If you are a business owner, Uline is essentially impossible to avoid. The company’s founders — Dick and Liz Uihlein — also happen to be big-time donors to extreme-right super-PACs, groups, and candidates
Photo: Smith Collection/Gado via Getty Images If you are a business owner, small or large, Uline is essentially impossible to avoid. The enormous packaging- and shipping-supplies company is the go-to source for packing tape, Bubble Wrap, paper products, janitorial supplies, workbenches, barcode scanners, box cutters, and most of North America’s cardboard boxes.
For this reason, the designer Rachel Comey had been trying to break with Uline for years, starting before the pandemic. But it was a challenge, she quickly ascertained, to find another supplier whose extra-large double-walled cardboard boxes were as cheap as Uline’s. For companies that ship only small things, finding a cost-effective alternative is simpler; there are plenty of inexpensive, direct-to-consumer options, including EcoEnclose .
Once the pandemic eased slightly, Comey began looking in earnest for an alternative source. Ultimately, her team found its new suppliers, the Boxery and Paper Mart, through Refuse Uline, a website that lists Uline alternatives in the U.S. and Canada. Comey chose her new suppliers based on three elements: their use of recycled materials, the proximity to her warehouses in New York and L.A., and prices that are comparable to what she was paying with Uline.
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