Do pay attention . . . this is for a 40 foot container. . . . this isn’t a quantity many people can afford at on whack, or handle for that matter. Think box car or truck trailer full.
I am curious as to how long it would take the average store to use up a “container” load…These prices have to be 15% to 25% less than having your wholesaler buy them and ship them to you weekly…If it is 3 to 6 months the cost savings versus carrying costs make this very worthwhile…Helps you bottom line versus your wholesalers bottom line…
As far as $0.45 a box from the franchiser…It is is hard to say whether that is or good or bad until you know the whole package…We used to buy what at 1st we thought was expensive packaging for fried chicken…But is was the only thing we had to buy from them in order to use their brand…At the end of the day it was worth it to us…
Are these B-flute, E-Flute, or Clay Boxes. FOB Where? Please forward this info, as I don’t think a 40 foot container would be a problem for our situation. How many pallets per container? Aprox 30 bundles per pallet, correct?
or 2500 square feet I don’t know exactly what I am planning to do with I’m not likely to go in on the “lifetime supply” of boxes right now. Mayb e next year when my sales get over $250K annual
I really don’t think he stated that these were coming from China. That’s why I asked the FOB. As far as storage, our stores go through 200 bundles a week, so between us I don’t think our distributor would be sitting on these very long.
If I’m reading this right(1 container would hold 41900 16" boxes, 838 bundles) then I am better off using my current manufacturer. I save a bit of money, keep jobs here in the US, use significantly less fuel to deliver my product. Being on the east coast, it just wouldn’t make sense to switch.
For the time being freight to the east coast appears to make this marginal for those locations…But once the Port of Prince Rupert BC is fully online and container trains are running to Chicago, the cost to deliver a container from Asia to the east coast will drop by at least $1,000.00…And if you want 4 colour printing the extra cost is US is many times the cost in Asia…