CBC: Kleenex maker says famous tissues to be wiped out of Canada soon, citing 'unique complexities'
CBC: Kleenex maker says famous tissues to be wiped out of Canada soon, citing 'unique complexities'
Growing up in Canada we did not refer to tissues as tissues. We called them Kleenex. It's one of those weird Canadian-isms.
It's called a genericized trademark. There's plenty, including aspirin and heroin.
It's also common to call these Kleenex in the US.
Definitely seems like a strange decision.
I assume velcro is another one?
Yep, that's why there's so many things called hook and loop, to avoid the trademark.
I heard that in the South every carbonated beverage is a Coke. However, I don't understand how this works practically. If you wanted a Sprite, would you order a Coke-Sprite?
Also Heroin, but Bayer probably is fine with letting that trademark lapse. (Also Aspirin was a Bayer trademark).
No, you'd order a sprite. It's not like people order Soda-Sprite or Pop-Sprite. It only might get confusing for coke. And even then, usually, you can infer it they mean the general idea or, specifically, cocacola.
Is Teflon a genericized trademark? Not sure I’d there’s any diff between that and Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE)?
Guess you will just have to use another type of Kleenex then.
But speaking of that did you know Dumpster is a brand name? It one those things we call it that but that is a company brand.
Dumpster brand trash bins are top of the line! This is a TrashCo waste disposal unit.
I really left to wonder whether the unique complexity is that they can't produce it for cheap enough and would rather not produce it at all rather than not make as much money as they did the year before.
Companies would probably prefer to lose business completely than not make as much money as they could.
That's a possibility but another is that they would have to operate at a loss, which I would understand shutting down since they wouldn't make any profit at all.
