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Are You Ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

Are You Ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

by Dennis Salazar | Aug 25, 2022 | Information Center

Order Packaging Now to Avoid Delays No one knows what impact inflation will have on the upcoming holiday season, but one thing we can be sure of is that a large percentage of the shopping will once again be DTC (direct to consumer) e-commerce. Black Friday, the annual...
Packaging “Triage” and How We Fix What Hurts 

Packaging “Triage” and How We Fix What Hurts 

by Dennis Salazar | Aug 5, 2022 | Information Center

Time for a Packaging Check-up Recently I was having a conversation with a nurse I’d just met, and we exchanged “what I do for a living” stories. After hearing how we serve our customers and clients, she said, “It sounds like you do packaging triage.” To be frank, my...
Three Quick Ways to Reduce your DTC Shipping Box Cost

Three Quick Ways to Reduce your DTC Shipping Box Cost

by Dennis Salazar | May 11, 2022 | Information Center

I drove past my favorite gas station this morning on my way to work and was stunned to see the price per gallon had increased again since last Friday, making the current price almost fifty cents higher than it was just five days ago. Inflation is all around us and...
Internal Packaging for Amazon and other Multi-Product Order Applications

Internal Packaging for Amazon and other Multi-Product Order Applications

by Dennis Salazar | Mar 14, 2022 | Information Center, Sustainable Products

Internal Packaging Solutions for DTC Products This post reminds me of one of my favorite movie lines of all time. It comes from the 1967 classic movie, Cool Hand Luke, when Captain, played by Strother Martin proclaims, “What we have here…is a failure to communicate”....
Seriously Amazon? Right-sizing your boxes is the right thing to do

Seriously Amazon? Right-sizing your boxes is the right thing to do

by Dennis Salazar | Jan 29, 2019 | Uncategorized, Sustainable People

First, let me say I am not an Amazon hater. In fact, I love their service, I am amazed by their company’s success and our household, like many other families, probably orders something from Amazon at least once a week. I am however a hater of wasted resources, wasted...

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