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We closely monitor the sales of our products by colors, and we conduct consumer color preference surveys several times each year to detect changes and strong trends.

Our customers, the retailers, want to carry every item in its full color range but have only limited capital to stock in each. Furthermore, retailers expect that Rubbermaid will sell them only colors with fast turnover in their stores. We depend on living up to this expectation.

We have found that soaking the mat in a baking soda solution or lemon juice and water will typically remove odors. Also, allowing the item to air dry outside can aid in odor removal.

For reasons of inventory management in the mass market, we can offer our products in only 4 to 5 popular colors at any one time, as long as it is sufficiently popular to represent at least 10% of the total sales volume for that item across the nation.

While this regrettably limits consumers' selection, compelling business reasons for it are quite obvious. Our customers, the retailers, want to carry every item in its full color range but have only limited capital to stock in each. Furthermore, retailers expect that Rubbermaid will sell them only colors with fast turnover in their stores. We depend on living up to this expectation.

Therefore, we not only closely monitor the sales of our products by colors, but we conduct consumer color preference surveys in major metropolitan centers around the U.S. at least 3 to 4 times every year, to detect changes and strong trends.

Retail information for our products is provided on the "Other Shopping Options" tab of each product page - providing online and in-store retailer information.

Our sink products are sold at WalMart, Ace, Meijer, TrueValue, and KMart.

Retailers expect that Rubbermaid will sell them product with fast turnover in their stores. We depend on living up to this expectation.

We closely monitor the sales of our products and conduct consumer preference surveys several times each year to detect changes and strong trends.

We sincerely appreciate your interest in our sink mats and will pass your comments on to our Research and Development Department for consideration.

The drain hole for our sinkware items is located in the center of the mats only. We do not currently offer an off-center drain hole in our sink mats.

For reasons of inventory management in the mass market, we can offer our products in only 4 to 5 popular colors at any one time, as long as it is sufficiently popular to represent at least 10% of the total sales volume for that item across the nation.

While this regrettably limits consumers' selection, compelling business reasons for it are quite obvious. Our customers, the retailers, want to carry every item in its full color range but have only limited capital to stock in each. Furthermore, retailers expect that Rubbermaid will sell them only colors with fast turnover in their stores. We depend on living up to this expectation.

Therefore, we not only closely monitor the sales of our products by colors, but we conduct consumer color preference surveys in major metropolitan centers around the U.S. at least 3 to 4 times every year, to detect changes and strong trends.

Our products have recycle codes stamped into the bottom of the product. We suggest contacting your local recycling company/facility for information on accepted plastics.