Simply Not Done
Woman in the Middle | December 4, 2016As I have mentioned before, my fine city has four grocery stores from the same chain and one other one, a Walmart neighborhood market. I know, you keep thinking since I live in So Cal, home to millions and millions of people, that I must have a Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and all manner of Ralph’s, Von’s and Alberson’s within spitting distance, Uh…no. Instead we have Stater Bros. I love Stater Bros. I have been going there since I was in the womb. I buy so many of their store brand products that when a friend of Youngest Daughter spent the weekend, she was finally moved to say, “You must really like this Stater Bros, store.” Yep, I do.
Among the many store brands I have purchased for years and years was their brand of toilet paper. The Premium, not the Ultra, cause my family needs to make do, up to a point. Vacations don’t pay for themselves!
But, then, two weeks ago, I went to do my shopping and found the toilet paper I knew and loved had been replaced by a new store brand called “Simply Done.” There was only one kind, not varying levels of Simply Done. So I bought some. It just so happened that the girls bathroom ran out of toilet paper first and the new toilet paper was opened up and put out. A few days later I was up a little later than Hubby and used that bathroom instead of the one in my bedroom. Oh boy, I got to experience my first use of the new toilet paper. It was not good.
The new paper was some kind of unnatural cross between newspaper and cheap toilet paper. It was what I would guess folks in communist countries had to put up with in the 1970s. It was embossed in a way that was an obvious bid to make you think you were buying something soft. Instead, the embossing just made the toilet paper even more scratchy. Seriously, you could injure delicate areas of your body with this stuff. It was so bad Youngest Daughter insisted we get a different brand of toilet paper to have in the house for our guests at Thanksgiving. FYI, never before has my family declared the TP I purchased not acceptable for guests.
I didn’t know you could get toilet paper this bad in a first world country. But, hey, life is full of surprises!
Needless to say, I will not be buying any more of that item at my local store. I also plan on on writing the president of Stater Bros to challenge him to take home a package and see how his bum and the bums of his wife and family feel about it. Really, it simply needs to be better.
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