To ask for things that you believe have declined in quality

Cadbury's Fingers. We were talking about this yesterday, so much palm oil in food now.

At least now you won't have to eat your Oodie, all that plastic wouldn't have been good for you. 😉Which is my other bugbear, so much plastic in material. Polyester, acrylic, nylon and all the other petrochemical based fibres which produce poorer quality fabric. Mixing them in with natural fibres now too which is just making things even worse and more difficult to recycle.

I thought it was just me! What did you switch to? I'm always so disappointed when I've put something in to soak 😞

I’d go as far as saying the whole dinning out experience hasn’t recovered since Covid, food, service, value for money. We don't eat out very often now as it’s just not been fun, previously we’d have gone out 5 or 6 times a month.

I love the Sharwoods bottle sweet & and sour stir fry sauce, the one without the added veggies none of my local supermarkets/independent stores have had any for ages now.
Finally tracked it down out of town and stocked up...should have saved my money, its flavourless and watery.

I agree about electrical goods, small & large. Small stuff (e.g. hairdriers) started to be made non-repairable maybe 30 years ago, but it's the decline in big electrical items that surprises me: fridges, washing machines, ovens. They need replacing far too quickly, & we've had the oven repaired multiple times & been told that the new version of ours isn't as good as the one we've got. And these aren't cheap brands.

The washing machine we bought new in the 1980s lasted us 25+ years until it fell apart the night before the new kitchen was installed, bless it, & we'd always been told to keep it as the new ones weren't as good. With the COL & pressure on pensioners, how do people manage when they have to replace basic, vital but high cost items over & over again? Back in the day, older peole used to buy something like this & say, "That'll see me out," but you can't think that way any more.

M&S clothing. Cheap and badly made. Especially knickers.

Self service tills everywhere. It’s extra work.

Aldi dishwasher tablets also came out better than Fairy in a recent test/review thing.

@KimberleyClark love the packaging and the free boat :)

It really is, we go through it a lot faster now because it just doesn't work as well? Really annoying!

I really think customers are just going in expecting to be treated with total contempt, and are fed up with it. I’m not saying all customers behave well but even when you ask really politely for help it’s rare to be treated as anything other than an annoyance.
I blame the way supermarkets behaved during the pandemic. They cleaned up and then some, but reduced staff, increased self check outs, and now most of them make you get a “ loyalty” card, which you need if you can’t afford to pay massively inflated prices on half the stuff.
They treat their staff like shit, don’t pay to train them properly and as customers we are well aware we are just shit on the shareholders shoes.

This is what I remember!

https://images.app.goo.gl/2yedEffi4TDeK3UB8

100%

Dishwashers, washing machines, dryers ... all seem built to have to be replaced within 5 years. It's frustrating and expensive. It absolutely never used to be like that!

Not if you're Scottish.

Oodies. They're much easier to eat nowadays. <joking>

Fairy makes me very sad. It was literally the only brand loyalty I had. I love the smell of the original Fairy too 😔

Customers are more entitled and rude. I blame older people who seem to have forgotten their manners

@Nothatgingerpirate proper matey bubble bath ( nowadays rubbish!)

Bread, too often soft and pappy, ham now days in supermarkets it is reconstituted meat that has never been near a ham bone. Fail to understand how things like 'turkey ham' is allowed to use the word ham.

That is hilarious but also it’s very true! Toilet paper these days if terrible.

Town centres - once places with individuality and unique shops/family owned businesses that had been there for generations, are now all proliferated by the same predictable high street chains and brands, depending on how 'naice' the town is (think White Company, Crew Clothing, Jo Malone etc) for leafier towns.

Clothes - I object to having to spend almost £250 for an 'authentic woollen' coat, only to find it is only 70% wool.

Aldi Magnum washing up liquid is v good for those looking for a Fairy alternative

Quality Street. I will never ever buy another box. Lucozade original, Henry Hoover, white goods. Literally the list goes on 🥲 I’ve lived in my own place for 12 years, in that time I’ve had to replace 2 tumble dryers, my washing machine, my fridge & my oven is on its last legs. My dad still has the same tumble dryer from when I was in primary school! I’m 31. His fridge he had since I was born & was still going until I was 22 & he only got rid as he was moving house. He had a Vax hoover that was older than I am 🤣

If she is using things that she bought when she got married in the 60's, they are 60 years old - not 30!

Same story with loo roll. I won't go into details, but what is more likely to have changed, my bum-hole or the paper I'm trying to wipe it with?