the first reason that comes to mind is unethical

trends

just a month or two back one company chief, who,

when told that the reason the sales of their

product had fallen was because they had taken the

salt out of the product, said "put the salt back in"

company's are obliged by "law" to make a profit

for their shareholders

this is the oligarch structure at it again making 

"laws" for their own reasons