The furniture retailer Malouf sells beds and bedding in a fraction of the colors it did a few years ago. Newell Brands, the Sharpie maker, has retired 50 types of Yankee Candle. Coca-Cola offers half as many drinks.
Covid slashed consumer choices as companies pared their offerings to ease clogs in the supply chain. The logistical mess is behind them. But many of the choices aren’t coming back.
Retailers and suppliers across industries—from groceries to health, beauty and furniture—have said that it didn’t pay to offer products for everyone, and consumers didn’t care that much when they stopped.
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Kroger Private Selection made a great cherry scone mix that I am dearly missing. At $7 per box, I can see why it didn’t sell. I need to figure out how to make from scratch now.
I have no clue why, but my favorite moisturizer with sunscreen no longer makes the version with sunscreen. So I need to find another product.
However, in general, I typically suffer from “analysis paralysis”, so fewer choices are usually a good thing (for me).
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H and I joke that we should never say we like something, since the universe will respond by making sure it is discontinued. Nothing earth shattering, just little things that we liked
*My favorite meatball mix
*Peanut butter nips candy
*Our dog’s favorite cookies (alpo little bites)
*The Pina colada mix that we liked
Russell Stover Cherry cordials (well my mom likes these, we got them for a Christmas gift every year)
I’m sure there’s more, we don’t dare say we like things anymore 
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Nabisco Chocolate Wafers, to be made into ice box cake. Why oh why did they stop making those??!!
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Tom Tucker Southern Style Mint Ginger Ale
Herbal Essence Green Apple shampoo. I know there is a current version but it is not the same as the one made in the 1980’s.
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I needed those wafers for the crust for chocolate cheesecake too!
Jello pudding pops. I guess having a convicted rapist as the decades long spokesperson was the last nail in the coffin.
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Sexy Hair Smooth Encounter blow dry creme. This stuff worked great on my hair, and I’ve yet to find anything that works nearly as well.
A Washington Post article mentions possible substitutes for Nabisco famous chocolate wafers, to make ice box cake, like Oreo thins or Dewey’s bakery brownie crisp cookies.
They are not the same.
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I know that. I was just offering some suggestions from an article since the original is no longer available.
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Maybe Nabisco Famous Chocolate wafers will come back. I’ve never had them or used them in a dessert but they obviously have lots of fans! The Best Substitutes for Famous Chocolate Wafers
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Target used to have the most amazing chocolate chip banana pancake mix!
I’d then add a dab or two of peanut butter on the pancakes when still warm.
I still miss it!!
A Skinceuticals brand sunscreen that I liked to use on my shoulders, arms and chest. It didn’t feel or smell like sunscreen. I tried a replacement that has tint which I don’t like at all.
I used the Dewey’s chocolate cookies when I made an icebox cake at Thanksgiving. It tasted fine, but the cookies are a slightly smaller diameter than the Nabisco ones were. So the cake looked weeny.
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A couple have mentioned icebox cake. Just to check if that’s the same as what we make, are you layering graham crackers and chocolate pudding?
My late mother would make this, and now it’s become a family tradition, with each grandchild putting their own spin on it.
Does anyone know its origin?
Pillsbury peanut butter slice & bake cookie dough roll. They make the pb cookies in the square drop format, but it’s not exactly what I like for making Reese’s pb cup cookies at Christmas where I put the cookie dough in muffin tins to bake and then add the pb cup after the cookies come out. Have looked at several groceries in my large city last two years and can’t find product.
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No, the icebox cake I’m talking about is just whipped cream and the cookies. You assemble it with the cookies standing on edge and the whipped cream acting as glue. Then, when you slice it, you do so on the diagonal.
Here’s a picture: Old Fashioned Chocolate Icebox Cake - Spend With Pennies
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