Our Home depot only had "TSP" that specifically stated it was "phosphate free".
Maybe I missed the good stuff but I looked pretty closely.
Posted on 11/06/2011 11:25:38 AM PST by freespirited
Thieves have been cleaning up stealing laundry detergent from stores in Prince George’s County, Md., but special investigators are making progress.
A special crime squad has made five arrests and is looking for 15 other suspects.
“Boosters” will load shopping carts with laundry detergent and then race out of the store to their cars to make a getaway. One Safeway store was losing about $15,000 per month in Tide alone.
Surveillance video showed a man stealing Tide from a Wegman’s, police said. Forty minutes later, with police watching, that man’s accomplice sold the Tide at a nail salon. Police seized 18 jugs seized, 27 packages of Gillette Fusion razors, 11 bottles of body wash and two Apple computers
A special crime squad also raided the Universal Supermarket in Silver Spring this week, seizing 129 jugs of Tide and 72 cans of baby formula.
“So he paid five bucks for this, and he’s selling it for almost $25,” Prince George’s County police Lt. Brad Pyle said. “That’s almost a 500 percent profit. Yeah, liquid gold.”
With laundry detergent they can make a clean getaway.
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you do back-end enforcement at a flea market? The urban flea market I went to was full of cleaning products and diapers.
Of course, you are right as usual. :D
Often, people will buy video game systems or other electronics out of a van only to get it home and find the box contains gravel or scrap metal (ballast to account for the missing product). You seemed to have done business with an "honest thief."
That sounds a bit like George Orwell's 1984!
Our Home depot only had "TSP" that specifically stated it was "phosphate free".
Maybe I missed the good stuff but I looked pretty closely.
(Spews coffee on monitor.)
Good luck finding those and other frivolous products after TSHTF. As long as there is still a Dollar store with 5 double-edge razors for a buck I'm fine. Actually have enough stockpiled for years to come.
In case you haven’t noticed, laundry detergent is getting expensive. Those 1/2 gallon jugs are $10-12 each at WALMART, much more at the grocery store.
When I worked at W-M as a night stocker, the clean-up guys would report finding empty drug testing kits in the bathrooms. Evidently the guys wanted to make sure they tested clean before applying for a job.
Picked up a 48 pack of Mach 3 Turbo blades for $48 on eBay some time ago, wondered later if somebody knocked off a tractor trailer or something.
But similar deals are pretty common, about a buck a piece. They seem like the real deal. I can afford to shave regular like, too.
I buy my swimming pool chemicals from an "Industrial Chemist". They have trisodium phospate for a lot less then $3.33 a pound. I use it when I power wash the siding, it makes the grass nice and green.
Regards,
GtG
You are right there. They are really far more expensive than it makes sense as typically ingredients for various detergents do not cost a lot in huge bulk.
Maybe there is something in the various high dollar ones that I am not aware of but I recall seeing quite a few years ago that all the ingredients in typical ones cost only a few cents.
I bought quite a bit of Tide at Wal-Mart when they had it on clearance. It wasn’t all that cheap even then. My late wife always used “All” but I am not sure why.
I have been buying off brands but at least known off brands. They clean adequately but not as well as the best ones.
TSP that you buy at Home Depot now is phosphate free TSP
I bought a jug of Tide this morning at the grocery store. It had a little sticker on the front label saying that it was sold by Kroger, and if you found it for resale it somewhere else, to report it to an 800 number.
I couldn’t figure out why - but I guess this might explain it.
If you look on eBay, you can still buy the “good stuff” in the red box (TSP).
What you really want, however, is also on eBay, is sodium tri poly phosphate. STPP is the acronym.
Both products degrade over time and exposure to air, I suppose. I can attest both products work great in dishwashers and clothes washers. But some have suggested that TSP is much too harsh for use and may damage the equipment eventually. The STPP is the component of detergent that has been actually removed and works great.
Tide??? now if it was Cheer, i could understand...
1. Inflation!
2. With phosphates being banned, the reformulated detergent probably costs more to produce.
Brush's fault!
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