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    Quote Originally Posted by John Coloccia View Post
    Buying toilet paper, paper towels, cereal etc should NOT BE THIS DIFFICULT.
    Maybe you don't remember when there were about 10 color choices too.

    pink, blue, yellow, white, white with blue flowers, pink with little blue flowers, ....
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    Quote Originally Posted by John Coloccia View Post
    This is what the typical shopper will hear if they're anywhere near me in a supermarket when I'm on the phone with my wife.


    "I love you too, babe.
    Uh huh. Yep, gottem.
    What about toilet paper? There's about five thousand different....
    ...Which?
    Bears? I don't see any bears...
    Cute bears?
    ...wait....uhm, are dogs OK? I have a couple of...
    ....only bears. OK. OHHHHHHH. I see the bears....
    ...yes they are cute.
    Do I get the one with the two bears or the one with the big bear floating on a cloud?
    ...
    ...
    ...picnic bears?
    I think they're out of picnic .....OH! I see them. Thanks love!
    Okay, now just hang out for a second. I'm walking towards the cereal isle..."

    Buying toilet paper, paper towels, cereal etc should NOT BE THIS DIFFICULT.


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    I buy paper products after completing a complete per piece cost analysis and comparing to per square inch usable dimensions to determine efficiency factor.

    How do you like those "giant" cereal boxes that have about only one third is used for the product.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruhi Arslan View Post
    I buy paper products after completing a complete per piece cost analysis and comparing to per square inch usable dimensions to determine efficiency factor.

    How do you like those "giant" cereal boxes that have about only one third is used for the product.

    As is true for the information posted on this forum, so it is for cereal:

    Sold by weight, not volume.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchell Andrus View Post
    As is true for the information posted on this forum, so it is for cereal:

    Sold by weight, not volume.
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    Mitch, I think on this forum it is just the reverse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Rimmer View Post
    Mitch, I think on this forum it is just the reverse.
    That's true for most of the threads I start, anyway.
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    Anyone notice how Folgers has recently shrunk the bigger cans of coffee? Not even 2 pounds now.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Mitchell Andrus View Post
    As is true for the information posted on this forum, so it is for cereal:

    Sold by weight, not volume.
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    I was thinking wasted paper to make the larger than necessary sized box.

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    Quote Originally Posted by David G Baker View Post
    I buy the Bounty Giant rolls in the 8 pack. I love the fact that they have the 1/2 sheet perforations so I don't use as much paper. I also buy Charmin Ultra toilet tissue. What was the saying that PT Barnum said on occasion?
    This is funny, I was a loyal Bounty user for years, because I perceived they were better quality. I go through about six to eight rolls a week, I buy the big packs 12 rolls per bundle. I stopped buying them when they came out with the split sheets as I felt I wasted more when a half sheet tore instead of the full sheet I wanted and was used to.

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    Just a word of advice!! If your on a septic system, DON'T use the Charmin TP. It's too tough to break down quickly enough to prevent clogs. It's like flushing rags, and they will hang up on any grease or foreign object in the pipe walls, and may take forever to actually break down in the system itself.. If your system is sluggish, and your using Charmin, you may end up out in the woods squatting over a log, along with the bears they use to advertise it!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Steve Clardy View Post
    Anyone notice how Folgers has recently shrunk the bigger cans of coffee? Not even 2 pounds now.
    A big giant box store is well know to offer national brand products in smaller amounts but in the same size package. Thats how people "Think" they are getting a better price from them.
    The coffee you speak of is one of the items they do.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Cruz View Post
    I refuse to buy that brand! Until they come out with Ginormous...then I'll buy it.
    Walmart carries a Ginormous Wallet for all of you guys that are working huge weekends and getting giant bumps in your pay! LMAO!

    http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ducti-Gino...allet/12187357
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    Quote Originally Posted by John Coloccia View Post
    This is what the typical shopper will hear if they're anywhere near me in a supermarket when I'm on the phone with my wife.


    "I love you too, babe. "
    John, do you ever shop in Savannah? LOL.

    Last Sunday while in the produce department I stopped my cart by a gentleman who was on his cell phone, although I didn't realize it at the time. It's hard to tell sometimes, you know? He says, "Hey, do you think the broccoli is fresh?" I replied, "Yes." and he gave me a somewhat funny look. Not nearly as funny as the one I gave him though when he replied back to me, "Okay, I love you."

    I'm a get in and get out kind of shopper. Last Sunday I was on aisle 3 and got behind the lady with the huge cart who was moving a snail's pace, all the while talking on the phone to one of her girlfriends. Trust me, we don't need to know what her doctor prescribed for that nasty infection she was discussing in detail.

    Put the phones down shoppers, buy the giant papertowels with the pink bunnies and move on. LOL . . .
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    Belinda,

    My SO rides the bus into D.C. every day for work, and some people don't quite get the etiquette of early-morning bus rides (e.g., no cell phone calls, except in emergencies). She knew one gentleman so well, she could tell you his new baby's name, who in his family was getting a divorce and why, what rash his wife had and how it was progressing, etc.

    Some people just don't get it...
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