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All this waste for 210 pills.

Terrible food package design trend

When we go shopping, I try to go and buy meat, salami, ham from the local butcher shop. They have some very good products and usually just use simple package. I can also buy the amounts we need.

My problem comes with the packages in supermarkets. For long time I notice the trend to pack 5-6 very thin slices of salami and put it in a strong plastic container. With some of them, it's quite possible that the plastic is heavier than the food itself. Now the reasoning behind this is to "save food" because some smart ass imagined that people will just buy the exact amount they need. So this movement to "save food" arrived to a point when food is basically not saved, but... package is very much wasted.

Now we are a family of two. Occasionally we have guests at home. But even for us, the packages are way to small. The five slices of ham (50g) packed in all the plastic will be not enough, so instead of buying a 200-300g package that will last for 2-3 days, we end up buying 5 and still not going to be enough. I don't see how for a family with 2-3 children how it is economical to buy food packaged in very limited amounts. And in supermarkets there are not always option to get them from the butcher or the lady who is behind the counter.

We are here for more than a year now, and still cannot get used with the absolutely staggering amount of packaging material used to pack almost "individual slices".

And now I noticed an even more disturbing trend....

The deceiving packages. (not the "standard" deceiving ones) but the newly discovered (by me, who knows they might be like that for ages, just didn't noticed)

When we were choosing the ham one of the packages "seemed" bigger as I took it from the shelf. Instead of the usual less than 1 cm height, it was almost 2. At first, I was almost "convinced", that I am going to get a better deal and a bigger package, because my hand certainly had a taller box in it. But when I looked, I noticed that the back of the plastic actually has higher "crests". So to say, the ham was sitting on some small plastic "holders", and inside the box, the actual content is very little. Meh... I should just make a photo of the box. Basically the bottom of the box is not entirely but here there "lifted" so the very little amount of food can be placed in, and still, when you touch the box, it will be bigger than one that has a "podium free package.

But sure... we do "everything" to save our planet.. (except that we don't). This kind of deceiving tactics should be forbidden.

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