I might have mentioned it before, but back in Sanda there was a bakery I used to visit. I could never work it out, but somehow by buying just two items, I ended up with four bags. It turns out bakery’s aren’t the only places in Japan who have an obsession with packaging.
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1 | Pamela
January 15th, 2008 at 12:04 am
If you look very closely at the front of the box (in the lower right corner), it says 20 (5 x 4). Since the symbol that follows the 20 is repeated after the 5, it would be reasonable to assume that the package contains 20 things, with 5 things in 4 something elses (in this case, it most likely means 5 drops in each of 4 packages, all inside the box). But back tot h point, yeah, it does seem like it’s wasting a lot of packaging.
BTW: I never knew Vicks even made sore throat drops. I knew they made cough drops, that gosh aweful tasting throat spray, and the even worse tasting cough syrup, but I’ve never heard of Vicks throat drops. I guess you learn something new every day.
~Quag
