Thursday, April 19, 2012

Wraps on wraps on wraps

Two points for anyone who recognizes this chune.

Japanese culture is a little interesting and by interesting I mean fucking crazy. No, not in a derogatory sense, but in a what the fuck are you thinking kind of sense.

Forewarning: this post will have no photos so you can stop reading now if you like.

Anyways, these Japanese people are obsessed with packaging... It makes no sense why they're so obsessed with packing when they're even more obsessed with recycling.  Anytime you buy something they will bag and tape it. You can buy a fucking pencil at a convenient store and they would bag it  and tape the sides together! They even have tape dispensers in the bagging area of a grocery store for you to use as well and I've seen pretty much every one of the customers use it too.

Example 1: I bought three pastries at a pastry shop. Each pastry was bagged individually, bagged altogether, and then taped. You could have thrown them all in one bag and I wouldn't have thought twice about it.

Example 2: Three ready-made pizzas in a grocery store packaged for sale.  Each pizza is packaged individually (understandable) and then packaged altogether (understandable).  This is good enough, but they decided to add a paper tray to hold all the pizzas....?!? Such a waste.

Example 3:  Condoms come individually wrapped and in a box. Who uses condoms?

Sorry I've been gone lately. Work has been a pain in my ass and as a result my creativity is lacking.

G'day.

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