Closed July 5th & July 16th
Monday, June 28, 2010 at 7:54AM We will be closed Monday July 5th and Friday July 16th.
I also wanted to update everyone on that HUGE job we had this past week. We finished the last of our 80,000 prints on Saturday, so we are back to our normal schedule. Thank you to all the customers that were flexible enough that we could move some of their jobs around to make that big job possible.
Fun facts about the job
~ 40,000 Shirts printed both sides made this an 80,000 print job
~ 80,000 prints is 200 hours of printing
~ 40,000 shirts is 556 cases
~ 556 cases is 18 full shrink-wrapped pallets and 1 partial pallet
~ 18 Pallets will fill a full size semi truck
So, how come McCreary's can get 1200 cases on the same size truck?
Be the 1st to answer the question by responding to the blog, NOT E-MAIL, and we will take $20.00 off your next order.
THANKS FOR THE WORK
Eric Gibby
Reader Comments (20)
McCreary's can get more shirts on a truck because the shirts have not been unfolded and printed on. The ink and refolding/packing takes up more space.
Sounds good but not the correct answer
Because....
McCreary's shirts are a cheaper quality?.......... ;-)
McCreary's can fold shirts better?.......... ;-) ;-)
......Just because?......... ;-) ;-) ;-)
Because the job finished up late in the evening on Friday night.... many hours past happy hour? ;-) ;-) ;-) ;-)
They made multiple deliveries. 5 pallets a day.
McCreary's stacks the pallets and that more than doubles the capacity.
HINT
It has something to do with the pallets.
Eric
Their pallets are a different size than yours
They're infant shirts.
On smaller pallets, that is.
Can I answer that?
I know you can but can the others.
HINT #2
What takes up wasted space?
Besides Bo.
Eric
vacuum packed
They are able to push the pallets more closely together? If you ended up with some space in between the pallets, you would be able to fit in fewer of them.
Hint #3
Why use pallets?
Eric
The McCreary's pallets have a spring system in them that allows them to collapse & pop-up when needed.
McCreary's pallets are empty
OOPS! I mean cases are empty
Because McCreary's doesn't use pallets when they load their truck. It's floor to ceiling cases of shirts.
Because they don't use pallets in their truck and the shirts come more to a case prior to printing and the boxes are bigger.... BUT.... The Info guys are WAY smarter than the McCreary's guys and pack the shirts in smaller more easy to handle boxes!!!
We have a winner!
They do not use pallets.
Gildan stacks the truck floor to ceiling and McCreary's has to unload by hand.
Some of your answers really made us all laugh.
Have a good 4th of July!
Eric