Comments on: Toilet Paper Downsizes in a New Way

By: clancymoe

clancymoe — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:14:11 +0000

I’m going to have to try a store brand now…I too had been happily buying Quilted Northern for some time but that smaller roll is just pissing me off to no end (pun intended)! This country is going the way of all former great societies….too much greed, not enough simplicity and concern for fellow humans! Perhaps these toilet paper companies could buy all the recycled paper we provide so willingly and clean it up and resume making the proper sized rolls!

By: P

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:58:56 +0000

I discovered Quilted Northern was narrow just a few days ago and went to the internet to see what people are saying about it. Most on the shelves seem to me 4.2 inches while Northern is 4.0 inches. That’s too narrow so I’ve been buying a brand that’s wider. I’ll not buy anymore Quilted Northern, even if all brands go to 4.0 inches because Northern is the first, or one of the first, to downsize. We had been buying Quilted Northern for years and years but no more.

By: D

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 18:15:18 +0000

I actually took these midget rolls of Quilted Northern back
to the store. I thought I just got a bad batch. Not so, as a
strolled the grocery store to purchase a new 24 pack I noticed a
whole colony of these midget rolls. Very sneaky

By: Rudy

Rudy — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:19:35 +0000

Georgia -Pacific’s Northern Bathroom TP had been my choice for value ,texture and volume but the other day upon pulling out first roll , I noticed it’s lightweightness. I examined an old cardboard holder leftover from the week before and did a height measurement . No need for that ,the package told the tale (4.0×4.0in. ) as opposed to old package wrapper I strill had(I’m messy)
4.5x 4.0in. It read on that package of Northern , confirming my suspicions. Ripoff?

By: Diana

Diana — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:32:37 +0000

I switched from Charmin to Northern for this very reason — the shorter rolls did not fit in any of my toilet tissue holders. Just now I unwrapped a new 12-roll package of Northern Toilet Tissue and here they have gone and done the same thing — They have gone from 4.5 inches to 4.0 inches wide. and then advertise that their product is “Mega – more than 2-1/2 X more sheets than our regular roll.” Give me back the “regular roll” please so I do not have to change out the toilet tissue holders throughout my entire home! I continually hear about “these hard/challenging economic times.” which I think is just an excuse to rip off the consumer! What’s a consumer to to do?? There is no alternative now that Northern (Georgia Pacific) has decided to join the rip off companies.