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Why American business torques me off.

By cottonm4

4 years ago


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    #79 4 years ago
    Quoted from cottonm4:

    I hate it when a company tries to make me for a fool. What follows is why I don't trust American business. I don't trust any businessman for as far as I can throw him. He has to prove himself.
    Check out this bottle of bleach. Read the label. For $2.67 cents you get 3.78 quarts, or 121 oz, or 3.57 L. What you are not getting is one full U.S. Gallon. Got that burned in? Let's go to the next pic.
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    Here is a whole shelf of the same bleach. Plus there is a different bottle on the shelf, too. Just to look at these two bottles of bleach sitting side by side you might think the bottles are the same size. I'll answer your question: They are not the same size. But they sure do look like the same size, don't they? Lets go to pic #3
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    This pic with both bottle side by side shows that:
    1) the blue label is concentrated and Whitens, Disinfects and Deodorizes.
    2) the green label is a cleaning bleach that kills mole and mildew. It Cleans, Disinfects, and Deodorizes.
    And they both kill 99.9% of common household germs.
    But let's look at something else in pic #4
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    Check out the label. Both bottles are of the same 6.0% concentrate of Sodium Hypochlorite. SH is the active ingredient. It is the stuff that you smell. It is the stuff that will burn holes in your clothes. Other ingredients make up 94% of the product. This other product is water. You know. Water. The same stuff that comes from your kitchen faucet.
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    Here is another pic of the green bottle. You should notice two things.
    1) The price is only $1.77 per container.
    2) The container is larger. The green label is a full US gallon. And for less money. But most people will not pay attention.
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    This one is on Walmart since both bottles Great Value branded.
    God bless America.

    ONE Thing that IS typical american (from my point of view) is these large containers (and that shitload of packaging garbage).

    You could shrink it down by 94% if you just remove the water, loose no effectiveness, have less packaging, protect the Environment and have way less weight to carry home... but it "Looks to be a better deal this way" if you put a litte bottle of concentrate next to it.

    #84 4 years ago
    Quoted from Ericpinballfan:

    I boycott walmart.
    They pay some of the lowest wages for retail workers.
    They are non union across the board, affecting safety in several areas including bad record of fork lift accidents and big rigs.
    They buy bulk subpar products, cheaper to offer returns than buy good merchandise.
    They are a classless operation towards emplyee's and there health benefits are only for full time employee's.
    There so much more, I will stop.
    They suck.

    Wall Mart opened in Germany, wanted to gain a market share and ruining competition by selling goods underprice at a loss...

    ...wich was quickly forbidden...

    ...so they closed down again countrywide pretty fast.

    (Not sure if not an urban legend but so the story goes. Fact is they closed doors pretty fast.)

    #85 4 years ago

    Why the **** am I writing here?

    Not much going on at the moment, is it? XD

    #87 4 years ago
    Quoted from mcluvin:

    And yet Amazon.de exists?

    Do/ did they sell underprice?

    They were way more competitive when they were new in the business, that's true.
    Nowadays I first look elsewhere because Amazon has gotten pretty expensive.
    You're not automatically getting a mostly good deal anymore.

    #91 4 years ago
    Quoted from RipleYYY:

    its just the same everywhere... what would it be different somewhere else ?
    as said above, more than often, i see promotional "family pack" or "economy pack", which are greater than the "normal" pack (at higher price of course)
    and when you simply calculate the price for 1 unit, the normal pack is cheaper than the promotional one...
    people are intellectually lazy (me included), most of the time we dont think further because of X excuses
    welcome to our capitalist society

    Since a couple of years stores here are obliged to additionally write down the price by weight/ volume/ item. So if you're in front of a couple of different sized items of the same type you still get wich is the cheapest.

    #124 4 years ago
    Quoted from Mike_J:

    Americans buy a lot of shit since they base their purchases solely on price.

    Well... Looking at our hobby, definately not the people around here.

    (We're a classy bunch.)

    #140 4 years ago

    You now you could just use vinegar and have the same effect while being way more environmental friendly.

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