A supermarket money-grabbing trick hides a crisis, and we experience it every day

A while back, Australian supermarket giant Woolworths, because of a "business practice,"

was criticized online so harshly that it made people question everything,

and many Australian netizens even said

they would never shop at Woolworths again!

It turns out all of this was because Woolworths packaged bananas in boxes before selling them,

and netizens said this was Woolworths' way of selling bananas for a higher price,

a ruthless money-grabbing trick...

But what no one expected was that this seemingly ordinary news story

would go viral on Twitter and other social media, shared by netizens around the world!!!

And netizens all over the world actually came together on Twitter to expose a terrifying crisis!!

So what exactly made netizens worldwide feel so "chilling when you think about it"?

It all started in early March, when netizens began complaining about Woolworths...

01

"You only see Woolworths raking in money!?"

In early March, because of Woolworths' practice of putting bananas in boxes,

Twitter users kept condemning the supermarket online...

But as this news story continued to ferment online,

everyone suddenly discovered

that many non-Australian netizens had also joined the discussion!!!

It turned out that more and more netizens from around the world were saying:

In this world,

it's not just Woolworths doing this,

merchants all over the world are being outrageous now.

It turned out we never noticed

that many merchants are using a huge trap

to reap even bigger profits...

But they never knew what price they were paying...

02

What Woolworths did is just what everyone does.

In the Woolworths incident, Twitter users directly listed countless examples online

of "packaging for the sake of packaging" that we still see everywhere in our lives...

Looking closely, it is simply shocking:

For example, the first netizen to expose this bought a small knife like the one pictured above,

yet it came in packaging of that size...

And the next person bought 3 pairs of socks,

but received a large box and all kinds of inflatable cushioning packs...

Another person bought a memory card this small,

yet it was put in a box that big...

Another example is a single small pill from a certain brand, which somehow used up so much packaging...

And antivirus software bought online actually used packaging like this with no CD inside,

just to cleverly remind people that "you can download it online"...

And angry netizens, after seeing these tweets, grew more and more furious, and exposed more and more...

In the exposures that followed, we can see that what Woolworths did

is done by many supermarkets, for example packaging bananas is totally normal...

Some even thoughtfully peel them for you...

Another example is double-packaged chewing gum...

Oranges that are peeled and then put into packaging boxes...

And coconuts that could probably be thrown on the ground without harm, also put into packaging bags...

Oh right, and scallions and garlic...

Potatoes...

Even cola packaged purely for the sake of packaging...

And canned goods...

But many people, seeing this, may feel it has little to do with them.

Apart from the price being a bit higher, what does it have to do with us?

But in fact, this matter is really,

closer to you than you imagine...

03

In the end, these things actually end up in your own stomach...

It turns out that today's "overpackaging" of products

does not harm our wallets,

but deals a devastating blow to the environment!!

Because there is currently no effective way at all to handle this packaging waste,

it can only be left to pollute the environment...

Because of ocean circulation, this plastic waste eventually poured into the sea

will ultimately gather together.

And now, in the waters near Hawaii and Japan,

two terrifying giant garbage patches have already formed, one to the east and one to the west...

Since the 1990s, these two garbage patches have expanded at an alarming rate,

and are now so terrifying that they block all the sunlight marine life can receive!!!

What is even more terrifying is that the giant garbage floating on the ocean surface has already reached more than 88,000 tons,

about the weight of 500 large jet airliners!!!

Discarded water bottles, plastic bags, packaging boxes...

Every kind of plastic-related garbage can be found here...

And the first victim of plastic waste's destruction is marine life.

There is no need to say much about cause and effect, just look at the fate of marine life:

This is a sea turtle that grew deformed after being wrapped in a plastic bag from a young age...

This is a seabird with nothing but plastic in its stomach....

In the same story, turtles and fish cannot escape either...

And whales that mistakenly swallowed plastic buckets...

Seals that can never free themselves from plastic entanglement...

Seeing this, how do you feel?

Of course, I know many of you have hearts made of stone,

and these little animals may still not make you feel anything...

But the next thing really does have to do with you...

This is the so-called big fish eating small fish, small fish eating shrimp...

And after these marine creatures mistakenly eat toxic plastic waste...

in the end, they are caught and become delicacies on human plates...

In other words, a plastic bag or empty bottle you casually throw away

may in the end come back into your stomach...

Now, do you still think overpackaging only harms your wallet...

Conclusion

Stop pretending, okay.

Many people ask, doesn't overpackaging increase costs?

But in fact, overpackaging only increases the sale price,

because most of that packaging is applied by machines...

All of this is merely the product of maximizing profits.

So, look at those desperate creatures,

think about the seafood we eat in the future, which may already be contaminated by toxic plastic,

Promise me, from now on,

really stop "packaging"...