This inflation calculator adjusts the purchasing power of a given amount of money for inflation based on the Consumer Price Index as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) from 1913 to 2011. The CPI attempts to measure the changes in costs for all goods and services for an average United States household.
Drop shipping is an order fulfillment strategy where the retailer does not keep products in inventory, but relies on wholesalers or manufacturers to actually ship orders to customers. This arrangement has several advantages that make it attractive to online merchants.
CARGO: Our ship hauled 2,800 cargo containers across the Pacific, carrying goods possily worth between $50 and $500 million (our uneducated estimate). No matter which window we looked out of, which deck we stood on, we were always in a sea of cargo containers in the middle of the ocean.RY THIS AT HOME, KIDS: Taking a container ship instead of a plane worked out really well for us. Container ships are neither sustainable nor scalable, but to the extent that it's greener than flying, we'd totally encourage folks to give freighter travel a try.