Reminds me of scrolls with the “king’s seal”...we might need to start demanding more than fancy shrink-wrap to ensure that something is actually in factory pack

Reminds me of scrolls with the “king’s seal”...we might need to start demanding more than fancy shrink-wrap to ensure that something is actually in factory packaging. I think an interesting way to do it would be to have slightly stronger plastic wrap that can be “dented” in several places similar to a UPC pattern, that in turn can be scanned by a phone for authenticity. (This could be done both by warehouses prior to agreeing to stock something, and by consumers to verify what they get.) Scammers might eventually figure it out but at least they’d need to recreate a complex dent pattern after shrink-wrapping, and they would need to be able to do it for each unique company they’re claiming to be.