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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Harry Taylor

‘It takes me back to the 80s’: the people stockpiling discontinued products

Lilt can
The Lilt brand has been discontinued, to be rebranded as Fanta Pineapple and Grapefruit. Photograph: Ben Gingell/Alamy

Whether you “liked it like that” or not, the soft drink Lilt is disappearing from the shelves. As its totally tropical taste gets a rebrand to become Fanta Pineapple and Grapefruit, readers tell us about the products they have stockpiled when they found out their favourites were being discontinued.

Bhee Bellew, 54, started to stockpile her favourite Eau de Gucci perfume when the fashion house stopped making it 15 years ago. Bellew had worn it regularly since her parents brought it back from a holiday in the Greek islands for her when she was 17.

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