Product packaging

by Willy Mar 1, 2010 12:11AM PST

I know comedians make fun of such items. But, really it as a hard thing to unpack whatever you buy nowadays. Besides the melted edges of hard package blisters there are also the packing of cellophane(?) like those of potato chips, etc., geeezzz do that wrong and everything is on the floor. I also think its a mockery to suggest if you follow opening instructions on a cereal box, that the remaining flap parts actually work if you tear part of it off because it won't give. Or worse, once the outside is open to deal with the sealed bag inside. AND!!! for those "resealable packs" that when ripping the disposal part away doesn't also take a portion or destroy part of that reseal lock.

Come on people am I right or is this the result of the million cut campaign against fingers. -----Willy w/Flintstone ban-aids applied

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I hear ya'

by JP Bill Mar 1, 2010 12:17AM PST

it's so bad they even sell special tools for opening the packages

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Scissors are your friends ....

by Bill Osler Mar 1, 2010 10:05AM PST

A good sturdy pair of scissors will open most of those nasty plastic packages. I assume they were developed to deter shoplifters but they are SERIOUSLY annoying.

I sometimes use scissors on the bags in cereal boxes as well. It's inconvenient, but I hate to spill the cereal all over the floor.

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Can opener

by Willy Mar 1, 2010 7:18PM PST

I read a good one, try using a "can opener", the pinch type that you crank around. I use a pocket knife because I always have it on me. But yeah, I have used scissors before. -----Willy

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I'll have to try the can opener ...

by Bill Osler Mar 1, 2010 8:10PM PST

We still have one of those around. I hadn't thought about using it on those stupid packages but it sounds like a good idea.

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I think part of the reason is.....

by C1ay Mar 1, 2010 10:26PM PST

package security driven by events like the Chicago Tylenol killings. Several products were subjected to copycat product tampering and the tamper resistant product packaging industry was born.

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Cereal boxes...opened one today

by Steven Haninger Mar 1, 2010 9:50PM PST

a Post mini shredded wheat box. I had no trouble with the cardboard but the inner plastic bag was a small problem. I was able to grab underneath a sealed fold on one end and the top part of the sealed edge and coax the seal to separate. Not much room to grip but it came away clean. One surprise, however, was a $1 coupon printed on the inside of the cardboard box good for a discount on more Post cereal. So that's where they put the coupons these days? I remember them being tossed in with the cereal in unlined boxes. I also remember coupons falling into my cereal bowl and had to learn not to put the milk in first.

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