Revolutionary Thread Proposes Changes to Different Types of Annoying Grocery Packaging

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Ally Perry • Writer and Editor
Nov 20, 2023 6:00 PM EST

Product design is one of those things that most of us don't really think about until we don't have a choice. When you're doing your grocery shopping, there are a million and one things to consider before pondering why it is eggs come in a carton, or why that steak is vacuum wrapped. 

However, the way in which our food and household products are packaged has a huge impact on how we're able to use them. Just because we consider some types of packaging normal doesn't mean that they are truly the best option. 

This is a cause that has been taken up by one Twitter user, who began a thread of products that she proposed improved packaging solutions for. Although some people criticized these alternatives as being more wasteful, others couldn't help but chime in with some ideas of their own. You never know, maybe they'll enact a change.

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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum Things we need to reinvent the packaging for and my suggestions on how to fix it. Butter Tastin' 1. Biscuit cans. Anything is better than this. I've been shot at and that was less startling. This is the packaging style I think we should change biscuits to. Por Pillsbury Grands! Southern Homestyle 8 BISCUITS YOU'% PURE GROUND CHUCK 18-19 LB BELF BURGERS NO ABDITIVES M 10 Goods Gather Follow All Natural 93% Lean 7% Fat PATTIES NET WT1642 (1) 454
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    299 Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum 1d Replying to @KaylaAncrum 2. Bacon. I know they're "resealable"now but that doesn't really fix the problem. I think the slices should be cut in half and packaged like lunch meat. Not only would they fit better in the pan cut in half, but it would last longer in the fridge and fit better in the drawer. TM original ES NATURALLY HARDWOOD Since 1936 Hillshire Farm DELI SELECT SMOKED HAM WATER ADDID SPL FAT FRIE-NO ARTIFICIAL FLAVORS ULTRA THIN - NET WT 90Z (255 g) ΓΑΠ
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum 1d 3. Baking soda. This is one of the more IRRITATING ones to me. That little cut here area on the side me off and opening the top is I think it should be packaged like salt. With a pour spout PLAY THE STANDARD DE PURITY Pure Baking Soda America's #1 Trusted Baking Soda Brand Hundreds of uses like: Scratchless Cleaning NET WT. 8 OZ (2270) 0₂ do 1 k ald Sit ank THAN p AYBACT CONTE Nat Ge ther S pance . 1845 MORTON SALT THIS SALT DOES NOT SUPPLY IODIDE A NECESSARY NET WT
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    Kayla Ancrum 4. Ajax/Comet. Opening these cans makes a 100% guarantee that it will spill a little bit inside your cabinet and god help you if the top gets wet and water gets inside. It WILL clump. SCRATCH FREE STRONGER THAN DIRT ALAX BLEACH It needs the same top as a spice canister. The holes are good. It needs the ability to CLOSE. WWELD DEANGER TANT BEACH OF CHILDREN MAS @KaylaAncrum 1d EWT 22 (1.31 B) 585 9 LAST MI ORMUL McCormick 111 GROUND Cinnamon GROUND Ginger M GROUNDS CAYENNE Red Pepper
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum. 1d 5. Flour: This is a rough one but this bag is so awful. The double inside layer, the weak bottom corners. Is it like this bc of nostalgia??? We don't have to live this. way! I think it should be a cardboard canister like oatmeal. Sturdy and easy to insert a scooping cup. EXPERTLY WILLED IN OVER 135 YEARS 141 BUG GOLD Medal NET WT 5 LB (226 THE USA PREMIUM QUALITY 1860 ENRICHED-BLEACHED-PRESID ALL PURPOSE FLOUR MUNCUPAC 110 A QUAKER OATS QUAKER QUAKER QUAKET OATS OAT
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum. 1d 6. Paper towel: this is the least odious, but having it be a cylinder isn't the most efficient shape storage wise. It's paper, fold it accordion style into a stack and put it in a square box with a hole in the top like freezer bags. Think how many boxes you could fit on a shelf. New! Ziploc Johnson 40 a top ha 6Wx3/4 (16.5 cm x 8.2cm) UNDERTABLE Grip'n Seal Technology ON THE
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum . 1d I don't have a degree in invention or product design but I do clean and cook and to be honest it's shameful and wasteful how long these have been packaged this way. I'm sure I can think of more, but these are the ones that make me the angriest.
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum 1d ● Reasonable people are asking about the meat plastic for the biscuit idea! I wasn't thinking that it should be that flimsy cling film, I was mostly showing the stacking/ paper element. It would have to have air tight plastic with the product recessed or thick plastic vacuum seal. alamy alamy CHUCK /2016 FAT LEAK PROOF 50% off P alamy alamy alamy $5 off Ta M Casimi LH 342 (5) 2 18623 1247/LB WAN SENT $1190 $11.99 alamy alamy
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncr... - 23h Someone suggested this solution for sugar and it's so good that I needed you. all to see it. Measuring cups wouldn't even be an issue because the spout gives so much pouring control. For teaspoons and smaller you can just dip in the top. Domino SUGAR PREMIUM PURE CANE GRANULATED 15 CALORIES Dul legipoon NET WT 10 LR (4.53ml AT FREE VITAMIN A&D FAT FRA VITAMIN A& ON YOU FOR BU ANOTHER FINE FARMLAND DAIRE PRODUCT TO OPE FOR BEST QUALIT USE WITHIN 7 DAYS OF C
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    Kayla Ancrum @KaylaAncrum PADS ARE TOO LOUD! Follow I dont have an idea for this but someone should get on this immediately Tia @tiab2love - 18h Replying to @KaylaAncrum What about pads? They are way too loud
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    Alis @AlisDell325. 1d Replying to @KaylaAncrum Cereal in a ziplock Chips in a ziplock Pringles can but add the swivel at the bottom like a glue stick so you can turn them up to the top as needed.
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    floppenheimer @gwils_17 20h Replying to @KaylaAncrum I would like to add to this list: discontinue cans that require a can opener If we already have cans with pull tabs, then why any companies still bothering with the other version at all?! O organics organic Black Beans WISATRICE BRA 193 GOYA Black Beans Frijoles Negros, PD.. NON GMO My
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    Allison @itsallisonleigh 15h Replying to @KaylaAncrum Peanut butter and similar products should be in a canister like a push-pop or deodorant or lip balm. Pushing the product toward the top so we get to use it all.
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    Margaret @margarrrrr_et 21h Replying to @KaylaAncrum I think peanut butter jars should be redesigned. Countless times in my life I've been trying to get pb out of the bottom of a jar and it gets all over my fingers because the jar is longer than the knife. Why not make them shorter and wider?
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    Claire @Racheljustbc Follow Replying to @KaylaAncrum 1/2 sheet paper towels. Are you ever able to tear off just one? No! You tear off 2, which is a bigger size than the original full size towel. They're making you use more. You have a brilliant idea: package them like facial tissues!
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    @desirosie. 1d DESI Replying to @KaylaAncrum Dishwasher rinse aid!!!!! The bottle design GUARANTEES that you spill as much as you are trying to put in. It should have a spout.
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    bogs Nessie @smthnboutnessie - 14h Replying to @KaylaAncrum idk I feel like that's just a lot more single use plastic waste for my taste
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    Real Housewife of S... @KendraChenelle Follow Replying to @KaylaAncrum I agree with all of this and would also like to add that all bagged frozen food should come with a zipper or their own clips. And frozen corn on the cob. Each cob should have their own package.
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    Yazmín @Yaz_Nice. 16h Replying to @KaylaAncrum Cream cheese bricks in foil. Like WHY. Tubs are perfectly acceptable and do the same job
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    fairy gothmuva @urnxtsupreme - 19h she said how can we possibly use more plastic than we already do
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    ITS SAVVYFATTY-TE... @savvyfatty Follow AGREE. Champagne could use a redesign too cuz why I gotta be traumatized in order to enjoy these products?!
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    kendall @gothyoona . 16h wanna add those talenti gelato containers. i had never experienced something like that before in my life. i was in tears trying to open it. took a hammer to it, took a knife to it, ran it under hot water. i cannot tell you how i opened it because idk what the last straw was
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    jungle witch @onyxxfox. 5m this whole entire thread scratched an itch i didn't know i had
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