When Downsizing Gets Absurd

It’s one thing when they cut back 10% on the weight of a package of potato chips, but when toilet paper starts being sold with less than 100 sheets per roll it becomes (a) an environmental problem, and (b) a major inconvenience when you keep changing the rolls.

My wife and I recently started buying TP for our business at an industrial janitorial supply company, the kind of place where motels and businesses — who don’t have time for the short roll nonsense — get their supplies and we occasionally use these at home, too.  The two types we buy offer 605 and 650 sheets per roll respectively; which makes a lot more sense.  One of them is a bit rough, if you know what I mean, but neither one represents a severe loss of quality.

Customers should simply (a) boycott the short rolls, and (b) make sure their friends are aware of the need to read the “sheets per roll” counts.

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