Change -- there's no stopping it. For years, maybe even decades, I bought plain, simple Dial Basics bar soap. The packages looked like the photo above, and even though they weren't sold everywhere, I knew I could always get it at Dollar Tree. Three for a buck, dependable as a sunrise.
Until a few weeks ago, when I stopped at DT and checked the soap aisle. The new package held only two bars of Dial Basics. You can do the math: two for a dollar, six bars for three dollars where it used to be six bars for two dollars. Yessir, it hit me like a ton of bricks.
I dug under the surface and found several 3-packs underneath. Recognizing a Last Chance when I saw it, I put some in my basket, frowning a little at being present at the end of an era...
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