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Old 01-08-2013, 11:27 AM
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Yes it will!

New pallets are around $20 each (for decent ones. Flimsy ones can be found for <$10, heavy duty ones for 4 x 55 gal. drums can run $30+). About a quarter million pallets/yr. I wonder how many it employs? Wouldn't think their overhead would be too high.
The blue CHEP pallets are niceeeeeeee. We used to get shipments in on pallets that would just fall apart once we took the goods off them, crap pallets. We would keep the good sturdy pallets for storage on our pallet racks and any non blue or red pallets that were good would go onto our stack of pallets for shipping. The rest went out on the dock for the pallet guy to pick up. He probably made decent money picking up pallets from businesses and selling them to the local pallet company.
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