Products under the Barratt family company were experiencing a string of failures, and the content criticizing the Barratts was rapidly increasing, quickly pushing the substandard products from the Barratt Group to the top of the trending list.
It's actually quite normal for electrical products to deteriorate and have issues over time, otherwise why would people buy new ones?
However, it was not the old products of the Barratt family that were malfunctioning, but the newly purchased electronics. This stunned everyone.
Anthony Barratt had devoted his lifetime to the Barratt Group. He used to have a strict control over the product line, but as the company became larger and stronger, his control over the products was not as thorough, feeling that being approximately correct was enough.