packaging

It's bad. I think we all agree on that. Also it's dangerous. More ER visits are due to lacerations from trying to remove packaging than any other cause (I completely made that up). It contributes to global warming (I only sorta made that up). It takes up hours of time that could be more productively used playing solitaire or reading lists on the internet - I'm not saying that if not for removing packaging one would spend the saved time doing these things -I 'm saying that doing these things would still be more productive than removing packaging. Also alot less stressful. It saves a little time in the store but takes more time at home. It fills our trash which then we have to dispose of or pay someone to dispose of or some combination of both. It is a grossly inefficient use of time and resources no matter how you consider it but obviously it works economically for the reatailers. There is a simple reason for this.

 People are dumb sheep. We take the convenience of grabbing the clam shell package (I hate these the most) or "set" of jars linked by those lethal plastic rings, off the shelf in one fell swoop over all the inconvenience that will follow when we get home because we don't think about it until we get home. BY then it is too late to complain.

 And the worst offenders are in the stores we actually pay to shop at; Costco,  BJs,  Sam's. (I did not fact check on the Sam's membership). The point is the sheep should get together and demand less packaging. I hear rumors of improvement but my last trip to one of the above still filled a trash can with plastic shopping detritus -and it doesn't even compact with anything less than a professional compacter.

It's crazy. It makes no real sense. It only makes marketing sense because they know they are marketing to dumb sheep. Baaa, baaa.