Brands you don’t like because of the packaging

[SequinShagger]

Me. Charlotte tilbury. Just looks shit and naff

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Amazon! if there ever was a company that wastes paper it is them. A massive boxe and stuffings of paper to pack nothing more than a mouse pad. A similar sized box to pack 2 air fresheners. it's ridiculous.

Orange juice cartoons that have a plastic pull which usually comes of in your hand so the juice goes everywhere when poured.

Any microwave ready meal where the cellophane doesn't peel off in one piece.

Tropic.

I can't bear their MLM business model, but the packaging is bloody hideous also.

Also Fairy washing powder. The big boxes used to be stumpy and wide. They are tall and skinny now and won't fit in my kitchen cupboard.

Doesn't fcuk just stand for French connection uk? I mean I'm sure they were aware that it looks like a swear word but the meaning of it is just the brand name

Any type of gloopy stuff like curry paste, cooking sauces and so on that come in a jar with a narrow neck and 'shoulders' so you can't get a spoon in to scrape out all the contents.
Supermarket own-brand Nutella spread is an example.

Brilliant!

@MooseAndSquirrelLoveFlannel - my DH does the shopping and keeps buying the tins without the ringpulls. Drives me nuts.

Disagree about fatface

the name has history, and is connected to how and why the founders set the company up (a pair of ski bums looking to fund their ski season en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat_Face)

it’s gone all middle class trendy, but back in the day, it was just cool t shirts and fleeces of the type that ski bums wore to party in.

Generic, but anything "Dirty" - Dirty Burgers, Dirty Chicken, there's even a Dirty Razor barber's which really makes me boak.

Companies that use piles of plastic when delivering - looking at you m&s, George, Next.

Anything with the price printed onto the packaging some chocolate bars are dreadful for this along with some sweets. But mainly from corner shop type shops for some reason.

Utterly Butterly/I Can't Believe it's Not Butter. Never tried it, never will.

Any packaging that has plenty of space, but insists on printing the teeniest itsy bitsy print that you need both brilliant lighting and a strong magnifying glass to read…. Even worse when the colour of the packaging is similar to the print… zero chance of reading.
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Odd how ads can really put you off a product, Verisure, I'd rather be burgled. Cilit BANG is another I would never buy.
I also hate packaging where I need the strongest pair of scissors to get in and still manged to slit a finger on it, some plastic is sharper than a sabre.

I once ordered 1 copy of a book and when it arrived there was an enormous box with apparently nothing in it. I was just about to throw the box out when someone pointed out that the very thin book was fasten to the inside of the lid

Cathedral city cheese ever since they changed the opening to the side. The space is so tight to get the block back in it ends up smashing the sides and also the reclosing strip doesn't reclose!

This

www.fragrancedirect.co.uk/9733-laurelle-sexxy-shoo-gold-eau-de-parfum-spray-100ml

I really laughed when I first saw this. I assume it’s a cheap knock off of that tacky Carolina Herrera perfume but the shoe looks like something Princess Margaret would have worn in the 1980s. Or the queen mother. Why would anyone buy it?

(Somebody did because it is inexplicably sold out, despite being called ‘sexxy shoo’ (yes, two xs)).

That Gucci perfume miley Cyrus is advertising, never smelled it but the packaging totally puts me off, all the flowers, and the bottle looks cheap and nasty.

I have no idea what it actually smells like but the advertising and packaging make me think of grandma perfume lol… Like I feel nauseous imagining this overpowering floral smell just watching the advert.

Plus can’t stand Miley Cyrus so that also puts me off 🤣

I quite like the smell of Soap & Glory gear but the packaging annoys me. Puns and pictures of black and white film stars, yawn. Magazines were doing that in the 1980s and it was boring then.

Agreed, it looks like talc. And probably smells like it.

M&S Plant Kitchen range - the packaging is horrible. Also hate that the products all reference meat - no lamb shawarma, no chicken nuggets, no pork sausage roll ... I want to know what it is not what it isn't!

@Iamthewombat I KNEW that reminded of something. It looks like an M&S talc that they did back in the 80s

YANBU I hate this. I've only got a tiny kitchen, sick of the cans falling over and rolling to the back of the cupboards. Ffs Heinz bear this in mind next time you retool the factory.

Packaging that is difficult to open.

I stopped buying this coffee because I needed superhuman strength to open it. Additionally the pack is sealed right down to the coffee so when you cut it open there isn’t anything to fold over and clip it shut.