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Charlie Pellock. That's a bloom Bird business slash. You're listening to taking Stock with Kathleen Hayes and Pim Fox on Bloomberg Radio. Do you get tired of driving out to a place like Costco or Sam's Club to stock up on big, bulky items like well, paper towels. I go through a lot of paper towels. Would you like it if you could just, you know, go online and order those and have them come to your house for free. Well, that is the business model for Boxed Boxed Wholesale, and
they're doing quite well, growing very rapidly. In fact, they've raised a hundred and fifty million dollars in funding to date. And imagine that just a couple of years ago, the founder and CEO was in his garage in Edison, New Jersey, just getting it off the ground. And that's Shay Wong. He is uh with me in our New York studio. Now, thank you very much for having me and and everything you just said. Literally that was the problem that we
had in my family. And so that's what I want to do and solve the problem for myself and luckily a lot of Americans around the country have the same problem. So there you were tell us about that. You you were saying, gosh, I I mean, I actually kind of like going to place like Costco Sam's Club sometimes you walk around and you know, but I know a lot of people find it tedious. Yeah, I mean, you know, it really is for some of the folks that literally
don't have the physical means too. So you figure folks that live in urban areas without a car, or if you're later on in life and you just can't get out of the house anymore. And so that's an audience for us. Also, people in the suburbs, you find that they don't have the time or the patients to go. Yeah, they have a car and they live in Texas, they can get to a Sam's Club, but they just don't have the time and patience with three kids to go
in store. So did you ever think to yourself, oh, gosh, there's already Amazon, and then there's Jet you know, another East Coast competitor of Amazon to a certain extent, What made you think you get boxed off the ground? I thought, um, one, that that because it was solving a problem that I had that I looked around at what were my options as a consumed were and none of them were, like my kind of needs weren't exactly met, and so I
thought there was there was definitely an opportunity there. But more so we knew from a business perspective we had to go with a different model. And so for us, UM, we don't have everything. We're very clear with the consumer that we're not going to be the everything store, but we have a thousand items large format only, and you get to discover a few interesting items as well. So what else besides toilet paper and paper towels, which to
me are obviously the fill the car very fast? You figure, laundry, detergent, water does really well, beverages, chips, snacks, and right now about fifty percent of our businesses foods, household so everything to fill your pantry. Basically, so you ship for free? Are you making money shipping for free? Yeah? So the beauty of it is that our average consumer, our consumer
on average orders about ten items. And so as you know, if you think about the variable costs online, um, once you get to a certain part, like once you get to a certain items per per order count, the variable costs of shipping that box actually flatlines. And so if you're adding ten items per card, then you're actually making
margin on it. Now you you're one of your most recent big, high profile investments, and a very powerful one is American Express and they had the card relationship with Costco, which Costco ended. So now American Express Ventures announced to one, Well, you did a hundred you did a big, big round of funding with them. How much was it? Yeah, so our last round was a hundred million dollars and then m X closed just recently as well. So what does that entail? What is that? What did it cost you
to do that? And what is it? What is the benefit? What are you getting out of it? It cost me. Luckily they were very good to work with so it wasn't like we had to they ground us away in a in a long drawn out negotiations, So it didn't cost us a lot um. But in terms of working together and what we think about, you know, how we
think about jointly driving our businesses going forward. And so they obviously have wholesale customers where you know, now UM American Express charting JU nineteenth I think will not be accepted in store. And so if you if your card is not accepted in store and you don't have any alternative next to you, you literally cannot use that card anymore. But more so than that, I think we're working on
initiatives for the future. So for example, UM now UH our customers don't need or they can check in or or check out with just their American Express credentials for example, they're logg in UM. But a lot more coming coming UH in the future. Well, you have to talk about your your your your your program you have for employees where you pay for weddings. So I wanted to spell minuts. It's not like we sit around and just think, okay,
what what else can we pay for? You know, I think, Um, what I found was that, Um, you know, coming from a technology background, UM, you deal with engineers, you deal with like just office folks all the time, where especially in Silicon Valley, if you're making less than a k, it seems like you're slimming it right like. But now we have fulfilming centers, Now we have a physical part of our business. It introduced us to a whole another kind of world, at least you know, when I grew up,
I grew up poor. It reintroduced me to to another world. And so for us, we had a very specific problem in one of our fulfillment centers. One of our stalwart packers actually cried on the floor during work and we asked him. I called him later that night asked, hey, I heard this was happening. UM, what's going on? And so ended up that Um, he was paying his mother's medical bills uh, and wanted to pay for his wedding at the same time and so that his mother could
go in time. UM, And that the match just wasn't working out, even though he's working seven days a week and two jobs. And so I just felt like, at least I can't control what happens in outside of our our walls, but at least in a company that I run, um, I want to be able to fix the things that are wrong. And you paid for sw wedding, and now you pay for all employees weddings. Right, Yeah, so I think you're a courage A lot of people get married.
It is well, one one thing I'll add it. It's just it just really is the the the employer employee relationship and so and I know that's a big, big thing for you, for you. Chay Long, CEO, co founder Boxed Wholesale. Check it out. This is taking stock on Bloomberg Radio. The e c B meant of the e c B is going to stop buying corporate bonds. But there's a lot of doubt about how much any of this is really going to stimulate an economy where inflation
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