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Does Amazon.com's "Frustration-Free Packaging" live up to its name?

Posted January 31, 2009 - 21:17 by Torley Wong

Shopping

Frustration-Free Packaging

Amazon.com recently announced their "Frustration-Free Packaging" initiative, aimed squarely at reducing the jagged tears and nasty lacerations. But is it as good as they claim?

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Dumbest packaging ever?

Posted August 27, 2008 - 13:17 by Andrea Dickson

Shopping, Green Living, Lifestyle, 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 April 19, 2007 - 10:11 by Andrea Dickson

Food and Drink, Green Living

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 2 years 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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