Posted on 03/13/2012 10:38:21 AM PDT by AngelesCrestHighway
“What makes Tide so special when compared against other leading national brands?”
It makes little bleach spots on my clothes - even the “bleach free” type. Powdered or liquid. I won’t use it for that reason.
Who knew laundry detergent had serial numbers? Whatever, let them pay big bucks or pesos or euros for a stupid orange box. I’ll stick with the cheap store brand.
Adding cheap detergent and ammo to the list.
You’re so right. In our working class neighborhood, anything not bolted down is stolen from under our very noses.
Within the last few months:They cut the lock on my husband’s boat motor and got it (after climbing through the neighbor’s yard and over a small wall).
They took four tires off a truck parked on a heavily-traveled street.
They stole Christmas toys and swing sets the neighbors had temporarily set outside.
They steal any tools set down for a minute, even taking utility workers’ personal tool boxes out of the backs of city pickup trucks.
They’ll climb into any house they can.
They steal pool equipment.
We’ve had neighbors avert even more crime (of our trucks, which have clubs and alarms, but that’s not enough anymore).
Almost everyone’s mailbox or vehicle has been broken into over the last two years.
The People’s Republic of Tucson does not take property crime seriously (and we have some of the highest in the nation, especially in stolen vehicles). They figure it’s just “the poor” coming to take from “the rich” (which we in the working middle class now are).
I’ll stop there.
You buy generics and the ground chuck so that you can afford the taxes used to buy their namebrands & steaks & shrimp.
I don’t have such a visceral reaction against it. I just don’t like the way it tastes ... like sweetened sweat.
Apparently when they were testing it on Florida players back in the 1960s, one player’s reaction was, “This stuff tastes like pi$$.”
We were in San Francisco last week and we noticed that Walgreens has most of their shelves under lock and key. You cannot buy a bottle of shampoo without asking a clerk.
That kind of begs for the next question, now, doesn’t it?
No sorry! This is true. I heard it this morning also on the way to work.
Of course, Florida State tried to come up with their sports drink, but ‘Seminade’ didn’t do very well in marketing tests, except in San Francisco.
Maybe that’s what I heard and it has tainted my perception ever since.
A lot of detergent manufactures now sell an ultra-concentrated product as part of their green efforts to reduce packaging and waste. Of course, you pay more for a seemingly smaller bottle of product that will do the same number of laundry loads as a larger bottle that is more diluted.
Apparently it also makes it easier and more profitable to steal.
Bad idea to steal this product, normally. On the other hand, if you had stolen it during Hurricane Katrina, you would have become rich. At least, that’s what Shakespeare said.
I’m sure some freeper will figure out the quote to which I refer.
I’d think that their small, easily portable size would facilitate shoplifting by those who will use them.
A jug of Tide is more difficult to hide in one’s pant’s pocket.
Brutus: There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
Have you seen the size of some of those welfare queens?
They could shoplift a bus.
lol...
We have a winner!!!! Well done—and quick.
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