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HP And Walmart Get Rid Of Laptop Box; Buy The Computer And Get It In A Messenger Bag
from the about-time dept
Having bought my fair share of laptops over the years, I've noticed that the packaging has gotten smaller. I remember years ago buying a laptop and receiving a huge box with the actual laptop suspended in a styrofoam suspension system. More recently, I've seen laptops coming in much smaller boxes. However, Wal-Mart and HP have apparently decided to try ditching most of the packaging altogether, and letting you walk out with your new laptop in a messenger bag, rather than a box. Yes, there are still boxes from when the machines are shipped from HP to Wal-Mart, but the company can now fit 3 laptops to a box, significantly reducing packaging and making life easier on customers in the long run.
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Do the Math
I think this is an intelligent decision. The packaging to get it into Wal-Mart is still significant enough to protect the equipment, and anything that lets you carry home less trash from Wal-Mart (don't say it) is a good thing.
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Lol. The comment was more geared toward the shoddiness of the packing material, and less toward the laptop density per unit volume. If the bag can't take a few drops, it's not worth it to have. This whole process ensures your laptop is solid and the bag good protection for it provided you power it on in the store.
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First off, I don't give a flying f--- about global warming, the environment, the size of my carbon footprint or leaving the planet a better place.
However, I think eliminating excess consumer packaging is an excellent idea, for several reasons. Those of us who live in urban areas don't have to worry about the meth addicts next door rooting through our recycle bins, finding the laptop computer box and then breaking into the house when we're at work and stealing the laptop we just bought.
If eliminating consumer-level packaging saves Wal-Mart or HP money, then it's better for all of us, because no matter what you think of Wal-Mart, they will eventually drop the price of their laptops if it's cheaper for them to obtain those products in the first place.
I am also highly reluctant to walk through a parking garage with my huge brand new laptop computer box advertising to every potential car jacker that I'm ready to be taken for a ride. It just makes common sense and this is a great idea.
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Send the packaging back?
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What about desktops
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down the road
Hmmm....
reduced packaging - saves money for HP and WalMart - does that get passed along to you? I don't think so. It should, because you are the one not getting a box
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making life easier on customers in the long run - in the long run, when your computer breaks, you have no box to ship it back for repair.
I don't really see this as a big plus for me. I have never had a problem storing, reusing, or disposing of boxes. How about leaving that decision to me WM? Must you run the world?
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You are still required to ship the Item back secure
The Issue of Walmart Employee's Handling my PC before I do, doesn't give me any warm and fuzzies either...
Looks like I'll still get my computer from Dell who kills 5 trees to box up my PC and send it.. (At least it's in a known good condition.)
Laugh
(Can you tell I live in Oregon, Doing this Takes away Oregon Jobs.
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FedEx
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They might use it to do something incredibly Evil....like make better computers!
You entitled morons really make me laugh. A Companies savings are not "automagically"" yours. You are not entitled to a single penny of the money they save in any cost savings initiative, Jr.
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My question is, is the messenger bag a dismal piece of **** like I would expect from Wal Mart, leading to throwing away a messenger bag instead of a cardboard box, or is it actually worth having?
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So how would I ship a defective laptop back to HP?
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No returns...
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Re: So how would I ship a defective laptop back to HP?
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Carbon Credits
Nowadays businesses need to buy carbon credits from the government in order to put crap into the air, water, and ground. This increases the costs of doing business which then provides a monetary incentive for businesses to reduce their waste output. Nowadays a business can't just externalize these costs and let taxpayers pay for the cleanup. In theory. The reality is more complex as business can buy and sell credits to other companies. Environmental advocacy groups buy the credits so there are less in circulation, etc.
It's not like printing money.
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Oh yeah? Just where do those "credits" originate? As said previously, they're just made up. And then sold. That sounds an awful lot like "printing money" to me.
To quote a recent Penn and Teller Bullshit! episode: "Hey, no worries! You may be a carbon sinner, but now you can buy yourself a clean, green conscience for cash. It's a new craze based on eco-guilt and it's bullshit!"
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Recycle Foam packaging material
Blue Earth takes in EPS foam from companies across Florida and, using its state of the art processing, returns the EPS foam back into its original plastic form so it can be reused in the making of new plastic products. It is 100% recycled. For every pound of foam that comes into the factory, one pound of usable plastic comes out.
Look Blue Earth up at www.blueearthsolutions.com
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