{"id":9167,"date":"2013-07-04T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-07-04T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2013-07-04T02:36:51","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T06:36:51","slug":"why-the-hell-dont-hotel-rooms-have-toothpaste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/why-the-hell-dont-hotel-rooms-have-toothpaste\/","title":{"rendered":"Why The Hell Don\u2019t Hotel Rooms Have Toothpaste!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070413_0511_WhyTheHellD1.png\" width=\"639\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EVERY single goddamned time we check into a hotel room we walk in to find soaps, shampoos and even tubes of bubble bath. Yet nobody seems to keep toothpaste \u2013 a basic requirement for daily human hygiene. Daniel Engber was as outraged about this as we are and looked at some theories about why toothpaste isn&#8217;t part of the standard hotel room:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hotels stock their rooms based on the things that hotel rating firms rank highly. Most hotel rankings don&#8217;t mention toothpaste as a necessary item to get a high ranking, and so hotels don&#8217;t keep it.<\/li>\n<li>It might also be because the other bathroom items you see in a hotel room \u2013 such as luxury soap \u2013 are aspirational items associated with a certain brand and class. Toothpaste just doesn&#8217;t have that high-status association.<\/li>\n<li>There could be a conspiracy at play. By forcing you to call down to the front desk to ask for toothpaste, hotels are ensuring that a bell-hop goes up to your room, generating tips.<\/li>\n<li>Toothpaste is relatively easy to transport \u2013 unlike soap and shampoos that could leak \u2013 so perhaps hotels just assume that you could easily bring your own toothpaste.<\/li>\n<li>Entrepreneurs have tried and failed to exploit the market for hotel toothpaste. One individual tried to sell hotels disposable toothbrushes that had dried toothpaste on them, suitable for one-time use. They clearly didn&#8217;t catch on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more theories about why you can&#8217;t get toothpaste in your hotel room, how toothpaste and tampons are similar, and the hotel amenity wars over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2013\/07\/toothpaste_in_hotels_why_do_they_provide_shampoo_soap_and_high_end_toiletries.single.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/life\/culturebox\/2013\/07\/toothpaste_in_hotels_why_do_they_provide_shampoo_soap_and_high_end_toiletries.single.html\">Slate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EVERY single goddamned time we check into a hotel room we walk in to find soaps, shampoos and even tubes of bubble bath. Yet nobody seems to keep toothpaste \u2013 a basic requirement for daily human hygiene. Daniel Engber was as outraged about this as we are and looked at some theories about why toothpaste [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/070413_0511_WhyTheHellD1.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9173,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions\/9173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}