50 Times Product Packaging Was So Wrong, People Couldn’t Stay Silent (New Pics)

Well you can choose delayed shipping option and then it comes in one box. Did this myself multiple times recently.

This is enraging.

The fu-

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The smaller the item the bigger the box, Amazon....

The Amazon employees must want to cost the company extra money

It is to prevent them rolls bouncing around in the box. Automatic mail sorting machines punch the boxes frequently in the direction of the correct chute, it is a sort of fast paced rollercoaster. Any object has the potention of bursting the packaging, if is isn't stabilized properly. The suggested wad of brown paper flattens during the process.

Take it positively. Amazon is giving you an extra packaging material as a bonus.

Yeah but the air pillows are way better than plain ole bubble wrap!

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I had this happen when I ordered bubble wrap, too. It makes slightly more sense when you consider that the air pillows are there not just to prevent damage, but to keep items from shifting in the boxes and changing weight distribution in shipping, but a wad of the brown paper would work just as well.

It's to keep it from shifting during transit which can be dangerous, especially for the worker carrying it around.

What do you do with one lonely hayfever allergy tablet? The common package size here (Netherlands) is 10 to 30, which one actually needs to live through blooming season.

Probably for sale at an airport or hotel - notice the yellow drugstore imprint in bottom corner.

Who the h*ll wants just one hayfever tablet? I've only ever seen them in boxes of 10 or 30 here in Oz

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You, OP, are not helping by buying one piece of Claritin. My package of 85 doesn't have any of this. it's in a bottle. The package of 30 only has the blister pack with the box.

One, it will not roll away. Two, you have a place to keep the slices you don't eat. Three, the last time that orange got out it attacked a daycare worker.

I put it like this in my backpack (my own reusable container). Because I will often manage to get it squashed between books or laptop or ....

Sometimes this is a matter of hygiene, in hospitals for instance.

That looks more like a Clementine or Tangerine !

its not like you eat the peel!

Whilst the plastic tray is a waste, they are often wrapped to prolong their shelf life. They release a chemical called ethylene which can also cause other fruit to ripen quicker so this is often done to prevent this.

The only reason I could think of is to ensure every customer gets exactly the same number per buch, what with some people breaking bunches apart. But since people buy whatever number they want and they are generally sold by weight measured at the cashier, that seems stupid to do.

If only that came in a natural wrapper. At least we have banana for scale

So they can charge 5 times the price.

No.

Was it really necessary to buy two batteries online? If we're talking environmental woes, the shipping involved for one pack of batteries?

If this is Amazon it is supposedly an algorithm problem. The Box Size is calculated to fill the space in the van to stack and stop things falling around so sometimes small items go in large boxes.

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WHO pack this stuff!!!? On the whole list. It’s either a huge amount of unnecessary plastic or huge boxes for tiny things…. Why ffs???

This tho is why the extra package

That's not even shallots, that's one shallot.

This whole list makes me mad and I’m not a mad person….

you peel them anyway!!!

Seriously, for phucks sake

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Where do I file the complaint with France?

And this is why I argued against the plastic straw ban. It's the prime example why regulations aimed at the consumer doesn't work. The consumer is only responsible for less than 10% waste. The industry uses most plastic for wrapping, fillers etc. Until we get regulations for the industry and their indirect use of plastic, forbidding plastic in the end products only results in plastic being used for more packaging or fillers. I'm not saying you shouldn't use less plastic. But I am saying don't think that'll save the planet unless we finally regulate the industry.