Logistics are challenging even under normal circumstances, but through in a pandemic-fueled surge in e-commerce and it can become overwhelming.
October 13, 2020Movie theaters have been hard hit by the pandemic: between forced closures, significantly reduced occupancy limits, and consumer wariness about being in enclosed spaces with strangers, many are finding it difficult to survive. This is also impacting the snack food and packaging industries that kept us eating candy, popcorn, and soft drinks while we watched our movies.
October 6, 2020Many consumer products companies have announced initiatives to increase their use of recycled content in their packaging, but it's getting hard to actually find the raw materials as recycling programs across the US have been pared back or eliminated all together due to budget constraints and a lack available processing options.
September 23, 2020With everyone doing takeout and delivery instead of dining in, we all have a lot more trash — and a lot of it can't be recycled.
September 18, 2020With the pumps for bottles of hand sanitizer in short supply, GOJO is exploring alternative packaging options to ensure it can keep up deliveries of PURELL hand sanitizer.
September 15, 2020Even as most companies pulled back from reusable single-use foodservice items (think that refillable coffee cup) and shopping bags out of hygiene concerns during the pandemic, efforts have continued to boost packaging re-usability in other areas.
September 3, 2020Drive-thrus have long been a mainstay of fast food restaurants, and more recently traditional restaurants and fast casual eating establishments had begun offering curb-side pickup. But by and large most people still ate inside. The pandemic has changed all of that, possibly permanently.
August 26, 2020The National Retail Federation put out a call for all retailers to look at requiring masks, and many large chains are moving in that direction to help ease consumer concerns and ensure more consistency across the country in how mask policies are implemented.
July 17, 2020While the post office, Amazon, and other companies have had delivery lockers available for a while now where customers can pick up packages if they can't be home, increasingly homeowners are looking at having their own delivery lockers installed as an alternative.
July 17, 2020The surge in demand for hand sanitizer — which is typically dispensed with a hand pump — and cleaning products — which use trigger sprayers — has resulted in a shortage of these key package components. Consumers will need to be more conservation minded as the packaging industry works to increase supply.
July 14, 2020