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Tupperware's countdown started when Glad and Ziploc (and others) started marketing the far cheaper containers made of slightly thinner plastics. Folks in Walmart and Dollar General will almost always buy what's cheaper. Tupperware lasted forever, and had a lifetime guarantee, but price killed them, hands down.

wnetmacman wrote: ↑April 19th, 2023, 11:35 am Tupperware's countdown started when Glad and Ziploc (and others) started marketing the far cheaper containers made of slightly thinner plastics. Folks in Walmart and Dollar General will almost always buy what's cheaper. Tupperware lasted forever, and had a lifetime guarantee, but price killed them, hands down.

You are right about them lasting forever, but they always felt greasy even after washing them a couple of times using Palmolive and really hot water. They also just looked dirty, as @storewanderer said up-thread.

As meal prep became the rage, Tupperware failed to change with the times by selling shallow, rectangular container sets. Pyrex embraced the trend and sells 5-packs of glass containers for $40-something and retailers struggle to keep them on the shleves.

The glass containers just work better. You can put hot liquids into them.

Tupperware is good for dry stuff. Maybe they should do a tie up with some stores that still sell bulk foods and get going a marketing drive that is an anti-single use packaging for bulk foods drive and sell people containers that way. Might get a few takers.

The glass containers are more sanitary and hold up better--they don't lose shape, although they sometiems chip in the dishwasher.