I’ve noticed that every product I’ve bought in the past year with a zip-lock seal is destroyed with common use. I actually think the zip-lock itself has gotten stronger. The bag rips before the seal opens on half the bags now and whenever I try to opens bags I had no issues with before, I find myself stretching/warping the plastic before the seal eventually opens.
It’s pretty frustrating and I am seeing it across many products. Cheese bags, storage bags, snacks etc…
I’ve noticed this on zip top food packaging; it’s as if the zipper is a separate piece of plastic that is very weakly glued to the bag itself and it doesn’t extend to the outer lips where you pull it open, so you end up separating one side of the bag from the zipper.
I only notice this with weed baggies from legal weed. Not only is it not an official Zip-Lock™ system, they’re made specifically to be hard to open as a child safety feature. But it’s too good at that, being difficult for an adult to open too.
Most others are so weak, they never actually snap shut properly or they’re just incredibly thin and tear right off the bag when you try to open it.
I don’t think the zip-lock got stronger, I think the bags got thinner and weaker. But either way, they do tear more than they used to.
Which… might be ok, if the object is to reduce plastic consumption and pollution.
It’s not. It’s to make more money. Everything will continue to get slightly worse - year after year - for as long as this current economic ideology continues.
The point is… before you could reuse the bags MUCH more often, now I’m blowing out gallon ziplocks after 2-3 deli bought and home diced vegetables uses. The zipper is stronger like OP says, but the sides are tearing more easily.
Yeah I keep buying bags of cheese where the zip just rips off the bag when I pull the zip open. Really annoying.
I tried to open a zip locked bag of trail mix and degloved my hand
I rage nearly every day when a bag either rips beside the seal, or has such garbage perforations that you have to use scissors on it regardless of their presence.
I sometimes get fresh tortillas from the grocery store bakery, and the bags they use are the absolute worst. The zip-locks are fine, but the plastic the bag is made of is so thin that it can’t withstand the pressure needed to open the zipper, inevitably tearing the bag open and defeating the entire purpose of the zip-lock.
Put your thumbnail in between the middle of the ziplock and pry it open from the middle.
Are you using the name brand bags? Ziploc is one of the few products where buying the actual name brand makes a big difference.
Yes. I have a mix of those and the target / smart & final bags. The issue is appearing in all of them, and also in random foods that use that style of seal as well.
I have not experienced the problem that you are experiencing. But I’m still using bags that I bought last year since we buy in bulk at Costco. Perhaps they cheapened the build quality in the last year.
This question seems to be about things packaged in bags you buy not bags you buy to package your own things.
I noticed the bags my underware came in were bad quality over a decade ago. I didn’t care then as I don’t know why I want my underware in a stay fresh bag. Those cheap bags are coming to places I care though.
Ooh, well in that case, yes, it’s all junk. But I’m just going to throw that away anyways, so I don’t care.
For undeware I don’t care. However I expect to reseal my cheese a few times.
The greatest lie ever told is “pull here to open”.
Nah cut here to open is worse. It’s always an inch above where you actually need to cut.
“Push here to open” on Mac and cheese boxes. I swear they don’t even bother perforating the boxes anymore.
Yes, this is the greatest lie ever printed. It’s like they forgot it’s in the design file and never bothered to change it after they switched boxes.
I would say that is high in the list but “pull my finger” is worse. It’s a lie by omission because they don’t tell you what is going to happen next.
