“I find it jars a little. After all, it was written for Marilyn Monroe. This is writing songs for dead blondes.”
(Keith Richards , in a 1997 interview with Toronto Sun writer Jane Stevenson commenting on Elton John's reworking of Candle in the Wind)

Chairman's Challenge

I am much mocked for this  but it doesn't stop family members exclaiming "Chairman's Challenge" whenever they can't open a particular piece of packaging.

In 2003, I wrote to the BBC proposing a new TV programme called Chairman's Challenge. Each week, the chairman of a different company would be invited on to the show and asked to extract a product (if indeed that was possible without breaking it) from its packaging. This would provide good PR for the company involved (if handled correctly), much amusement and schadenfreude for the audience and a rapid improvement in packaging standards - win, win, win! Did I get a reply? No I didn't but then I have no idea what the BBC's policy is when it comes to acknowledging viewers' suggestions

This article states that according to a report from Nottingham University, most accidents in the UK occur when consumers give up trying to open difficult packages conventionally. They resort to using a knife or scissors. Each year 60,000 of them require hospital treatment after injuring themselves opening difficult packaging. This costs the National Health Service about 12 million pounds

I'm not sure whether supermarkets and shops have a duty to dispose of unwanted packaging if the consumer requests it but if they don't then that is a pity. Nothing would improve packaging more quickly than the supermarkets having the liability a) to open the items and b) to dispose of the often excessive wrapping. The squeals of pain would go right to the production room floor