I agree I am very upset about it too. It's a great product. I spray it on pans with burnt on crispy mess and let it set then it's very easy to clean. I don't understand why.

I mentioned on another post that the grocery store that I shop at just did a complete re-arrangement of the store and its product shelves. When they did that they got rid of my favourite tuna, pasta and humus.

Whatever happened to my favorite, Wilkinson razor blades.

Some stores will special order for you. You just have to ask.

Amazon has it for under $11 a bottle if you buy 6 ($65.29 for 6 - free shipping). In the Q&A section they say the RTU is the same.

http://www.amazon.com/Dawn-Power-Dissolver-32oz-Bottles/dp/B00J9SITBQ

I, too, hate when favorite products get discontinued. And I usually don't catch the company's axe in time to miss the price hikes from sellers that still have some stock on hand.

Double edge razor blades are enjoying a bit of a revival of popularity. Wilkinson Sword (which I personally didn't prefer back in the day) and other brands are available from Amazon and other sellers.

Dawn dissolved

The one gyr posted is not the correct one I used . The one I used comes in a blue spray bottle that one on the link is different. This is the correct one in the link

When I was a little girl I used to "borrow" my dad's razor and shave my legs with his Wilkinson razor blades. He could always tell I'd used it when he nicked his face because I had dulled it. "Wilkinson" brought back memories...

If you have a Big Lots store, be sure to check them for obsolete products because they often buy the warehouse full of items (whether it's a changed label, new and improved with an added ingredient, or discontinued) and they sell the old stock. Sometimes you get lucky....

Claussen pickles. Can't find them anywhere here now.

Dances.

I wonder if that cleaner had ingredients now found to be unsafe for the environment.

oh we still have claussen pickles in the refrigerator section but they have moved them from time to time and I could not find them and had to ask. Why do they do that move them across the store and not leave anything indicating where.

Is it possible the company is either reformulating the cleaner or redesigning the label? For awhile I couldn't find Lemishine which I use in my dishwasher but then it reappeared a month or so later.

Many stores deliberately and regularly rearrange product placement - especially with very popular items - to get customers to wander around more and discover other items. Costco is notorious for doing this.

Near East discontinued my favorite Spicy Tomato Angel Hair Pasta. I loved that pasta!

Just discovered a couple of days ago that McCormick discontinued their Swiss Steak Seasoning mix.

If you go to the manufacturers website , sometimes they have direct order for their products. Usually in 6 or 12 packages. They can also tell you where it is being sold or if they have discontinued that product. Recently found a roasted garlic salsa that was really good at Big Lot. Figured would never find it again. Looked up the company website and emailed them. The company sells direct with reasonable postage from NC and they told me of three stores on Long Island that sell the salsa. So easy.

If you don't see it where it used to be ... ask.

If they say they don't carry it any more ... ask where you can find it, as you really liked it ... and really want to replenish. Also comment that you hope that the place where they have it now isn't too far away ... to leave the distinct impression with them that (at least that portion of your business) will be going elsewhere.

Some time later when you visit, if it's a smallish place where people know one another, you might like to ask if they know who else used to buy it, as you've been to other stores and not found it, so wonder whether it'd be useful to have some neighbours go together to have a supplier ship them a case.

That might get their attention.

ole joyfuelled ... sometimes fuelled a bit by mischieviousness (if that's a word)

It isn't the correct product, or it just does not have the color container you want? Often the same product is sold in different packaging. Heck, Dawn reportedly even repackaged this formula and sold it as a barbeque grill cleaner! The industrial packaging typically does not have the colorful wrappings that are necessary to catch the retail consumer's eye. Does the wrapper matter? I've located a source for $9 each, but only the sprayer portion and label are blue, so I guess that wouldn't do. Sorry I couldn't be of help. Hope you find a source for the one you want.

Here's a great site for nostalgia's sake. Retro groceries, candy, etc.

Home Town Favorites

Real Pyrex! Oh, give me real Pyrex.

The company making Pyrex sold the business ca 1980s and, as part of the deal, included the use of trademark, Pyrex. The acquiring company changed the formulation of the glass and continued to mark it, Pyrex, - for shame! The new glass is not as resistant to differential temperatures and can shatter.

Jem -- Gosh, I had no idea about the Pyrex now being less safe! (Not that I need any new pieces; trying to reduce my cookware to minimum.)

I have spent the afternoon looking on line for that darned Dissolver! And reading the reviews, of course. Found the best deal on Amazon, so I ordered a CASE of six!. It should last a while, as it is in 32 oz. bottles. Then I remembered I had an Amazon gift card, so that cut the price down. My DD who gave me the card probably didn't think I would use it on something so utilitarian, but it made me happy!

No unfortunately it's not just the blue container lol, it really is a different product, the ingredients list is different. I would try any. I have one bottle left. I have been looking everywhere.

"Old" Pyrex is indeed different from "Newer" Pyrex. I'd heard the changes described some years ago, and had heard about the explosive tendency of the newer stuff, but hadn't looked it up until just now. The change was made awhile back, here's the story:

Pyrex

Still expensive:

Dawn Dissolver

I love Old Village bubble bath. First Target took it off the shelf, and now my grocery store has. I went to their website ,and they're still in business, but I'm not paying shipping and handling .

Hi Lily316 (different from John 3:16)

How many in a case, and do you have some friends who do/(might?) like it?

Maybe dividing shipping fee by four ... or half a dozen ... would be more "do"able.

(Do you/they have any loved-but-not-recently-visited relatives/friends in a place near the company's [not-*too*-far-distant] factory?).

ole joyful

I emailed DD to tell her about my Amazon purchase.......she reminded me of a gift check she gave me a few years ago....I got a load of garden manure with it!!

Diet Pepsi. Can't stand the new formula. Never cared for Diet Coke but I tried a can of Coke Zero. Will probably switch to that for cola. Will still buy Diet Dr. Pepper as long as they don't screw that up too. :-(

Shortening with trans fat. Bakery goods will never taste the same. In a few years a new generation will not know that they are supposed to taste better. But a few of us older ones who grew up with tender donuts and icing that didn't leave a slimy mouth feel will.

How about lotion/spray scents!! Every-time I find a lotion or deodorizer spray..they switch it up and discontinue it. I don't got into a certain bath product store anymore just for this reason. I have been lulled into liking one of their products only to have it discontinued for some NEW version too many times. TIME is important to me and I don't care to waste it trying to track down a lotion I can stand the smell of!!

Discontinued products is the story of my life when it comes to any cosmetic item. If I like it, you can count on it being discontinued! So annoying! I've also been noticing lately that every Scentsy fragrance that I find that I enjoy, it will be gone the next time I want to repurchase it.

Speaking of "scents" ... I imagine that if many of you lived next to Phyllis MN, you'd be pleased if her daughter hadn't given here too large a cheque, so that she could have replenished the manure.

o j

arkansas-girl, I have had great success finding discontinued cosmetic items on EBay. And the Lancome makeup I like is 50% less then retail. Always worth a look and setting up a search for notification.

I wish they still made Excedrin Back and Body pills and also the Dawn Power Dissolver.

Sue

Hi Phyllis. It's not as hideously expensive as it first appears. Remember you bought 32 oz bottles and the others were 12 oz. So at that rate, the price per ounce would make the old bottles about $8 ea so the price really isn't that bad. The problem is you had to buy a case. Now you have a reason to go door to door and sell Power Dissolver! Set up a multi-level marketing program and get others to do it for you! Go on Shark Tank and get partners!

Since the product is not on the P&G/Dawn website, I'm guessing the consumer version has been discontinued. I'm guessing what you bought was from their institutional line. Nearly tripling the bottle size (which almost NEVER happens in consumer lines!) would support this guess too.

Mr. Clean had a retail "Professional" line of cleaners out. Now I think the lines have been dropped to just a grill cleaner. The all-purpose stuff was really a powerful cleaner. I did side-by-side tests against Zep and there was no contest. But alas, it's gone now too. And I've lost the bottle I had. Oh well, such is life.

Hi marilyn_sue. They still make Excedrin Back & Body. It's just aspirin (buffered) and acetaminophen so you could just buy them separate if you can't find it and there might be some store brand comparables available.

As for discontinued items, I miss the T-fal Ingenio cookware. Detachable handles and it would nest down all into the Dutch Oven. Excellent quality too. I'm still using some of the pieces after about 30 years.

There is a product that is still around, I bought it a few months ago- Dawn Platinum foam. It is sold in a small container and expensive for the size in relation to other dish soaps, but it is incredibly good. I am hoping it is not on the way out.

Hi lucillle, I too like the Dawn Foam. Been using it for years for the small jobs and quick cleanups. I started refilling the container with some diluted Dawn to save some cash. The foamer pump works great. I've become spoiled on the foam soaps. One slight "splurge" of mine but in reality, it's not a lot of difference in price. I use them in the bathroom too. I am glad to not have that bar soap sitting around. I bought several of the Dawn Foams when they downsized the bottle and Target had the larger bottles on clearance. Had coupons to use with it so the price was quite good.

I work in a store. We don't do planograms (rearranging the products on the shelves and removing product) because we want to. We have to do it. Why? Because:

a) product has been discontinued by the manufacturer

b) Product does not sell well chain wide, so head office removes the product

c) A new item was introduced to the market and something had to go, so head office made the decision to remove something they felt didn't sell well

d) Item was replaced with a "new and improved" item, that often is the same item with a new name.

Trust me: the person working in that section does not like to rearrange the shelves. It's hours of work which includes cleaning cleaning cleaning (you have to remove everything then wash the shelves before restocking) and then relabel the prices.

99/100 the people in the store have absolutely no idea why the product was delisted from their store. Yes, we get asked all the time: why don't you carry it anymore? Don't they make it? We don't know. They don't tell us.

The only product that I have found that contains aspirin and acetaminophen also contain caffeine. Taking just an acetaminophen and an aspirin did not work as well for me. Tried them.

Sue

Marilyn have you tried the Bayer Back and Body? It is predominately aspirin and still has caffeine but only half the amount of Excedrin. Anacin has the same ingredients as Excedrin but lower doses and half of the caffeine as well.

Do you remember when you couldn't find the Excedrin Migraine with caffeine? It was a few years ago. It disappeared for a while (supposedly a manufacturer recall prompted by some other ingredients that got their way into the pills), and I was not a happy camper! The caffeine really got the meds to the source of my pain faster, so there is a benefit to it. And I didn't feel the generic versions matched Excedrin's. When I have a headache (not quite a migraine, but bad), I can't concentrate on anything else.

Ditto on the frequent cosmetics-lineup changes. Bought a Cover Girl pressed-powder compact about a year ago -- now that oil-free line is gone, and the shades on the shelves don't match my current one (they're all too dark). Spent quite a while in Target trying to match the color that a sales clerk actually came up to me to see what I was doing!

What I found is stores get to decide what items to put on their shelves and sell and some stores if plenty of same ones, will have different items at the different stores. LIke I was talking to the guy that brings the munchies and asked why there isn't same everyone and he said some stores have very little space for them to go on and others have a whole side of the aisle they use and they decide what sells or they want too. But what I don't like is they are all now pushing their name brands of their stores they want you to buy and so are drugstores and I have lost favourites like its really hard finding latex free bandaids I love to use and so when I see I grab and load up.

You need to do that nowadays, if you like anything, grab it and load up if you can afford to do that and find space for them to go in.
Like so many items, have shrunk too and wish I had loaded up huge time for more items like toilet paper, kleenexes, they are all changed and shrunk but not as good I find many of them are now.

Even items I noticed baggies, bought some needed and went what? This is so small now and need the other baggies to fit items in to freeze up. They leave you with alot of times their garbage on shelves they demand you to buy. I have tried one of our stores brands and ugh it went straight thrown out, didn't care how cheap if its non eatable not worth it.

I hate the bars of soaps they have out now, I buy the sensitive skin baby dove bars and I find the scum that comes off them and leaves my hands terrible shape and its awful, my sink feels terrible and all I do is wash my hands and I am like this is unreal and what is it doing to us then.

Even the dishsoap too is same and don't like it, they seem to be giving us worse and worse things to use and bad for us too.

I bought a fan in the summer and unreal how short it lasted, that is really bad, used to buy things like that, that lasted forever for us to use for years to come.

kathy

Was in Target the other night and they had a 25% off cosmetic phone app thing going. Thought I'd buy an extra NYX blush I like. No longer available. Glad I have a backup. It took me years to find a blush (NYX) I liked after Jane was discontinued. Now Jane is back but in name only . The new Jane is nothing like the original line.

"so when I see I grab and load up".

An excellent idea. I bought 4 refills of the Dawn Platinum Foam. But it is hard to do that for everything, from makeup to cleaning supplies to paper goods.

watchmelol, I was a Jane cosmetic fan too. Right now I'm in the process of replacing my eyeliner pencil that I've finally used up. I also loved their eyeshadow, they had the prefect brown shade for me. You would think it would be simple to find a brown eyeshadow, right? WRONG! They are either too light or too dark or too sparkly. At a certain age, sparkly/frosted eyeshadow is a big NO NO!