If you believe that there was any conversation like this at all, and it isn’t just some production line that places coupons at the same place on every box.
This reminded me of something. If you ordered diapers from Amazon between 2019-2021 and you lived in the Boston area South of the Charles down to Scituate and the sort labels were placed directly over the baby's face... That was me. I was amusing myself.
all this could have been avoided if he had simply had the patience to explain "don't cover textual brand signage, people need to be able to identify what they're buying. maybe aim for cosmetic stuff like product pictures; those are usually bullshit anyway..."