Not a complete clickbait headline, but for those that pay attention to these things, institutional TP has gotten smaller / shorter in the past year.
This TP is different than the multi-ply, steel belted, xenon air-gapped stuff you provide for your home. It’s in the public toilets you may encounter, when your colon says, “enough of this poo-poo!”
(Have to be careful of adding too many poo-poo jokes)
But back to the back-end paper. The average brand advertises x-number of square feet and/or sheets per roll, and the number of layers. So far, so good. But the size of the individual sheet has gotten smaller by ten to twenty percent. Why? Economy.
Providing toilets for the public is a loss leader. Just ask any gas station owner / worker who won’t give you the keys to the room or tells you that it’s out of order. No toilet, no expense, more profit. And it flows back upstream to the TP producers. Same (or increased) price, eleven-hundred sheets per roll instead of twelve-hundred; three inch square versus two point six-five inches.
They know everyone folds the stuff once, twice, or more. The plumbers tell them every time they’re called out for a clog. So, would one large sheet (say, a twelve inch square) be more economical than thirty to fifty, two inch square? Or are the powers that be edging us to use that method of poking a hole in the center of the square, stick your middle finger through, do the cleaning, and wipe off the finger with the one sheet (wash hands thoroughly afterwards).
I don’t ask for much, but please, Please, advertisers; stop telling us we’re getting more when we’re getting less! This goes for grifting politicians too. And lottery execs. And clerics. And everyone else, including me. But you did click on the link 🥸
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