The retailer has switched some food packaging.
of a shelf with Great Value pasta, namely the elbow-shaped variety. In the picture, there are large and small cardboard boxes of the elbow pasta, but in the middle, there's also an option in plastic packaging.
"Walmart is slowly swapping from cardboard to plastic packaging with their pasta…" the text accompanying the photo reads. Fellow Redditors were quick to share their opinion, with one writing,"And my local Sprouts switched to plastic only . We are heading in the wrong direction." Another wrote,"Boo, you would hope the swap would be the other way," while a different commenter said that they've also seen this swap from paper to plastic for Great Value brand saltine crackers.reached out to Walmart for comment on the packaging, and will update the story upon hearing back.Some Redditors offered explanations for the change.Another Redditor who said they work in packaging attributed the swap to paper shortages dating back to the start of the COVID pandemic.
"It's getting a little better now, but I've seen a lot of brands go from paper to cheap overseas plastic, opposed to paying a few cents more per unit to get it made domestically with paper," they wrote."I advocate for more sustainable options whenever I can, but it always comes down to cost and more often than not they prefer to save a few bucks on unit cost to get it made overseas.
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