Wasteful Packaging
B A R R Y wrote:
Lew Hodgett wrote:
The oversize packaging helps to thwart retail theft, therefore
increased cost of packaging is offset by reduction in theft.
We live in a world of very cheap RFID...
Large packaging is no longer an excuse.
The packaging may take up a good deal of volume due to air space, but how
much actual material is in that plastic box? I suspect that if one were to
compress it to a flat object (i.e., flatten, not compress the actual
material), it's not all that outrageous.
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If you're going to be dumb, you better be tough
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