Imagine if everything was in the same packaging and stuff just said the name of what it was on it.
Galen Weston bringing the dream to life, one fixed price at a time.
Just for aesthetic variety I’ll permit different goods to be associated with different colors, but I like the principle in action.
Like all veggies or vegetarian products get a nice green flourish when they’re not otherwise unpackaged, dairy white, meat products red, so on and so forth.
This looks like communism to me
Oh hey, no name
im sorry to do this but this is literally an XKCD bit 😔
Why is the milk sitting out with the dry goods…
Also this is all based on Repo Man anyways
absentmindedly reaching for my can of mixed nuts and sticking my hand into 10w-30
I still think Repo Man was cribbing off of Blåvitt from Konsum (came out five years before Repo Man).
Carrefour was the inspiration for that though, with their Produits Libres, but I think the Repo Man stuff is closer to Blåvitt.
all roads lead to repo man
You tankies can pry my 20 flavors of Monster Energy from my cold, overcaffeinated hands. Yeah, it WILL KILL me but that’s capitalism, baby.
Found the White Monster!
White Monster?
I guess you are what you drink
does white monster have the usual red bull-like terrible energy drink taste? i see people talking about specifically that can a lot.
It’s supposed to be the best tasting of the Monsters, was told it tastes like if you mixed Skittles and Sprite
It’s a lieeeeeeeeeeeeee
Nah normal Monster and the Pink Strawberry one both taste better than the White one. Plus there are various other flavours that are frankly better.
But the white one got the most memes about it
I consistently water down my monsters with sparkling water. It adds some fizz which I find lacking in the original, dilutes the overbearing flavor and makes the glass last longer. I usually sip on it through the morning.
Actual athletes would never touch a monster lol (I think they tone down the fizz so that it looks more like a sports drink), but I don’t drink coffee but still enjoy caffeine in the morning to wake up. So it’s usually either a monster or mate.
no, it’s kind of pineapple-y
Huh. I might get one then to try it out. I thought it was just the original but sugar-free. What about the original black and green can?
it doesn’t have that red bull funk but it’s got its own syrupy abstract “”“fruit”“” flavor, I like it but I’ve also had people say it smells like medicine, ymmv
the black/blue can is the one that’s just Diet Original, the white can is a different flavor
As someone who drinks to many Energy drinks. Various Monster flavours taste pretty different from classical Energy drinks . Some of them really taste more like Sodas.
what if you just had one energy drink and you flavored it yourself
Capitalism no Coke Freestyle machine.
That’s kind of what I’ve got with my kombucha.
Under socialism the workers running the factories will get to decide what their packaging looks like and the brands will all be extremely regional and quirky instead of hegemonic and focus group tested.
This is what I think too. People like to decorate, customize and personalize things. They have been doing it since as far as we can tell from archeological evidence. So grasping for completely depersonalized utilitarian packaging for everything as if they are subsistence rations seems like it is trying to minimize the outcome rather than solving the problem that exists regarding affordability and sustainability.
All foods labelled as ___ Jawns in the Philadelphia Peoples Bodega
This reminds me when Mexican chuds were crying that new state owned chocolate will turn us into cuba (i wish)
PANista brain be like: Cuba is when the state makes their own products
like they just watched Repo Man for the first timeNooo, I was going to post about Repo Man
Funnily enough that looks like store brand packaging, which is what I mostly buy anyway.
I was going to post about repo man as well
My college town had a tiny plaza of shops. I’m not sure how it happened but it was just:
“Barber Shop”, “Shoe Store”, and “Coffee House”
I fucking loved it and I shopped at them often. Fuck branding.
My town has basically zero big chains (except the gas station) and all of the store signage has a maximum size. It’s pretty great, although there’s one place that swapped their old wooden sign for an ugly giant printout of an AI image but thankfully everyone seems to agree that it sucks and nobody has copied them.
Why do people assume that just because we aren’t doing branding the packages need to be plain? You could have artwork on them, and color code them so you know what’s what easily. Like green for snack items and have the packing be various green paletted artworks You could put PSAs on them too. Or healthy recipes that use the items to give people ideas for what to do with them. Not in the “buy our brand of shit to make this random recipe we made using all our products” way, but just like actual healthy recipes that are simple and cheap to make.
The packaging of products has so much potential if it wasn’t being wasted on branding. You could do kids items that have both cute animals and fun facts. Like stuff they need to know for school.
Portion suggestons would be nice too. Instead of just a nutrition facts panel on a box of cookies you could literally say like “3 per day max is best” to remind people not to eat too many snack foods. You could even print the full recipe of pre-made items on the package and encourage people to try making it themselves sometimes. To reduce the need for mass produced products.
The advertising on trains could instead be loading tips like Oblivion has. “Did you know that a stick might assist you in your hikes?” No, I didn’t, but now I have to go check out walking sticks.
That’s falling right into Big Walking Sticks clutches.
Big walking sticks? Comrade we ARE big walking stick! It’s my means of production! That’s show biz, baby!
Now I am envisioning a campaign to plant subtle hints around a city that lead people to cool things. Like how you pick up radiant quests in a game. But when you investigate it just leads you to cool shit like underground clubs, or art shows.
waiting in line game tips for Outside
More public spaces means more room for Easter eggs too. City geocaching and the like.
not to mention that ‘shampoo’ doesn’t really help. Anti-dandruff shampoo is not the same as shampoo for oily hair. And in fact you can require both, so a combined dandruff shampoo for oily hair makes sense.
this applies to more than shampoo of course.
Yeah also like scents are important. Gotta know what your soap smells like.
The only scent I know is “manly”
“Smoking kills” shock images of diseased lungs, but for oreos. We gotta do
communism for the first 10 years or so to detreatlerize the USians.
For accessibility I’d also put a picture of the food in case people can’t read too good.
Also, not everything needs to be individually wrapped in select portions like this. All the plastic and shit we waste controlling how much of a thing people can have at once is so wasteful
Oreosé
When I was young the generic aisle at the local grocery consisted of packaged items with the name of the item on the package.
Bread. Peanut butter. Strawberry Jam. Elbow macaroni. Beer. Etc. Let us return to monke.
(nobody ever uses this emoji anymore)
You could say they are … returning to monke
hyuk!
PRODUCTS made from INGREDIENTS that give you CANCER
Like GOD intended
When half of the stuff comes out of the same factory but is just packaged differently anyway. Capitalist innovation, folks
Oreo wine
Imagining an oreo wine hangover and dry heaving on my commute rn
Barefoot Oreo wine is going to be very popular with a certain demographic.
spoiler
Yes, I know that’s the name of the company, the picture is in the OP.
Barefoot Oreo… …very popular with a certain demographic.
Tucker Carlson’s gonna be panting and sweating.
Ever since I found out that the reason there are so many kinds of Oreos, for example, was because it’s a tactic to take up as much shelf space as possible from their competitors, I’ve been extra dismissive of this argument.
