{"id":64831,"date":"2016-10-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lantechweb.wpengine.com\/blog\/maximizing-your-pack-expo-trip-in-an-internet-world\/"},"modified":"2020-08-31T10:16:05","modified_gmt":"2020-08-31T14:16:05","slug":"maximizing-your-pack-expo-trip-in-an-internet-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lantech.com\/r2\/blog\/maximizing-your-pack-expo-trip-in-an-internet-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Maximizing Your Pack Expo Trip in an Internet World"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Back in the day…<\/h2>\n
There was a time when many of us in the industry headed to PackExpo to “see if there’s anything new.”<\/p>\n
<\/p>\nBack when there was a “Lakeside” building and a North Hall that was an exhausting but feasible task. A company’s buying team could cover the show, stopping at any booth which seemed that it might have a pertinent product.<\/p>\n
The show visit was built around the goal of learning about machines and discovering creative new consumable solutions.<\/p>\n
In the age of a shelf full of green Thomas Register directories, that made sense.<\/p>\n