Category Archives: Marketing and Product Packaging

Priceless Products and Packaging: Canada takes the “old” out of the Common Cold

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A Moai tissue holder at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto, Canada.

A Moai tissue holder at the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto, Canada. You also can order one for $28 online from Upstart Crow, a San Diego company. (http://upstartcrowtrading.com/online-store/novelties/tiki-tissue-holder)

Who wants to retrieve tissue from its original manufacturer’s box? Boring. We haven’t seen many advances lately in the tissue and tissue accessory industries — aside from adding lotion and aloe, which was exciting for probably the first two years after the new product was introduced. While roaming around in the St. Lawrence Market in Toronto, Canada, I came across these far-from-boring tissue keepers.

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Priceless Products and Packaging: Bubble & B

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© Stephanie Glaser

© Stephanie Glaser

Seoul Market, Colorado Springs, CO USA. l am completely fascinated by “Bubble & B,” which turns out to be a foaming hair coloring kit from Korea. I asked Seoul Market’s shopkeeper if I could take a photo of the product and she said “Sure!” and got it down from the counter and placed it close to me. As I mentioned in an earlier post about visiting this same market, I thought it was shampoo and it reminded me of the Denorex commercial when people test the lather of Denorex against another shampoo directly on their heads. Classic.

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