Packaging errors that make absolutely no sense will make you despair
- Retailers use excessive and useless packaging for their goods
- Read more: Shoppers share the WORST examples of pointless packaging
Many are becoming increasingly aware of plastic waste, but that doesn’t stop retailers from using excessive or useless packaging for their goods.
People from all over the world have shared frustrating packaging errors and Bored Panda Bored Panda collected the worst in an online gallery.
For example, there was a store that decided to individually wrap 1/4 slices of peppers in plastic.
Meanwhile, a supermarket in Halifax, Nova Scotia, advised customers to ‘ask for their fish to be wrapped in paper’ because they ‘love their oceans’, but then sold cans of lobster wrapped in plastic.
Elsewhere, paper Save Our Planet cups were individually wrapped in plastic for hotel guests.
No logic! People from all over the world have been sharing frustrating packaging mistakes and Bored Panda has collected the worst in an online gallery. Included ‘eco friendly’ toothpicks that were individually wrapped in plastic
A customer who ordered a new SIM card for his phone was dismayed when it turned up in different envelopes inside a larger box.
And there are few tasks that sound more tedious than unwrapping individually wrapped toothpicks, especially when they boast of being eco-friendly.
Here, FEMAIL takes a look at some of the facepalm-worthy packaging mistakes…
Why? A supermarket in Hatti sold peeled bananas in a Styrofoam container and wrapped in plastic
Not cheap! A store in the US decided to sell paper face masks, individually packaged in Styrofoam containers and plastic for $1
What a waste! Gummy bears for sale in Indonesia were individually wrapped in plastic inside a larger plastic bag
Overdone! One customer was baffled by the fact that it took as many as six pieces of packaging to deliver one mini SIM card
Confused: Another person ordered 20 iron nails and they arrived individually wrapped in plastic bags and placed in a box
Facepalm: Elsewhere Save Our Planet paper cups were individually wrapped in plastic for hotel guests
Hypocrisy: A supermarket in Halifax, Nova Scotia asked customers to ‘request their fish to be wrapped in paper’ because they ‘love their oceans’, but then sold cans of lobster wrapped in plastic
Yes! A woman was shocked to discover that the five nail polishes she ordered arrived in separate boxes with lots of packaging
Make it meaningful! Another woman in the US became confused after her anti-wrinkle cream, which was already in a box, came in a large plastic container
Why? Someone bought two pens and they arrived in two oversized separate boxes filled with plastic
Pointless! One store that decided to individually wrap 1/4 slices of peppers in plastic confused customers