Out of the Box is a podcast born from a simple belief: logistics deserves more visibility. Too often, people stumble into this industry by chance – only to discover its depth, complexity, and impact on our daily lives. We bring clarity and transparency to logistics by sharing insightful, accessible conversations with voices from across the industry – technology innovators, consultants, distributors, and passionate advocates alike. Our goal is to create high-quality, conversational content that makes logistics more understandable, more visible, and more exciting for everyone.
For a Canadian e-commerce brand, the US can be ten times the business, and shipping there is where the margin quietly leaks. Marc from Stallion Express works with Canadian brands every day as they scale into the US. He explains what changed when de minimis went away, and why a surprise duty bill at the door can turn one sale into a loss of hundreds of dollars. You'll also hear why a fast tracking number matters more to customers than fast delivery, why some apparel brands now ship their Canadian orders from US warehouses, and how saving a single dollar per label can add up to ninety thousand dollars a month. If you're scaling across the border, this is where your carrier mix, your fulfillment speed, and your margin all meet.
10 Sept 2026
OOTB #46 | What's Hiding in Your Ecommerce P&L with Abir Syed
Most ecommerce founders don't discover their growth was unprofitable until the cash runs out. Abir Syed, CPA and co-founder of UpCounting, has taken over the books of enough brands to know exactly where the warning signs hide, and he names them one by one: what he checks first in a P&L, and what it tells him. He explains why average CAC conceals customers who will never break even, how a flat MER can mask an acquisition collapse that returning customers are quietly propping up, and why an unusually high days-inventory-on-hand is usually a COGS error that corrupts unit costs, pricing and targets in one go. He also goes through the five numbers worth reviewing on a fixed cadence, plus the ones smaller brands can safely ignore until they're past a million in revenue. It's a rare chance to hear how a CFO actually reads a set of books, and to work out what your own might be hiding.
25 Jun 2026
OOTB #45 | The Gap Between Your WMS and Your Warehouse Floor
There's a gap in almost every warehouse — between what the WMS says is on the shelf and what's actually there. Joe Mirabile, VP of Operations at Gather AI, puts it plainly: accuracy rates in the field hover between 65–85%, and the difference is almost always human. In this episode of Out of the Box, Margherita sits down with Joe to unpack why inventory accuracy has been such a stubborn problem — and why cycle counting, the industry's default fix, is already stale by the time it's done. Joe walks through how Gather AI's drone and forklift-mounted camera systems create a continuous, real-time digital footprint of every pallet in a facility, correcting the WMS automatically rather than waiting for someone to notice the discrepancy. From detecting a pallet that had gone unnoticed for four years to enabling fully automated weekend scanning with a self-charging drone nest, this one gets into the operational detail that most tech conversations skip.
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