As always, rising costs in material, wages and transport, has had an effect alongside falling sales. The cheaper, and not as good, versions from elsewhere, I probably mean China, has led the decline in sales.
Sold cleverly by the use of women holding 'Tupperware Parties,' and gathering all around for a natter and sales, the company blossomed during the 50s and 60s when income increased and those without fridges found the tightly closed boxes useful for storing foodstuffs.
The party however, is now over.
Plastic remains elsewhere however...
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I remember those parties......some beady eyed woman coming to your house - where you would provide the tea and cakes - and making the hard sell. Thank goodness I was at work...or could pretend to be so to be unavailable. I remember a friend asking me how it was that she had managed to buy a pair of plastic curtain ties at one such event...
Oh yes, I went to my fair share of Tupperware parties! Plastic, it's everywhere and it is forever. There are a group of people in Eastbourne who clean up the coastline there. They are called the Green Sock Movement. You should see the bags of trash! Much of it is plastic!!!
Fly, Yes, my mum and sister had been to them, not much bought however.
Kay, Plastic is great, but no-one thought about the clean up!
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