Product Description

Bounty Paper Towels, White, Regular Roll, this is one white you won't mind dirtying up. Whether it's muddy paw prints on the floor or soda spills on the table, new and improved Bounty has the strength, absorbency, and cloth-like durability to clean the mess with less.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #204 in Health and Beauty
• Brand: Bounty
• Released on: 2009-02-25
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 14.70 pounds

Features

• 52 Two-Ply 11" x 11" Sheets Per Roll
• Best Bounty ever: thicker, more absorbent and softer
• 25% Thicker Quilts
• Thicker, deeper quilts: lock in spills, absorb faster, absorb more
• One sheet keeps working. Get it done with one

Customer Reviews

Amazon.com Paper Towel Values
Because I am insane, I decided to break down the actual costs of the paper towels that Amazon.com offers. It is hard to tell because of varying roll lengths, sheet sizes, and case quantities. In the end, I found them cheaper elsewhere, but if you are an Amazon loyalist and/or like Subscribe & Save, you may be tempted to order them anyway. [Subscribe & Save discount shown in brackets.]

Cheapest per foot (most accurate measure of value):
SCOTT LONG ROLLS (case of 16) = $2.54 /100ft [$2.16 /100ft]

Cheapest per sheet with "regular" size (10"-11") sheets:
SCOTT LONG ROLLS (case of 16) = $2.32 /100 11" sheets [$1.98 /100 11" sheets]

Cheapest per sheet (mainly because sheets are smaller/half size):
SEVENTH GENERATION (case of 30) = $1.32 /100 5.4"sheets [$1.12 /100 5.4" sheets]

All, with analyses, below---

GREEN FOREST (case of 30) = $40.85 [$34.72 with Subscribe & Save]
65 sheets/roll (8.5") x 30 rolls = 1950 sheets = $2.10 /100 sheets [$1.78 /100 sheets]
65 sheets/roll (8.5") x 30 rolls = 1430ft = $2.85 /100ft [$2.43 /100ft]

SEVENTH GENERATION (case of 30) = $44.49 [$37.82 with Subscribe & Save]
112 sheets/roll (5.4") x 30 rolls = 3360 sheets = $1.32 /100 sheets [$1.12 /100 sheets]
112 sheets/roll (5.4") x 30 rolls = 1512ft = $2.94 /100ft [$2.50 /100ft]

KLEENEX VIVA (case of 32) = $47.31 [Subscribe & Save not available]
? sheets/roll (assuming 10" sheets, there are 52) x 32 rolls = 1664 sheets = $2.48 /100 sheets
519.7"/roll x 30 rolls = 1385.9ft = $3.41 /100ft

SCOTT LONG ROLLS (case of 16) = $55.96 [$47.57 with Subscribe & Save]
150 sheets/roll (11") x 16 rolls = 2400 sheets = $2.32 /100 sheets [$1.98 /100 sheets]
150 sheets/roll (11") x 16 rolls = 2200ft = $2.54 /100ft [$2.16 /100ft]

SCOTT MEGA CHOOSE-A-SIZE (case of 24) = $48.34 [$41.09 with Subscribe & Save]
102 sheets/roll (7.3") x 24 rolls = 2448 sheets = $1.98 /100 sheets [$1.67 /100 sheets]
102 sheets/roll (7.3") x 24 rolls = 1489.2ft = $3.25 /100ft [$2.76 /100ft]

BOUNTY EXTRA SOFT BIG ROLLS (case of 24) = $53.46 [Subscribe & Save not available]
64 sheets/roll (10.4") x 24 rolls = 1536 sheets = $3.48 /100 sheets
64 sheets/roll (10.4") x 24 rolls = 1331.2ft = $4.02 /100ft

BOUNTY REGULAR (case of 30) = $43.54 [Subscribe & Save not available]
52 sheets/roll (11") x 30 rolls = 1560 sheets = $2.79 /100 sheets
52 sheets/roll (11") x 30 rolls = 1430ft = $3.05 /100ft

only 52 sheets - while others offer 80 sheets for less
At a national discount retailer, this products "Bounty" cousin costs $17.58 plus tax for 12 Mega Rolls.

The specs on each Mega Roll read:
12 mega rolls (equal to 20 normal rolls)
2 ply - 25% thicker
160 two-ply 11" x 6" Sheets per Roll

In MN, with tax, 30 of these 12 Mega Rolls would total $46.92
But remember, you would get 160 11x6 Sheets per Roll - which translates to 80 full Sheets per roll.

The Amazon product description states: 52 Two-Ply 11" x 11" Sheets Per Roll. If you opt for the S&S program, you get 30 rolls, at 52 Sheets per Roll, for $38.25 and at this discounted price, if this product were 80 Sheets per Roll, 30 rolls would cost $38.25 times 80 divided by 52 equals $58.85 / including MN tax, $58.85 would buy you 5+ more rolls at the national discount retailer.

Therefore, at the title of this review suggests, only 52 sheets - while others offer 80 sheets for less. $11.93 less, at the pro-rated sheet count, to be precise. Another way to look at it, would summarize the national discount retailer sells the same product, pro-rated to 52 Sheets per Roll, at $30.50 (including MN tax) for 30 rolls.

Now, I am not specifically trying to out Amazon here, but in these tough times, you would hope that one of our favorite sources for discounted products would beat a national discounter by a few pennies. Not here though.

Too much money- even with a subscription with Amazon
Bounty paper towels are great. I work in the film industry and besides Kim Wipes, this is THE paper towel of choice. It doesn't break down when wet and can be re-used several times while working on a project.

I started an Amazon subscription with another paper product- the subscription price plus tax was comparable with what I pay in the supermarket, so I chose to go with it because of the convenience of having it delivered to my door on a regular basis. I live in the city and do own a car, but getting products in bulk can take some searching because they sell out quickly in my immediate neighborhood.

But these prices are about $20-25 more expensive over-all than with a purchase from a big box store when accounting for shipping & handling and tax. Amazon does not charge shipping and gives a fifteen-percent discount on their price at the time of shipping, but their price on this item is comparable to their vendors on the site and does not begin to compete with my local supermarket price for 60 count rolls.