From USA Today | Kimberly-Clark on Monday will begin testing a tubeless toilet paper roll, selling Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper at Walmart and Sam’s Club stores in the Northeast. If sales take off, it may introduce the line nationally globally — and even take the tubes out of paper towel brands too.Get the full story>>
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Tubeless toilet paper test coming to stores
Posted Oct. 27, 2010 at 8:37 a.m.
“Toilet paper going tubless”
Tubless??? Learn to spell.
Hold on a minute. Who PAYS for this? Sorry, but too many companies are acting like they care about the environment while we consumers get stuck with increased costs.
If Kimberly-Clark and the other makers of toilet paper are willing to eat the cost and not raise prices, THEN I’m fine with this and give them credit.
If not, then don’t give us a story like this with a positive slant if this is an excuse for a price increase.
So if you get close to the end of the roll, does the TP fall off the role?
Just think, in five or ten years we’ll be waxing nostalgic over the little cardboard tubes that USED to come in a roll of toilet paper.
School teachers will bemoan the fact that an important source of craft material has disappeared.
Then the paper company will bring out ‘vintage’ TP, complete with a cardboard core, at a 50% price premium.
Kimberly-Clark is a great world-wide company in the tissue paper and towelling business, but the core-less tissue marketing concept will eliminate the jobs of the core-making domestic paperboard mills that make these little tubes. These mills consume scrap corrugated boxes, old newspapers, and miscellaneous recycleables.
Jobs and solid waste solutions eliminated. K-C struck out with the bases loaded!