Bag products are still around as is the labor.
Interesting to note that as a young teenager on the farm 100 lbs was the going weight. Move to the 70's, 80's, 90's the weight went to 80 lbs and today most people want those 50 lbs bags or sacks of salt, cement, mortar, fertilizer, feed, mulch, etc. Most is done with pallets and the pallets are stackable. Fork lifts are well designed, as are storage areas and transportation systems to limit manual movement, but eventually a customer moves the product the old way. It is not uncommon to see a skid loader on a farm that has a fork lift attachment. Most construction sites will have multiple skid loaders and once out of the mud, a fork lift, or larger JLG lift.
