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Could this be a sign of things to come? Gillette is actually RETAILING DE blades again in the USA it appears in a chain store other than their very own Art of Shaving stores, which I might add sell the Russian Platinum blade for $6 per tuck! The 'hook' is that these Platinum Plus blades are (were?) made in their Brazil plant!! I can find no current info if that plant is indeed still open as they have closed all other South American production and will IMO shut down St. Petersburg when their huge new plant in Vietnam is completed soon.
The U.S. retailer selling these is none other than the huge corp. Walgreen's who bought Boots the Chemist totally (they previously owned 45% since 2012) for £9bn cash in 2014.
This was posted on another forum to great interest. They are selling them for approx. $1 per blade. Perhaps this is merely a 'fishing expedition' by Gillette to test the waters so to speak with leftover stock(?). Is it a way to dump NOS? The strategy behind this perplexes me. These guys are geniuses at marketing and.........I just don't know.
Regardless, here's a great photo set of the new & neat packaging:
http://imgur.com/a/YFkXH
I'll try & find some to do a review.
The U.S. retailer selling these is none other than the huge corp. Walgreen's who bought Boots the Chemist totally (they previously owned 45% since 2012) for £9bn cash in 2014.
This was posted on another forum to great interest. They are selling them for approx. $1 per blade. Perhaps this is merely a 'fishing expedition' by Gillette to test the waters so to speak with leftover stock(?). Is it a way to dump NOS? The strategy behind this perplexes me. These guys are geniuses at marketing and.........I just don't know.
Regardless, here's a great photo set of the new & neat packaging:
http://imgur.com/a/YFkXH
I'll try & find some to do a review.
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