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2011-02-01 20:51:20 UTC
"The popular product is in such short supply that eBay users are
bidding up
to $76 for three packs, which usually sell for just $3.79 a pack."
I think I might get into the tampon bidnizz on the side. Any
pointers ? [GRIN}
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''Women searching far and wide for o.b. tampons after they
mysteriously
disappear from store shelves
The recent disappearance of a popular tampon brand is really cramping
the
style of city women.
Drugstore shelves have been mysteriously empty of o.b. nonapplicator
tampons since late fall, leaving the feminine hygiene product's
devotees
puzzled and peeved.
The popular product is in such short supply that eBay users are
bidding up
to $76 for three packs, which usually sell for just $8.79 a pack.
And loyalists are taking to blogs and Twitter to figure out where
their
beloved o.b. tampons might be.
"This month, they were gone, gone, gone," said freelance writer
Janessa
Wilson, 40, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a user for decades.
"I searched everywhere I could, maybe a dozen drugstores, but I
couldn't
find any."
Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes the o.b. tampons, shed
little
light on the mystery, saying only that it experienced a "temporary
supply
interruption" that led to stores being out of stock.
The company wouldn't explain the manufacturing or distribution
glitch,
which began in the fall, any further.
And the federal Food and Drug Administration said it was not aware of
any
product recall, or health and safety concerns, related to the
shortage.
Debbie Stoller, editor in chief of the popular feminist magazine BUST,
says
many women who use nonapplicator tampons do so for environmental
reasons,
so it was notsimply a matter of changing brands.
"It has been a big deal because it's one of the only nonapplicator
tampons
you can buy," she explained. "People who choose to use this are a
little
bit politicized around it. They feel very strongly about these
tampons."
Maura Weiler, on the website dscriber.com, described being so loyal to
the
brand that she tried to buy a box from a colleague after checking her
local
Target and Walgreens stores with no luck.
"But alas, we learned [the tampon box] was empty before [her
colleague]
could come up with an asking price," she wrote.
Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Yukela Williams apologized to customers
about
the inconvenience, adding that women should expect to see the product
on
store shelves soon."
http://tinyurl.com/69z4mne
--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
sticking it to ''Politcal Correctness'' since 2008
bidding up
to $76 for three packs, which usually sell for just $3.79 a pack."
I think I might get into the tampon bidnizz on the side. Any
pointers ? [GRIN}
```````````````````````````````
''Women searching far and wide for o.b. tampons after they
mysteriously
disappear from store shelves
The recent disappearance of a popular tampon brand is really cramping
the
style of city women.
Drugstore shelves have been mysteriously empty of o.b. nonapplicator
tampons since late fall, leaving the feminine hygiene product's
devotees
puzzled and peeved.
The popular product is in such short supply that eBay users are
bidding up
to $76 for three packs, which usually sell for just $8.79 a pack.
And loyalists are taking to blogs and Twitter to figure out where
their
beloved o.b. tampons might be.
"This month, they were gone, gone, gone," said freelance writer
Janessa
Wilson, 40, of Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, a user for decades.
"I searched everywhere I could, maybe a dozen drugstores, but I
couldn't
find any."
Johnson & Johnson, the company that makes the o.b. tampons, shed
little
light on the mystery, saying only that it experienced a "temporary
supply
interruption" that led to stores being out of stock.
The company wouldn't explain the manufacturing or distribution
glitch,
which began in the fall, any further.
And the federal Food and Drug Administration said it was not aware of
any
product recall, or health and safety concerns, related to the
shortage.
Debbie Stoller, editor in chief of the popular feminist magazine BUST,
says
many women who use nonapplicator tampons do so for environmental
reasons,
so it was notsimply a matter of changing brands.
"It has been a big deal because it's one of the only nonapplicator
tampons
you can buy," she explained. "People who choose to use this are a
little
bit politicized around it. They feel very strongly about these
tampons."
Maura Weiler, on the website dscriber.com, described being so loyal to
the
brand that she tried to buy a box from a colleague after checking her
local
Target and Walgreens stores with no luck.
"But alas, we learned [the tampon box] was empty before [her
colleague]
could come up with an asking price," she wrote.
Johnson & Johnson spokeswoman Yukela Williams apologized to customers
about
the inconvenience, adding that women should expect to see the product
on
store shelves soon."
http://tinyurl.com/69z4mne
--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia
sticking it to ''Politcal Correctness'' since 2008