{"id":1199,"date":"2015-08-30T06:08:29","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T13:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1199"},"modified":"2015-08-30T06:08:29","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T13:08:29","slug":"sunday-soapbox-too-many-choices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1199","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Soapbox&#8211;Too Many Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/minglemediamarketing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Toothpaste.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"309\" height=\"206\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Granted it was a long time ago, but when I started out in retail there were 2 types of Crest, Regular and Mint. \u00a0 \u00a0There were maybe 20 brands total of shampoo (Prell, Head &amp; Shoulders, etc.) and just one type of Listerine. \u00a0 \u00a0According to the P &amp; G websites, there are currently 41 types of Crest toothpaste, 25 (!) different type of just Pantene Shampoo, and 17 different Listerine mouthwashes. \u00a0 That doesn&#8217;t even count the different sizes, if you figure each SKU of Pantene comes in conditioner, shampoo and 2-in-1 with 2 sizes of each, that would make \u00a0150 separate SKU&#8217;s of just Pantene shampoo. \u00a0 No wonder customers need so much help in our aisles. \u00a0 \u00a0Hey P &amp; G, knock it off will ya? \u00a0 That is all.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Granted it was a long time ago, but when I started out in retail there were 2 types of Crest, Regular and Mint. \u00a0 \u00a0There were maybe 20 brands total of shampoo (Prell, Head &amp; Shoulders, etc.) and just one type of Listerine. \u00a0 \u00a0According to the P &amp; G websites, there are currently 41 <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/?p=1199\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-retail-trends"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1201,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/re-tales.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}