Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
And if windowless boxes do help in making opportunistic shoplifting that one bit harder, then that's all for the better.
Unfortunately not being able to see the product itself does impact sales. Sure for the collector market who follows news and reviews the packaging not having a window may not affect the ability of the product to sell but for the general retail consumer the product which can be seen is far more eye catching and reassuring than playing the 'whats the product in the box?' game. I recall a bunch of Fast & Furious Hot Wheels collector packs which shelfwarmed like crazy even on clearance because the cars were packed in a black box with only some pretty unromantic side profile diagrams of the cars on the back of the box (not even stock photography). In the transformers world we see the same thing with Commander and Leader Class offerings because the general retail consumer isn't going to drop 100 bucks or more on stock photography. Same goes for the minimalistic cardboard box Generations Selects line, almost everyone of which ends up on clearance because the product is not designed to draw attention to itself.

So while I am frustrated by the open windows, I can understand why they must exist.