Where did it go?

As a consumer, I find myself usually buying the same things when I go to the store. I purchase the same fruits, the same bread, the same peanut butter, blah blah blah blah blah list of items which I buy every time blah blah blah blah blah. I then find myself saddened when the products I like are no longer on the shelves. There are so many cool novel things out there that companies come up with that, for whatever reason, are massive market failure. One of these is Pepsi Blue. For whatever reason, that was a massive market failure. I never had it, so I couldn't personally tell you. But there are others that were extremely good (in my opinion, of course) and I'm really sad to see (or rather NOT see) leave the shelves. Like Snapple Elements. Those were delicious! And they came in these really cool bottles. I actually had a collection of the bottles going, where I had one of each element. At one point, they just sort of disappeared from stores, and I didn't even notice until someone brought them up a few days ago. Sad panda.

Squeez-its were awesome! They were the greatest sugar water a 5 year old could ask for, and the little twist off cap was just the right size to tuck between your upper lip and your teeth and act like a vampire. Of course, this was made more realistic if the Squeez-it was the red variety of sugar water. Then Koolaid had to come in with their version of the product, but with a slightly different lid. It tasted the same, but it all came down to that lid. It just wasn't as good for playing vampire, but Koolaid won the battle for shelf space, because I still see theirs from time to time. Poor Squeez-it.

Berry Berry Kix, the greatest kids cereal of all time. The only close competitor was lucky charms, of course. Normal Kix are still available, thank the cereal gods, but the berry version of the delectable cereal has mysteriously gone missing.

These are, of course, only some examples of the various products that have gone missing. There's only so much that can be done about these disappearances, but if too many things go missing, I may have to start taking out "have you seen me" ads on the side of milk cartons. I find it interesting that the products I've listed above are all food... apparently I'm hungry. Anyway, lets all have a moment of silence for the dearly departed that we will miss so much.

And then a moment of brooding for the products that, for whatever reasons, will not go away, despite their being awful. That's a different story, though.