Amazon launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" in the UK

An end to "wrap rage"

Amazon launches "Frustration-Free Packaging" in the UK

3 November 2009 11:19 GMT / By Amy-Mae Elliott

Amazon has announced the introduction of its "Frustration-Free Packaging" scheme in the UK with a letter from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos blazoned across the UK homepage.

Launched in the States back in 2008, the scheme hopes to end what Amazon calls "wrap rage", described as "the frustration we humans feel when trying to free a product from a nearly impenetrable package".

34 items from SanDisk and Hama, as well as the Amazon Basics range will now offer "products inside smaller, easy-to-open, recyclable cardboard boxes with less packaging material and no plastic clamshells or wire ties".

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Eco, Amazon, Online, SanDisk, Hama
UK Shopping
Amazon.co.uk, play.com, pixmania.co.uk, Currys.co.uk, Dixons.co.uk, 7dayshop.com, ebay.co.uk
US Shopping
Amazon.com, bestbuy.com, ebay.com

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  • This is very simple at heart. Amazon sells enough of these products that they can get rid of the retail packaging and instead use much cheaper standard corrugated or plain card. This is PR puff trying to make out this is good for the planet when in fact it is good for Amazon. I will eat my hat,(Choice of two) if the products get cheaper. If Amazon really cared about packaging, it would aggregate all orders and stop including all those glossy leaflets in every box! Truly innovative packaging requires a truly innovative approach, not just deboxing and brown carding! But at least its a start... Posted by bombikea, uk

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