What is up with toilet paper these days? Is it
just me, or are the rolls themselves becoming narrower, the cardboard tubes
inside wider? In other words, less product for the same, or larger, price.
I don’t know how this is working at your house.
At ours, there seems to be much more movement and play around the spindle. Not
at all like some of the public restrooms where the toilet paper roll is packed
so tight into the holder, you’re lucky to get off one teeny tiny square at a
time. Or bits and pieces that are totally useless. Still, there is so much
paper provided. Doesn’t that make you feel like a cherished customer?
Your basic advertising/sales tool is at play
here, product enhancement-modifying existing products so they appear to be
improved. We’ve all seen the ad strategies used. Same great product, more
manageable (read smaller) package. More rolls for your money!
Let’s face it, as far as a market, we are
locked in. Toilet paper manufacturers can pretty much charge as much as they
want for as little as they want to offer. I mean, consider the alternative. On second thought, don’t.
Bottom line, I know I’ll always be a good
toilet paper consumer. Not of the cut rate brands either. Did that once and it
sure wasn’t pretty. Thought I’d found a good sale so I stocked up. Never again.
Took forever to use it all, because no way was I going to throw even one sheet
out unutilized.
That’s not exactly what I set out to share here
today. In my defense, a little consumer bias I needed to get off my chest.
Proof that cheaper isn’t always a better deal.
Speaking of which, I do have one too. A deal
that is. And not cheaper even – FREE.
A romance short story, available for FREE
download.
Back in the day, as they say, my father wrote scripts for a radio
show out of Detroit titled Manhunt, which was a forerunner of the television
show Dragnet. True stories pulled from actual police files, as they also say.
This story is based on one of those scripts.
So please, click on the above link and enjoy!
Take some time to #Relax‘nRead.
It’ll help you forget the unfortunate product
‘enhancement’ our toilet paper everywhere is going through.
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