Clamshell Packaging and Wrap Rage: There Are Better Answers!

It turns out I'm not the only person on the planet who's had it up to here with the crappy, maddening, dangerous and environmentally disgusting "clamshell" packaging that manufacturers are using so much of these days. There's even a name for the behavior people often engage in as they wrestle with this garbage: "Wrap Rage".

Manufacturers claim they have to use this stuff that you need jackhammers and blowtorches to open so that they can reduce theft of merchandise from inside the package. Poppycock. They're too lazy and cheap to solve the problem in some way that doesn't horribly inconvenience their customers.

Hey, numbskulls! You put a bar code on the outside of the package. You often have retailers who can determine when a package is being removed from the store without the formality of checkout. How about this idea? Put that anti-theft stuff inside the stupid package. Why do you want to let the bad buys win again by turning their propensity for thievery become a reason that thousands of Americans slice their fingers, lose patience, embarrass themselves in front of children and grandchildren, and generally hate you?

Makes no damn sense to me.