A question

[gae]

This is almost worthy of Greg's pondering...

We've needed to replenish our supply of OTC meds -- Excedrin, Tylenol, Aleve -- and I'm wondering why the hell do those bottles come in boxes?

Is it something about shipping? Boexs fit better into other boxes?

We save all kinds of boxes to mail Christmas gifts, but for the life of me, I can't imagine anything that I can do with a box that holds 100 Tylenol caplets.

Happy weekend, all!

[LanDroid]

Well, why do Altoids mints come in small metal cans?

Answer: so when they're empty, teenage girls can fill 'em up with Tylenol & Advil and tote them to high school. [img]graemlins/party.gif[/img]

[cincygreg]

Well the altoids thing may be linked to the verse "shiny metal boxes" from Syncronity by the police, or not [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img] [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]

As for the boxes, I guess I should just ask
Do you like them in a box?
would you could you in a box?
Do you like green eggs and ham? Wait, I'm getting off the subject here.
the pills that go insude the bottle go inside the bottle that's inside the box that's inside the medicine cabinet which is inside your bathroom which is inside your house...
It's just a natural progression of things. [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img] [img]wink.gif[/img]

<font color="#a62a2a" size="1">[ February 24, 2007 08:38 PM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font>

[cincygreg]

You know, some people drink green beer on St Patty's day.
I wonder why no-one ever makes green eggs on that day? [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

And if they do, do they serve them with ham? [img]graemlins/sure.gif[/img]
And where do they eat them? [img]graemlins/wonder.gif[/img]

[Beachcomber]

Square boxes fit more easily into another box. Security is another reason, being in a box adds another layer of separation from the product. More stability on the store shelf; a square box does not as easily get tipped over. Being in a box allows more space for marketing info and point of purchase appeal, the bottle itself only has so much space and it has to be used for product warnings, dosage info.

And yet generic brands (Walgreens brand or Publix for example) often are sitting there on the shelf in just the bottle and not a box (like aspirin, acetamenophin, etc). So perhaps the answer is an "unfathomable"

[cincygreg]

Sure GL, go with the obvious answer. [img]graemlins/hmmm.gif[/img]

SHEESH! [img]wink.gif[/img] LOL!