Why do eggs come in flimsy styrofoam cartons and batteries come in a package only chainsaws can open?

[coachTanthony]

[LiamJHayden]

The batteries I suspect are that way so small children do not put them in their mouths and swallow them. Eggs? Easier to see if they are bad or broken before getting home.

[JustinTheGreat]

You make a good point lol.
What really gets me is when scissors come in a package that require scissors to open 🙄

[coachTanthony]

yes and I always cut myself somehow some way lol

[Sunssong]

Just buy 2 pairs. When one breaks buy a new one and use the one, left, you already have to open it.

[WindAtMyBack]

As near as I can tell, all that molded plastic packaging is only so the retails stores can hang it on hooks. I assume it saves a little labor and maybe increasing density of the displays in stores.

Maybe some day we'll see eggs hanging on hooks, but I doubt it.

The thing I've always wondered about is why companies haven't been sued because of the packaging. I have no doubt that a lot of people have seriously cut themselves trying to open those damn things.

As a side note, I get the paper egg cartons and the whole thing goes in the compost.

[MrOracle]

It has nothing to do with being mounted on hooks, and everything to do with loss prevention. Costco, for example, sells batteries in boxes that are barely larger than the batteries themselves - BUT Costco is a membership warehouse and it verifies receipts with purchases at its single exit, so loss is minimal. At most stores, theft is high, especially with small, pricey items, and that's why all of those big plastic, hard-to-open packages exist.

[WindAtMyBack]

@MrOracle
I never even considered loss prevention. So it makes sense that thieves would just pull the product out of the packaging because it's easier to hide.

Have you heard of stores where employees are not allowed to confront thieves? I've been hearing this more and more. Someone can fill a cart and walk out the store in plain site, and the employees are not allowed to do anything about it. This is becoming more common and I think it's bullshit. Thieves are given a green light to steal anything they want.

[MrOracle]

That's been the policy in retail for 20+ years - forced upon them by their insurance carriers. And it has caused a huge wave of wholesale theft on the west coast and other left-controlled places.

Walmart just announced that it was closing their last 2 stores in Portland, Oregon, which has now lost every Wal-Mart, Target, CVS, Walgreens, and Rite-Aid.

These stores have also been closed in areas of San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, and Atlanta. The remaining stores have locked up a huge amount of merchandise, requiring an employee to unlock it and escort it to the cashier.

If you haven't been paying attention, you have no idea the level of mass shoplifting that has been occurring...

[coachTanthony]

@MrOracle I was in loss prevention for over 20 years and believe me what is happening today never happened back then. No cell phone cameras were available though so now just trying to apprehend a shoplifter people start taking video as if the store doesn't have a right to defend itself. I wouldn't wish LP onto anybody today.

[WindAtMyBack]

@MrOracle
I live in the MIdwest and I've heard about it here. The only store I remember for sure is Lowes. I've heard about it at other places, but I don't remember which ones.

Yea, I don't really pay attention.

As I understand it, it's about physically stopping them. But if you can't physically stop them, then you can't do much at all. This seems to come from OSHA as much as insurance. OSHA apparently considers it an occupational safety hazard.

I used to walk 3.5 inch top plates two stories up and lean way out over the edge with a circular saw to cut rafter tails. I HAD to pay attention to safety or I'd be dead or maimed. OSHA was fine with it. Things are so twisted.

[MrOracle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAIcsHh8vso
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=usGTZvPg0Eo

[coachTanthony]

@MrOracle Yep crazy times we live in

[Red-Blaze]

Few things
1. Eggs are not that pricy, so cheaper packging is for economic for the store/farm
2. Cardboard will absorbe most of the mess of the egg, as well as protect it outside smells and stuff

3. batteryes cost more, and pepole used to go in store and slip some batteryes in pockets
Becouse batteris are worth more its worth to use higher pricerd but still cheap cointer that is bigger and sgick out more
4. Battiers better not get wet, that may happen if they get wet in cardboard

[CheeseMonster]

You don't check the eggs before you buy them? Would be hard to tell if one was damaged if they're locked into a case. Also, you aren't usually concerned about breaking the batteries when you open the container. If eggs were in such a secure container, people would be accidentally dropping or breaking them just trying to open it.

[coachTanthony]

But how many times have we checked the eggs at the store before buying them and many are broken? See it too often. I am glad to see some eggs are now suranned wrapped like at costco. Definitely helps.

[CheeseMonster]

Ok suran wrap would definitely help. That's true. You can open suran wrap without a lot of force too

[AviatorTom]

It's called product advertising. When you buy eggs, you don't see the eggs... unless you actually open the package. That's okay though because you know what eggs look like.

Batteries are in clear plastic to show the consumer the kind of battery, because there are so many different types: AAA, AA, C, D, 9-volt. And clear plastic is hard to open... without scissors.

That's life!

[Phoenix98]

If a egg break opens it's a mess.

if a battery breaks that's acid burns that will eat through your skin.

[coachTanthony]

I mean that is a good answer lol

[Phoenix98]

One partly taken from experience.

[spartan55]

Coach, you should pick yourself up a nice keychain multitool. Mine has a handy package opener on it... those battery clamshells are toast!

[coachTanthony]

Good tips !!

[spartan55]

Message me if you'd like a couple suggestions. I don't want to use product names publicly.

[SnowedIn]

Part of it is the inertia of shipping. Anything flimsier and the batteries break out of their packing. Eggs don't. Also, the batteries must be guaranteed to not touch lest they discharge and catch on fire. Thus, the packaging we have.

[sage2021]

Speaking of eggs, why do the people at the store put the eggs on the bottom of the bag, then throw other things on top of them? GRRR!!!

[Red-Blaze]

Because they just don't care, its over all a flat surface easier to fit in when the bag is empty
Its bad, and stores really should put that in basic traing

[coachTanthony]

I would assume to keep them stable. Put them on top they could turn over.

[exitseven]

people break open the packages and steal the batteries. My wife bought an 8 pack of D cells and it was 23 bucks.

[coachTanthony]

True batteries are not cheap

[Shark_61695]

It's all an anti vegan conspiracy!

Also eggs in plastic? I thought they all came in cardboard.

www. google. com/search? q=egg box 360&tbm=vid

[NostalgiaSenpi]

Eggs are cheap, usually and mass produced in a way that it makes sense to use that packaging. Batteries are potentially a safety hazard , are toxic, and can cause a fire.

[loveslongnails]

If you switched the packaging, you'd never be able to open your eggs without losing half of them, Coach! LOL

[legalboxers]

you need to jiggle them before buying. I never had that issue

[slatyb]

Batteries are packaged that way to deter theft. Eggs come in styrofoam to survive transport.

[coachTanthony]

Eggs are broken all the time at the store.

[slatyb]

Yes, some do get broken. But mostly they don't.

[Pohjolan]

1. That's not styrofoam.

2. Batteries can be packed in cardboard as well.

[coachTanthony]

You read the question wrong I think.

[Lazyrider67]

Items like batteries are shrink-wrapped in plastic, sometimes on a backing board, to help prevent theft. Eggs have to be handled very delicately during packaging and transport, hence the styrofoam or soft pack

[driven159]

Egg cartons are soft so to protect eggs from breaking. Batteries in hard sealed up packages to keep safe from leaking out battery acids.

[Flower7]

I guess because people don’t tend to steal eggs.

[Flower7]

But I get what you’re saying.

[Still-alive]

it's a conspiracy lol

[LovingJo]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Pterodon]

The styrofoam absorbs shock

[msc545]

Batteries contain acids.

[clampfan101]

Good question. 🤣