Third spruce tree on the leftRE: https://furry.engineer/@Jencen/116230174130792389
Ok you guys I just found out about a thing called the Eurobox and now I'm really upset that we don't have them over here in North America.
Modularized, standardized, stackable totes.
AI6YR Ben@tezoatlipoca So, these exist in the US, but apparently are owned by some kind of crate cartel, and are only provided to "members", ie grocery store chains, produce vendors, etc. And require some kind of subscription membership. Very standard across companies, collapsible crates, all the same size. Reusable, etc.
clewThis isn’t as nuts as it sounds — the ones the cartel owns all have RFID and are for
A) tracking food backwards if people get sick but
B) fixing the problem that the unbroken crates vanish from the system and the dinged up barely usable ones are somehow the only ones in the system, especially for honest users.
(You probably know someone who has had to keep track of the Good Pallets; same problem.)
@clew @tezoatlipoca The one I ran across in the US is "IFCO". Collapsible, heavy duty, extremely standard size.
JL Johnson 
@ai6yr @clew @tezoatlipoca late to the conversation here but we scored a bunch of the ifco crates from a guy on craigslist. Which in hindsight was kind of shady. But we love ours.