Top Job Laundry Detergent? Who Knew?

[launderess]

Ran into a local supermarket (Key Food) to pick up a few things today and noticed two things:

Virtually all powders are now GONE! That includes versions of Tide. There were a few boxes of things such as Trend, and smaller boxes of Tide, but by and large the shelves were rows upon rows of liquid laundry detergents.

Along the bottom shelf, my little eye spotted a large bottle of "Top Job" laundry liquid. Bottle states the detergent contains all the cleaning power of Top Job cleaner. Didn't stop as have more laundry detergents than can handle, and didn't wish to be tempted.

L.

 

[oxydolfan1]

Run away as far as you can.

It resembles the "new" Solo and Dash products in that they are the same type of watery, cheap, and smelly liquids on the "super economy" price tier.

In order to get any effectiveness out of it, you have to use so much of it that you are virtually guaranteed a nasty rash or breakout...

IMHO, such liquids are a false economy. Purex, Arm & Hammer, and even the private-label store brand liquids, which have come up in quality over the past few years, still represent much better value and offer adequate cleaning for folks with low-soil lifestyles.

 

[laundryshark]

Top Job Detergents

For whatever it's worth.--Laundry Shark

http://www.hebrands.com/top-job/detergents.aspx

 

[sudsmaster]

Top Job

Never heard of it. Must be an East Coast phenomenon?

 

[bongobro]

Thank (?) Wal-Mart

Wal-Mart is the force behind the demise of powdered laundry detergents. They recently announced they would stop stocking powders because they say liquids take up less space (read make more profits) than powders...and the bottles would be better for the environment...

Top Job laundry detergent? Solo fabric softener?

That's as ridiculous as making an Ivory soap that sinks (wait, they already do; only the plain "classic" bars float, I believe)...

 

[launderess]

Speaking for myself, and I am unaimous, really do not like most liquid detergents. Damn things simply do not rinse out well. Tried Wisk HE once and returned the bottle as the stuff was highly sudsing and wouldn't rinse.

L.

 

[danemodsandy]

Bah, Humbug!

"They recently announced they would stop stocking powders because they say liquids take up less space (read make more profits) than powders...and the bottles would be better for the environment..."

Can someone kindly tell me how in hell a plastic bottle made of scarce petrochemicals and resistant to decomposition is better for the environment than an easily biodegradable cardboard box made of a renewable resource?

These Wal-Martians have evidently come to believe that just because they've said something, we'll believe it without question.

 

[laundryshark]

RETRO Top Job Cleaner Commercial

Hmmm. I vaguely remember the old Top Job floor cleaner ads from my childhood days.--Laundry Shark