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UK grocer cuts women's razor cost to match men's
WSET-TV ^ | 1/2/16 | Elizabeth Tyree

Posted on 01/03/2017 4:31:20 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

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1 posted on 01/03/2017 4:31:20 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

If they are identical, then women can buy the blue ones.

This is a seemingly small thing, but it represents a big problem. NONE of this is the business of the government. No wonder the UK is shrinking in influence.

Sad.


2 posted on 01/03/2017 4:33:04 AM PST by SoFloFreeper (Isaiah 25:8)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Some women have no problem using blue razors.


3 posted on 01/03/2017 4:34:02 AM PST by garyb (What do you do when you can't trust the voices in your head?)
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Unintended message of the article: “Some women are so stupid that they fail to find easy bargains. Blue razors are half the price of the pink razors? Well, ignore that and buy the pink ones anyway.”


4 posted on 01/03/2017 4:36:22 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

The thing I can’t understand is that men’s razors have become so metro-sexualized with all this extreme close-cutting, lubrication, pivoting an all that.

I’ve been using Bic razors about as long as I can remember. Used to buy them for about a dollar a bag. Work fine once a day and I just don’t care to have my cheeks and chin as silky smooth as all these new commercials portray.

Most of the time I just use an electric razor on trim function to cut down the beard to a non-itch state.


5 posted on 01/03/2017 4:36:43 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SoFloFreeper

Finally...gender equality has been accomplished! /s


6 posted on 01/03/2017 4:45:31 AM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Any woman dumb enough to pay more for a razor because it’s pink rather than blue deserves the mustache she’s trying to get rid of.


7 posted on 01/03/2017 4:47:06 AM PST by rickmichaels (I shouldn't have to press 1 for English)
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To: SoFloFreeper
What about the pressing hairdresser problem?

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8 posted on 01/03/2017 4:47:26 AM PST by cartan
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To: Gaffer

“I’ve been using Bic razors about as long as I can remember. “
My bathroom drains run slow due to Earthquake settling of the house which messed up the slope on the pipes. I used to use Bic razors too until I had to unclog the pipes once a month. I bought an electric shaver. It was cheaper than redoing the plumbing


9 posted on 01/03/2017 4:52:23 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

They are cutting the PRICE, not necessarily the COST.

The language may well be lost - to leftism.


10 posted on 01/03/2017 4:54:31 AM PST by MortMan (The white board is a remarkable invention. Chalk one up for creativity!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

So women are willing to pay more for a product simply because it is pink?

Math is hard.


11 posted on 01/03/2017 4:54:48 AM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Fai Mao

You’re saying the shaving cream was the cause of the clogging?


12 posted on 01/03/2017 4:55:09 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: SoFloFreeper
In the U.S., Target charges more for its store brand of women's razors (pink) than for men's (green) even though they are otherwise identical.

Also at Target in the U.S., a box of 50 Crayola colored pencils costs more for the adult version than for the child version, even though the two products are otherwise identical.

13 posted on 01/03/2017 5:01:19 AM PST by grundle
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To: Gaffer

lways in the small pipes behind the sink not in the main line. It started after a big magnitude 7+ quake here a couple of years ago. The whole house is now slightly out of level. Doors have to be wedged to stay open. I had a guy come look at it to make sure there was no structural damage. His comment was “That’s just Guam!” Evidently it is a common issue here.


14 posted on 01/03/2017 5:01:22 AM PST by Fai Mao (PIAPS for Prison 2016)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Actually, the government was not involved. The change was proposed by a retailer.

Not mentioned was the wholesale price of the razors. If the wholesale price is different then the retailer is foolishly taking a loss. If the wholesale price is the same then the parity has some merit

You make money buying, not selling


15 posted on 01/03/2017 5:01:43 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: SoFloFreeper

If they were identical then they’d work the same. Women’s razors don’t last as long and aren’t as good at removing hair as men’s. I only buy men’s razors, I’ve known that for over 40 years. And I don’t care what color it is, only that it works.

Does it matter what color you tooth brush is if it works? Or you dish soap?


16 posted on 01/03/2017 5:22:16 AM PST by GailA (Ret. SCPO wife: suck it up buttercups it's President Donald Trump, not the hrc commie witch.)
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The article states that the two products in question here are identical except for cost and color.


17 posted on 01/03/2017 5:30:43 AM PST by rlmorel (Orwell described Liberals when he wrote of those who "repudiate morality while laying claim to it.")
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To: Gaffer

Years ago, I bought a Bic to compare to my “metro-sexualized with all this extreme close-cutting, lubrication, pivoting” Gillette. It wasn’t even close. There’s a reason I spend all that extra money on the Gillette products and it’s not because I have piles of loose cash.


18 posted on 01/03/2017 5:33:22 AM PST by sig226
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To: bert
Actually, the government was not involved. The change was proposed by a retailer.

From the article excerpt:

Tesco said it had come under pressure from British lawmaker Paula Sherriff

If the retailer has come under pressure from a 'lawmaker' (who is evidently an 'MP') then it can be fairly said that the government was involved.

19 posted on 01/03/2017 5:35:35 AM PST by Zeppo ("Happy Pony is on - and I'm NOT missing Happy Pony")
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To: Zeppo

no, it was a misguided feminist.

It was not a matter of law


20 posted on 01/03/2017 5:36:33 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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