Not diapers, but really close!

I am a 68 year old man with urge incontinence. Have used pads for a number of years - some fetish related - but now out of need. The problem is I started with the Depend for Men Guards but then found the Tena For Men Guards. Problem being come hell or high water the Tena are very hard to find. Local CVS used to stock, but it now appears they do not any longer. I know about mail order but prefer to pick up locally. Is Depend that much a stronger product and carry that much more marketing power that they have forced out the Tena product?

Depend is Kimberly Clark which has more brands than I can count. They can guarantee to fill retail stores and often require stores to not carry other brands or to allow their products a certain amount of shelf space, limiting space for other brands. Just to name a few, they own Huggies, Pull-Ups, Poise, Kleenex, Cottonelle, Scott, Kotex and a bunch of cosmetics and soaps and bandages and cleaners and everything else. They use that bulk supply capability across several categories to control space on retail shelves. Proctor and Gamble is a similar company that owns Pampers and many similar brands across the same spectrum of goods. Between the two, they more or less control all the retail space on store shelves.

Over the years CVS has been focused on replacing US brands with their own house branded junk from China. They have, to my certain knowledge, done it with dental floss and rolled gauze bandages, just for two.. With the bandages they used to sell J&J, but now only sell CVS brand.... for about twice the price.

Their everyday prices on many items are far, far higher than other similar stores a block away.

I've gotten so pissed with them I never go in the store anymore. I'd rather do without.

It is so ironic that their fat CEO was trumpeted in the Rose Garden recently, when they have done more than almost any other company to off-shore the production of medical goods to China. Shop ELSEWHERE.

Profit is our ONLY motive.

I gave up! Went online, found a $2.00 coupon for the Depend Guards and bought them at the local Walgreens!

I buy from either NorthShore Care Supply or Tena.us. I have to spend $50.00 to get free shipping from Tena. Lately they have been out of stock of certain men guards.