Prairie said:Do a blinded test where you mix some of these with previous ones so that you can't tell the difference by sight/feel, and see whether you can reliably tell which are the new (put a hidden mark on them to tell which is which after each trial). Otherwise it's easily just placebo. Since the packaging doesn't say new, I'm highly skeptical that there was any change in the process with the pants in this new packaging.
Also, KCC is receptive to reports of poor quality, so I recommend contacting them about the quality issues.
I will do a blind test as well as some quantitative measurements and make a new thread in the next 1 - 2 months.
One thing I noticed is that the new packaging says "More absorbent than training pants" whereas the old pakaging says " 40% more absorbent than training pants" That alone make me wonder if they have decreased the absorbency.... If they are now only 25 or 30% more absorbent, they wouldn't want to advertise a downgrade