OK, about as mundane as it gets. My wife asked me to pick up a specific brand of hair shampoo yesterday when I had to go to the store. “That should be easy,” sez I. Hah.
In the store I soon found the hair products aisle. Then, to my astonishment, I found that hair products filled the **entire **aisle, from top to bottom shelf.
Had they been arranged in alphabetical order by brand, it might have been easy, but it took an excessive amount of time to track down the one bottle of shampoo she wanted.
There were a gazillion bottles of stuff there, most of which were not just plain shampoo, but things that supposedly did miracles for hair. Interesting. Next time she gets her own damn shampoo.
It’s all true. Shampoo marketing is not based on brand loyalty. They sell the next new hair miracle, and of course, the product will get you laid. The shampoo you bought last time may not exist now, or the package looks entirely different. :rolleyes:
Yeah, wait till you have to buy feminine hygiene products, and by “feminine hygiene” I mean menstruation. Again, the whole wall is filled with them and they purposely change the outer packaging every time I’m instructed to get some. I can’t go by colour, or package size, or anything other then remembering the brand and a few key words.
I’ve mentioned it before on here, but if men had to wear these things we’d buy them by the case at Home Depot. They’d be packaged in plain brown wrappers and we’d keep them in the work room, under the work bench.
I’m lucky - I’m married so I already get laid now and then, and my hair is carefully cleaned with products that I find by playing “let’s spot the sale stickers!” If it’s under $2 I consider THAT a miracle and I buy it.
There was a very true-to-life scene in thirtysomething where the red-headed photog chick and Polly Bergen are shopping for pantihose. Control top, regular, support, sheer, opaque, color, sandalfoot/sheer toe…it took them forever to isolate the exact right pair!
The thing I hate about hair products is the infinite variety of products designed for every type of hair except mine. I have shoulder length hair which I fuss with as little as possible. It is not damaged, curly, straight, color-treated, greying, fine, greasy, dry or anything else. (Well, some of those MIGHT apply). I just want a bottle of shampoo for Normal hair.
Re: Feminine hygiene products. I was seriously annoyed recently to discover that the outer packaging of my preferred variety of tampons had not changed, but the contents of the package had. I will spare you the details. By the time this box is used, I will probably have adapted to the new style. I hope so, because otherwise I’ll have to pick a new variety to try. Not my favorite activity. They change the packaging and styles available of pantyliners almost every time I buy pantyliners.
