Coincidentally. In 2020, Shanghai Municipal Market Supervision Bureau found that 50 batches of goods 12 batches were suspected of over-packaging, and the unqualified rate of cosmetics packaging was as high as 70%.
Xiao Liu from Suzhou, Jiangsu has the habit of having a reunion dinner every spring. During the procurement process, various "Youth League Gift Boxes" dazzled Xiao Liu. "There are many' Youth League gift boxes', the price is much higher than that of bulk youth groups, but the taste is average. Screening them is time-consuming and laborious. " Xiao Liu said.
"Cosmetics and food industries are the" hardest hit areas "for over-packaging," Liu Jianguo, a professor at Tsinghua University Environmental Research Institute, said in an interview with this reporter. Food consumption is closely related to people's lives, and the consumption is large and needs to be packaged separately, which gives merchants the opportunity to over-package. Through multi-layer packaging, cosmetics can increase added value, meet the needs of some consumers, stimulate sales and increase profits. The reporter found on the "Little Red Book" platform that many netizens rated some beautifully packaged cosmetics as "meticulous and exquisite" and "full of ritual".
Merchants increase profits through over-packaging, and some consumers gain a "sense of ceremony" by buying over-packaged products. It seems that "one is willing to fight another", but in fact it harms the rights and interests of consumers.
On the one hand, the "sense of ceremony" brought by excessive packaging should be paid by consumers. Cao Mingde, a professor at the School of Civil and Commercial Economics of China University of Political Science and Law and vice president of the china law society Environmental Resources Law Research Association, told this reporter that for most consumers, only the products can be used if they are opened and thrown away. But in practice, the cost of packaging is included in the commodity price, and finally passed on to consumers. The more bloated the packaging, the more money consumers spend, but they can't get more use value.
On the other hand, when consumers buy goods, they often buy whatever they want. If all businesses make the trend of over-packaging worse and worse in order to increase profits, over time, only over-packaged products can be seen on the shelves, and consumers can only be forced to accept over-packaging and pay for it. "Therefore, it is urgent to standardize over-packaging on the supply side." Cao Mingde said.