PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:littlebeast13 wrote:
It's not a bigger package if you're comparing the concentrated bottle to its non-concentrated equivalent. The bottles have all gotten smaller.
I used to buy the 26 load Tide with Bleach. After this change, the size that has become most convenient (because it will fit on the shelf over the washer) is the 52 load concentrated size, which is bigger thant the 26 load bottle.
The 26 load is the old 100 oz. size. The 52 load concentrate, though it is still 100 oz. is actually comparable to the 200 oz size, not the 100's. The bottle (Which just recently got bigger, it was originally about the same size as the non-conc. 100 oz. bottles) therefore is smaller than it's comparable non-concentrate.
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:Target seems to be pushing the 52 load concentrated size, because there were many more bottles of it available than the 26 load size, which used to dominate the Tide section. If more people buy the 52 load size, then they will need to restock this section of the store less.
That's true in theory, though I'm sure the manufacturers count on consumers using more than they need of the concentrated detergent due to the need to change the amount they use in a load. The concentrates have been slow to catch on, though they would probably go over better with Target's typical clientele rather than ours...
PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:I know that Walmart has better prices than Target, but I can't stand the store that is close to my house. The store is usually out of stock on the things that I need and I find the stores to be messier than the Target store.
I sometimes wonder if I'm the only stocker in the whole company who cares about keeping their aisle full when I walk in another Wal~Mart. The out of stocks in the detergent aisle at the Supercenter in the neighboring city were horrendous the first time I visited it. I certainly agree that Targets are much cleaner than Wals, though a lot of that has to do with the amount of traffic each store gets (No matter how hard we tried, we could never keep our store as clean as the Target that I was last in looked)...
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