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Imadethisupwithnoforethought's avatar

If people actually paid attention to their purchases, which popular products do you suppose would disappear from store shelves?

Asked by Imadethisupwithnoforethought (14682points) August 5th, 2012

I just learned Vitamin Water has more sugar than a Snicker’s bar. And most energy drinks have less caffeine than a cup of coffee.

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zenvelo's avatar

Bottled water is just a waste of money and adds to landfills with the plastic bottles.

frozen meals often take longer to cook than to make from scratch. And I don’t think any frozen breakfast is worth it, they can all be made so easily and taste better without all the processing.

laurenkem's avatar

Vitamins. Lots of them are doing you no good whatsoever, in particular the multi form, as you basically poop them out undigested.

chyna's avatar

A pimento sandwich had 300 grams of sodium. You should intake 1200 a day.

bkcunningham's avatar

Disposable diapers.

TexasDude's avatar

Whatever the snake oil du jour is today. And bottled water. And diamonds.

woodcutter's avatar

That “tune up in a can” liquid they sell in parts stores and W.M. I really want to believe it is useful but I just can’t.

Rubbers with the word “magnum” on the box.

silky1's avatar

I believe a lot of herbs being sold for this and that would disappear once they are found not to be beneficial.

woodcutter's avatar

My wife used to manage a GNC and I would tease her about the snake oil she was pushing on people. People eat that stuff up and it’s a huge industry because of it.
She make the big bucks while there so I wasn’t too hard on her for it though.

Mr_Paradox's avatar

most nail polish remover. That stuff has acetone in it. acetone is PAINT REMOVER.

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flutherother's avatar

^^ as above and I would add satellite television subscriptions. People are paying a lot to watch adverts, sports games that used to be free and tired comedy series that are bought by broadcasters who produce very little original content themselves.

LuckyGuy's avatar

80% of all shampoos and 98% of all celebrity perfumes and colognes.

ucme's avatar

Tartan paint, I mean…..come on!!

boxer3's avatar

Things doctor oz suggests…

Adagio's avatar

@bkcunningham GA for disposable diapers, absolutely! And now I come to think of it add baby wipes to that.

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