Always choose same day shipping and 9/10 arrive in different boxes.

Lol! Don't want to burst your bubble.

Because of theft

totally necessary 😫

If only the orange came in some kind of natural, bio-degradable wrapper 🤔

This is usually in chipotle to go orders so it doesn’t get bruised- I think

Or to prevent tampering too

Looks more like a mandarin

Having worked in several grocery stores and witnessing just how may people touch fruit, I could ALMOST see this as a good idea for fruit where you eat the peel. ALMOST. I would never say we should do this for apples or grapes or whatever because it's so wasteful, but watching person after person wipe their nose or scratch their butt then dig through produce...I kinda wish we did. Working there definitely reinforced washing everything well before eating lol.

I'd buy it because those little pots look really useful.

This looks staged

Nooo whyy

Good. Lord. 🤦‍♀️

Seriously, for “f**k’s sake”

Honestly, paper straws are absolute nonsense anyway. I'm 100% sure that the only reason why there were outcries about plastic straws it that DuPOnt lost their patent for plastic straws. Then there were those awful paper straws (we all remember then, absolutely useless things that fell apart in any drink) and now we have paper straws with with PFAS to make them waterproof. PFAS is made by DuPont and it may be little bit toxic. Oh, and PFAS is not biodegradable.

They look kinda fake….

social distancing

Must be an apple cord.

I wonder how much is so that someone cannot easily lose a small but potentially expensive package. Not an excuse, obviously, but I wonder if it's part of it.

I've seen this in previous BP posts and people have said it is because they are microwavable, and the plastic helps with the steaming or something, but you don't need the plastic wrap to microwave a potato, sweet or otherwise. They microwave just fine on their own without any kind of covering.

Cost him more for you to unwrap them

‘Eco friendly’

🙈

At least it's not plastic, so that's a start

I would not have patience for this

I save the brown paper and use it for many different things--- for grandkids to color on (it's big enough to have them lay down and draw their outline and have them color on clothes etc), gift wrap, cut patterns for sewing projects, drawer/shelf liner and put in the top of the bags to absorb liquid when I vacuum seal meats.

Yikes.

As I said previously, I wonder how much of this is to attempt to prevent easy loss during shipping. I imagine that a game seller might regularly be incurring a "game lost in transit" issue if they are not in a game case and so small and misplace-able. Or even easily pocketed.

I've never seen an 18 inch ruler

I wonder if this somehow is supposed to prevent over-ripening?

That would need to be some super amazing toothpaste for that price.

I think it was that way so it’s easier to pack for kids lunchs

No, no, that's for YOUR protection. It's such an amazing picker-upper that if not well separated, it will suck the moisture from the air, from people around it, the great lakes would deplete within days.

The box is for the cat to play in, duh.

Mine were, too. I hated it, but it is to keep the metal from getting tiny scratches and to keep them shiny. I only realized it when comparing my old set to a new set.

An activation code for sleeper agents? I think the damage they do outweighs the inefficient shipping. /jk

A better question is if you're going to pack it "safely" why is it jammed in a corner with packing on two sides? If the packing is for protection it's not working. Anyway, I'd guess this is as case of the shop doesn't have smaller boxes available. That's not an excuse for a company like amazon, but it's not surprising if it's bought from a smaller electronics shop. I worked as a storeman for a year or so. We would get our stock in bigger boxes (like 50 items in them). Then of course people would order just a couple items. So we had a room with dozens of the original big boxes and we'd try to re-use the ones that are the closest size. Sometimes a box like the example above was the closest option.

With that much packaging, they should give free refills on your next visit.

So that they cn be safely transported in bulk most likely. If one of those boxes breaks in transport and they weren't wrapped up, that would quite likely write off the entire pallet.

Needs bubble wrap too 🙃

In this case the package is the gift.

That's one giant tooth brush

The best kind of produce. I still remember grandma’s Pixy Stix salads.

F a n n y pack!!!! *smirks in British*

This is a problem in every school district and other institutional cafeteria in the U.S. If they buy anything in bulk, or want to serve anything pre-assembled like a salad, or offer anything to be taken out of the room like the sandwiches and snacks my college cafeteria sold between meal hours, it's going to be delivered to them in plastic. The way to make a difference here is to target the distribution companies, because the schools have no better options.

The packaging on this gives me heartburn.

The large sizes are that way to prevent shoplifting.

Guessing this is CostCo, same as the SD card, and for the same reason

To be fair, that's over a million dollars of product.

Cute tray though

You’re supposed to microwave it in the plastic wrap. You’ll hear almost a squeal noise during the cooking process. I think it’s 7 minutes. When it’s done, use tongs, or oven mitts to put it on a plate and remove the plastic. Believe it or not, it does work. You get a fluffy baked potato. I had a friend make me one.

todoroki

This is common in hospitals and nursing homes.

Probably to prevent degredation by light. Any sparkling wine not in an opaque bottle is wrapped in cellophane to absorb uv, likely the same here.

I kinda get this one - halloween, kids bday party favors, etc

These are standardised bakery display boxes available in bulk. What they should be doing is putting more cookies in them