The retailer offers an opportunity for Midwest makers to submit their food products for potential inclusion in Frederik's by Meijer brand of elevated fare.

The packaging formats have reportedly been instrumental in helping the packers make the transition from manual to faster and more efficient automatized processes to counter the recent labor shortage hurdles.

The initial products are being used as industrial samples for early investors.

As consumers embrace the ease and convenience of buying online, demand for flexible packaging continues to charge ahead at double-digit growth rates. Figuring out how to meet that demand can place considerable strain on warehouse and operations managers trying to find the right mix of human and capital resources needed to keep pace.

Fox Packaging has launched the Display-Ready Packaging eBook, a downloadable resource that will allow produce brands and retailers to gain knowledge on reaching Millennial shoppers, trends in flexible packaging and the results that display-ready packaging can generate.

Worldwide, Asia should account for 79 percent of unit growth of retail flexible packaging in the period up to 2019.