With wages for retail employees increasing faster than they have in decades, at an annual growth rate of 7.4 percent, retailers face a unique quandary, where they must find new ways to counter swelling labor costs, but do so without compromising either the customer experience or the employee experience.
Despite growing pressure for a move to alternative packaging solutions as part of the green revolution, progress is slow, with the majority of packaging material still made from Low Density Polyethylene.
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