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Purchasing packaging materials online saves time, space and headaches for manufacturer of racks and storage systems.

The brothers Groves: Savvy surfers Hank (left) and John save time ordering packaging online.
The brothers Groves: Savvy surfers Hank (left) and John save time ordering packaging online.

In the world of small business, time and inventory space occupied by packaging materials mean big moneyβ€”something to which John Groves, vice president and national sales manager of McHenry, IL-based Groves Inc., can attest. So when Groves encountered PackagingPrice.com (www.packagingprice.com), a Web-based packaging distributor specializing in low-priced stock packaging, Groves decided to check it out.

In addition to the corrugated boxes that his companyβ€”a manufacturer of storage systems for the fire and safety industryβ€”needed, Groves also found stretch wrap and tape on the site. β€œFor the most part, prices are comparable to what I can find in a catalog somewhere else, sometimes a little less,” he says.

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But Groves found that low prices weren’t the only benefit of using an online sourcing site. β€œI can order smaller quantities more often and not have to wait long periods of time to get my materials,” he says.

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