OK, not the tissues, per se.
But at some point this year, Kimberly-Clark decided to make the tall, roughly 280-count boxes of tissues I’ve bought since time immemorial … extinct, apparently.
Now don’t get me wrong – I don’t spend all my life blowing my nose or wiping away tears or picking up messes. But … I don’t like it when a company messes with my routines and makes me change out tissue boxes more often in various places around the house.
I have no clue why they did this, but all of a sudden, within a few weeks or months time, at every store I went to, they had just … vanished. Replaced in most stores by more house-brand rougher-on-nose tissues.
I was miffed enough to try to reach them through social media. Posted a note and evrything, and … no reply at all. (Maybe I’ll try the 800 no. on the bottom of the box – what, only weekdays 8a-4p CT? – if only to ask the logical question … why? A paper shortage? Slow sales?)
Ever have something you’ve bought as long as you remember, a daily staple of life just … vanish without a word? It’s ridiculous.
Another grand example – white sauce powdered mix (not the yucky canned stuff). Deb uses it for the sauce for a recipe we call ‘Eggs on a Cloud,’ a yummy dish from McCall’s Cooking School, a series of colorful recipe sheets and binder series from about the time we got married in the early ’80s.
For a long time, no problem finding them. Now, go ahead, check the sauce aisle. Hey Knorr, where the heck do you keep the stuff now? Or did you stop making it in favor of the fifth variant of teriyaki, BBQ or other sauces/gravies?
Little things, to be sure. But they add up, I tell you!
I guess it’s sort of like the notion that just when you really fall in love with a TV show, they cancel it.
And don’t get me started about The Beatles and a decade (the ’70s) or two wasted waiting for ‘the next Beatles.” When we knew well and good there wouldn’t be one.
(Now there’s a left turn in conversation eh? Well that’s just the way I think;-)
Posted by Mike W on December 18, 2011 at 9:57 am
Andy Rooney – so glad to see that your are really still alive.
Posted by barneyl on December 18, 2011 at 10:09 am
LOL, well yeah, that’s a particularly Rooney-esque string of thoughts. If it rings a bell with folks, fine, if not… oh well, hope they at least get a chuckle out of it.
Posted by Tim Breeden on January 7, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Sigh… They did almost the same with the shampoo we have used for 15 years. They “improved” it according to the label. But now it separates into a pasty jel that doesn’t work. Progress.. eh..