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Moving Startups Think Outside The (Cardboard) Box

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Some entrepreneurs are inspired to create businesses stemming from their jobs. Wesley Rankin founded HiveBoxx , which rents out durable plastic boxes, based on his own experience at work. As a real estate agent, he noticed a “great opportunity to improve the moving experience,” Rankin told PYMNTS in an interview.

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Suppliers Struggle To Keep Up With Manufacturing Snap Back

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In addition, the price of paper used for corrugated cardboard is up, along with demand for boxes used for eCommerce deliveries, which have skyrocketed since the pandemic began. Because of that, prices for things like steel and copper, among other industrial commodities, are higher than they have been in years, Fox Business writes.

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Packing Robots Coming To Amazon Warehouses

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Running the machines requires one person to load the customer orders, another to stock cardboard and glue and a third technician to handle any jams. They can pack 600 to 700 boxes an hour, which is four to five times faster than humans.

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Hormel Selling Bacon Via VR

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However, for the full interactive experience, they’ll need an iPhone or Android and a Google Cardboard VR viewer. Branded as “The Black Market” (Hormel brands its bacon as “black-label”), users can access the experience on their computer.

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How Domino’s And Other QSRs Must Build For An Unknown Future

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. “Particularly successful innovations have been in the area of contactless delivery,” Allison told Cramer, describing improvements like the so-called “pizza pedestal,” a small, recyclable, cardboard platform that is used to avoid leaving customers’ food on the ground.

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Outside The Box (And Inside The Storage Container) Solutions To Sky-High Rent

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The standard joke among those looking for housing in an expensive city is that they can barely find space in a cardboard box to rent within their price range. Tom George, a Wichita-based developer, heard the joke and may have thought to himself: “What if the box weren’t cardboard?”.

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eBay Launches Virtual Reality Shopping App

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EBay said it is giving away 20,000 free VR reality headsets, which are cardboard-style viewers, to create the experience eBay hopes will turn those browsers into buyers. Along with that comes the launch of what eBay calls the “world’s first” VR shopping app, which will give consumers access to 12,500 products. ”

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