Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Jill Fischer sliced her hand on it. Tyler Grogan couldn’t get to a new pair of scissors because of it, and it’s at the root of what some call “wrap rage.” ...

Have you suffered from “wrap rage,” the term coined to describe the frustration consumers experience while trying to open the hard plastic packaging that encases so many things? If so, we feel your ...

The gift-giving season is upon us, and that means the battle between you and the stubborn plastic clamshell packaging standing between you and your new gadget is in full swing. Reader Karthik writes ...

Consumers have long complained about "oyster" or "clamshell" packaging -- the heavy plastic encasing many electronic items that is impossible to open easily. Now more retailers are moving away from ...

You know the annoying plastic clamshell packaging that comes with so many of today’s consumer goods? The packaging that typically requires some combination of a razor, scissors, teeth, fingernails, an ...

Tis the season for holiday chopping — think present-opening, cardboard box-cutting, and clamshell packaging-removing. But for whatever you choose to dismantle this year, it usually means diving ...

January 26, 2009 No doubt many readers are still nursing injuries sustained on Christmas morning as they tried to free a new toy or gadget from the impenetrable fortress that is clamshell packaging.