Submitted 19 hours ago by Showroom7561@lemmy.ca to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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“45% less plastic and 75% less water!”
But the product they are comparing it to has 90% more detergent…
Does it have less detergent? The company we used to use, before switching to powder, did this. But it was the same amount of detergent, less water. They updated the amount you should use per load with the change.
The math checks out too. The smaller bottle uses about 45% less volume per load
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”?
It’s very clearly printed on there, 60 loads vs 74.
I mean it sounds to me more like they are admitting they were intentionally stupidly inefficient originally. IE the one they are comparing it to has 94% more detergent, but only does 14 more loads. (74 vs 60).
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).
Detergent sheets rock! I’ve been traveling and need hypoallergenic detergent. I’ve carried 24 loads worth with practically no added weight to my suitcase and it won’t leak everywhere if it gets hit.
60 loads for the 24.3oz or 72 loads for 64oz…what am I missing here?
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.
74 loads versus 60, bruh
“Our small t-shirts use less fabric than our large t-shirts!” 🤔
CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.de 19 hours ago
Explain your thought process here, how did you arrive at the larger bottle being 90% more detergent? It’s pretty clear that the concentration is higher in the smaller bottle.
You could complain about the form factor or lack of precision in the higher concentration, or perhaps determine how much the cost per load has changed, but “detergent” is mostly water, which they clear said they reduced.
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 18 hours ago
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.
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?
Keeponstalin@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Is the text ULTRA Concentrated not clear?