Outrageous Tide HE Pricing

[gansky1]

Washing for my baby boy (of nearly 14 ;-) I've found that Tide HE original scent is about the best cleaning detergent of all I've tried. I hated the Wisk, the Sears foamed in the rinse cycle with soft water. I like the powder well enough, but liquid is a bit easier to use for pre-treating and more even dispensing.

At Target last night, I saw HE Free, HE with Febreeze, HE w/bleach and two scents of regular HE - original and Clean Breeze. I'm glad to see there are more choices now.

The odd thing about the "Free" version was that it came with a free sample bottle of Downy whatever-it's-called in the Vanilla-whatever flavor. (can you tell I pay little attention to softeners?) I thought that was a little silly - buy a detergent free of dyes and perfumes and get a bottle of perfume with it. "Here's a free rash - P&G loves you!"

 

[irishwashguy]

I have seen Tide HE---P and G is an anomoly--SA8 still fabul

I am not a user of Tide, however,I always notice how much they sell it for,just our of couriosity, I have seen the Tide HE liquid at Costco for 20 bucks. It was the biggest one that I have ever seen. I know that I have seen it at Walmart for 5.99-6.99, although, with the cost of fuel going up, so the cost of everything else right along with it.Safeway is by far the highest, i think anyway, on just about everything anyway.
Greg. P and G is funny like that. I am really afraid of using Tide, that was the trigger for my last episode of hives when I went to visit a friend in Idaho and slept in a bed washed in Tide,I just play it safe now, I have very sensative skin, the sensative Downy spells like bug spray, that would be nice to cuddle up with, I have more often lately opted not to use fabric softener,I never thought that I would ever do that.
-------SA8, from what I have been told is a little cheaper than tide per use because you use so little. As far as the Persil, it is by far the most expensive at 45.99 a box, I love the smell, although the new SA-8 smell has become my new favorite, and it can make it though a boil wash just as well as the Persil, and it is HE. Better for the tub bearings.

 

[MrX]

Irish detergent pricing - Powders (Main brands) All HE

Just to give you an idea of the costs here in Ireland, I priced (on line supermarkets) the best value sized packs of the major P&G and Unilever brands here and also Ecover.

Prices in € (Euro) - € 1 = US$ 1.3415, or €1 = Can$1.4280 or € 1 = UK£ 0.6762 or €1 = Aus$1.6920

Persil Bio Powder 3kg (6.61lbs)
€10.56 - (Equiv to : US$14.16)
Persil Bio (5 Kilogram) (11.02lbs)
€16.99 (Equiv to : US$22.79)
(Persil colour seems to be the same price)

There's an 8kg (17.63lbs) Persil and surf too in most of our supermarkets EXCEPT tesco, it's around €25 (equiv to : US$33.53)

Surf Sunshine, Lavender & Oriental Blossom & Tropical 5kg (11.02lbs) --- €13.99 (Equiv to : US$18.76)

Ariel:
Ariel Biological (4.75 Kilogram) (12.67lbs)€16.99 (Equiv to : US$22.79)
Ariel Biological (7.6 Kilogram) (16.75lbs) €26.89 (equiv to : US$36.07)

Ecover Bio Washing powder (1.2 Kilogram) (2.64 lbs)
€7.99 (Equiv to US$10.71)

Currency conversion with thanks to Google!

All of these products would obviously be marketed in KG only and priced in € (Euro)

 

[earthling177]

"Here's a free rash - P&G loves you!"

Greg said: The odd thing about the "Free" version was that it came with a free sample bottle of Downy whatever-it's-called in the Vanilla-whatever flavor. (can you tell I pay little attention to softeners?) I thought that was a little silly - buy a detergent free of dyes and perfumes and get a bottle of perfume with it. "Here's a free rash - P&G loves you!"

ROFLMAO!

It’s so true, they probably aren’t thinking. My hunch is that in their heart they can’t possibly believe that there *are* people who don’t want their laundry to be perfumed at the end of the cycle, so the only explanation for buying a perfume-free version of the detergent is that it clashes with the perfume of the softener -- that would also explain why they sometimes sell Tide with the same Downy perfume. Also, I’m willing to bet that if people caught a rash from that combo, P&G would be happy to sell them something to alleviate it from their other divisions. ;-)

 

[frigilux]

Tom----The recommended dosage for SA8 With Bioquest® is 2 tablespoons for soft or medium-hard water and 4 tablespoons for hard or very hard water. The cost for 2 tablespoons is 30 cents.

 

[MrX]

It depends on what the perfume's like. I don't mind citrus and other 'clean' smells, but I really find some of the overpowering floral scents are very unpleasant and lingering.

Also, I can't stand the smell of fabreeze or bounce.

This is possibly why I far prefer Unilever's detergents over here!
Persil powder's fairly inoffensive and their liquid small and mighty variety's smell is very uplifting and sort of citrus.

Persil Powder + Comfort Pure gives me the kind of smell I like - clean, very slightly scented laundry.