Retailers are finally getting a clue. On store shelves, you should soon see products packaged in cartons that are much easier to open, and less prone to cause personal harm to the person opening the package.
I can’t count on my remaining fingers the number of times I have cut myself while opening the clear plastic packaging separating me from my purchased goods. I usually have to use a combination of kitchen shears and a pocket knife to open the packaging, only to slice open my fingers pulling apart the sharp plastic shell.
The new packaging will be both friendlier to people and the environment. Instead of a sealed plastic clamshell, the new packaging will be a combination of plastic and cardboard. The cardboard can be cut open with scissors, and the plastic can be opened with little effort. I’m glad that retailers and manufacturers are finally hearing the cry of bleeding consumers who have suffered physical harm while opening a package they have purchased.
I thought the idea of these wicked-tricky-to-open packaging was a sort of shrinkage reaction issue… Like, to prevent people from opening packages, in store, and stealing them. If they’re in these impenetrable shells, w/ security tags attached and all, then at least they can’t leave the building without the store’s knowledge (in theory). Ideally, there’d be some sort of sealed shell that immediately starts to biodegrade, once the checker, like, runs it over a thing that emits photons in a certain wavelength or something, leaving only the easy-to-open packaging behind… :p
I’m happy about this. I need only think back to Sam slicing nearly the whole way through her thumb opening the package to a BB gun to be reminded of the need for this…