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 I can’t tell you how many times I have said in reviews that I loved the product but that I hated the packaging.  Plastic blister packs are a huge pain to open and often as you attempt to open the package you either damage part of the product, literature, included CDs or YOURSELF.  So when I saw this story posted on Techdirt by Mike, I just had to pass it on.

This Holiday Season, All I Want Is A Package That Opens Easily

from the please-please-pretty-pretty-please dept

Along with the holiday shopping season, we’ve also got the growing fear of people dreading opening those annoyingly difficult plastic “blister packs” that way too many products come in these days. It’s tough to find anyone who likes them… other than stores. Retailers claim that it helps cut down on theft, and keeps products fresh and new, but the frustration level of people trying to open the damn things is reaching dangerous levels. Apparently, thousands of people end up at the emergency room each year with “injuries from plastic packaging” according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. So, this holiday season, if you absolutely must buy anyone anything that comes in an impossible to open plastic clamshell, please be careful trying to open it. We’d recommend that you get one of the new device made especially for opening them, but they’re apparently sold out in most places, and even if you found one… they apparently come sealed in plastic themselves.

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