On Thursday, Amazon announced that its Frustration-Free Packaging initiative, the retailer’s effort to liberate products from hermetically sealed clamshell cases and plastic-coated steel-wire ties, ...

Amazon.com announced a new initiative last November to replace frustrating product packaging like plastic clamshells and wire ties with smaller, easy-to-open cardboard boxes with less material inside.

SEATTLE -- One of the worst things about getting a new gadget or toy is trying to free it from the hard plastic casing that houses many products. To reduce those battles, Amazon.com Inc. said Monday ...