Comments on: Great Eggspectations With Your Product Packaging

By: JoAnn Hines

JoAnn Hines — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 20:36:05 +0000

Actually Matt. Eggs are pretty much a commodity item. And in commodities every cent counts. Most styles of egg cartons require an mold to make the carton (serious bucks). Companies would be reluctant in invest in other packaging design styles on the premise that they could never recoup their tooling costs.
Happy Packaging!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:58:05 +0000

I personally don’t see any reason why they would need to use Styrofoam for egg cartons anymore, I see plenty of those cardboard ones that look like they’re recycled around and doubt we’d even need to go as far as this article suggests and re-do it completely.
Although the Yogurt looking Packaging does seem nice, I’m just concerned about the cost of that vs what we use now. I bet plenty of stores that sell only organics would love this, right now they get the eggs from local farmers and rely on re-using recycled cartons.

By: Maggie Hanus

Maggie Hanus — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:53:20 +0000

I’m certainly not swayed by Mickey or any other corporate images. And the organic eggs that look like they’re in styrofoam cups? I like the kraft paper look, but whats up with that? Plain and simple works best for me. I’ll most likely choose the organic eggs with the least amount of packaging, made from post consumer waste, recyclable, etc. …but then my husband does all the grocery shopping so I’m happy with whatever he brings home! Eggs are not usually on his list though since our neighbors have chickens and our own chickens will be old enough to lay soon.

By: Donna Maria

Donna Maria — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:35:26 +0000

First of all, I’m a fan of the Great Eggspectations restaurant chain so this post caught my eye. They have fantastic omelets. But I digress. Honestly, I am swayed by packaging only if the item is more than a commodity to me. Like if it’s a special gift or I am buying something to pamper or take care of myself with. If I’m buying eggs, which I view as commodities and nothing really special, I usually just get the least expensive organic kind at whatever store I’m in at the time. Also, coupons sway me too. If I can get a less expensive egg using a coupon, I’ll buy it no matter what the packaging looks like. But Mickey’s smile on a package, in and of itself, does not impress me, and neither do the fancy little packages that look very gourmet. But that’s just me. Thanks for sharing such interesting information! Love the photos too.