Dear Packagers of America.
You have taken child-proofing and theft control to such an extreme that most of us – not just the older demographic- cannot open anything without the help of scissors, pliers, wrenches, and in some cases, hammers.
- A carton of milk has a tab that can almost break a fingernail.
- A huge impenetrable plastic square that surrounds a teeny camera chip. I know. It’s too small so too easily stolen so let’s pollute more of our environment rather than find a better solution.
- A pull tab on the second layer of dairy products like yogurt that cannot be gripped by average-sized fingers much less pulled off.
- A cereal box with glue so strong you demolish the box before you get to the inside plastic packing that needs scissors to open.
- We groan at the words “pull here” knowing that won’t work.
- And on and on.
Is there a solution? At least for the environment, can’t hemp (in addition to CBD oil for our aches and pains) be used to make a paper product suitable for packaging? Isn’t one of the reasons W. R. Hearst fought to make marijuana (from hemp) illegal so he could print his newspapers on paper from his tree farms without competition from hemp?
Are we really stuck with plastic islands in the Pacific and non biodegradable plastic in our landfills?
Maybe not. Come on folks- rise up! Demand our grocery stores customer service open our packages. When they get tired of wasting their time maybe they will demand that our packaging become better and easier to open.
Next rant: graphic design with illegible lettering.
P.S. On another more jolly note … I’m so proud of my son, Tad, with his new book, “The Santa Claus War.” If you’d like to purchase a Kindle copy, please go to Amazon. If you like it, will you leave a review?
