Electrolux Yanks Your Hose? EXCLUSIVE

Electrolux is considering removing hoses from all of their top loading washers, over 300K units.  Same price just without the hose.  Who could complain with such a thrifty idea?  Convert all that peripheral junk into an accessory, charge up the winger for it, and distill what's left in the box to the absolute minimum allowed by law.   Not just chickens without lips, or snakes without armpits, but cars without tires, computers without operating systems, toasters without plugs, hoods without filters, grenades without the pull pin, dishwashers without racks, the risk without the reward, the mattress without the warning labels, the beer can without the pull top.

What Electrolux may be attempting in following Whirlpool, is a reinvention and restructuring of consumerism, the consumer experience and the basic expectation of consumers while consuming.  Why, just imagine if the lobster came without the bib, or the baby without the diaper, the refrigerator without the door seal, the cold turkey without the DTs, the bellybutton without the lint, the natural gas without the fart smell, the pain without the gain, the dog without the ears, toothpaste tubes without the caps, tissues without the box or the North American appliance market without a trace of the North American appliance industry.

Yes sir, we can see what Electrolux and Whirlpool are getting at....and damn if they won't be successful one day.