I don't know if I'm right, but I have a feeling that P&G and Unilever are going to be doing away with the Powder variants of their colour care detergents.
Ariel have already discontinued colour care powder tablets.
And across both Ariel and Persil, in supermarkets, there is now only one box size of colour powder available - 22 and 23 wash box respectively.
The 10 wash boxes have gone, along with the box sizes that match the 40-65 wash box ranges of standard bios.
Also, with the one size that is remaining, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find.
I know places like Costco/Makro have the professional box sizes in colour 90-130 wash range. But of course, the majority of the UK will buy their detergent in the supermarkets.
Suppose in the end, for colour care stuff, it does not matter whether or not powder is available as of course there is no oxygen bleaches in any format.
But some people will always prefer powder above liquids, whether it be standard or colour.
Nothing more than an observation really.
I know if P&G and Unilever had their way, we would only have pods, smaller to ship, more can be stocked in store and it's a pre-determined amount of washes, so would need to be replenished more often.
I did read in the wall street journal, that for US detergent makers, one of their sales tactics was reliance on consumers over-pouring, thus a need to replenish more often.
And in Independent retail, it was stated that the average customer shops for laundry products 14 times a year - how many here are more (or less) than that?
Ariel have already discontinued colour care powder tablets.
And across both Ariel and Persil, in supermarkets, there is now only one box size of colour powder available - 22 and 23 wash box respectively.
The 10 wash boxes have gone, along with the box sizes that match the 40-65 wash box ranges of standard bios.
Also, with the one size that is remaining, it is becoming increasingly difficult to find.
I know places like Costco/Makro have the professional box sizes in colour 90-130 wash range. But of course, the majority of the UK will buy their detergent in the supermarkets.
Suppose in the end, for colour care stuff, it does not matter whether or not powder is available as of course there is no oxygen bleaches in any format.
But some people will always prefer powder above liquids, whether it be standard or colour.
Nothing more than an observation really.
I know if P&G and Unilever had their way, we would only have pods, smaller to ship, more can be stocked in store and it's a pre-determined amount of washes, so would need to be replenished more often.
I did read in the wall street journal, that for US detergent makers, one of their sales tactics was reliance on consumers over-pouring, thus a need to replenish more often.
And in Independent retail, it was stated that the average customer shops for laundry products 14 times a year - how many here are more (or less) than that?
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