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Packaging Your E-Commerce Shipments For Premium Shoppers

Shorr Packaging surveyed hundreds of adult e-commerce shoppers representing a cross-section of Americans for our January E-Commerce Packaging Preferences Survey. Our aim was to understand consumer preferences around custom packaging and how shopping frequency and spending impacts these preferences. We found that Premium Shoppers (customers who spend more than $200 per month) place a value […]

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Shorr Packaging Acquires Mack Paper, Expanding Resources For Customers

Shorr Packaging Corp., with corporate headquarters in Aurora, and national locations and distribution centers nationwide, announced today the acquisition of Mack Paper Co., a packaging supply company in Rockford, IL, effective November 30, 2015. With the purchase of Mack Paper, Shorr is able to better serve its customers, through an expanded market within the Northern

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E-Commerce Returns Best Practices

E-commerce is growing at a tremendous pace, and outpacing traditional in the process. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, e-commerce grew at an incredible 14% in 2014, while traditional retail only grew by 3.8%. By the end of this year, it’s expected that e-commerce is going to be a $1.5 trillion industry. But for online retailers, there’s a reason

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The Amazon Effect: Impacts On Shipping And Retail

When it was first founded in 1994, Amazon.com was operating out of founder Jeff Bezos’ garage and earning $20,000 per week in sales within two months. Twenty-one years later, Amazon has 154,100 full-time employees and earned nearly $90 billion in revenue in 2014; and they’re widely known as ‘The Everything Store’, especially with Amazon Marketplace enabling sellers

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