Thought this was interesting and wanted to share.
Not sure if an increasing straight razor and DE market is having an impact on this as well, but I would strongly assume so.
Hipsters are killing American razor sales- MSN Money
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Thought this was interesting and wanted to share.
Not sure if an increasing straight razor and DE market is having an impact on this as well, but I would strongly assume so.
Hipsters are killing American razor sales- MSN Money
Hilarious! Those crazy hispsters! Yes, looks like the DE and SR world is taking over the world!!Quote:
Originally Posted by EdG
I have a theory that every time Gillette or Schick puts out a new cartridge, they intentionally let the older ones get just a little less durable or sharp, so that eventually you have to try (buy) the new system to get the same shave. I just found some old Trac II cartridges and a handle in a suitcase and tried them. They worked just as well as my Fusion, which I use to back-up. On the other hand, maybe I'm just paranoid.
I think you are right in your statement.
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Originally Posted by Haroldg48
I always thought it strange that they keep adding blades. What's wrong with improving on the one blade?
pretty much add a blade, put on a goo strip, make the handle have seizures, dance, or built in radio, and charge $5 more than last years model. They are pricing themselves out of business. I think that's how a lot of guys here (myself included) go started wetshaving. We weren't rebelling, just looking for a more comfortable economic way to shave, and since the big names haven't tried to solve the issue we just took it in our own hands to do so.
All I can say is, it's about time! I'm 57 and when I was in my 20s you had long hair but you DIDN'T go to work unshaven! Starting in the 1990s where I worked a guy was hired and shaved infrequently. I teased him for years. Now it's socially acceptable. I guy told me a few years ago he shaves every three days and that his face couldn't take a daily shave.Quote:
Originally Posted by EdG
The reason for this fad in my opinion is the discomfort and poor results from the overpriced cartridges. I started retro shaving in 2010 and it wasn't more than a couple of months later that department stores started locking cartridges in those anti-theft cases. I hope every one of those cartridges hemorrage in those locked boxes!!!
Shaver's revenge at last!! :rofl2:
It's a business model having nothing to do with shaving. You want to extract the max money you can from the public and it's a known fact a product becomes stale after a while so to keep the money coming in you redesign and repackage the product and spend a ton of money on advertising and the fish or public will fall for it again and again.
Probably more likely the cartridges are too expensive/irritating to too many faces & that's why it's becoming more socially acceptable to sport facial hair, rather than the PBR-drinking-brigade. And then you have crazies like us who take the older way of shaving & turn it into a hobby, combined w/ a rapidly growing interest in men's skin care & the greedy scum (cartridge companies) are digging their own graves.
OT, but here's a classic hipster joke--apologies if everyone has already heard it:
Q:How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? A: "What, you don't know? :D
Hahaha!Quote:
Originally Posted by PA23-250
Q. What are the two major moods of a Hipster?
A. Disdain, and utter disdain...
OT, but here's a classic hipster joke--apologies if everyone has already heard it:
Q:How many hipsters does it take to change a lightbulb? A: "What, you don't know?
Its a really obscure number you probably haven't heard of it.