Anyone else gotten frustrated by this Johnson and Johnson stunt?
Over a month ago I picked up my usual thrice a year purchase of several packages each of Charmin toilet paper and Bounty paper towels and stuck them in our home storage room.
I opened the first package of that Charmin toilet tissue about five weeks ago and was shocked, shocked to realize it was larger in diameter than any roll I'd encountered before and would not fit into any of the the four roll holders in our 33 year old home. I hadn't thought to check carefully at the store, the packages seemed enough like what I was used to buying that I just grabbed them off the shelf.
I looked on the back of the plastic packaging holding the remainder of the rolls and saw that Charmin knew those rolls wouldn't fit in some roll holders because they offered free plastic "extenders" which snapped onto the "arms" of roll holders so the spring loaded "axle" would be further away from the back of the holder.
I immediately went to the Charmin website and entered my address information, checking off that I wanted three sets of extenders. Three weeks later nothing had arrived so I called them up and told them I hadn't received anything and was told that there was such a surge of requests for those extenders that they had run out quickly and were still waiting for more to come in from the manufacturer.
So, I've taken to the PIA chore of unwinding and wrapping enough TP from a new one of those large rolls onto the cardboard core of an empty roll so that both could fit into our home's roll holders.
Why did Charmin decide to do such a shitty thing? Did home TP roll holders increase in size sometime during my lifetime leading up to that problem?
Jeff