To ask for things that you believe have declined in quality

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I'll kick it off with Fairy Liquid!
Has anyone else noticed this? I have a dishwasher but often wash certain things, eg my big frying pan, by hand. You'd certainly need a mighty big squeeze these days, for a proper foamy lather.
Anything else? If nobody mentions Cadbury's chocolate, I will eat the Oodie I'm currently wearing

Oh and Waitrose loo roll. There was a separate thread on that 😂

It does make you want to bulk buy when you find something you like.

Yes! I'm sick of checking the fabric content and finding polyester and/or viscose. I want 99% cotton. I spent months trying to find jeans recently which weren't wide leg or skinny, were the right length, and the right fabric and sent back more than I care to think about. I'm sure it never used to be so difficult.

I agree with you (and I don't even live in the UK). I spend much of my TV viewing watching DVDs of my old favourite shows.

With M&S I used to fine nearly all their clothes could go in the tumble dryer. I didn’t mind paying a bit more than say primark purely for the convenience of that. But now I’m finding more and more can’t be tumbled dried. I think because they’re using cheaper fabric

Nah have to disagree with you on lucozade original...SAVED MY LIFE recently when I was ill !

Parenting - too much focus on being 'a friend' and letting your child be as rude as they like. Being a parent is a far more important role than just being a friend.

Toblerone - just doesn't taste the same and the price is ridiculous.

Window cleaning - ladder and a bucket were so much better than a brush on a pole.

Patience seems to be so much scarcer nowadays.

Fairy liquid for sure, there are no bubbles....

All chocolate sucks now, but they've done something to my old fave Minstrels, used to melt in the mouth and were gorgeous. Now they're just crunchy, what few there even are in a packet! Galaxy plain chocolate is gross now, as is Cadburys obviously. Such a shame as I'm still addicted to the stuff but it's so disappointing 😩

😂 I don’t reverse all the time, just when I’m slowing going into a parking space, or onto my drive.

I can assure you I drive forwards all other times.

Ribena - used to be thick and unctuous, delicious hot in the winter, now thin and more like squash than a cordial.

I went into M&S on Saturday looking for a cardigan and was shocked at the quality of the knitwear. It looked like it belonged in Primark, but at M&S prices. No offence meant to those that buy from Primark, but at least you're not paying over the odds for stuff.

I have long since started buying M and S and other mens woolies. Much better quality and higher wool content.

You don’t think the taste has changed? I still drink it, but it’s definitely not as nice as it use to be 😢

Simple Pure soap, reduced in size by about 20%, only foams for half of the bar. It's useless, utterly useless.

Peter Storm boots (from Millets), half price, bought two pairs, one pair lasted roughly 3 winter months before the soles literally fell off.

Chocolate

Peter Storm has been shite for years.

Comprehension skills and critical thinking!

The clothes that have served me well are Bravissimo ones from years ago and M&S stuff pre 2018 - I've also got some fat face jersey pull on dresses/tops at least10 years old and still going strong . Even reasonably high end these days I think quality is much lower, fabric, finish, button/zip quality etc

Re: chocolate - some bars are still OK but they're going up in price & have joined the ranks of 'never pay full price for this because it'll be on offer somewhere'. Green & Black's, Divine, Lindt & M&S dark chocolate are my usual ones.

Bravissimo clothing went downhill and then they stopped doing it. They said it wasn't selling...Well I used to be a keen customer but then they started doing the same three designs over and over, in nothing but black, white and navy, so I stopped buying.

Yes! It didn't surprise me when they stopped doing clothes as they kept churning out the same crap each season. I don't need a clingy dress I can buy that anywhere, I didn't want a wrap top that i had to wear a vest under. It was fitted clothes I wanted, proper fitted dresses, fitted tops and shirts. Fitted coats and jackets (my smart winter coat is from there).

They have an obsessive following though who don't like anyone saying anything negative about their beloved Bravissimo so anyone who had a criticism was bullied off their Facebook page and so they no longer get anything but praise.

Depressing thread. We should do one on things that have stayed the same but it may have 4 posts!

I suspect with Fairy they've relabelled the old one to be Platinum and the normal one is a rubbish new one.

I agree. The actual staff are mostly fine, with variation like you always got. But the lack of staff is very frustrating and means customer service levels have dropped.

For take aways I go to restaurants where take away is their primary business and eat in I go to restaurants where there main trade is eat in.

Eat in the quality is roughly still decent quality although of course prices have risen a lot.

Take away quality has fallen drastically - not sure if it's because Uber Eats/Deliveroo take ridiculous 35% commission from the restaurants and so they are suffering more than eat in restaurants.

Many of these restaurants have minimum wage workers - I dread to think what is going to happen next year when minimum wage goes up.

@NonPlayerCharacter I think all mine are pre 2018 and I only buy black clothes in the main although I do have a silver sparkle wrap long top from there - so I was fine . Sad if the clothes went downhill as some of that earlier stuff was really good - nice thick fabric and fitted well