We've been going back and forth on this internally for about three weeks now and it's become one of those conversations where both sides have reasonable points and nobody is obviously wrong which somehow makes it harder to resolve than if one option was clearly better. Our supplier pushed us toward nestable crates based on what he said was easier return logistics and lower transport costs when moving empties between our two sites and our ops manager pushed back saying stackable gives us much more flexibility in how we organize the warehouse floor and that the return logistics argument only matters if empties are moving constantly which in our case they're not. I've been trying to find tips for choosing practical storage crates that go beyond the surface level comparison because I need to understand what factors should actually be driving this decision for an operation like ours rather than just generic advice that doesn't account for our specific setup. An article on uaeautomotive.com broke down the stackable versus nestable question in a way that framed it around operational priorities rather than just product features and reading it made me realize that both our supplier and our ops manager are actually correct within the context of the specific part of the operation they're each thinking about. The more useful question seems to be which constraint matters more to us overall and I think we need to map out our actual empty container movement patterns before that answer becomes clear enough to act on confidently.