I’m not sure this tool is much better than using a box cutter (which is cheaper) or even a pair of stout scissors. But it’s an option. I have noticed that the clam shell wrapping has become somewhat easier to open, on some packages at least, by getting your thumbnail between the seams and prying it apart. Presumably it’s the manufacturers who are making it easier to do that.
Via Instapundit.
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Even a box cutter couldn’t penetrate the blister pack Miriam at Miriam’s Ideas recently encountered on a product from Amazon. She finally got the staff at her local hardware store to get the plastic packaging off the product. Mr. B. and I have struggled with this as well. I had heard the problem was being solved by the manufacturers. Apparently not.
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Around here we joke that you need a nuclear bomb to get the packaging open on just about everything sold in America these days. Mr. Boy can’t even open his fruit snacks and fruit leather plastic wrappings with his fingers, nor can I. You need a ballpoint pen to puncture them first. As for the "clam shell" plastic covering on stuff from toys to printer ink cartridges, with their sharp edges, it takes a pair of scissors and infinite care not to wind up bleeding all over the product.
Indeed, "according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission, injuries from plastic packaging resulted in 6,400 visits to emergency rooms in 2004," reported here, which includes claims from some packagers that they plan to soon start making it easier to open the clam shells. We’ll believe that when we see it.
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