Bleach Prices the Next victim of "Inflation"?

[givemehotwater]

Honestly...

I don't understand why you would have even purchased Splashless Bleach. I only bought that once, years ago (maybe 2009?) and after one use, realized, it just didn't whiten worth a damn. It also didn't disinfect at the time (as I read the bottle) and just seemed overall like a bad idea.

Since then, I've never bought anything other than Store Brand "Regular" Bleach, with the Sodium Hypochlorite Figure listed on the bottle. Only when Clorox Bleach is on sale, will I buy the name brand. But honestly... I almost feel like the KIK-Made store brand Bleach does a better job than Clorox.

Getting to you. Why did you poke holes into the seal? You are supposed to peel off the Seal and pour it directly into a measuring cup for dosing.

I'm not quite sure what you were trying to accomplish, and I wouldn't mind hearing you elaborate a little more. I'm honestly confused.

 

[givemehotwater]

This is the one...

You want. It's the same stuff at Target, RiteAid, Vons, Safeway, Ralphs, ShopRite, Wal-Mart, etc, etc.

Best Bleach I've ever purchased. I also am a member of another forum, where some of the members buy LCB in Bulk for Pool maintenance, and they recommend the store-brand Bleach. It's more cost-effective, and the quality is there.

 

[tomturbomatic]

WTH is it with you and the cheap bleach? Go to a real grocery store and buy bleach that is 7.55% hypochlorite if you are trying to disinfect or a lower ratio if that is not important which it must not be if you bought the splashless stuff.

Splashless is supposed to pour smoothly from the bottle opening, no modifications to the seal needed.

 

[bradfordwhite]

I bought splashless by accident. I didn't even know it was a product before this. And the bottle looks the same as the one above but it has the word "lo-splash" on it.

I knew bleach came in different flavors like lemon and autumn mulberry dandelion or such nonsense, but I'd never dealt with bleach gel.

Plus they're remodeling our Walmart and when I bought the first thing of bleach it was on a temporary shelf that was half empty with some vacuum cleaners on a shelf next to it. And the price tags didn't match up. The day before the bleach was on another temporary shelf that had been put up running down the middle of a main walk way. Today the bleach and laundry products were on another shelf at the side of the store that appears temporary as it's in another main run way, or at least where a main run way used to be. The office products are all in the garden center. The old electronic dept has finally been fully moved to it's new location at the back of the store and the old location is almost all empty because last night the ripped up the floor. There is a long tall display shelf with all the Greeting cards in the grocery dept. that's been there for about a month. I saw camping coolers and tents displayed in at least three areas. The back main walkway has been reduced to about 4' wide. There is new refrigerators in the grocery section that have been there for at least two weeks and are mostly empty. They're replacing a lot of cement in the front of the store, they're priming and painting the outside, stripping up all the nice white floor tiles and carpet (in sections) and polishing the cement for the extra special "always looks dirty" look(hate it) ...
So don't believe stories about Walmart going out of business. They're just getting tackier.

Another Walmart in Windsor is also getting some upgrades. Last time I was there they had replaced all the self-check computers which the guy who works in the dept. said are "glitchy"

As for the holes in the seal. I learned to do this to control the flow so one can use the bottle as a dispenser. Think dish soap or shampoo bottle. They don't just slap a 1" cap on the bottle and call it a day, they put on an easy open flow restricting cover so you can dispense directly without taking the chance of a major spill.

Years ago, when I'd buy Top Job or whatever bottled cleaner, I would take a small drill bit, maybe 1/16th or 1/8th of an inch and drill two holes in the cap on opposite sides of the outer edge. One was meant to allow a stream of liquid out and the other allow air in.

I basically do the same with bleach but one can just use a pointed object to carefully in sert such holes. I typically pour the bleach into small medicine type plastic bottle which I keep at the kitchen sink for use. To fill them you need a small funnel and having a small stream of bleach is better than the full spout.

 

[DADoES]

 
Splashless bleach has been a thing for years.

 

[jamiel]

A nephew of ours worked for an engineering firm engineering chlorine plants (even down to the bottling plant). They're concentrating the bleach to reduce transportation costs---no other reason. Originally, full strength bleach was 5.25%; in the 60s Purex (in an effort to compete with Clorox which for a few years was owned by P&G) went to a 6% concentration to compete (Purex Super Bleach--more whitening same price was their schtick). They reverted along with private label. EPA then prescribed that a minimum of 5.25 was required for disinfection and a lot of disinfection systems (dishwashers, 3-sink warewashing installations) were calibrated that way (meaning, use a cupful of bleach in a sink full of water for disinfection while washing dishes). Those systems/instructions were pretty easily recalibrated for more concentrated hypochlorite solutions, so what you see now is, essentially, for another comparison, "cosmetic" bleach (unlabeled, can be thickened/gelled/scented/detergented) and "drug" bleach (labeled concentration, EPA registered, unscented, unthickened, can be relied on for the right concentration and recalled by manufacturer if it doesn't meet the concentration...). Choose for your appropriate use.

 

[bradfordwhite]

#25 Thank-you

Interesting infor. I never really thought about concentration levels. Always thought bleach was bleach. It smelled and was dangerous but in worked good when used correctly.

I have to admit though, when partly diluted, by that I mean the odor; I like it. It's like the smell of clean.

Some hotels will put a 1/4 cup of bleach in the toilet after cleaning it and just leave it in there, then when you check in the subtle smell has permeated the air in the room.

 

[bradfordwhite]

Stopped at the 4th store again

They had some stuff. Not the big gallon bottles. They had this Cloralen 1 quart stuff which seems to be relatively normal.
They also had boxes of dry bleach crystals.

To my surprise not only did they have the Refreshing Breeze Tide, something I haven't seen in a DT for at least 6 months and probably longer, they also had Original scent Tide.  I haven't seen the later in small bottles like this in years.  I think the last time I saw one was when I purchased a new Whirlpool Duet years ago and it was packed inside the washer tub.

 

 

 

[bpetersxx]

my 2 cents

At my Dollar general store we have all kinds of bleach

But 2 kinds of Clorox are discontinued and zero in the store

I got some of the cloralen bleach to try in the Danby DW to wash cups and saucers

We have that in the dollar section AKA as V V

cloralen platinum splash free gel in 20.29 oz size is what i got

https://cloralen.com/cloralen-platinum-bleach-liquid-gel/