Laundry Detergent Woes (yeah, kinda boring)

Liquid Tide, less than suggested, in two 20+ year old top-loading machines. Use Shout on stains on tablecloths & napkins, but everything else seems to come clean.

I buy it on sale at grocery store b/c I do not like the giant Costco container. I buy just about everything else in life at Costco, but not Tide.