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StartupRealities No 109 OneOr100 is a food retailer which sells all products in packages of exactly 1 kg or 100 grams, and liquids of exactly 1 litre or 100 ml. This simplifies price comparison for customers and inventory management for store employees. The most challenging products for the company are eggs, fruit and vegetables: two medium-sized eggs of 50 grams each are glued together to form a 100-gram packaged unit; while fruit and vegetables which cannot fit the 100-gram requirement are sold chopped up and packaged. CEO QUOTE "The shopping experience at a regular supermarket can be quite intimidating for many customers. We make shopping simpler and more fun. Our 1-kg jumbo packages also offer significant savings, so we encourage customers who have storage capacity at home to buy in 1-kg units, which also reduces paper and plastic packaging and the impact on the environment," said OneOr100 founder and CEO Oneal Hund. US supermarket (image source: Wikipedia ...

StartupRealities No 46 MembranePackaging is a next-generation TetraPak-type packaging manufacturer which has developed synthetic membrane packages for liquids and bulk products. The company's flexible membranes resemble balloons that provide optimal durability and volume-to-space ratio for packaging milk, orange juice, wine, flour, sugar and even construction materials such as sand and lime. When products are packaged into membranes, this leaves no empty space between individual items when loaded onto a truck/train/plane or when put inside a box delivered by Amazon or Alibaba. CEO QUOTE "MembranePackaging was inspired by the traditional plastic packages used in rural areas in emerging markets, where alcohol and flour are often sold in nylon bags. This is also how you bring your new goldfish from the pet shop to your home aquarium: in a plastic bag of water," said company founder and CEO Melvina Pecchio. "MembranePackaging has a B2B model of selling its packagi...