Massive thefts sweep nation!

[Mike Johnson]

What's not mentioned is that many folks who rely on laundromats don't have $20 cash to buy a big jug of detergent at the market, especially after scraping together enough money to wash and dry a couple loads of laundry. So they buy those 1.5oz boxes from the vending machine at $1-$2 per. If you have only $10 -- as many people do -- you don't have much choice. Poverty is pretty freaking expensive.

I remember how much it hurt to need a box of detergent, have that $13 expense blow a hole in the week's budget. And then there's times you really can't manage to buy the big box at the supermarket, you have to buy one of the medium boxes, maybe $7, but only has a quarter of the detergent in the $13 box. You're kicking yourself, but you have to do laundry. You can either buy a big box of detergent, or you can wash your clothes. Not both.

[josntme]

http://www.snopes.com/media/notnews/tide.asp

[Jimmypoo]

I only steal Tide when the Tide comes in. Then I wait for the Tide to go out, and go right along with it so
nobody notices me or the Tide.

[Jimmypoo]

just read the Snopes thing… this is P&G starting their own little urban legend for press coverage
to assert how it really IS worth paying more for.

That’s all there is to this.

They are doing the reverse of the Satanic thing that brought them so much ill press because
of the way their own “crack team” of idiots handled it in the mid-80s.

Even at $15 per bottle, you gotta steal 1000 bottles (retail) and how many can you fit in a cart
at a time? 6 perhaps? 10?

Let’s say 10. That required a guy going into a store every ~4 days to load a car with 10 bottles of Tide
and NOBODY NOTICED HIM — AFTER THEY NOTICED HIM… on video tape?

This is so stupid. It’s “news” stories like this, that defy any application of logic, that make me want
to hot fire brand idiots on their foreheads for permanent identification as IDIOTS - so you can spot them
from at least 100 meters.

[Lux Interior]

Mike Johnson wrote:
Poverty is pretty freaking expensive.

Aren't there cheaper options than Tide and the other big name brands?