Favourite product -> discontinued

[hashbang]

I'm really getting fed up with this. My wife and I have a running joke that we put the kiss of death on product lines. As soon as we like them, they're guaranteed to be discontinued in the not too distant future. Doesn't matter what it is - groceries, clothes, whatever. It probably doesn't help that we're not completely mainstream consumers.

Does anyone else find this?

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

Happens to me too, Either discontinued or changed in someway that doesn't make it better in my opinion.

 

[allanc]

I'm really getting fed up with this. My wife and I have a running joke that we put the kiss of death on product lines. As soon as we like them, they're guaranteed to be discontinued in the not too distant future. Doesn't matter what it is - groceries, clothes, whatever. It probably doesn't help that we're not completely mainstream consumers.

Does anyone else find this?

Must be shopping at Costco?

 

[katz]

Happens to me too, Either discontinued or changed in someway that doesn't make it better in my opinion.

Yeah, always changing it in some way that is usually a step backwards.

I've also noticed, in this last year that one of my fav. online musical retailers has thinned out the product lines in a big way...the selection is way down from what it used to be.

 

[Appletax]

I'm really getting fed up with this. My wife and I have a running joke that we put the kiss of death on product lines. As soon as we like them, they're guaranteed to be discontinued in the not too distant future. Doesn't matter what it is - groceries, clothes, whatever. It probably doesn't help that we're not completely mainstream consumers.

Does anyone else find this?

This has been happening to me with clothing and it is soooo frustrating because I am soooo picky

 

[hashbang]

Must be shopping at Costco?

For groceries, Woolworths (Australia).

 

[BlazonTech]

Oh tell me about it! I used to have a hard time finding a facial product that suits me for years until I found one. Guess what? It got discontinued before I even got my 3rd bottle.....

 

[HCHTech]

Television shows for me. Oh, you like it huh? Well too bad, CANCELLED - right at a cliffhanger. Yet the drivel seems to always get renewed.

 

[cypress]

Ahh yes, I hate when that happens!

 

[Larry Sabo]

As soon as we like them, they're guaranteed to be discontinued in the not too distant future.

Yeah, me/us too. PC (President's Choice brand of Loblaws) had a sauce called Lyon Sauce that made salmon to-die-for. Discontinued! And a favourite shampoo, a 2-in-1 product that was the best I've found (even saved the empty bottle: Suave Professional for Men Ocean Spray): no longer available in Canada. Next time we go to the US, I'll pick up a case or three! St. Hubert rotisserie chicken restaurant has a chocolate mousse dessert (choc' au mousse) that is scrumptious and was by their own account, their most popular desert: discontinued (until someone came to their senses and brought it back). Why can't they just leave things alone!

 

[glricht]

Television shows for me. Oh, you like it huh? Well too bad, CANCELLED - right at a cliffhanger. Yet the drivel seems to always get renewed.

I've just about given up on major network TV shows. The good shows are guaranteed to be cancelled unless it's a reality show or something featuring an off-the-wall personality or has a lot of people screaming at each other.

 

[Larry Sabo]

Watching the news on TV has become very frustrating: 1 news article, 10 commercials, 1 more news article, followed by 10 more commercials, until you just give up. And local newspapers around here are getting so thin they will soon be publishing them on one side of an 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper--90% of which is ads/flyers anyway. The world's gone all to hell, for sure.

 

[MotzTech]

Television shows for me. Oh, you like it huh? Well too bad, CANCELLED - right at a cliffhanger. Yet the drivel seems to always get renewed.

I'm pretty sure that's SyFys entire business model

 

[HCHTech]

We sound like a bunch of old codgers - ha ha.

and another thing - Get Off My Lawn!!

 

[callthatgirl]

Netflix: Bloodline: Got into it on a Sunday, watched all the episodes in one day. I thought the storyline was killed off, but nope. The farking kid of the guy dead comes in the picture and the dad comes back from the grave. WTF. Now I have to wait until June, maybe I won't watch. I think that this..with the kid coming in the picture and the dead dad coming back is too much. I already had to go through season 7 of SOA for no reason but to find out what happened to Jax.

 

[glricht]

Watching the news on TV has become very frustrating: 1 news article, 10 commercials, 1 more news article, followed by 10 more commercials, until you just give up. And local newspapers around here are getting so thin they will soon be publishing them on one side of an 8.5x11 inch sheet of paper--90% of which is ads/flyers anyway. The world's gone all to hell, for sure.

Agree about the TV news, pretty much a bunch of "talking heads" now with tons of ads to pay the bills. I've actually come to use the News app in Win 8 and 10 quite a bit. No real local news, but quite good for the bigger stories.

 

[Larry Sabo]

I've actually come to use the News app in Win 8 and 10 quite a bit.

I've come to like Google News app for a quick picture of what's happening around the world. Some very interesting storied I wouldn't otherwise come across, e.g., today's article about how scientists can now easily edit DNA with awesome and potentially scary implications.

 

[Markverhyden]

Netflix: Bloodline: Got into it on a Sunday, watched all the episodes in one day. I thought the storyline was killed off, but nope. The farking kid of the guy dead comes in the picture and the dad comes back from the grave. WTF. Now I have to wait until June, maybe I won't watch. I think that this..with the kid coming in the picture and the dead dad coming back is too much. I already had to go through season 7 of SOA for no reason but to find out what happened to Jax.

On the media programming thing. I remember when a TV show season had at least 20 or more episodes. Now it's in the single digits. And they will play over and over again.

 

[Bryce W]

As soon as we like them, they're guaranteed to be discontinued

Stop liking things! You are ruining it for the rest of us! *shakes fist*

 

[callthatgirl]

I've come to like Google News app for a quick picture of what's happening around the world.

I check CNN daily, watch Fox News when I have the TV on and follow Sean Hannity on FB, I seem to get the critical stuff quick enough. I found the Paris attacks on FB from Sean of all things during work, ran to the TV for instant feeds.