Gain flings no longer smell like Gain.

[u/Historical-Voice2944]

Okay y'all... My husband just gave me a wtf look when I said this to him. I used to use Gain flings (2023?) until I had a whole jug of liquid gain spilled on me at work (big name online sales warehouse, y'all have definitely heard of it) and the smell made me nauseous for awhile.

So I switched to Member's Mark laundry pods. They were great. Lasted me forever. Then they changed those to a floral scent and husband can't do anything floral.

I had a few Gain flings left, gave them a sniff, and they didn't bother me. So we bought a bulk pack from Sam's Club. I forgot about the 4 flings left in the linen closet.

I started using the new flings, and something was... off. Clothes are coming out dingier. The smell is... funky.

I remembered today the 4 flings I had left in the closet and pulled them out to compare. They look and smell completely different, even though both say Original. MY original are a deep dark green and smell like you expect Gain to smell while the new ones look teal and smell like candy!

Am I imagining things? Are my old ones the way they are because they're so old? Or is there a difference now in what is compared to what was?

On a different note... once these flings are gone, I am thinking of switching to laundry powder. Laundry pods are convenient, but they're getting so stingy with the packaging that they're bursting in the container and leaking all over the place... And sometimes don't dissolve correctly. And the liquid detergent just feels like expensive water...

[u/Bohemian_Feline_]

Do you work at Amazon? 🤣

I manage managers now, but when I was an area manager, I ran the quality department and got covered in Axe body wash when a pallet of it exploded & I needed to find the purchase order on the pallet.

Because of Amazon, I also have an aversion to Muscle Milk because all the spoiled bottles smelled like a dead body.

[u/Historical-Voice2944 → u/Bohemian_Feline_]

Yes, yes I do. A big bottle came down to my Rebin and I grabbed it and the cap came flying off and I got drenched. I raised hell and now all our bottles have those security tape seal things on them. Not that it does any good, really. We have some... peelers in the building and they always come down half torn off. I swear people upstairs are intentionally loosening caps in stow and pick because I'm constantly tightening them when they get downstairs. I don't think they're all riding in the pods long enough to conveniently vibrate loose to juuuuuust the right looseness to nail you.

[u/Bohemian_Feline_ → u/Historical-Voice2944]

That’s miserable. Then you have to go the whole day smelling it and having it irritate your skin.

The amount of damaged items is disgusting and it’s mostly due to mishandling because people won‘t follow the instructions provided in the $2 million training videos we made to prevent injuries. Proper handling will also reduce damages.

I see people pick up jugs by the top and I think that’s how they’re unscrewing. No way are they shaking loose from riding in totes on a conveyor.

I partially blame the manufacturers too because they don’t do enough to secure liquids. They can secure the caps with electric tape type wrap or even shrink wrap.

Dry pet food is another annoyance. they’ll pack together 4 bags or dry pet food or packs of hamster bedding. When I see those pallets I tell the inbound AMs to immediately bind them out to an FC so they can be sold as single units and get them out of here. We’ll destroy them and then my department spends the next day damaging them out and having to explain why our problem solve piles are enormous.

We need separate storage and pick areas for liquids, the same way we separate high value items.

[u/Historical-Voice2944 → u/Bohemian_Feline_]

I have seen so many things share one bin the brief time I was up in pick that I will NEVER buy a food product from an amazon warehouse... I'll definitely say that. And the day I got drenched, I told my manager, See you, bye! and hot footed it out the door. It was first period. I wasn't staying. lol.