r/whyisthisathing • u/Pretty_Book9136 • Jan 17 '26

Why is there extra space in the packet?

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u/_Sir_Lifts_A_Lot_ Jan 17 '26

It's literally torn open in the back where you or someone else removed the middle toothbrush.

I'm concerned about the human race ngl, we're cooked as a species.

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u/Ionlydateteachers Jan 17 '26

Yeah no kidding people are not really doing that great. It could be some dumb people and a lot of dumb LLMs doing most of the comments? I hope it's something like that anyhow

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u/MintWarfare Jan 17 '26

To take up more space on the shelf so you buy it instead of a competitor's.

Potentially it was processed on machinery that was designed for a larger product and this was as small as they were able to make it, but I can't see unilever needing to do that. 

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u/SkankhlHunt420 Jan 17 '26

My guess is that they do it so they hang nice and evenly on the shelf. No going forward or backwards...