{"id":339,"date":"2009-02-25T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/?p=339"},"modified":"2009-02-25T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-25T14:12:23","slug":"product-discontinuance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/02\/25\/product-discontinuance\/","title":{"rendered":"Product Discontinuance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some time back I <a title=\"earlier entry: Products That Just Shouldn't Be\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2008\/11\/21\/products-that-just-shouldnt-be\/\" target=\"_self\">wrote about Chocolate Skittles<\/a>. Well, the other day we stopped at a supermarket on the way home from the gym and Pam spotted this on the shelf.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-340\" title=\"022209_17041\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209_17041-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"022209_17041\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209_17041-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/022209_17041.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not very often that a product is discontinued even before the package changes to lose the &#8216;new&#8217; moniker (the yellow blob to the left of the product name), but there it is. I can&#8217;t say I blame Mars one tiny bit for shutting this product down! It simply could not have sold very well at all. Incidentally, I don&#8217;t think a 33% discount is near enough.<\/p>\n<p>As to the quality of the image, well, all I had available was the camera in the phone. It might have helped if I had remembered to wipe the lens off a little before shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 Some time back I wrote about Chocolate Skittles. Well, the other day we stopped at a supermarket on the way home from the gym and Pam spotted this on the shelf. It&#8217;s not very often that a product is discontinued even before the package changes to lose the &#8216;new&#8217; moniker (the yellow blob to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/2009\/02\/25\/product-discontinuance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Product Discontinuance<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[67],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.timeoff.org\/rick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}