overwrapping......

[chaostrulyreigns]

everybody seems to be concerned about plastic carrier bags at the moment. no-one seems to worry about amount of plastic, cardboard and tags on toys.

I have just spent 8 minutes getting the wrapping off 5 knights and accessories from ELC and also stabbed my hand while doin it. (fume).

next time i feel like asking the shop assistant to remove the packaging her/himself before I leave the store. why should the end-user be responsible for disposal of excess and inpenetrable packaging when we do not want it in the first place.
maybe increased time staff have to spend with customers will open the retailers' eyes to this ridiculous situation. 8 minutes!!!!!

and don't get me started on find a screwdriver to change batteries!!!!

does anyone dare me to make them remove the packaging in the shops???

the point is to discourage shoplifters, i do agree tho, its a complete waste of resources

To discourage shoplifters? So a shoplifter will look at a toy and think "nah - too many fiddly wirey things on that, I won't bother nicking it, it will take too long to get out of the box"?? To make them stack/transport more easily seems more likely. And then the fact that most toys seem to be packaged so that they can be tried out in the shop complicates things too.

one helluva evil word ......playmobil now that is work of the devil on xmas morning.

thanx for your replies i'm glad i'm not the only one who feels like this.

tried leaving the packaging (politely) today explaining my reasons and was meet with understanding and helpfulness

yes it was Johnny Lewis.

Am going to persevere though and just keep doing it hopefully will only help to raise awareness.

please join me on my teenyweeny crusade

cheers

My dad has an illness which means that he cannot cope with change...so if the design of something is altered he can't cope.

So we bulk buy and stockpile a lot of his 'staples'. A few weeks ago this meant I was buying 10 pairs of exactly the same pair of shoes for him. He's been wearing this style for years and wouldn't know what to do without them!!

I don't drive so was coming home from town on the bus...asked the shoe shop assistant if she could take the shoes out of the boxes and just place in carrier bags.
Nope not possible...so I had to battle my way through the crowds bumping into prams and ankles with all my bulky bags.
(Maybe I could have taken the shoes out of the boxes in the street but where to dump all that cardboard?!)

wonder why the assistant thought she could refuse.

besides the environmental factors, where was her goodwill to man?

do you think you would be more adamant if the circumstance arose again?

chaostrulyreigns - she said no because I might bring want to bring the shoes back and they would have no boxes. Tried to explain about dad's dementia and assure her that he has been wearing the same style of shoe for years now. There was no chance that he wouldn't want the ones I was buying...sometimes he forgets where the current pair is and we can gave two or three on the go at once!

Anyway perhaps it might be more environmentally friendly to deliver shoes to the shops not in boxes...they must go through so much cardboard. I wouldn't mind buying new shoes that just came in a bag...very rarely used boxes to store pencils etc but could manage without.