end of an era

[ladymuck]

You should buy quick, there's a 15% discount at the moment

https://tupperware.co.uk/

[ladymuck]

I think it was probably a victim of being too well made as their products lasted for years. Once you had bought some, it rarely needed replacing unless you lost the lid.

This is the problem: products used to be made to last and then the filthy capitalists all conspired to build in planned failure / obsolescence and get more profits.

[Martin@AS Financial]

I think it was probably a victim of being too well made as their products lasted for years. Once you had bought some, it rarely needed replacing unless you lost the lid.

[sadkingbilly]

Ours are from lidl. Or possibly aldi.

wot? - not Betty Bossi??

[DoctorStrangelove]

The Lidl(tm) ones are brilliant. So brilliant in fact that it's a struggle to get the lids off. .

[ladymuck]

Have you never had left over food? Ok, some things you can wrap in cling film or foil, but left over curry? That you've made yourself I mean. In a pan.

Oh I have a variety of storage containers, most saved from takeaways as noted above. I just do not own anything Tupperware branded.

The last time I bought a set of plastic tubs, they came from John Lewis and are rubbish because the lids don't fit properly. Maybe I should have bought Tupperware.

[vetran]

I've not seen a Tupperware product in a shop in years, has anyone else? You can't buy items that the shops don't stock.

They don't stock them in Poundland

[sadkingbilly]

Have you never had left over food? Ok, some things you can wrap in cling film or foil, but left over curry? That you've made yourself I mean. In a pan.

we recycle containers from chinese/indian/etc delivery.

best regards,
Titus A. duksarse esq.

[woody1]

how did you manage that? Its like an std everyone gets it.

Something else I've obviously missed out on.

[TwoWolves]

I've not seen a Tupperware product in a shop in years, has anyone else? You can't buy items that the shops don't stock.

[SueEllen]

how did you manage that? Its like an std everyone gets it.

LM and I are too young to have gone to Tupperware parties.

I remember being little probably 3??? and being told my mum and some friends were going to a Tupperware party.

Mmm...Just did a Google and there is a Facebook group called "Tupperware Facebook Party UK" so they were still doing them.

[ladymuck]

how did you manage that? Its like an std everyone gets it.

Natural immunity. Boxes from takeaways, on the other hand, seem to breed and I don't often get a takeaway

[vetran]

Never owned any Tupperware myself.

how did you manage that? Its like an std everyone gets it.

[ladymuck]

Never owned any Tupperware myself.

[vetran]

https://www.theguardian.com/business...for-new-owners

Tupperware files for bankruptcy in US and hunts for new owners


Food container firm affected by ‘challenging macroeconomic environment’

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Kalyeena MakortoffWed 18 Sep 2024 09.53 BST
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Tupperware, the lossmaking 78-year-old American plastic food container brand, has filed for bankruptcy and is on the hunt for new owners as it attempts to lure younger customers.

The company, which was founded by the chemist Earl Tupper in 1946 and became known for its patented “burping” seal, has started US chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings as bosses said that its finances had been “severely impacted” by the economic environment.

Tupperware became famous in the 1950s and 1960s when sales representatives, mostly women, held Tupperware parties to sell its range of plastic containers. For many, it was an opportunity to earn extra money for their households on a flexible schedule that did not require a full-time job outside the home.

I think we have one Tupperware pot which was about a tenner and is thicker plastic than most, plenty of cheap imitations.