THE GENIUS OF THE FREE MARKET….After a century of effort, you would think that the breakfast cereal industry might have bestirred itself to invent a box that could be easily opened even by bleary-eyed, thumb-fingered dolts. But no.
Just another appalling failure of the free market to provide the things that consumers really need….
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