guy mistake a weather ballon as "made of a material that it thin yet extremly durable." Also, over 300 people report seeing "alien humanoids" during the incident. They all describe them in the exact same way. Reminder this is well before things like social media, so its unlikely that they all coordinated it before hand. Edit: I should clarify that I'm not claiming that the government was 100% covering-up aliens, but they were hiding something. u/logicaleman

George W. Bush was in on 9/11. u/Zurine_la_mejor

Big Pharma is keeping weed federally illegal even though most states and citizens want it available. Big Pharma does this to increase sales for expensive prescription drugs that don’t work as well as medical marijuana. u/Boring_Concept_1765