Prepackaged Food Containers

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I am the only person in the world who cannot easy open the so-called easy to open prepackaged food. It says 'open here' but it actually doesn't so I end up destroying the entire box to get at the contents.
Is this a deliberate attempt on the part of box designers to frustrate people like me?

Yes.

HAHAHAHAHHAAA
yeah people like me and you

I knew it but thought that I was just parinoid.

Childproof caps on pain killers lead to higher consumption through frustration.

I know where these package designers are coming from. They are the clone nazi zombies from south america for sure. Who else could make those stupid pill bottle caps. I rip them off with my teeth in total frustration and then pills go spilling everywhere and the dogs and cats all get either high or poisoned.

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Cereal box liners are the worst for me. I just use scissors. And what about those hard plastic electronics component packages! These are not food containers, but equally frustrating. More packaging than product. A waste of plastic and money, yet deemed necessary because of shop theft, according to retailers.

There are painkiller bottles that are not child proof, and they are a little better. Same with coffee jars. The labels report these containers are "arthritis friendly."

Can openers are often sticky wickets. I think the quality of these gadgets is not as good as when I was a kid. I will not even go into detail about those canned hams and sardine tins!

I long ago gave up up the ham and sardine tins and now just automatically use a bayonet on them.

i am riveted.

I agree with your concerns, and experience the same irritations. I think to myself that whoever designed the packaging didn't care about who might be opening it, or the difficulty they might have......you should NOT have to get a knife or sissors to open the bag inside the box of cereal, for instance. I think about people with arthritis or elderly people, in particular. If it is a nusance for me it must be a bigger problem for them. Another thing that bothers me is sticky labels put on nice objects. Often getting off the labels damages the niceness of the item. Some things are very well made and lovely and then they put a sticky tag or label on it and it ends up destroying it. Why bother to make something nice if you are going to ruin it with a sticky label.

i guess the packaging can be justified if you look at it from te security point of view.

but what grips my sh*t is that in this time of waste awareness, recycling etc the producers / manufactures continue to use excess packaging mainly for the purpose of brand awareness and display attributes.

i think that marketing strategies are at play in the inherent design flaws of packaging i encounter.
mostly in confectionery.
i got 3 packets of lollies (candy) from woolworths that were their home brand.

one was a packet of chocolate covered peanuts and another was a packet of jelly beans and another was a packet of boiled sweets.

i sat down in my chair to watch air crash investigation and i gently opened my nuts.
a tear propagated along the side of the package, and all the nuts spilled out to the floor.

they were wasted as i do not eat things from a floor even though my floor is clean.
i tried to open the jelly bean packet with scissors to lessen the sudden tearing and ejaculation of the contents of the bag to the floor. it was futile. the moment i made a "snick " in the bag, it tore along multiple weak spots and jelly beans spilled every where.

i am a very careful person who does not make many mistakes, and yet that packaging was impossible to open without loss.

i got a bowl and cut a hole in the bottom of the boiled sweets bag so they would dribble into the bowl. that worked and i lost no product, but it is a chore to have to learn by ordeal how to not lose your purchases.

i think that stupid marketers decide that if they make the packaging from cellulose type plastics, their product will be spilled and not eaten, and so more will be purchased to replace it. most people would blame themselves for fumbling the opening of a packet and the companies rely on that spirit.
i think there are very carefully planned accidents that you can encounter with opening a package that are bad for you and good for the supplier of that product.

another conspiracy uncovered.

My grandmother had that problem, I used to open them for her when I was a child. After a while, we referred to it as "Grandma-proof".

Only problematic packaging for me.