Wasteful Packaging

I totally support throwing garbage into volcanos.

Wouldn't that put up ash, the same as burning stuff now?

Pretty straight forward, theft and volume.

The oversize packaging helps to thwart retail theft, therefore increased cost of packaging is offset by reduction in theft.

Since most of the sales are of product are with packaging, providing a product for sale without packaging represents a special which translates into lower volume, thus higher cost.

Higher sales price will also make the special "go away".

Lew

I guess that makes sense, but it sure seems screwed up. In any event, the sander case is doing duty for a kid who now proudly gets to display his new DeWalt lunch box.

I saw a news item that Amazon is to start offering various products with minimal and bio-degradable packaging. No retail stores so no problems with shoplifting. John

Kreg Mini..

Kit is the jig, drill bit, stop collar.

Retail £14.95

replacement drill bit £15.99 (no collar) replacement collar £2.99

Explain, please, someone?

Buy the kit and give the old jig to some worthy soul.

"The first one is free..." only /sounds/ familiar :)

Many of these situations can be explained by the fact that the cost of the packaging materials and labor to make the package is worth more that the item being packaged. I have gone through the local hardware store and found many items where this is true.

One way to check the cost of packaging is to look at an items where the package is essentially the same, and compare the cost of several sizes. One example I found was the cork pads to put on chairs so they don't damage the hardwood floors. You could buy packages of 4, 8, 12, and 16 piece. The cost was $2.20 $2.40 $2.60, and $2.80 projecting the cost back through zero the cost of the packaging was about $2.00, and the item was about a $0.05/piece.

If you look you can find many examples of this.

Trash to energy plants. Not a perfect solution, but sure helps.

I'm guessing pricing has a lot more to do with supply and demand and many other marketing factors than the actual price of the materials in the product/package.

I've seen the same package of "stuff" in several different home stores for roughly the same price. The same identical package of "stuff' will be at several different craft stores for a different price. The only difference (when there is any) is the printing on the cardboard insert. Maybe a different font or coloring, to appeal to frumpy middle aged woman, rather than macho middle aged men.

The bean counters have figured out the market value of the "stuff" to that particular market and demographic and they price it for maximum profit.

Word that will place a premium price on any item are to call it Scientific, (or a variation), Marine, or Organic.

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Add to that, "Green"

We live in a world of very cheap RFID...

Large packaging is no longer an excuse.

Helps in reducing trash but compared to conventional plants they're expensive to run, especially if they also have to be clean.

Or any word that suggests that it is for us on aircraft.

They might have figured out that anybody who buys the kit is likely to buy additional bits later and thus it's profitable to sell the bits for more. Who is going to toss the jig just because they lost or broke the bit?

As PT Barnum is credited with saying, "there is a sucker born every minute."

Lew

You are NOT kidding!

I pay $50 for a wheelbarrow inner tube!

Sorry. Barnum was way off. It's more like 5,000 a second.