"Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been.
"Select a size" when it's just standard paper towel roll. Literally the same way it's always been.
Wow! New feature! Now you can CHOOSE how many paper towels you grab from the roll!
Tell me you're young without telling me you're young.
Paper towels, for most of my life (I'm old AF), were as long as they were wide. Square, they were. Bounty originated select-a-size by perforating them twice as frequently, so they were half as long as wide. Others eventually followed suit and now youngsters think that's how it's always been.
To be fair to OP, they really should've stopped advertising this as a feature years ago. It'd be like if sliced bread was still advertised as "Now sliced for your convenience!" or whatever.
They still sell the square cut rolls though. This lets the buyer know it is the narrower cut.
Lol. Yeah. Young, young, OP.
And Bounty always claimed to be the most absorbent brand of paper towel, so the move was like saying "you only need half as much of our paper towel compared to other brands."
Not sure how actually absorbent they were; my family always got Brawny.
Yeah I remember when they started advertising them like that. Back when the towels were about twice as long between perforations.
Yup. I remember when we had to tear our own half sheets of paper towel. Kids today have it too soft, and absorbant.
I did that the other day
It's not the same as it used to be.
The individual sheets used to be twice as big.
Yeah, kinda weird to see it on mildlyinfuriating.
Still are if you don't buy a select a size roll.
Oh to be young again. This is fairly new. The old standard size was 2 of these together, a square.
They’re perforated to half the size that paper towels typically used to be. It’s common now but wasn’t in the past.
For reference, they still sell these too: Full Sheets
I've noticed that the sheets that are "select a size" seem to be using this to list a lower per sheet cost.
So if you're trying to compare prices in the supermarket it comes in at half the per unit pricing of normal sized paper towels while being the same size roll or smaller and costing the same or more.
It just feels like they're trying to cheat the system a little rather than trying to create a new product or be more useful.
That's silly. Compare per sq ft, not sheet size. There's no guaranteed sheet size. Same thing with toilet paper.
For reference, this is Brawny paper towels where the sheets are perforated the other direction, allowing you to actually tear a half sheet. This is what “select a size” should mean.
This picture clearly demonstrates that the original picture is, in fact, select-a-size since they are 1/2 size instead of full size.
That's not select-a-size. That's just tiny ass paper towels. Select-a-size towels have no perforations and you cut them with scissors.
i saw an ad for toilet paper in a 100 year old magazine, bragging: now with less splinters!
F off with that "larger select a size" crap though.
This stuff happens when a market is actually healthily competitive. Marketing just makes up random bullshit because consumers are stupid.