The jug
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The F-style bottle
Nine of them. Flat-sided with an integral handle moulded into the shoulder. It stacks on a shelf, it does not roll, and the handle fixes the pouring angle, which is why a one-gallon detergent is almost always in one.
The industrial round
Seven. A straight cylinder with a narrow neck, usually HDPE, built for chemicals. No handle, so it is poured two-handed or decanted, and it suits a concentrate sold to a business rather than a consumer.
The wide mouth packer
Five. A wide-mouth straight-sided container that takes a scoop, which makes it a powder container rather than a liquid one at this size.
Tubs, with and without a handle
Five PP round tubs and four HDPE round tubs with a handle. These are the powder and booster containers: wide open, resealable, and the handled version is the one a customer can carry from a shelf to a machine.
Canisters and pails
Three HDPE single wall canisters, three plastic round pails and two EZ Stor pails. Pails are a wholesale and institutional format rather than a retail one, and they change the conversation from a product to a supply contract.
Weight is the thing to design against
A gallon of liquid is roughly eight and a half pounds plus the container. Everything about how it is picked up, carried, stored and poured follows from that, and a jug without a handle is asking the customer to solve it.
Check the closure before the jug
The bulk end of this shelf has far more containers than dedicated bulk closures. Establish what seals the jug you want, at the neck it carries, before ordering any of them.