Brief Insights into Diverse Classes of Retail Boxes
Option for custom retail boxes that are made in different layouts to give your products the right encasing, high-level safety, and marketing boost. Retail boxes are used to encase a wide range of items that are displayed on shelves. As the name suggests, these boxes are mostly utilized in retail stores to discretely pack a diverse range of products or to display them on shelves and counters. Custom retail boxes are designed to impress buyers and get their attention to raise possible sales potential.
Brands create unique boxes for each type of product to match its size, shape, and aesthetics. These boxes are tailored in terms of design, material, and printing to raise the box’s appeal, promote the brand, and protect the packed content.
Types of Retail Boxes (Based on Layout)
From jewelry, toys, shoes, and cigars to candles, business cards, and books, retail boxes are used to pack a wide range of goods. Brands use a wide range of retail boxes that differ in layouts, to encase these goods. Let’s have a look at some of these major types of retail boxes based on their layouts:
Snap Lock Gift Tote Boxes
As the name suggests, this sort of retail packaging is used to pack gift items. The boxes are strong enough to hold delicate, premium, and heavy goods and hence, provide luxury brands the ideal packaging option.
Discussing the layout, a typical snap lock gift tote box contains an A-line top with auto lock feature and a handle. The auto lock top provides a secure closure and an easy unboxing which makes them popular among customers. The handle on top makes it easy to carry the box around which adds to the packaging ease. Moreover, brands can deliver the boxes without sealing them with adhesives thus, pacing up the transfer process and ensuring timely delivery.
Angled Roll-Side Tray
This is a retail display box type that brands use to exhibit small retail goods such as energy drinks, snack bars, sugar candies, cosmetics, etc. The box is named after the angled sides that can be modified with catchy graphics to entice the bystanders.
As the angled roll-side tray display boxes are made from robust materials, they provide base support for displayed items and protect them from rough handling by customers. Brands use these boxes to attractively display their diverse range of goods and give buyers easy access to their favorite items. To deliver these boxes, brands need to pack them in another packaging.
Tuck Top Gravity Feed
Yes! You heard it right. This box actually uses gravity to display items put inside it. How? Well, first know about its layout so you can understand how gravity works for these boxes. A tuck top gravity feed box features a clean-cut-foldout opening on the box front.
Brands put items like lip balm, candies, etc. from the box top and some of them will emerge from the opening due to gravity. Customers can easily pick their required items and other products will replace them on the opening. This is a very economical box type that also proves more successful in terms of items’ display, easy access, and sales potential than angled side tray display boxes.
Reverse Tuck End
Named after a specific closure system that it features on the base and the top; a reverse tuck end box is mostly used by luxury brands as gift packaging. The layout of the box is such that the top closure tucks from the back to the front while the base closure tucks from the front to the back.
Such a layout offers easy unboxing and attractive item reveal that enchants the viewers. The box can be opened from both the top and the base and flaps on both sides are pre-glued to create a tight closure. Brands can thus, easily pack heavy items and they don’t have to glue or tape the boxes before dispatching, saving them a lot of delivery time.
Pyramid Boxes
As the name suggests, these boxes are shaped like pyramids which makes it a unique box layout that stands out in the market. Brands use this retail packaging type as gift boxes, and party favors, and pack a wide range of products including candies, jewelry, chocolates, cosmetics, etc.
The perks of these boxes don’t just end here. Adding to the appeal of unique box layout, pyramid packaging boxes can be altered with display windows, gold and silver paper inserts, personal notes, HD printing of themed graphics, etc. to turn them into party favors, PR boxes, or gift packaging.
Types of Retail Boxes (Based on Product Type)
Retail Boxes also differentiate based on the product types to be packed. As told earlier, the list of items that retail boxes cover is quite long so we’ll discuss just a few to give you an idea of their diversity:
- Archive Boxes: Brands present tailored archive boxes as a solution to store and organize your daily household or office items. Mostly made of strong kraft material, archive boxes are used to store gadgets, paper works, books, toys, etc.
- Business Card Boxes: These boxes are used by businessmen and employees to store and organize a diverse range of business cards. These include loyalty business cards, appointment cards, cards with a QR code, NFC business cards, PR business cards, eco-friendly business cards, and magnetic business cards among others.
- Cigar Boxes: Cigars are one of the most expensive and luxury products that need the magic of packaging to showcase their premium appeal. That’s where the sleeve tray retail layout comes into play. Made with a natural brown kraft, a sleeve tray cigar box oozes luxury from every inch of the box and the dividers created on the tray hold each cigar tight, preventing them from moving freely.
Not every packaging brand knows how to do justice to box designs and take care of each aspect of the box manufacturing process. Taking the right approach to box creation, CPP Boxes creates all sorts of enticing custom retail boxes with uniform features that are sure to give your brand a boost.
