Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for January 20, 2025

That candy bar entry is out of this world! $2.53 for a candy bar is crazy! I hope he got to eat it too! I remember when candy bars were a quarter.

Piggly Wiggly, the company that first introduced the shopping cart had to resort to using paid actors to use them in their stores before they caught on.

Shopping Cart Limitations

A married couple on a tight budget were shopping in a supermarket. The husband picks up a case of beer and places it in their shopping cart…

The wife complained, “Put that back, we only have enough funds for essential items – not luxuries such as beer costing $35.”

A little later while walking through the cosmetics aisle, the wife picks up a beauty cream and other products and place them in the cart.

The husband says, “I thought we were on a tight budget, buying only essential items, right?”

The wife responds, “These items are essential. They make me look beautiful!”

“Well,” says the husband, “the beer also makes you look beautiful and its half the price!”

The new packaging con’t be torn by mortal man, you need a knife or tear it with your teeth.

I just open bags with scissors, or my pocket knife if I’m not at home.

Heavens no.. a flat Mars bar? Alert the media.

I think Mars bars left in a hot vehicle may lose their wrinkles.

Has he heard of scissors?

i remember buying candy bars for 5 cents…soda was 10 cents

Packaging is getting a bit out of hand. I understand the need for tamper evident packaging. The human race is flawed and there are those who wish to do others harm for no reason. But going full armor is not necessary. After ascertaining the package is uncontaminated since leaving the packer, it should be accessible to the purchaser. I’ve actually had to resort to going out to my shop for a tool to open food products. Ridiculous and unnecessary. As is the often 100% too large package attempting to cozen the purchaser into believing he’s getting more than he is. Wasting resources and unnecessarily overloading waste handling.

The hard plastic shells are almost impossible to open, even with shears. Folks have ended up in the ER with cuts.

When I was a young lad of 10 years, I was able to buy a 7 oz. bottle of Coca-Cola, a normal sized Snickers bar, and a comic book for a Quarter. My paper route was fairly large. 80+ deliveries each day. I netted $20 a week from that. Of course that was over 60 years ago, too.

I find pulling apart at the top rather than ripping that kind of packaging as shown is fairly easy. No wrap rage. YMMV

The shopping cart was not popular when it came out according to its inventor, that is true.

Wrap rage: I never have it, for I am never without my Swiss Army Knife.

Bags, and those crinkly bags, are hard to open and then when they do open they often rip weird to the point where it destroys the entire package!

Wasn’t at the Smithsonian

I saw my ex girlfriend at the other end of the museum hall, but I was too self conscious to say hello.

There was too much history between us!

Wrap Rage? That’s what scissors were made for.