Supermarkets have been coming under criticism recently for over-packaging their products. As this picture I took in Tesco a couple of weeks ago shows, this criticism is completely unfounded. I for one can remember when chips were crammed sometimes two hundred at a time into a single polythene bag. Chips would often receive horrendous 'grazing' injuries after rubbing up against each other while being transported on the long tortuous journey from the Supermarket to customers homes. In some cases southern fry coated chips would be left with gaping wounds where large swaths of the southern fry coating would shear off during transit. Conditions must have been intolerable.
