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WHY?

Do the people who manufacture consumer goods package them in such a fashion that they are impossible to open?

Bubble pack pills
Those weird shrink-wrappy collars on bottles and household goods
Curling irons or scissors or screw drivers in those plastic domed-things that are impervious even to nuclear weapons?
The food packages that come with a corner loose so you can peel back and then replace the wrapping but have such an infinitesimal margin you lose it and use a butcher knife instead?

A friend of mine once had a frenetically busy day, racing hither and yon with kids & sports, work, household. She stopped for gas and grabbed a pack of beef jerky because she was starving.

After an hour of trying all means at her command (car keys, teeth, nail clippers) failed to open the package, she pulled into a parking lot, threw the pack of beef jerky on the concrete and drove over it with her cub-cab pickup. It took seven passes before it finally burst open.

Do you see what I mean? Don't they realize if we can't open it, we can't use it up and therefore will not need more?

At the very least they should have tiny cubes of c-4 explosives in a locked cabinet at the cash register to be supplied with every such purchase.
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shuhak · M
They do this to ensure that the contents don't flee. There's nothing worse than getting home only to find part of your purchase has made a clean getaway. For years, manufactures received complaints about products escaping between the time they manufacturing plant and arrived at the customers home. BAtteries were famous for their ability to "vanish" in transit. It wasn't long before camps of transient batteries littered the highways. Authorities set up roadblocks in an effort to corral these rogue "power mongers". AAA's proved to be the hardest to recapture as, due to their size, they could easily slip through any roadblock or barricade. In an effort to curb this growing problem, manufactures designed containers that were 100% escape proof. While these containers proved to be excellent at incarcerating products, they had one 'slight' drawback - once locked, getting back into the container was harder than getting out. Even so, these containers have reduced the numbers of vagrant merchandise by 84%.
@shuhak you are awesome. I wish I'd said that!

Your transient batteries really gave me a charge.

So what are they doing about it? Does Fish & Game hire kids with iPods and other electronics to go out and cull the herds?