The Disappearing Valvoline Supply

[MatrixMulisha]

Recently i have be noticing a quite surprising decline in the local availability of Valvoline. I used to be able to find it everywhere. I was in 3 different Canadian tire stores and could only find a handful of dusty old bottles tucked away in the corner. Walmart used to have the largest selection but today they only had very small section in the shelves. Castrol and Pennzoil have the lion share of all the shelf space. Whats going on?

Anyone else noticed it lately??

 

[ZHIMING]

in toronto, synpower sold out as today

 

[MatrixMulisha]

There wasnt any Synpower at all in any of the stores

 

[ZHIMING]

also, it has a tremendous inflation on it.

last Nov was selling like 28.95 per 5l jug

now is 34.95

 

[rg200amp]

With all the adds it may be selling better.
Or there making room for Edge

 

[ZHIMING]

at this price, i would choose pp

 

[ZHIMING]

or mobil 1

 

[ZHIMING]

mobil 1 is 33.XX now selling at partsource

 

[MatrixMulisha]

Originally Posted By: rg200amp
With all the adds it may be selling better.
Or there making room for Edge

I dont think its selling better....you should have seen the layer of dust on some of the bottles at C.T. I should have read the back to see what the rating was...could have been vintage for selling on ebay

 

[ZHIMING]

check PP. here in toronto some walmart still carry 4.4L jug PP for 22.XX

 

[GROUCHO MARX]

These Canadians are taking over.

 

[Drew99GT]

They're beefing Synpower up to be 16 times better then Mobil 1.

 

[StevieC]

Originally Posted By: Drew99GT
They're beefing Synpower up to be 16 times better then Mobil 1.


Originally Posted By: GROUCHO MARX
These Canadians are taking over.

 

[sparkplug]

Valvoline in all the stores here. In all weights too.

 

[tom slick]

Originally Posted By: rg200amp
With all the adds it may be selling better.
Or there making room for Edge

4X better!

 

[addyguy]

Noticed this too. Less Valvoline conventional at WM, no more Valvoline Maxlife Syn at C-T, and absolutely NO Durablend anywhere - C-T, Partssource, WM...

 

[webfors]

Yeah, I noticed a scarcity of Valvoline... or maybe I'm just mentally blocking it out

Lots of Canadians because according to *every* car manufacturer manual that comes with a car sold in Canada we are categorized under 'Severe use', regardless of our driving style/habits. Add the cold winters, and well, those of us who love our cars become oil nuts pretty quick

 

[OVERKILL]

Originally Posted By: addyguy
Noticed this too. Less Valvoline conventional at WM, no more Valvoline Maxlife Syn at C-T, and absolutely NO Durablend anywhere - C-T, Partssource, WM...


Lots of it here. Was at CT today picking up M1 ATF. I noticed they are now carrying the blue bottle Mobil stuff, but had no Mercon V

 

[cp3]

One WM here seems lower than usual. I descided to try a HM in the Saturn and Max Life was only about $1 a jug more than regular Castrol. No jugs of 5W30 Max Life, or Castrol HM though. I ended up with bottles of Max Life. Regular Valvoline was also about $3 dollars cheaper a jug. The second WM stock seemed ok.

 

[jinx]

I was at three different Canadian Tire's today and only one of them had Valvoline with 4 bottles left