Plastic Food Carrier: wholesale price
A typical US business buyer pays a median of $0.18 per unit at small order quantities, falling to $0.04 at volume. These medians come from published supplier pricing. Treat them as a starting point for a sourcing conversation rather than a binding quote.
Median price by order quantity
| Order size | Median /unit |
|---|---|
| 500–999 units | $0.18 |
| 1,000–4,999 units | $0.13 |
| 5,000–9,999 units | $0.11 |
| 10,000–24,999 units | $0.08 |
| 25,000–99,999 units | $0.044 |
| 100,000+ units | $0.04 |
What moves the price
For plastic food carrier, the drivers are bottle count, material, bottle size, insert type, print method, jar count, lid clearance, bread type — the same item can land at either end of the band depending on how those are specified.
Published wholesale pricing for food-container products is dominated by disposable or light-duty packaging, not true insulated food carriers, so the ladder below is anchored to the closest real supplier quotes available. For custom-printed, insulated, tray-style carriers, the biggest price drivers are material thickness, insulation construction, capacity, and tooling/custom print complexity; those features usually move buyers from commodity packaging suppliers toward direct factory or import channels. Realistic sourcing routes are U.S. wholesale distributors for non-custom or semi-custom programs, and Alibaba/Made-in-China factory-direct quoting for custom-manufactured volume orders.
Paying more than the median?
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