Protect your products, your market share, your labor hours, your bottom line, and your customer experience, all in one move. It’s time to leave antiquated, poor performing corrugated behind.
Labor costs are rising along with customer expectations, and you need more data, more sustainable options, and more stock availability to keep up.
Reusables are the magic bullet you’ve been looking for. Reusable plastic crates and pallets offer labor efficiency, cost savings, and sustainability benefits, all while future-proofing your supply chain as market conditions and technology continue to change.
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Quality assurance & reduced shrink
59% of consumers say the quality of fresh foods is the most important criterion for selecting their main grocery store.
Tosca’s reusables are built to withstand moisture and stack pressure, keeping foods fresh and damage-free.
Reusables make stocking faster, ensuring your customers get high-quality perishables with longer shelf lives.
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Speed = Sales
When an item is out of stock, 31% of customers buy it from a competitor and 9% leave your store without purchasing anything.
Trips to the baler and box failures are a waste of labor. RPCs refocus employee time on what makes you most competitive: re-stocking and customer service.
Add the options for retail-ready crates that can go straight onto the floor, and you’ve got a one-two punch for millions in higher sales (5.9% on average) and customer retention.
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Future-proof your supply chain
Modern supply chain technology relies on automation.
The weakness and inconsistency of corrugated boxes and wooden pallets pose major problems for automation in costly machine jams and repairs.
RPCs also offer traceability from IoT, offering visibility of goods in transit to create more efficiency.
RPCs also offer traceability, providing visibility of goods in transit to create more efficiency.
RPCs are always on double duty—the same features that create labor efficiency, protect your products, and improve cube, also positively impact your sustainability goals.
Reusables safely stack higher, requiring fewer truckloads and trips, which reduces transportation spend and CO2 emissions by 66%.
You’ll also save billions of tons of box waste, as well as time baling stacks that often go unrecycled.
50% of your customers will equate RPC use with higher quality, leading to both sales and goodwill in corporate responsibility.
Enjoy the benefits of reusables packaging without the headache of maintaining them
We do all the heavy lifting so that you can focus on your business. You gain the value of high-quality reusables with zero capital outlay without the cost or headache of managing them on your own.
Tosca has the largest product portfolio in the industry. Choose from our range of reusable packaging assets, including IoT-enabled crates, pallets, and containers.
How do reusables reduce shrink in the retail supply chain?
Shrink often results from poor packaging, temperature swings, and rough handling. When products are damaged or spoiled before reaching the shelf, it leads to lost sales. Reusable packaging helps prevent this by offering better protection and ventilation.
How can reusables help with labor shortages and high labor costs in retail?
They create labor efficiency by reducing DC time spend unstacking and restacking unstable stacks, as well as eliminating the time employees spend assembling,breaking down and bailing cardboard boxes. Many retailers take advantage of our crates being retail-ready, eliminating the need to hand stack. Tosca’s RPCs are ergonomic, easy to handle, and stack securely, reducing injuries. Better efficiency allows employees to focus on higher-value tasks like stocking shelves and serving customers.
How does Tosca help with retail supply chain optimization?
We optimize your supply chain by introducing standardization and durability. Our RPCs have consistent weights and dimensions, making automation easier. Their strength reduces product loss, and our pooling system ensures you always have high-quality packaging ready without needing to manage it yourself.
Can using RPCs really lower your food transportation costs?
Yes. The durability of our crates allows for more higher stacks, without experiencing box crush.
Fuller trucks, fewer trips without risking product damage.
We make the path to reusables easy
Our solutions are based on your unique operating challenges, and we make switching to reusables easy, at every turn.
