Method for product handling using a configurable display container

Abstract

A method for product handling includes filling a reusable container at a facility with a pre-selected amount of product. The container is sized and configured for display at a retail location and includes a set of joined walls where some of the walls are configured to move relative to a bottom wall of the container. The set of joined walls move relative to the bottom wall to convert the container between an enclosed configuration enclosing an internal volume and a display configuration providing a side access opening and a top access opening to the internal volume such that the side and top access openings allow product to be removed from the container. The container is converted to the enclosed configuration by closing at least one of the top and side access openings to the container through which the container was filled with the pre-selected amount of product by moving at least one wall of the set of joined walls of the container relative to the bottom wall of the container. The container is transported in its enclosed configuration to the retail location.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.