People Share Pictures Of Weird Product Packaging
Shrink-wrapped fruit, unnecessary plastic double and triple packaging, and similar items are not just annoying to customers; they also incur disposal costs and take thousands of years to degrade in nature.
Bad packaging has a way of turning a simple purchase into a small act of frustration. From fruit wrapped in layers of plastic to boxes that seem bigger than the item inside, these design choices can feel wildly unnecessary.
In this collection, people share some of the strangest product packaging they have come across, and the results range from wasteful to downright baffling. A few of them are so over the top that you may need a second look just to figure out what was being sold.
Here are some of the most ridiculous examples people have spotted, and they are hard to forget.
1. Why would you want to pack one banana?
Foodbeast.com2. For people too lazy to split the avocado.
Worksdesigngroup.comSome of these packages feel like they were designed to create waste on purpose.
3. Didn’t they measure it first?
Packsize.com
4. Interesting, but seems redundant.
Financialtribune.com
5. This package looks really tempting, but I think I will probably make my own…
Walmart
6. Why would they wrap them individually in plastic?
Klyker.com
The packaging gets more confusing the longer you look at it.
7. Too much packaging, definitely.
Designtos.com
8. All this for one pill?
Klyker.com
9. All this for one tiny light bulb.
Klyker.com
10. What?
Bored Panda
11. Some cheese, and lots of plastic…
Pinterest
At this point, the packaging is doing more work than the product.
The packaging chaos feels grimly similar to an investigation finding 111 unidentified chemicals slipped into the US food supply.
12. Unbreakable…
Nikdaum.com
13. Have you ever needed just one egg?
Packworld
14. More plastic than meat.
mirror.co.uk
15. Awesome!
Hankermag.com
16. It has its own pallet?
Scribol
That is one very committed box.
17. Over the top.
Scribol
Bonus 1.
Works Design Group
Bonus 2. I do not believe this....
Bored Panda
Bonus 3. No comment...
Bored Panda
May this kind of packaging never become normal.
Think bananas are “most risky”? Read the bold claim about that fruit here.
