What a waste!

So last week, Heather bought a bag of Mrs. Fields "Soft and chewy" cookies, and opened the bag to what she expected to be a, you guessed it, a bag of cookies. Instead she was grated with a bag of individually wrapped cookies. Why is this even needed? I mean the first bag was sealed. To me this just seems like a waste, and just something more to fill the land fills with. Do these cookie manufacturers expect us to buy their cookies and not eat them right away. Most people pick up these items off of the shelf at the grocery store on impulse or because they are craving them, which tends to mean that they are going to be gone in the first ten minutes when they get home, if they did not devour them in the car the moment they got out of the store (much like Heather does when she buys them.) So there really is no point in sealing them in their own, "Save for the next ten years", bag. Unless, they expect the stores to have them in stock for this long...