@lichme

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they don't have a right to make fun of Amazon after this.

@lichme But we're not disappointed, because meh.

@eulestadt Oh I think that was a big ole Fuk U

@opshannon Fuku

@whistlingwilly You really stayed up for Meh instead of watching the ball drop or the 1st minute of the new year? Wow

@Stallion - Hello! It's still last year on the west coast. Happy New Year!

@Stallion East-centric much? ;-)

@RedOak OH SNAP, @Stallion got timezoned like a bipth! lolz

@RedOak Im actually in AZ :D

@jeraden it is from their Commercial line so since these normally get buried in a big ugly cleaning supply PO, price matters not. Nobody in the Controllers Office bothers looking at "Cleaning Supplies". (1)

(1) This Commercial pricing subsidizes Newell's selling Rubbermaid containers to SAMs at a loss.

@RedOak Kinda like the $400 turkey sandwich my dad had at a hospital once (itemized under "kitchen service").

@jeraden

Yep.

Most DOD spending isn't on tanks, it's on TP for the barracks latrine.

Education dollars? Chalk, not salaries

Take a cubic yard of wood pulp and make plywood, Home Depot sells it all for $10. Make copier paper with it, you'll get $2,000

@MehnofLaMehncha "Education dollars? Chalk, not salaries" are you a time traveller from 1960?

@RedOak
How do you sell a rubbermaid container at a loss? Are they taping $10 bills on the undersides of the lids nowadays?

@KitSkyfire in case that was a serious question... You sell it to the buyer for less money than it cost you to manufacture and distribute the product. Sales price - cost = profit/{loss}.

But in this Rubbermaid-Walmart relationship there is more to the story. Not hard to find via a Google search.

Basically Walmart almost drove Rubbermaid out of business. As with most scenarios part of the blame went to Rubbermaid for relying too much on Walmart for its business.

Rubbermaid was and to some extent still is a semi-premium product company. They built that reputation by well made products and more importantly, clever and creative industrial design. They innovated with those premium profits. Lots of cool new plastic-based products.

Unfortunately for Rubbermaid, Walmart is a bottom-feeder. They sell cheap crap. They kept beating on Rubbermaid to lower prices. Rubbermaid resisted because they did not want to be positioned as a cheap brand. But too much of their revenue depended on Walmart - their distribution network was not diverse enough. Rubbermaid profit suffered due to the low Walmart margins. So low that Rubbermaid stock got killed.

The Newell conglomerate, a competitor of some sort that was not known for the same quality or innovation relished the idea of eliminating a competitor. They bought Rubbermaid for its brand, cheaply, and used it like a cash cow. The historically creative industrial design staff was largely eliminated and with them, the innovative new products Rubbermaid was known for.

A bit of that innovative spirit has retuned but it is a tiny shadow of what it was.

This is one of several reasons we avoid Walmart stores.

@KitSkyfire 'just realized as I wrote that comment sitting in my shop, two of those pre-Newell, Rubbermaid innovative products were next to me!

@RedOak Its rare for me to want to go to walmart, they have one thing regularly that I I want but other than that and black friday it's very rare I go in there

@RedOak - In the towns they enter, Walmart runs the mom and pop stores out of business by undercutting prices, then raises their prices back. Walmart has destroyed much of the uniqueness of towns across America. Not even addressing their treatment of workers. I will never shop there.
http://makingchangeatwalmart.org/walmart-and-workers/

I agree with all the condemnations of Walmart. They epitomize everything that is wrong with the 'capitalism' system that dominates American business. They ruin employees, they decimate local towns, they ruthlessly destroy small business... but hey, the stock market loves them.

Oy.

@zippyus

Poetic license. Did you think I was being literal about the TP?

@haydesigner2 actually this has little to do with free market capitalism. It is crony-capitalism.

The problem with many arrogant companies is they got that way due to crony-relationships with government and politicians. Big corporations can afford to deal with big government and big regulations. In fact they like that situation be because it beats down upstart competition.

Small businesses thrive inspite of the above paragraph. If you want to see more equity, the number one best thing to do is fight big government. Take away big government and you take away that crony-advantage. And make it easy for upstart businesses to compete.

All big monopolies ultimately naturally fail in traditional American competition. Walmart will be no different. Examples: GM and IBM (remember all the hype about IBM having a monoply on PC's?).

@jdp do you find the symmetry of the wetjet to be annoying? if not... prob no...

@jdp Two words sold me on this "Refillable reservoir"

@awk you threw up on the ceiling?

j/k
Although you likely did something that seemed like a good idea at the time, or involved uttering the phrase "Hey watch this!" I just laugh picturing a situation where one could throw up on the ceiling...

@awk nope. . . . So you read that far?

@RedOak "What's in the Box" is my favorite part, I always skip right to it.

@awk yes but what size? I mean i only need so many 1/4 in ones

@RedOx You must save a lot on toilet paper!

@awk I have a rag on a stick, thankyouverymuch

@RedOx

@Foxborn Nice. I like the using-a-fuzzy-sock for a reusable swiffer pad idea.

@Blahbbs I think that's in there somewhere and I think you can get them at dollar tree

@Foxborn not really related but a heads up for those that use the wet jet style cleaning liquids that are supposedly no rinse... Someone I know got the same exact new carpet we did in the family room, at the same time, same traffic and cleaning frequency, but they used the wet jet no rinse cleaner in the adjoining kitchen and we used a traditional cleaner with a water rinse afterwards. After two years their carpet was extremely dirty from the residue getting tracked onto the carpet fibers and giving the dirt something to stick to. It did not come up when they vacuumed and just kept accumulating. I don't know if professional carpet cleaning worked as they decided to sell the house (unrelated), but it was as close as you can accidentally get to a side by side comparison test. They were convinced the no rinse liquid was at fault.

@Foxborn reusable pad?

@mehod Meh is now required to charge sales tax in both TX and CA. Explanation can be found here.

@mehmerized image links have to end in the file name to work right. (jrg, gif, etc.) I fixed it for you.

@Thumperchick Thank you!!

@zomja meh.com/orders - your tracking number will update once the order ships out. Looks like the estimated delivery date for this product is 1/11-1/13 so the tracking should update sometime in the next week or so.

@Stumpy91 It is pretty crazy! Even the little cut out sheet with the allen wrench says to look for the "enclosed leaflet"!

Amazon, Home Depot reviewers all want the INSTRUCTIONS!

@Stumpy91 @fjp999

@Stumpy91 Ha! and they shipped me off to Atlanta

@thismyusername Very generous of you to remind us all. Now anything of value in those poo pellets?

@Stumpy91 Someone above provided links. Many involved sewing and velcro! Too much work for me.

The one I tried just now was tube socks (which I have a ton of overstretched). Remove handle. Stretched over properly you can get the tube up the handle.

For the wet one it is probably best to use two socks.