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Originally Posted by phoenixag
This is clearly a case of cost saving. The packaging is also the shipping box? No way!
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Of course it is. It will save money for both Amazon and the product manufacturers (once they gear up enough to produce the reduced packaging items in bulk). Finding a way to reduce costs while at the same time doing something that will help the environment (reduced waste, reduced fuel in transport, reduced plastics) is the only way big companies will ever do the "right thing" (for the most part anyway), and I think is a win-win for everyone. The United States is ridiculous in the amount of wasteful packaging it produces (compare to identical items sold in Switzerland where each store is responsible for disposing of the packaging of all items it sells and customers routinely unpack items and discard the packaging in store).
I think it's a great thing. My personal pet peeve is children's toys with the dozens of wire twist ties holding the toy to the packaging- so annoying.