Re:Amazon Moving To Frustration-Free Packaging
by petercooper on Monday November 03, 2008 @05:05PM
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There's exactly zero chance that store shelves will contain boxes similar to ones that Amazon is using here. Therefore, there will always be two kinds: 1) The displayable kind, and 2) The shipping kind.
In the short term, sure. But the world changes a lot more than we think, over time. The Walmart shopping experience, as it is today, would be unfathomable to someone from even the 1970s.
Consider the success of "no frills" groceries over the last 10 years (a success that is increasing due to the credit crunch). Many who wouldn't leave their chosen brands for certain products are migrating to cheaper alternatives with incredibly dull packaging. It's a bit of a conceptual jump for toys to be the same, but I suspect it'll happen when we realize how superficial the 90s and 00s "were" (speaking from a, say, 2020s perspective).
In the short term, sure. But the world changes a lot more than we think, over time. The Walmart shopping experience, as it is today, would be unfathomable to someone from even the 1970s.
Consider the success of "no frills" groceries over the last 10 years (a success that is increasing due to the credit crunch). Many who wouldn't leave their chosen brands for certain products are migrating to cheaper alternatives with incredibly dull packaging. It's a bit of a conceptual jump for toys to be the same, but I suspect it'll happen when we realize how superficial the 90s and 00s "were" (speaking from a, say, 2020s perspective).