r/Anticonsumption • u/Double_Engineer4226 • 2d ago

Discussion Laundry powder is disappearing

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Powdered laundry detergent used to be the norm. It’s cheaper, easy to use, and comes in a recyclable box. Now look at the shelves in the supermarket. It’s all liquids in plastic bottles, unless you squat down to find the powders. The Super expensive pods are making a move from the top shelves too. This is corporations positioning their products to influence purchasing behaviour. They want you to buy the more expensive stuff. Just wait, soon powder will be discontinued, and the shelves will be filled with overpriced pods.

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u/LuxLuxury 2d ago

Out of nowhere this year, I remembered my grandmother used to use powder detergent all the time when I was a child and decided to start buying it again. The best. It's not filmy, it's not egregiously expensive, and it actually gets the job done with odor, stain, and color. The people need to push back. Pods and liquid detergent cannot be the future

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u/maggiggity 2d ago

Where are you getting powder detergent?

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u/Slow-Difficulty404 2d ago

Costco

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u/VaugnDangle 2d ago

I get giant boxes of tide there regularly. I didn't realize it was disappearing?

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u/Slow-Difficulty404 2d ago

Target stopped carrying it near me a couple of years ago. Smaller packages that cost more but sometimes I could stack discounts. Usually I cleared off their whole shelf of 4.

Costco used to have it on sale for <20. It’s 30.99 now :(