Altern -the Splenda Knockoff on my Walmart Shelf

I just bought a box of Altern at Walmart for 24% less than Splenda.

I had actually quit buying Splenda because it is 4 times the price of
my 'blue' sugar substitute and just not worth the difference. I like
them both.

But now, I want the Altern to succeed against Splenda and will
support them whenever I can. Competition is good.

"1. WM Feb 4, 9:46 am
I just bought a box of Altern at Walmart for 24% less than Splenda.

I had actually quit buying Splenda because it is 4 times the price of
my 'blue' sugar substitute and just not worth the difference. I like
them both.

But now, I want the Altern to succeed against Splenda and will
support them whenever I can. Competition is good. "


What is the artificial sweetner contained in this? I find it hard to
believe it's Sucralose.

wrote:
"1. WM Feb 4, 9:46 am
I just bought a box of Altern at Walmart for 24% less than Splenda.

I had actually quit buying Splenda because it is 4 times the price of
my 'blue' sugar substitute and just not worth the difference. I like
them both.

But now, I want the Altern to succeed against Splenda and will
support them whenever I can. Competition is good. "


What is the artificial sweetner contained in this? I find it hard to
believe it's Sucralose.


http://www.allbusiness.com/periodica.../555182-1.html

Very interesting.

Marsha/

"Marsha" wrote

wrote:

What is the artificial sweetner contained in this? I find it hard to
believe it's Sucralose.


http://www.allbusiness.com/periodica.../555182-1.html

Very interesting.

Marsha/


Wow....someone sneaked out an ALTERNative to Splenda....not unlike the gray
marketers, huh?

Roger Zoul wrote:
Wow....someone sneaked out an ALTERNative to Splenda....not unlike the gray
marketers, huh?

Groan...that play on words :-)

That article was from last September. I
wonder how the OP was able to find it,
if it was indeed pulled from the shelves.

Marsha/Ohio

My understanding was that sucralose is out of patent, but the chemical
techniques used to make it cheaply are still covered by patents.

"Marsha" wrote in message
...
Roger Zoul wrote:
Wow....someone sneaked out an ALTERNative to Splenda....not unlike the
gray
marketers, huh?

Groan...that play on words :-)

That article was from last September. I
wonder how the OP was able to find it,
if it was indeed pulled from the shelves.

Marsha/Ohio

WM wrote:
I just bought a box of Altern at Walmart for 24% less than Splenda.

I had actually quit buying Splenda because it is 4 times the price of
my 'blue' sugar substitute and just not worth the difference. I like
them both.

But now, I want the Altern to succeed against Splenda and will
support them whenever I can. Competition is good.

If you think that competition is good, then I suggest that you stop
shopping at Walmart. Their efforts are to put all small businesses out
of business so that there is _no_ competition. Patronizing their
store, supports their efforts. You also might want to look into
healthier alternatives to fake sugars. It's hard to believe that in a
few years down the road, we're not going to read about what excessive
amounts of yellow, pink, or blue sugar has caused. There's always a
price to pay, sooner or later.

7.

"If you think that competition is good, then I suggest that you stop
shopping at Walmart. Their efforts are to put all small businesses out

of business so that there is _no_ competition. Patronizing their
store, supports their efforts. "

So competition is good, but there is something wrong with Walmart doing
exactly
that? LOL You must have to do some real mental acrobatic act to
justify that
notion in your head. All these big stores, Walmart, Home Depot,
Lowes, etc. have
offered customers convenience and good prices. Sure, in the process
some local
businesses couldn't compete. But it's not different than in any other
business. Following
this logic, we should all boycott the supermarkets we use because they
drove many of the local milkmen,
butchers, and grocers out of business. Yet, for some reason, a
certain segment is quick to blame Walmart.

Not, me. I'm a regular shopper there!


"You also might want to look into
healthier alternatives to fake sugars. It's hard to believe that in a
few years down the road, we're not going to read about what excessive
amounts of yellow, pink, or blue sugar has caused. There's always a
price to pay, sooner or later. "

So why don't you tell us what these healthier alternative no cal
sweetners are?

wrote in message

7.
"You also might want to look into
healthier alternatives to fake sugars. It's hard to believe that in a
few years down the road, we're not going to read about what excessive
amounts of yellow, pink, or blue sugar has caused. There's always a
price to pay, sooner or later. "

So why don't you tell us what these healthier alternative no cal
sweetners are?

This might be fun!

wrote:

7.

"If you think that competition is good, then I suggest that you stop
shopping at Walmart. Their efforts are to put all small businesses
out of business so that there is _no_ competition. Patronizing their
store, supports their efforts. "

So competition is good, but there is something wrong with Walmart
doing exactly that? LOL You must have to do some real mental
acrobatic act to justify that notion in your head.

Exactly. Walmart doesn't drive anyone out of business. Customers do.
When people vote with their feet and their wallets, as we all do, the
businesses disappear that don't provide what the consuming public is
looking for. Do those big operations have the consumer's welfare as a
motivating element? Dunno.

Does teh public always make the soundest choices? Dunno. Walmart sells
more salmon than any other company in the U.S. It's farmed in Chile in
huge net tanks off the coast that can hold as many as a million fish
each. Because of the crowding, there's lots of opportunities for
disease, so they're fed antibiotics. The fish are fed by scattering fish
food on the surface of the water. They don't eat it all, so some settles
to the sea bottom. A million fish generate as much waste as 65,000
people. Between the food, antibiotics and waste, the sea bottom is
developing a layer of toxic sludge that doesn't suport life very well.
And will take years to clear if not more is added. But it saves $2 a
pound for salmon for the consumer today, employs people in procesing the
fish that wouldn't have work otherwise and gets more people eating fish
with omega3 oils.

Dunno.

Pastorio

All these big
stores, Walmart, Home Depot, Lowes, etc. have offered customers
convenience and good prices. Sure, in the process some local
businesses couldn't compete. But it's not different than in any
other business. Following this logic, we should all boycott the
supermarkets we use because they drove many of the local milkmen,
butchers, and grocers out of business. Yet, for some reason, a
certain segment is quick to blame Walmart.

Not, me. I'm a regular shopper there!

"You also might want to look into healthier alternatives to fake
sugars. It's hard to believe that in a few years down the road,
we're not going to read about what excessive amounts of yellow, pink,
or blue sugar has caused. There's always a price to pay, sooner or
later. "

So why don't you tell us what these healthier alternative no cal
sweetners are?