Go look in your garage. Or your recycling bin. Or that corner of the basement where things go to be dealt with later.
There is a stack of cardboard boxes there.
You did not buy a single one of them. Not one. You have never in your life walked into a store and thought, I need a box today.
And yet they keep arriving. Dozens a year. Hundreds, if you order the way most people now order.
Here is the number that should stop you.
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The corrugated box industry in the United States moves tens of billions of dollars a year. Globally it is well north of $200 billion. More than a hundred billion square feet of corrugated board gets produced in America annually.
For a product with no brand, no shelf, no advertising, and no customer who wants it.