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Wholesalers handle mixed cases and rewrap often, so they ask about deck type first and whether the pallet nests when it goes back. It tends to lean on nestable and stackable in the common footprint, usually in 48 x 40 in, and to ask about static load for mixed stacks and whether the deck is open or closed.",{"h2":114,"blocks":115},"The empty return",[116,118],{"t":10,"text":117},"An illustration, not a forecast: if each of 64 warehouses in its five largest ZIP codes in Baltimore sent back 500 empty pallets in a week, that would be 32,000 pallets. 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