Shopping Wisely For Boxes in 2021

The changes that have taken place in 2021 have shocked the world.  We found out that the economic collapse was based on a lie and our politicians and governments have been feeding us lies to gain control.  Well, they won this year.  We are now no longer a true constitutional republic.  But with all this madness we still have to survive like the ants we now are.  Companies all have come into the market of e-commerce very recently because the regulations of our do no wrong government forced it.  This is because of the COVID-19 pandemic and its lies.  Most of these stores were brick and mortar companies that have had to pivot to stay alive.  The regulations of their state have forced foot traffic to their stores to be as much as 70 less.  In many cases, they have had to close off their main store and are only allowed to work online.  That means that they have shifted the way that they work. What they have found is that there are small ways to make big savings and sometimes a simple box is a way to do it. Now it is much more than just a box, but knowing how to get those boxes and how to implement them into your changing company can make a huge difference. So sad to see all this only happen to small businesses and not any major big box stores.  

My job is working in marketing and I try to keep these companies alive. My experience in past jobs has been a big help to these companies and we are giving tips left and right to keep them from going bankrupt. One area that seems to be an issue is the transition to e-commerce from a shipping perspective.  These companies need to not only have a presence online but from the warehouse, they need to be able to store more products and not spend money doing it. 

 

My past experience working with billion-dollar corporations that had warehouses built from cheap metal and plywood shelves and only filled with cardboard boxes for a storage system.  They had an ABC numbering system and that was it.  They organized billions of dollars of goods that way and it was the most financially responsible way for them to do it.  I have worked at smaller companies that spent tons of money on expensive shelving systems that did the exact same thing but only were less flexible as the cardboard box system.  So this has been our advice to companies.  If they are expanding a warehouse to use this cheap system in order to cut down on costs and put that money where it matters.  It has been a big help and we have led them to package supplies companies that can fulfill those box orders and get the bins for the shelves to organize for a low price.  It has really been a big boom for these companies.  

Some just turned the showroom into storage. They blocked off the area with a temporary wall which was something they did not even have to get a permit for in their location and then they made shelving and started to store more.  They had lost all their foot traffic so it was not a loss to sales only again on the back end.  Yet again, they used packaging supplies stores to fill the shelves with run of the mill bins.  You do what you can to survive now.