Lid Arrangement Having Stacking Options

A package, comprising a lid structure and a container,

• wherein the container is a 3-piece metal can having a circumferential sidewall, joined to a mouth at an upper rim and to a base at a lower rim, the lower rim having an inner surface defining a base diameter,
• wherein the lid structure comprises an annular collar and a lid, connected to the annular collar at a hinge, the lid having an upper surface with an upstanding circumferential ridge having an outer ridge diameter corresponding to the base diameter, the circumferential ridge further having two interruptions dividing the circumferential ridge into two ridge portions each ridge portion subtending an angle of 120 degrees.

A stack of packages, each package comprising a 3-piece metal can having a base, a contoured sidewall defining a face side and a lid structure attached to an upper rim of the metal can, wherein adjacent packages in a first row of the stack are held with their face sides oriented in alignment with a front side of the stack by engagement of their respective lid structures by the base of a package in a second row of the stack that spans across lid structures of the adjacent packages.