Really vintage Cascade

[labboy]

I was at my local Staples Office Supply and passed through their cleaning supply aisle. They had two boxes of the old style chlorinated, phosphated Cascade.

I thought it was very strange...not on clearance, regular shelf tag, etc. Inverting the box indicated the powder seemed to be free flowing...no big clumps moving around. The trademark date on the box was 1992. I could not decipher the production date stamped on the top.

They were $2/box so I purchased them. Anyone else encountered this?

Bob

 

[rp2813]

I'm going to check a local Staples and see if I find the same thing.  I'd like to bolster my stash of phosphated Cascade.

 

[arbilab]

Other than clumping (you don't seem to have) it doesn't go bad. But what is Staples doing with archival dishwasher detergent? Last place I'd look.

 

[labboy]

Used it today. Worked beautifully and I loved the bleachy smell in the kitchen.

 

[retropia]

P&G still produces institutional Cascade, with bleach, no enzymes, and plenty of phosphates. It's intended for places like restaurants and hospitals, and supposedly is ok for sale in states where consumer-use dishwasher detergent must be phosphate-free. (Although I recall Launderess reporting that NY state no longer allows phosphates in commercial dishwasher detergent, either.)

Staples sells cleaning supplies for businesses, like window cleaner and paper towels, so that is probably why it sells Cascade. I've found the commercial version at Gordon Food Supply, a restaurant supplier.

That price at Staples, at $2 a box, sounds like a deal.

 

[arbilab]

at $2 a box, sounds like a deal.
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For something that actually works compared to the same price for something that doesn't, yeah it's a deal. That's marketing in the 21st century. Or anti-marketing, depending how you look at it.

I mean like, ya know, most stuff used to work irregardless. (Yes I know 'irregardless' is not a real word. We spoofed it in our James Brown review onstage in 1965.)

 

[gorenje]

Hi Bob

interesting find and definitely a good deal. I bought the same box when I was the first time in the USA in 1994

Now the empty box is part of my collection.
Scroll down to the 3th post and you will see the box with the matching Rinse Aid from the same period.

Ingemar

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[laundromat]

I HATE CASCADE!!! Finish is my absolute favorite!

 

[cehalstead]

original cascade was better than finish (Electrasol) at the time, but not now....

 

[spiralator60]

Vintage Cascade

Bob,

What size box of Cascade was available? The Staples site currently lists the product size at 20 ounces, something that a few people have complained about, for the price charged.

http://www.staples.com/Cascade-Automatic-Dishwasher-Powder-20-oz./product_488701

 

[labboy]

They were the small 20 oz. boxes. I normally wouldn't buy that size but could not pass up the chlorinated, phosphated goodness.