It called on banks and building societies to close the obsolete products unilaterally and move people into better-paying accounts at the end of fixed terms.

Old, obsolete products and inefficient production and distribution techniques simply cannot survive, and are blown away, to the benefit of consumers.

Because of the fashion cycle, stylistically obsolete products may eventually regain popularity and cease to be obsolete.

To that end, he encouraged the site's copywriters to be entertainingly frank about the shortcomings of the often obsolete products sold on the site.

Such an analysis must also cover the stocks and flows that are not covered by financial accounting such as some waste flows, exhausts, or stocks of obsolete products.