Posted by Evelyn C. Leeper on October 10, 2007, 10:51 am
Just another note on liquid soaps in dollar stores: Not only is it
cheaper than at the grocery (even if you are buying large refill
containers), but you can get "ordinary" soap (i.e., not anti-bacterial).
For people who think that using anti-bacterial soap all the time is a
bad time, this is useful to know.
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
He who knows only his own side of the case
knows little of that. -John Stuart Mill
Posted by larry on October 10, 2007, 12:16 pm
Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> Just another note on liquid soaps in dollar stores: Not only is it
> cheaper than at the grocery (even if you are buying large refill
> containers), but you can get "ordinary" soap (i.e., not anti-bacterial).
> For people who think that using anti-bacterial soap all the time is a
> bad time, this is useful to know.
>
Watch prices carefully at Dollar General. After their
buyout, nothing but another cashcow raid by KKR, they
changed a lot of suppliers and jacked up prices by about
30%!!!
Our local Krogers now beats DG prices by about 12%, and the
quality is better.
-- larry / dallas
Posted by Evelyn C. Leeper on October 10, 2007, 2:31 pm
larry wrote:
> Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>> Just another note on liquid soaps in dollar stores: Not only is it
>> cheaper than at the grocery (even if you are buying large refill
>> containers), but you can get "ordinary" soap (i.e., not
>> anti-bacterial). For people who think that using anti-bacterial soap
>> all the time is a bad time, this is useful to know.
>
> Watch prices carefully at Dollar General. After their buyout, nothing
> but another cashcow raid by KKR, they changed a lot of suppliers and
> jacked up prices by about 30%!!!
I don't even go to Dollar General or Family Dollar. In my opinion, they
are mis-using the word "dollar" in their names. (Heck, I don't even
like the dollar stores that have only two or three items priced more
than a dollar!)
Dollar Tree is probably the best chain, but we have mom-and-pop ones as
well around here (central NJ) that are pretty good.
--
Evelyn C. Leeper
He who knows only his own side of the case
knows little of that. -John Stuart Mill
Posted by Don Klipstein on October 14, 2007, 5:15 pm
>Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>> larry wrote:
>>
>>> Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
>>>
>>>> Just another note on liquid soaps in dollar stores: Not only is it
>>>> cheaper than at the grocery (even if you are buying large refill
>>>> containers), but you can get "ordinary" soap (i.e., not
>>>> anti-bacterial). For people who think that using anti-bacterial soap
>>>> all the time is a bad time, this is useful to know.
>>>
>>> Watch prices carefully at Dollar General. After their buyout, nothing
>>> but another cashcow raid by KKR, they changed a lot of suppliers and
>>> jacked up prices by about 30%!!!
>>
>> I don't even go to Dollar General or Family Dollar.
>There's a lot of absolute crap in some of these stores. I'd never buy
>another CF bulb from one.
I consider that the understatement of the month!
In my experience, dollar store CFLs:
* Consistently produce less light than claimed - sometimes 70% less.
* Usually have an icy bluish white "daylight" color. Some in packages
claiming "soft warm white light" have the icy bluish color.
* If they are warm color, they usually have low color rendering index.
Even most of the "daylight" ones have a color rendering index slightly
lower than usual for CFLs.
* Usually lack the FCC ID # that mains-powered CFLs with electronic
ballasts are required to have.
* Usually lack the UL listing that ballast-included CFLs normally have.
* In my experience, have a high rate of malfunctioning, being DOA, and
dying spectcularly.
I only get them to say that I have actual experience when I say how bad
they are.
One thing that makes me think better of Dollar Tree is that I never saw
any of these stool specimen CFLs there.
>And I have seen dish soap that looked like
>soap, but did not act like soap. Not frugal if it doesn't do the job.
> Cheap products are often not. It's often hard to tell the value of
>something by the packaging.
Also, what about the products that are obviously inferior if you read
the labels? Best example I can think of: Rubbing alcohol. The dollar
store garbage is 50%, while rubbing alcohol anywhere else is normally 70%.
Also, dollar stores are now the main place to get "heavy duty"
batteries. The battery technology that has that name got its name when it
was an improvement over an even weaker and more obsolete battery
technology. "Heavy Duty" batteries are now cheap lightweights that
underperform alkalines, and alkalines are the usual now.
- Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
Posted by A Veteran on October 15, 2007, 1:50 pm
don@manx.misty.com (Don Klipstein) wrote:
> >Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> >
> >> larry wrote:
> >>
> >>> Evelyn C. Leeper wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> Just another note on liquid soaps in dollar stores: Not only is it
> >>>> cheaper than at the grocery (even if you are buying large refill
> >>>> containers), but you can get "ordinary" soap (i.e., not
> >>>> anti-bacterial). For people who think that using anti-bacterial soap
> >>>> all the time is a bad time, this is useful to know.
> >>>
> >>> Watch prices carefully at Dollar General. After their buyout, nothing
> >>> but another cashcow raid by KKR, they changed a lot of suppliers and
> >>> jacked up prices by about 30%!!!
> >>
> >> I don't even go to Dollar General or Family Dollar.
> >
> >There's a lot of absolute crap in some of these stores. I'd never buy
> >another CF bulb from one.
>
> I consider that the understatement of the month!
>
> In my experience, dollar store CFLs:
>
> * Consistently produce less light than claimed - sometimes 70% less.
>
> * Usually have an icy bluish white "daylight" color. Some in packages
> claiming "soft warm white light" have the icy bluish color.
>
> * If they are warm color, they usually have low color rendering index.
> Even most of the "daylight" ones have a color rendering index slightly
> lower than usual for CFLs.
>
> * Usually lack the FCC ID # that mains-powered CFLs with electronic
> ballasts are required to have.
>
> * Usually lack the UL listing that ballast-included CFLs normally have.
>
> * In my experience, have a high rate of malfunctioning, being DOA, and
> dying spectcularly.
>
> I only get them to say that I have actual experience when I say how bad
> they are.
>
> One thing that makes me think better of Dollar Tree is that I never saw
> any of these stool specimen CFLs there.
>
> >And I have seen dish soap that looked like
> >soap, but did not act like soap. Not frugal if it doesn't do the job.
>
> > Cheap products are often not. It's often hard to tell the value of
> >something by the packaging.
>
> Also, what about the products that are obviously inferior if you read
> the labels? Best example I can think of: Rubbing alcohol. The dollar
> store garbage is 50%, while rubbing alcohol anywhere else is normally 70%.
> Also, dollar stores are now the main place to get "heavy duty"
> batteries. The battery technology that has that name got its name when it
> was an improvement over an even weaker and more obsolete battery
> technology. "Heavy Duty" batteries are now cheap lightweights that
> underperform alkalines, and alkalines are the usual now.
>
> - Don Klipstein (don@misty.com)
our local hardware store has 'em for $.75
--
when you believe the only tool you have is a hammer.
All problems look like nails.
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> cheaper than at the grocery (even if you are buying large refill
> containers), but you can get "ordinary" soap (i.e., not anti-bacterial).
> For people who think that using anti-bacterial soap all the time is a
> bad time, this is useful to know.
>