If you are a business owner, small or large, Uline is essentially impossible to avoid. The enormous packaging- and shipping-supplies company is the go-to source for packing tape, Bubble Wrap, paper products, box cutters, and most of North America’s cardboard boxes. The company’s founders — Dick and Liz Uihlein — also happen to have donated billions of dollars to extreme-right super-PACs, anti-abortion groups, and conservative candidates who are pro–assault weapons and anti–trans rights. For this reason, the designer @rachelcomey had been trying to break with Uline for years, starting before the pandemic. But it was a challenge, she quickly ascertained, to find another supplier as cost-effective as Uline. So how did she do it? Read our investigation at the link in bio. Photos: Getty Images, @rachelcomey