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Retail supply chain optimization

Reusables: The hero of your supply chain

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.

Kroger employee holding RPC2

Do more with less. Go reusable

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.

Before Damaged corrugated cardboard box of cucumbers with product falling out of ripped side.
After Cucumbers are neatly stacked in a durable, stackable produce crate, keeping them fresh and damage-free.

Quality assurance & reduced shrink

Checklist _ Right asset, right place, right time
59% of consumers say the quality of fresh foods is the most important criterion for selecting their main grocery store.
Optimize for freshness
Tosca’s reusables are built to withstand moisture and stack pressure, keeping foods fresh and damage-free.
Faster restocking
Reusables make stocking faster, ensuring your customers get high-quality perishables with longer shelf lives.
Before Disorganized cartons of eggs are displayed directly on a store’s refrigerator wire shelf, with cracked egg yolk spillage staining the area beneath the rack.
After A man places a Tosca retail-ready plastic egg crate on a grocery store shelf, demonstrating how to reduce inventory shrinkage.

Speed = Sales

Retailer
When an item is out of stock, 31% of customers buy it from a competitor and 9% leave your store without purchasing anything.
Faster restocking
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.
Savings-US
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.
Before A retail worker holding a clipboard of documents and a pen crouches down in a store backroom to manually check the inventory of cardboard boxes stacked on a dolly pallet. This manual data collation process is time-consuming and has the potential for human error.
After Crate-being-scanned-RFID

Future-proof your supply chain

automation
Modern supply chain technology relies on automation.
Strong
The weakness and inconsistency of corrugated boxes and wooden pallets pose major problems for automation in costly machine jams and repairs.
Standardized
RPCs also offer traceability from IoT, offering visibility of goods in transit to create more efficiency.
Traceability
RPCs also offer traceability, providing visibility of goods in transit to create more efficiency.
Before Stacked corrugated cardboard boxes have fallen over and been crushed in the back cargo space of a freight delivery truck.
After Collapsible plastic reusable containers are neatly stacked and stowed in the back cargo space of a freight delivery truck.

Sustainability and savings go hand-in-hand

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. 

North America Full Portfolio

Whatever the need, we’ve got you covered

Tosca has the largest product portfolio in the industry. Choose from our range of reusable packaging assets, including IoT-enabled crates, pallets, and containers.

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.