packaging

Dumbest packaging ever?

Posted 1 week 4 days ago by Andrea Dickson

Shopping, Lifestyle, Green Living, Consumer Affairs

I tend to believe that American consumers are savvier than advertisers and marketers give us credit for. That's why I don't understand why marketers waste so much time trying to sell us the same thing in a new box. Surely we know better than to fall for gimmicks like the insult to intelligence that I recently spotted in my local grocery store.

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Bottled Water, Bottled Hype Part 2

Posted 1 year 20 weeks ago by Andrea Dickson

Green Living, Food and Drink

If you drink bottled water every day, you're paying a premium for something that should be close to free. Drink bottled water for health-reasons? Find out why that's ironic.

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Packing it in - The Independent of London issues a challenge

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Shopping, Green Living

The Independent, one of my favorite news sources, has issued a challenge to (presumably European) consumers to reduce the amount of packaging that is used in everyday products. Apparently, an unneccessarily wrapped-n-packaged "swede" (turnip) set one of the Independent's writer's environmentally-conscious heart on fire at the supermarket, and so the newspaper is proposing that consumers...what, exactly?

Well, not much, to be honest. You're supposed to write in with information about superfluous packaging, and The Independent will take the store to task, somehow.

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