Comments on: The first rule of marketing: if I like a product, they discontinue it http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/ Wed, 23 May 2012 20:47:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: steve http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-108902 steve Sun, 10 May 2009 15:59:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-108902 wow found it they have a web site www.shuttlelotion.com packaging almost looks the same as when i was a kid wow found it they have a web site http://www.shuttlelotion.com
packaging almost looks the same as when i was a kid

]]> By: steve http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-108901 steve Sun, 10 May 2009 15:58:33 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-108901 SHUTTLE LOTION!!!!! LOL I grew on that stuff the target "bulls eye" logo and that Strong medicine smell..... I have been using it since the 50's down in Miami Beach It was so bad as a kid but it did work wonders I wonder if it is still around.... I am going to google it see if I can find it................. SHUTTLE LOTION!!!!! LOL I grew on that stuff the target “bulls eye” logo and that Strong medicine smell….. I have been using it since the 50′s down in Miami Beach
It was so bad as a kid but it did work wonders I wonder if it is still around…. I am going to google it see if I can find it……………..

]]> By: Wednesday Links | The Doctor Is In http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72994 Wednesday Links | The Doctor Is In Wed, 11 Jun 2008 18:45:22 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72994 [...] bemoans the discontinuation of a favorite product: which brought to mind perhaps the best appeal ever for a discontinued product, written by Lileks: [...] [...] bemoans the discontinuation of a favorite product: which brought to mind perhaps the best appeal ever for a discontinued product, written by Lileks: [...]

]]> By: Sergey http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72982 Sergey Wed, 11 Jun 2008 16:17:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72982 My Soviet era experience supports Neo's thesis. There was no such thing in Soviet Russia as marketing, and products stay as they were introduced for decades. For technical items it meant stagnation, but for candies and other sweeties, sausages and drinks this was great: they never deteriorate. Some receipts survived for more than century, with all their ancient (and superb) technology. Recently my friend from Brownshweig visited Moscow and found in meat store so-called Brownshweig summer sausage. He bought and tested it and found it superb; he never tasted so good summer sausage in his home town. So he left Moscow with a good stock of it. They stopped produce this product in Germany a century ago, but in Moscow it still is done exactly as they did in under Catharine The Great. My Soviet era experience supports Neo’s thesis. There was no such thing in Soviet Russia as marketing, and products stay as they were introduced for decades. For technical items it meant stagnation, but for candies and other sweeties, sausages and drinks this was great: they never deteriorate. Some receipts survived for more than century, with all their ancient (and superb) technology. Recently my friend from Brownshweig visited Moscow and found in meat store so-called Brownshweig summer sausage. He bought and tested it and found it superb; he never tasted so good summer sausage in his home town. So he left Moscow with a good stock of it. They stopped produce this product in Germany a century ago, but in Moscow it still is done exactly as they did in under Catharine The Great.

]]> By: N. O'Brain http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72978 N. O'Brain Wed, 11 Jun 2008 15:20:20 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72978 Spatini. A dry mix used to make spaghetti sauce, but was an important addition to several traditional family recipes. Gone. Spatini.

A dry mix used to make spaghetti sauce, but was an important addition to several traditional family recipes.

Gone.

]]> By: mezzrow http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72976 mezzrow Wed, 11 Jun 2008 14:49:50 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72976 It even happens to Vermont Country Store, though. I really miss their cotton batiste boxer shorts - they're gone from VCS, apparently never to be found again. It's a good thing we anticipated this happening (it's how my wife is wired) and bought a ridiculous number of them when we still could. Nothing better suited to deal with the Florida heat has ever appeared in the way of male undergarments. In our household, your plight is known as "Lois syndrome" after my mother-in-law. Every brand she used and loved eventually went away. It even happens to Vermont Country Store, though. I really miss their cotton batiste boxer shorts – they’re gone from VCS, apparently never to be found again. It’s a good thing we anticipated this happening (it’s how my wife is wired) and bought a ridiculous number of them when we still could. Nothing better suited to deal with the Florida heat has ever appeared in the way of male undergarments.

In our household, your plight is known as “Lois syndrome” after my mother-in-law. Every brand she used and loved eventually went away.

]]> By: Mrs Whatsit http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72964 Mrs Whatsit Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:43:41 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72964 There's a discussion here: http://tinyurl.com/6lyp3s of what might be the same cookie you are remembering, complete with a link to the Vermont Country Store version. I had forgotten them entirely until reading this, but now you have reminded me not only of the cookies but of the person who used to keep them in her kitchen --the long-gone, gentle, generous, sad and lovely mother of a friend. I haven't missed the cookies, but I do miss the cookie-keeper. There’s a discussion here:
http://tinyurl.com/6lyp3s
of what might be the same cookie you are remembering, complete with a link to the Vermont Country Store version. I had forgotten them entirely until reading this, but now you have reminded me not only of the cookies but of the person who used to keep them in her kitchen –the long-gone, gentle, generous, sad and lovely mother of a friend. I haven’t missed the cookies, but I do miss the cookie-keeper.

]]> By: Janet http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72962 Janet Wed, 11 Jun 2008 11:10:58 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72962 How about this: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=35379&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=raisin+biscuits They also take customer requests and try to find the product, if possible. My best friend and I had a favorite dessert when we were growing up - Whip and Chill. It disappeared years ago but The Vermont Country Store started to offer it a few years ago and we both enjoyed a blast from the past. How about this:
http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/shopping/product/detailmain.jsp?itemID=35379&itemType=PRODUCT&RS=1&keyword=raisin+biscuits

They also take customer requests and try to find the product, if possible.

My best friend and I had a favorite dessert when we were growing up – Whip and Chill. It disappeared years ago but The Vermont Country Store started to offer it a few years ago and we both enjoyed a blast from the past.

]]> By: cSimon http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72950 cSimon Wed, 11 Jun 2008 07:18:59 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72950 By the way, cookies I remember were by Nabisco, just as neo remembered.. There was a Sunshine knockoff (actually don't know who came out with product first) -- Sunshine Golden Golden Raisin Biscuits. See: http://web.archive.org/web/20011220184105/www.keebler.com/sunshine/prods_nutrition/golden_fruit/golden_fruit_fam.htm These look thicker and fruitier than those I remember. As neo described, Nabisco's were really smashed pretty flat. Anyway, Sunshine was acquired by Keebler, which is owned by Kellogg and someone somewhere along the way made the decision to discontinue the cookies. (Probably because Nabisco had done the same with theirs.) (Amazing how much discussion there is on Web re: discontinued cookies; Hydrox fans (remember, like Oreos) really go at it....) By the way, cookies I remember were by Nabisco, just as neo remembered.. There was a Sunshine knockoff (actually don’t know who came out with product first) — Sunshine Golden Golden Raisin Biscuits. See:

http://web.archive.org/web/20011220184105/www.keebler.com/sunshine/prods_nutrition/golden_fruit/golden_fruit_fam.htm

These look thicker and fruitier than those I remember. As neo described, Nabisco’s were really smashed pretty flat.
Anyway, Sunshine was acquired by Keebler, which is owned by Kellogg and someone somewhere along the way made the decision to discontinue the cookies. (Probably because Nabisco had done the same with theirs.)

(Amazing how much discussion there is on Web re: discontinued cookies; Hydrox fans (remember, like Oreos) really go at it….)

]]> By: harry McHitlerburtonstein the COnservative Extremist http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72935 harry McHitlerburtonstein the COnservative Extremist Wed, 11 Jun 2008 05:14:56 +0000 http://neoneocon.com/2008/06/10/the-first-rule-of-marketing-if-i-like-a-product-they-discontinue-it/#comment-72935 um, you see...you get this vacuum... that uses its own type of hepafilter that it cant run without...right? Then a year later: POOF! no more filters. Anywhere. um, you see…you get this vacuum… that uses its own type of hepafilter that it cant run without…right? Then a year later: POOF! no more filters.

Anywhere.

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