/r/EgregiousPackaging
A place to post examples of a product you've acquired that uses entirely too much packaging.
Post pictures or stories of egregious examples of excessive packaging.
Some basic rules:
Be sure to blur or crop out any personal information on your packaging.
Keep it decent. No racist, homophobic or otherwise hateful and nasty posts/comments. They will be removed and will result in a ban and/or reporting to the Reddit overlords.
We will keep adding to these rules as new problems arise. If you have any issues, please message the moderators, we'll be glad to help you out!
/r/EgregiousPackaging
Shocking scammy packaging. Less than 1/4 full
A tube of Colgate toothpaste was marketed/sold to me in a cardboard box. I was expecting a tube twice as big. The box was at least an inch longer than needed. Is it alright for companies to fill the landfills to avail of a deceptive marketing ploy. And why has easy access to bring complaints to government consumer/environment protection agencies dried up?
I recieved this box exactly as pictured. I did not need to open. I thought of the group thinking a great example of the opposite of egregious.
Garlic on the grocery list, I saw this and thought it was organic at first glance and walked around the produce section looking for normal garlic. Turns out this is the normal garlic. Why on earth does one single bulb of garlic need a plastic wrap???
Egregious packaging Indonesia edition
So much for recyclable...
Great move by Arnotts to package their big seller "Scotch Fingers" in Minis!
Instead of 1 plastic pack for their standard 250g pack they put 8 mini plastic packs INSIDE a cardboard box!!
And charge $2.50 per 100g for the Minis compared to $1.32 per 100g for the originals. Thats a 90% markup!!
Really looking after the environment and ripping off customers at same time!!