# Incredibly common products which the store clerk never heard of

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 23, 2021, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225 "2021-09-23T21:29:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/incredibly-common-products-which-the-store-clerk-never-heard-of/951225/13 "2021-09-24T13:02:40Z")

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Recently I went to a store with a large lawn care section and asked where I could find a grass whip. Apparently that doesn’t qualify as incredibly common nowadays because no one had ever heard of such a thing and they don’t carry them.

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