Sheet Sets- Why Do They Always Have So Much Packaging?

Last month, we bought two new sets of sheets to replace our sheets that had aged to the point of becoming holey. Both sheet sets that we bought from Winners came in very wasteful packaging.

Both sheet sets had a thick plastic package, with a paper insert with the name of the sheet set on it, and then a built in zipper (so mixed materials, plastic, paper, and metal, almost impossible to recycle).One sheet set even had a ribbon around it.

Inside the sheets were wrapped around cardboard. The cardboard definitely should not have been necessary. Almost everyone who buys a sheet set will immediately tear the sheets out and wash them before using them, so there's no point in them being preserved in perfect rigid order in a store. They're just going to come out of the dryer all wrinkled anyways.

This set of sheets came in a mixed plastic, paper, and metal zippered bag.

This sheet was wrapped around cardboard and wrapped in a ribbon. This whole packaged was placed in the plastic, metal zippered, and paper labeled bag.

A large piece of cardboard, paper, plastic, metal zipper, and ribbon as packaging for this set of sheets.

This set of sheets was also enclosed in a plastic, metal zippered, and paper labeled bag.

This set of sheets was also wrapped around a large piece of cardboard.

Why not just wrap the sheet set in some thin plastic wrap with perhaps a paper label or sticker? I have seen sheets before that come in a little cotton sack, instead of a plastic zippered bag, but I would argue that this is probably pointless too for who will use the cotton sack again?

Why does there always have to be so much packaging with sheet sets? It's just going to be thrown out. Who is going to use the cheap plastic zippered bag for something else? How many people are going to tear apart the different components and recycle them? Are all the parts even recyclable? The packaging is wasteful and pointless and almost every company that manufactures and sells sheet sets seems to use the same packaging. Why are we using so many resources to package one sheet set? It's definitely overpackaging.