How transit packaging technology and materials ensure food-industry safety beyond the pandemic
Signode offers tools to help food suppliers and distributors meet the challenges of the online shopping boom and increase in people stocking up on food since the pandemic.
The COVID-19 pandemic dramatically impacted all industries. The food industry is no exception. Just one year before the pandemic, hopeful projections from Instacart, a leader in online grocery delivery, predicted that one-fifth of American households would be shopping for groceries online within five years.
In the last nine months of 2020, Instacart saw order volumes surge 500 percent, according to CNBC. Digitalcommerce360.com reports that in the United States “sixty-eight percent of consumers ordered groceries online for home delivery between March and late August.” McKinsey & Company projects that 45 percent of consumers intend to continue ordering online post-pandemic.