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Gave my son an EJ87 for Christmas, now several of his mates at Uni are trying DE shaving. Less Fusion blades = more beer
bazwalk said:Gave my son an EJ87 for Christmas, now several of his mates at Uni are trying DE shaving. Less Fusion blades = more beer
aberimp said:Arrowhead said:Probably quite a few I suspect, or the supermarkets wouldn't bother stocking DE blades and get-you-started brushes at all. As regards straight razor users, there's probably a reasonable number quietly honing and stropping away in an unobtrusive and independent sort of way, not that I've ever met one in real life, mind you.
I have the joy of working in a supermarket. Although we sell a basic brush (Wilkinson Sword) and blades (Personna), we very rarely actually have anyone buying them. They are stocked merely to provide the option to customers rather than being a genuine high-selling line. I can find out the exact numbers of each that we sell when I'm in next on Monday.
Trawlerman said:Like some others here, I'm seriously considering doing the whole straight razor thing. The only drawbacks that I can see are these :
1) Safety - I have a very inquisitive 13yr old boy who I have visions of sitting in A&E with after he has chopped his finger ends off!
2) Sharpness - The whole business of getting it honed on a regular basis or buying my own and having to learn to do this
3) Cost - Straights cost a fair bit when you factor in strops, hones etc.
4) RAD - I like to do things properly and learn as much as I can about things, hence why I am posting here. I guess just one Straight wouldn't be enough for me and would spiral out of control until I have a house full of the things :roll:
andyjreid said:You should ask Paul at Connaught how many DE blades he sells in a week.
Arrowhead said:I am a little surprised. You'd think that there's a fairly simple equation relating shelf space to profit, and the supermarket would just drop the underperforming product lines.
andyjreid said:You should ask Paul at Connaught how many DE blades he sells in a week.
No need for apologies, this is interesting stuff. If we assume that us lot buy our blades from the supermarkets only at times of direst necessity, then I suppose that granddads throughout the country are buying 5000+ blade packs a week = 50000 blades. And probably changing them once a month :lol: . That's a large but almost invisible customer group: makes good commercial sense really.aberimp said:Sorry for bombarding everyone with numbers!