Wow! New feature! Now you can CHOOSE how many paper towels you grab from the roll!
It’s not the same as it used to be.
The individual sheets used to be twice as big.
"Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been.
Submitted 5 months ago by NataliePortland@lemmy.ca to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
bastion@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Yeah, kinda weird to see it on mildlyinfuriating.
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 5 months ago
Still are if you don’t buy a select a size roll.
Cornpop@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh to be young again. This is fairly new. The old standard size was 2 of these together, a square.
nadiaraven@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And I’ve seen plenty of the older square sizes still being sold, so it’s still necessary to mark the different sizes
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 months ago
I’m always shocked when I get the old style as who the hell needs that much paper most of the time?
zeppo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
They’re perforated to half the size that paper towels typically used to be. It’s common now but wasn’t in the past.
NataliePortland@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
For reference, this is Brawny paper towels where the sheets are perforated the other direction, allowing you to actually tear a half sheet. This is what “select a size” should mean.
deegeese@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
Oh sweet summer child, paper towels used to only come in large square sheets.
These smaller “select a size” didn’t become common until around the year 2000.
Assman@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Oh sweet summer child
No one has ever said that without sounding like an obnoxious dickhead
radix@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Only 3 options? Does Brawny think it’s illegal to grab 3/4 of a sheet?
akilou@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Or 5/4, 6/4, 7/4,…
RattlerSix@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why only the one half? What if I want the other half?
treadful@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
We should really make a law against that.
sik0fewl@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
This picture clearly demonstrates that the original picture is, in fact, select-a-size since they are 1/2 size instead of full size.
CrayonRosary@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s not select-a-size. That’s just tiny ass paper towels. Select-a-size towels have no perforations and you cut them with scissors.
hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For reference, they still sell these too: [imgur.com/a/ASsJyUj](Full Sheets)
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I want them perforated about every 12.7mm so I can truly select what I need.
aramova@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s not useful for me when I want a 6.35mm size though. We need more granularity!
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
more granularity!
Isn’t that sand paper?
DontTreadOnBigfoot@lemmy.world 5 months ago
.50cal paper towels
usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I want a bag of paper fibres I can sprinkle into the spill
Obituarykidney@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’ve noticed that the sheets that are “select a size” seen to be using this to list a lower per sheet cost.
So if you’re trying to compare prices in the supermarket it comes in at half the per unit pricing of normal sized paper towels while being the same size or smaller and costing the same or more.
It just feels like they’re trying to cheat the system a little rather than trying to create a new product or be more useful.
SeeJayEmm@lemmy.procrastinati.org 5 months ago
That’s silly. Compare per sq ft, not sheet size. There’s no guaranteed sheet size. Same thing with toilet paper.
LodeMike@lemmy.today 5 months ago
This stuff happens when a market is actually healthily competitive. Marketing just makes up random bullshit because consumers are stupid.
Num10ck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
i saw an ad for toilet paper in a 100 year old magazine, bragging: now with less splinters!
Pulptastic@midwest.social 5 months ago
F off with that “larger select a size” crap though.
robolemmy@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Tell me you’re young without telling me you’re young.
Paper towels, for most of my life (I’m old AF), were as long as they were wide. Square, they were. Bounty originated select-a-size by perforating them twice as frequently, so they were half as long as wide. Others eventually followed suit and now youngsters think that’s how it’s always been.
Moneo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
To be fair to OP, they really should’ve stopped advertising this as a feature years ago. It’d be like if sliced bread was still advertised as “Now sliced for your convenience!” or whatever.
snooggums@midwest.social 5 months ago
They still sell the square cut rolls though. This lets the buyer know it is the narrower cut.
LifeOfChance@lemmy.world 5 months ago
How else am I to tell the difference between a full size and select a size? I buy full size for the garage and select a size for the house they serve two purposes so eliminating the standard size wouldn’t be the solution.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Lol. Yeah. Young, young, OP.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
And Bounty always claimed to be the most absorbent brand of paper towel, so the move was like saying “you only need half as much of our paper towel compared to other brands.”
Not sure how actually absorbent they were; my family always got Brawny.
SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Burly Paper Towels are the best and the mascot is dreamy.
I’d let him split my wood if you know what I mean.
TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yup. I remember when we had to tear our own half sheets of paper towel. Kids today have it too soft, and absorbant.
onion@feddit.de 5 months ago
I did that the other day
altima_neo@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
Yeah I remember when they started advertising them like that. Back when the towels were about twice as long between perforations.