How it started
History
Boxed was founded by Chieh Huang, Christopher Cheung, William Fong, and Jared Yaman. The mobile app launched in August 2013 and allows customers to shop for wholesale products and have them delivered. Huang got the idea when he was living in New York City and did not have the same ability to shop at the wholesale clubs as he did while growing up in New Jersey. With their background in mobile gaming, the team created an app for iPhone and Android, and several months later, launched the Boxed website at Boxed.com.
The company first started shipping out of Huang's garage in Edison, New Jersey, before opening their first fulfillment center, also in Edison, in December 2013.
In May 2014, Boxed launched Express, its on-demand grocery delivery service, available in most of New York City, parts of New Jersey, and Boston. Customers can shop bulk sizes of fresh and frozen groceries and choose a delivery date and time.
In January 2017, the Today Show profiled Boxed as the wholesale shopping app for millennials, and highlighted the company's benefits, and in 2018, Business Insider compared it to Costco.
In 2018, Boxed launched a membership program called Boxed Up.
From Wikipedia’s article on Boxed.com, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.2