Inside an Amazon warehouse, when an order gets ready to ship, a worker doesn’t just make a decision about what package seems best. Instead, a suite of machine-learning tools analyze the combination of ...

Packaging is an ancient practice. Humans have been improvising containers for holding and transporting things for millennia, from baked clay vases to tanned leather satchels to sawed and nailed wooden ...

In context: Due to the sheer number of video game sales that now take place on digital platforms (such as Steam, the PlayStation Store, or others), it's easy for younger gamers to forget that a ...

It started with the eggs. In the second half of 2020, many of the pulped cardboard boxes that housed supermarket egg supplies were replaced by plastic ones. Just as small bags of flour were replaced ...

A slump in demand for cardboard packaging is ringing alarm bells across the United States. Far more than just a shipping material, corrugated cardboard is a barometer of consumer activity and ...

Happy Amazon Prime week, the discount-fest that will clutter front stoops and front desks with packages bearing that ubiquitous smiling arrow. It’s a reminder that the incredible rise of e-commerce ...

It's no secret that kids – and cats – like to play with cardboard boxes, sometimes more than with what's inside. Amazon is introducing boxes with a built-in play factor. Starting this week, some ...