Wal-Mart uses it to track pallets of diapers and toothpaste in some distribution centers and stores.
The Manning brothers helped load some of the pallets of baby formula and water.
Warehouse workers must move so many pallets or pick so many items each hour.
Manufacturers also pay a transfer fee when they ship the pallets to a retailer.
In the end a recovery mission in Europe found 70% of the missing pallets there.
But no device is yet certified by governments to scan standard-size cargo pallets and large items.
It found that the plant was saving money by placing the shrink-wrapped products on inexpensive pallets.
Workers hustled to maneuver pallets of the brown boxes around trucks from FedEx and Advanced Logistics.
In 1996 CHEP set out to dramatically expand its pools of pallets, figuring on economies of scale.
Pallets that pass muster are sent back to the loading dock to be trucked out to another customer.
Stack-outs, those pallets of merchandise set out on the floor in front of the main shelves, were banned.
It allows for the production of a very smooth whiskey that suits pallets looking for that kind of taste.
In the U.S. CHEP enlisted hundreds of customers as "participating" distributors, giving them incentives to return pallets on time.
Three years ago it lost 15% of its pallets, last year only 2%.
Robots were brought in to maximize space and allow for the quick loading and unloading of kegs and beer pallets.
The system uses real-time and historical data to cut the distance pallets must travel and anticipate times of high usage.
He also liked the fact that this house includes some reclaimed wood from old shipping pallets and renewable bamboo floors.
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All around the trucks, workers wheeled around pallets of the plain brown boxes, some using forklifts, others with hydraulic dollies.
Radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags used for tracking items like shipping containers and pallets of goods have been around for years.
Buy cheap land on city fringe, build cheap, superstore-size warehouses, stock dimly lit caverns with pallets full of products in bulk.
CHEP, however, has built a worldwide pool of 240 million pallets, including 75 million in the U.S., that it rents out.
The vast majority of pallets are simply traded back and forth among shippers until they break, never really owned by anyone.
Vegetables have been planted on top of wooden pallets so that they can be moved to new sites in the future.
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The theatrical work actually begins in a tent next to the trailer as patrons are told to sit and wait on pallets.
These big players in turn strongly encourage their suppliers to use the blue pallets as well (and, of course, pay for them).
Twenty-five flat-bed carriages, each with car components packed into pallets, were being pulled by the train at the time of the derailment.
At the factory in eastern Asia, employees from Expeditors and the customer inspected the pallets to ensure they were strapped and shrink-wrapped thoroughly.
The level that collapsed was stuffed with tons of pallets piled with cardboard boxes, crates of tissue-paper wrappings and other dense, heavy materials.
Since 2004 CHEP has provided rent-free pallets to Wal-Mart (retailers use them to ship goods from their warehouses) and some other big customers.
Simple--and aesthetically pleasing--ideas include transforming Mason jars into solar-powered light jars, converting pallets into lawn furniture and reusing detergent containers as rain catchers.
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