Looks like a voter map. They get what they voted for 🤭

Larry David would have appreciated those, right next to the black penis cake 😂

That’s how it should be. When I was asked to get a doctor’s note FROM MY SURGEON, the entire surgical team laughed because it’s such an outrageous request.

And it’s insulting to even be asked when you almost never take sick days off.

“Now I need two sick days off…”

“Our small t-shirts use less fabric than our large t-shirts!” 🤔

Yup, we have UV flashlights, and yes, we’ve tested our own home.

You can’t escape stains, but there’s a huge psychological difference between stains that could only come from 2-4 people who likely aren’t doing crazy shit like jizzing on the ceilings vs. hundreds of random strangers doing god knows what in a place they will never see again! LOL

“Ignorance is bliss” 100% on this one!

Yeah, game changer for sure!

• Less weight.
• No plastic waste and the packages are nearly always 100% recyclable.
• They take up next to no space.
• They are often safe enough to work well with handwashing clothes.
• They still clean clothes!
• Generally made from better ingredients.
• I find that many brands are also from smaller companies who haven’t been corrupted by greedy multinationals, so that’s a bonus. LOL

I’ll never forget the one trip I took with friends, and someone in the group thought it would be a great idea to bring one of those UV flashlights to inspect the hotel rooms.

What started off as some funny discoveries quickly turned into a crime scene of piss and other bodily fluids EVERYWHERE… walls, ceiling, bed, carpet, sofa, kitchenette area, you name it!

And this would have been a 4-star hotel at the very least.

Since that day, I’ve never felt comfortable in a hotel.

I’ve already corrected my OP and admitted to my overreaction.

But…

Is the text “ULTRA CONCENTRATED” not clear?

No, it’s not. That’s a marketing buzzword.

“Ultra concentrated” means absolutely nothing to a consumer without knowing more, like how is concentration level determined in this product? How does it compare with other liquid laundry detergents? And how does it compare to their 64oz version?

Whirlpool says that most brands list the concentration level on the bottles in the form of 1x, 2x, 3x, etc., but that’s not on the bottles in the OP.

All we know that we get less volume, fewer loads, and a slightly higher price per load.

Less plastic? Sure, but with fewer loads in the bottle, it’s not an equal comparison from the start.

That’s like saying, “our ‘ultra compact’ size 8 shoes use less rubber compared to our size 11 shoes!”. 🤔

It’s not the same product being sold, despite the labels looking the same… these are two different products being compared as if they were equal.

See my reply to the other guy above. I was applying the logic (possibly flawed) to how food is sold: 900g of pasta is more food than 750g of pasta, regardless of the difference in packaging. If you need 900g, then you’d need to buy two of the 750g, which is even more wasteful.

But I guess my problem is that they are comparing two different products, in two different quantities (loads per bottle), but linked together with how much plastic and water they use.

They didn’t make the same product with less plastic or water, it’s a new product with the same label.

Wait until they hear how little water and packaging detergent strips use! (which is what I usually buy… this liquid just came up in the search).

You’re trying very hard to make this an issue but it’s really not.

Probably.

I was viewing this in the context of shrinkflation with food items.

For example, if you’re used to buying 900g of pasta, because that’s what feeds your family out of a single package, does it really matter if the replacement 750g size uses less plastic and packaging? Because now you need to buy two packages instead of one, which creates more plastic/packaging waste than before.

So… seeing that you get less loads per bottle vs the larger one, it reminded me of the pasta scenario. Probably flawed logic. 😬LOL

how did you arrive at the larger bottle being 90% more detergent?

24.3 oz vs 64oz. When I say “detergent”, I’m talking about the product itself, not the specific ingredient, which isn’t listed by a means from which to compare them by.

It’s EXPLICITLY clear that the concentration is higher in the smaller bottle.

Explicitly??? You’d only know because you can compare the two bottles. But someone shopping would see the same brand, same coloured bottle, same label, but smaller size (at nearly the same price). The marketing only focused on plastic and water, which to me, seem to benefit the manufacturer more than the consumer (lower shipping costs while selling at the same price per load).

Why not match the load amount per bottle if you are marketing this as a better replacement from what they offered before?

If you were using the larger bottle, would you know that the smaller one had more loads? You’d only know that it uses “less plastic” (per load, not per volume).

If it does, they really need to make that more obvious! The smaller one is “ultra concentrated”, but is it more expensive per load? Is the assumption that someone who used to buy the larger bottle would even know that the smaller one is “better”?

I wouldn’t even want someone like that to get a fine from bylaw. They should get criminal charges for endangering everyone in that community.

People like that have no regard for human life.

I follow their news updates via RSS, so pretty much every day I’ll get an outright casino/gambling ad that looks like an article written to share some topic about the casino industry or whatever. I ignore them after rolling my eyes.

This was the first time I was reading, and re-reading, then laughing, then re-reading again… it truly is a spectacle!

This ad most certainly seems like AI word salad. Their actual news articles appear to be written by someone with a pulse. Maybe. 🤔