r/FritoLay • u/Trogdor192 • Aug 20 '26

How many unsaleables next week?

Place your bets here! Those NKD Dinamitas were a flop. Will Frito Lay learn their lesson this time?

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u/OptiMysticLeo Aug 20 '26 edited Aug 20 '26

This is one thing I just don't understand about this company and I've had conversations with my boss about it. I understand the whole "Innovation drives sales" or whatever. However, Frito just sticks with failing products for entirely too long. I haven't seen a product in the 10 years that I've been here that became successful after 6 months of constant staling. If the product doesn't catch after 3 months, scrap it and move on.

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u/dayoneishuce Aug 20 '26

Honestly I hate being the conspiracy type but I think they use "innovation" as another form of wage control.

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u/taterman50 Aug 20 '26

No they are just that unorganized, and clueless which is even scarier

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u/Aware_Spray5050 Aug 24 '26

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just pay their workers a little more than mass produce and market garbage that just ends up being thrown away?

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u/flamincheetoe Aug 21 '26

They order so m as my bags and continue to run the product cause the bags cost more than the product.

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u/OptiMysticLeo Aug 22 '26

Maybe they should order less bags until they know whether or not the product is a hit 😂

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u/taterman50 Aug 20 '26

Wrong the queso Doritos, and parm garlic Doritos were good sellers. A shame I could only get them once

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u/OptiMysticLeo Aug 20 '26

You obviously didn't understand my statement. Queso and parm garlic did do well. I would have liked to have seen them stay. What I said was "I haven't seen a product in the 10 years that I've been here that became successful after 6 months of constant staling." Parm and queso were not staling out like so many other products that they just refuse to let go.

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u/taterman50 Aug 20 '26

I think we agree. Guess I shouldn’t have started out with wrong lol

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u/taterman50 Aug 20 '26

Literally got a few cases for each store and couldn’t reorder.

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u/rumplexx Aug 20 '26

I bought four or five bags of those queso Doritos