Letters: Readers discuss recalcitrant plastic packaging and keeping Chiefs stars in KC

Open sesame

My complaint has nothing to do with our winning Chiefs (outstanding), the circus in Washington, D.C., ( disgusting) or even the potholes in Kansas City streets tearing up our vehicles (disturbing).

My gripe is with the manufacturers of product packaging. Every packaged food is shrink-wrapped. Every bottle has an inner seal, then a too-tight-to-get-off cap, and often a plastic ring as well. This applies to medicines, foods, tools, toothbrushes and on and on.

I’m a definite member of the golden age group, perhaps too prone to yearn for “the way things used to be,” but I don’t think it should be necessary to use pliers, scissors and unladylike language — often resulting in broken fingernails or cut hands — to open a container.

I understand the need for child safety (keeping an eye on the child might help), but there are legions of us living with no children about, most with arthritic hands, poor eyesight or some other age-related affliction.

How great it would be if someone started a chain of stores just for those who want packages that aren’t shrink-wrapped, bottles that unscrew easily and more. Business would boom.

- Winona Krenzer, Prairie Village

There’s a will

I am an 85-year-old Chiefs fan, and I went to Super Bowl LIV. If the Hunt family runs out of payroll, I think Kansas City fans could come up with the money to keep the whole team here for many more years.

- Martha Sue Bollman, Kansas City