Tamper-evident retailer labels on packaging

[bcla]

Anyone find these things annoying? I remember seeing them initially with stuff like baby formula sold at some drug stores, with this hard to remove sticker that says that it's only for sale at that company. My parents also bought some bottled juice from Jet.com, and they gave me some of it since they got a better deal by buying more. I know their terms say resale isn't allowed, but each cap was additionally sealed with a Jet.com label made from tamper-evident tape. When I tried to remove it carefully, a little bit of the tape sort eventually broke away no matter how carefully I tried.

I haven't bought from Sierra Trading Post in a while, but they used to place labels on everything. It was usually just a paper pressure-sensitive label with stuff like the item number and perhaps quantity, but sometimes it would be on the hang label on something like an expensive jacket. They used some of the stickiest labels I've ever seen, and it was near impossible to remove cleanly. It made it harder to buy something an give it as a gift.

 

[nighttowll]

Yes, so annoying. I worked for a distribution company one summer in college. We use to have to put those stupid tamper proof stickers on products. They were horrible, and it was the worst when someone messed up and stuck one in the wrong spot, and you had to try to get it off in one piece and then put it back on in the right spot! I wanted to cry a few times when that happened.

 

[bcla]

Yes, so annoying. I worked for a distribution company one summer in college. We use to have to put those stupid tamper proof stickers on products. They were horrible, and it was the worst when someone messed up and stuck one in the wrong spot, and you had to try to get it off in one piece and then put it back on in the right spot! I wanted to cry a few times when that happened.

Well - one of the bottles I got looked like it had been reapplied with some remnant of the previous label.

I do remember years ago I ended up finding some company that could print up tamper evident labels with our company logo. We were selling packaged integrated circuits, and we needed something to seal the sleeves, which were these plastic things with two plastic pins sealing the ends. A group in another state was actually doing the testing and delivery, but I picked it up during our weekly conference call when someone there mentioned it. I found some company with a website that was actually a few miles from them and referred them to it. The recommended something called "destructible vinyl". It supposedly broke into little pieces upon removal; I guess that's similar to the stickers on license plates. That stuff was nasty, although eventually it was possible to scrape it off. We just needed evidence of unopened sleeves with intact labels, so it didn't really matter if they could be completely removed.