Posted on 02/16/2016 1:28:44 PM PST by Responsibility2nd
1. Cable TV
Though cable providers still have plenty of subscribers — roughly 101 million Americans, in 2015, according to research firm IBISWorld — those numbers are declining.
2. Name-brand razorblades
Americans love their Gillette razorblades — so much so that the shaving giant controls nearly 70% of the nearly $13 billion shaving industry ...
3. Bottled water
Who would pay $2 for what amounts to a bottle of tap water?
4. Credit monitoring services and identity theft insurance
The year 2015 saw more than 732 data breaches as of Dec. 8, according to the nonprofit Identity Theft Resource Center — with more than 176 million records compromised at financial firms, businesses, universities and schools, government offices and medical facilities.
5. Compact discs
Compact discs have going the way of the dodo, and streaming music will keep that trend going in 2016, says Aram Sinnreich, a media professor at Rutgers University.
6. Memory sticks and thumb drives
Computer memory sticks and thumb drives are becoming obsolete as the online storage wars heat up.
7. Mini tablets
When Apple launched the iPhone 6 Plus phablet in 2014, it may have harmed the sales of another one of their product lines —
8. Paid online dating services
Love might be priceless, but the dating industry is now worth around $2.4 billion, according to IBISWorld, with revenue split between advertising and subscription services.
9. Meal replacement plans
Meal replacement plans help you lose weight by sticking to their strict calorie-controlled shakes and soups, but ...
10. Blu-ray players
Even if you have stacks of DVDs and Blu-ray discs, it probably still isn’t advisable to buy a Blu-ray or DVD player, says Benjamin Glaser, the features editor at DealNews.com
(Excerpt) Read more at marketwatch.com ...
Do NOT click the link if you DON'T want a 10 page slideshow.
I excerpted a small bit of info of each item. But if you want more info (good info at that), then click the slideshow.
Usually I can find sales on non-Gillette brands at CVS and I joined Harry’s. A freeper gave a tip about drying the razor with a paper towel.
Certainly an interesting collection.
Thanks for making it easy for us.
I wonder why about #4 ?
I had to click on the story
never mind
6 and 7 are still buys for me.
I don’t like cloud storage for everything. Gotta have that hard back-up.
Mini tablets are dirt cheap and handy.
I really don’t get this. Somebody explain it to me?
Never buy a CD again? What if you aren’t into the whole internet streaming thing???
Never pay for cable TV? Well, what if you don’t have a place to put a satellite dish, and you aren’t into the internet streaming thing here either???
Don’t do internet dating??? Are there free sites which somehow screen out the riff raff?? I met a delightful female companion from a paid online site. It was money well spent, in my opinion. Everyone I met on that site was a quality female.
Are we saying technology is always changing?? I think we all know that. VHS and Beta recorders are obsolete. But if you had a bunch of old tapes, wouldn’t you still perhaps want to buy a machine for them??
What about all of your old records?? I still have a nice turntable to play my old record collection.
I disagree with 5 and 6.
I still buy CDs, because I like to read the lyrics and notes, I enjoy the sound through my ancient but quality music system speakers and although you can scratch it you can’t accidentally delete a CD or have your songs trapped inside a crashed hard drive.
And as for “online storage”...yeah, what could possibly go wrong with uploading your personal files into the hands of others?
Have to disagree with respect to thumb drives. They’ll change form and go to greater density, but nothing says “security” like an air gap.
What is he tip?
Folks who don't read labels. I went through this exercise one day with a shopper picking up several cases of a popular brand of water. I asked if she had read the label. She seemed perplexed. Suggested she check the source, clearly labeled on each bottle. She was shocked to discover that it was from the local municipal water source but bottled and sold by a major company. Read the label!!
There have been some mega-threads here at FR about razors and how to get your money’s worth.
Good stuff.
The freeper claimed after each use if you dry the razor blades with a paper towel it extends the life. Seems to work for me. Mileage may vary.
Your welcome.
I was on a slideshow thread just this morning where the FReeper made the same slideshow disclaimer and made the same format as this.
Seems to be aimed at the online for everything generation. I prefer have my listening and watching content in hand, thank you. This streaming thing seems to be aimed at smartphone addicts, not at home music listeners. About the same with DVDs.
Why be so dependent on an internet connection?
I buy bottled water by the case at Costco but it is spring water not treated municipal water.
CD players are becoming the latest 8-track machine.
Love ‘em or not, but it is old technology.
I agree. When I bought my new Win10 machine I had to backup the recovery information on a 16GB thumb drive. Somehow the cloud just wasn’t working for that.
Yeah, that’s my biggest complaint. I am in the process of transferring all my home movies and photographs onto CD’s/DVD’s. They will last ‘forever’. Instead, they want me to trust the cloud with my family memories? At the same time, if all the DVD players become obsolete, I am screwed.
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