I don't know how typical they are, but the lids I get from the local Home Depots have this strip around the bottom which peels off, and after that's gone they're pretty easy to re-seal and open. I bought a couple of claw-type openers at first, but I've only needed them when I tried to use the lids without peeling the strip off... it also required a rubber mallet to seal... but, in the end, I couldn't see any evidence that all that effort was resulting in a better seal. On the contrary, it took so much force with the rubber hammer to get the edges to seal that it was fairly easy to miss a spot. Once that strip is gone, it seems easy enough that all the special devices and tools seem sort of redundant.

As usual, I might be missing something.