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Gillette, Bleeding Market Share, Cuts Prices of Razors
Wall Street Journal ^ | April 4, 2017 | Sharon Terlep

Posted on 04/04/2017 1:23:15 PM PDT by C19fan

Gillette, which dominates the global razor business, has long followed a simple and lucrative strategy: Add new features and raise prices.

But the 115-year-old brand is changing tactics this month by slashing prices and putting a new focus on its cheaper products. The Procter & Gamble Co. unit hopes to stop

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: gillette; grooming; shaving
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To: hanamizu

Gillette actually mailed me a free Fusion out of the blue years ago. I use it on the weekends & use an electric razor during the week.


41 posted on 04/04/2017 2:01:19 PM PDT by Smittie (Just like an alien I'm a stranger in a strange land)
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To: C19fan
I use GILLETTE FUSION POWER with the Edge shaving gel in the orange can. The cartridges are ridiculously expensive, but I get a very close shave and never get cut. A cartridge lasts me at least a month with shaving every day. I use a blow dryer when done to keep the blades dry. I don't like the prices, but it is an excellent product IMO.
42 posted on 04/04/2017 2:01:40 PM PDT by Sans-Culotte (Time to get the US out of the UN and the UN out of the US!)
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To: C19fan

My girlfriend wants me to save money on razors.
She wants to pluck out my beard for free.


43 posted on 04/04/2017 2:02:08 PM PDT by bunkerhill7 ((("The Second Amendment has no limits on firepower"-NY State Senator Kathleen A. Marchione."))))))
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To: C19fan

Cost saving tip:I customarily get about a YEAR out of my quad blade super whizbang razors. How? The same way the old pro barbers did. I HONE the thing on a rough cloth strap, knocking down the burrs and knicks and restoring a clean, sharp edge on all 4 blades!


44 posted on 04/04/2017 2:03:47 PM PDT by Dick Bachert (THE 4TH ESTATE HERE HAS BECOME A 5TH COLUMN. DIDN'T WE IMPRISON TOKYO ROSE???)
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To: Vic S
The thing about hair conditioner is that it's notorious for clogging pores. If that's not an issue, then nevermind.

I use a shaving brush with bar soap remnants in a Crabtree & Evelyn wooden bowl I got decades ago.

45 posted on 04/04/2017 2:05:22 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Squantos

About the same here, Dovo Bismark Super plain black handle, nice Solingen steel, no engraving.

Just beyond the DC Beltway I could bring out the fancy engraved one at BBQ’s but it wouldn’t be appreciated. Can’t imagine why.

;>)


46 posted on 04/04/2017 2:06:23 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who rewfuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: Covenantor

Oxen Hill ?:o)


47 posted on 04/04/2017 2:09:39 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Bob
That's what I use, 100 blades for $19.00!

That, with Proraso Green Label product and for the first time in my life I am enjoying my morning shave!


48 posted on 04/04/2017 2:12:38 PM PDT by Gamecock (Twitter: What a real democracy looks like.)
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To: C19fan

I remember when one blade was adequate. And didn’t cost anything.


49 posted on 04/04/2017 2:17:45 PM PDT by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: FXRP

I remember Daddy using one like that in the early 50s. He had a cup with a round bar of shaving soap and a round brush to mix up a batch and apply to the face.

Around 1965 he switched to the injector razor and stainless steel blades which was all the rage at the time.


50 posted on 04/04/2017 2:18:35 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: ObozoMustGo2012
>>You mean like their shi**y disposables that do nothing but hack up my face??<<

That's freaking funny. I feel ya. Used a disposable one time and it looked like I took a shotgun blast to the throat and face.

51 posted on 04/04/2017 2:23:14 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: hanamizu; C19fan

I too use my old Trac II razor from back in the 80s maybe. a ‘blade’ lasts me a month.


52 posted on 04/04/2017 2:25:50 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: C19fan

I found a single-bladed, plastic disposable with a sharp blade that’s good for at least 10 smooth shaves.


53 posted on 04/04/2017 2:26:06 PM PDT by luvbach1 (I hope Trump runs roughshod over the inevitable obstuctionists, Dems, progs, libs, or RINOs!)
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To: trisham
People were shoplifting them. It was crazy.

They're behind locked glass doors at both my local Walmarts. Just like the ammo and video games...

54 posted on 04/04/2017 2:34:19 PM PDT by IYAS9YAS (An' Tommy ain't a bloomin' fool - you bet that Tommy sees! - Kipling)
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To: Robwin

Two days us about all I can stand of face fuzz.

I have a Braun electric that does well.


55 posted on 04/04/2017 2:37:39 PM PDT by wally_bert (I didn't get where I am today by selling ice cream tasting of bookends, pumice stone & West Germany)
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To: yarddog
Yup. Williams soap and a brush.


56 posted on 04/04/2017 2:37:46 PM PDT by FXRP (Just me and the pygmy pony)
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To: Squantos

West of there...


57 posted on 04/04/2017 2:38:25 PM PDT by Covenantor (Men are ruled...by liars who rewfuse them news, and by fools who cannot govern. " Chesterton)
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To: C19fan

Harry’s, good price, good blade. Not crazy about their shave creams, but I’m a brush and mug guy.


58 posted on 04/04/2017 2:40:34 PM PDT by redangus
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To: C19fan

Harry’s makes fantastic razors. 2 bucks a piece and they last two weeks.

L


59 posted on 04/04/2017 2:44:33 PM PDT by Lurker (America burned the witch.)
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To: Squantos

Man, haven’t thought of Oxon Hill for decades. My last gig in the east was running security at a detention facility for crazy Marielitos at St. E’s right off MLK in Anacostia in 1991. Beautiful grounds, but outside the wall.... whooeee!


60 posted on 04/04/2017 2:49:08 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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