Review: Detergent aisles of American supermarkets

[mich]

Blame Walmart..

If you want to blame anyone for the lack of Powders, blame Walmart for starting this mess. They threatened detergent manufactures to start making more Concentrated detergents, or simply LOSE their spot on the shelves. P&G was told to make more Liquid Tide variations, as part of a marketeting agreement with Walmart, and Walmart dropped a lot of the Powder Tide verisons, to make room for the Liquid crap.

 

[rinso]

I prefer powdered HE detergent as well. We have soft water, and the liquids just foam too much in our front-loader. However, it is getting more and more difficult to find HE powders in my area. Tide HE powder was the only choice when I went shopping this afternoon. Of course, it was at least $2 higher than the other, non-HE powders.

 

[mich]

Tide Powder itself, is more expensive overall.

Tide 64 Loads Liquid, is $11.99 everyday price @ Target, but there Powder is $14.99 for Tide Plus Bleach, 53lds, and the same price for Tide Original HE.

Tide Powder is also more expensive then Liquid, at multiple supermarkets here. The only store that has it priced correctly is Walmart, which has it for $11.99 across the board for 100oz Liquid, and 95oz Tide.

I wonder if P&G could be doing Price Fixing...

 

[mrwash]

Thanks...

...for bringing that topic up again. In the meantime I found (and bought) some Tide liquid detergents for HE washers. That would be: Original scent, Apple Mango Tango (yup, found it) and Lavender (doesn't smell like lavender but my nose said it should be okay). So I have those 3 bottles but still had no time to use them.

I had the chance to look at other stores like Publix. They do look all the same, so I think I'll have to visit the big stores in the north of the US like Meijers or so to get the real "detergent aisle flash"

 

[mrwash]

Sorry...

...that should bei Gain, not Tide.