I really like the thought behind the post! But, your idea seems kind of… overengineered. For one, an important requirement for the packaging is that it should be easy to hold in your hand (e.g. eating in a car/on a couch/anywhere that you can’t actually put it on a table).
Additionally, let’s say there are two varieties of chips’ sizes: small and large. Small ones are small and cheap, so there’s no better way to package them than throw some in a bag, and it’d be too costly to package them in a more sophisticated way.
Large ones could have more complex packaging, but there’s the problem of closing the bag when there’s still some leftovers. In case of the usual bag, it’s as easy as folding the top—you get reasonable airtightness etc. But in case of a box, you’d have to make some closing mechanism, or shove it back in the bag (as in your pictures), which seems… complicated.
There are two ideas here. First are Pringles—just put them in a tube. Closing is not a problem, and it has the additional advantage of not crumbling them to pieces (which I’d say should be THE feature of boxes). Second idea is a bag that can be opened vertically as well as horizontally (Lay’s Stix implemented this some time ago, although I’m not sure about the US version). Then, you can have best of two worlds—easy to hold/easy to close (open on top) OR easy to access/share (open on the side).
I really like the thought behind the post! But, your idea seems kind of… overengineered. For one, an important requirement for the packaging is that it should be easy to hold in your hand (e.g. eating in a car/on a couch/anywhere that you can’t actually put it on a table).
Additionally, let’s say there are two varieties of chips’ sizes: small and large. Small ones are small and cheap, so there’s no better way to package them than throw some in a bag, and it’d be too costly to package them in a more sophisticated way.
Large ones could have more complex packaging, but there’s the problem of closing the bag when there’s still some leftovers. In case of the usual bag, it’s as easy as folding the top—you get reasonable airtightness etc. But in case of a box, you’d have to make some closing mechanism, or shove it back in the bag (as in your pictures), which seems… complicated.
There are two ideas here. First are Pringles—just put them in a tube. Closing is not a problem, and it has the additional advantage of not crumbling them to pieces (which I’d say should be THE feature of boxes). Second idea is a bag that can be opened vertically as well as horizontally (Lay’s Stix implemented this some time ago, although I’m not sure about the US version). Then, you can have best of two worlds—easy to hold/easy to close (open on top) OR easy to access/share (open on the side).