In a post last year I mentioned that Walmart is now carrying Wilkinson DE blades. They’ve changed the packaging and I suspect the spec’s have been “tweaked” a bit. They’re still (apparently) made in Germany but now they’re individually packaged instead of using the slide-out style. Subjectively I think the shave is not quite as good as the “originals” but certainly adequate.
The Wilks I picked up at Walmart a couple months ago were marked as made in the US and gave a shave like a cheese grater. 🙁
Anon- I've finally had a chance to compare the old and the new blades. I think the old ones are slightly better than the new (individually wrapped) ones. But not by much.
This is strange that the Wal-Mart in my area doesn't have the Wilkinson blades. Actually both of the Wal-Marts in my area don't have the blades…….which is fine with me because I haven't heard too many good things about these blades anyways. I'm glad that I've found my perfect blade….Derby!!
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I used two different packs purchased from Wal-Mart one package had individual blades the other had the large plastic and steel dispenser with no wrapping between blades.
I'm not going to buy them again. They were pretty bad some were so bad you could barely get one shave out of them.
I'll stick with Astra or Super-Max.
Thanks for addressing these blades Mantic–I like the Euro Wilkinsons but haven't had a chance to compare them to these blades, which are available locally for me.
Do you mean these new individually wrapped Wilkinsons aren't as good as the Walmart Wilkinsons in the black dispenser, or they aren't as good as the individually wrapped Euro version?
Woah, thanks for the heads up, Matic. I was just about to buy these the other day, but I figured I'd wait a bit longer, because I've never liked the original Wilkinson blades anyways. They never gave me a good shave.
I have become a HUGE fan the new Wilks available at Wal-Mart. I found the shave to be on par with Personna Reds and Derby's. For $1.79 for 10, its a great deal.