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Custom Packaging Trends 2024: Three Innovations Transforming the Retail & Restaurant Industries

CRP

This evolution of packaging reflects the broader changes in societal values, consumer preferences, and technological advancements. This surge is driven by rising environmental concerns over packaging waste accumulation in landfills, stringent regulations curbing single-use plastics, and consumer demand for eco-friendly packaging.

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The Future of Retail in the New Era of Risk

Retail Prophet

A shock to the system of western merchants and consumers who had largely operated with an assumption of unconstrained access to whatever they’ve wanted, whenever they’ve wanted it. If anything, it was the use of slave labor that made it simply impossible to compete with the United States with on the global cotton market.