The New Horizon of eCommerce for Local Vancouver Farms & Markets Greater Vancouver has a thriving fresh produce industry, from large chains to innovative boutique shops and folksy farmer’s markets, Vancouverites of all stripes get to enjoy some of the best local produce options available in Canada. One thing that all retail grocers today have in…
The SubCom Model, Old & New We sell a lot of wholesale custom mailers to businesses across the Vancouver lower-mainland, so the subscription model isn’t new to us. And for those of us old enough to remember Columbia House Record Club, the subscription business model doesn’t seem like a new model or a new innovation. But it actually has become a new phenomenon…
Let’s assume your products come to you pre-packaged in poly-bags from the manufacture, and let’s further assume Amazon always re-boxes your items in Amazon’s own shipping boxes. Is it worth it for you to use your own custom printed branded box? That’s the question we are going to tackle here — using custom printed boxes vs poly bag — and…
This series of posts for small businesses in Vancouver BC, our Box Manufacturing company in Richmond BC provides responses on important questions for startups and small businesses in eCommerce that rely on shipping boxes or wholesale cardboard mailers in one form or another. This post concerns the types of boxes and the boxes sizes that are recommended to…
The Resurgence of Mailers Remember when Netflix used to mail DVDs in its iconic red envelops? Guess what, that business model is still alive and well. Netflix currently has 33 physical distribution centres that process around 3,400 discs per hour! While physical retail store fronts have lost ground, mailers are doing well and growing in…